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31. Whales Keep Carbon out of the Atmosphere (2017) (scientificamerican.com)
93 points by yurisagalov on Oct 15, 2019 | 41 comments
32. Make More Land (jefftk.com)
311 points by QuitterStrip on Oct 16, 2019 | 270 comments
33. Google and Ambient Computing (stratechery.com)
142 points by hvass on Oct 16, 2019 | 98 comments
34. A History of Pizza (historytoday.com)
131 points by appwiz on Oct 16, 2019 | 100 comments
35. Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times (lemire.me)
114 points by ingve on Oct 16, 2019 | 110 comments
36. Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable (mosaicscience.com)
83 points by Kaibeezy on Oct 16, 2019 | 74 comments
37. Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere (assist.app)
117 points by gsundeep on Oct 15, 2019 | 23 comments
38. US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site (coindesk.com)
230 points by srameshc on Oct 16, 2019 | 335 comments
39. Show HN: USB PD Stand-Alone Sink Controller (oxplot.com)
124 points by oxplot on Oct 16, 2019 | 58 comments
40. The Pioneering Maps of Alexander von Humboldt (smithsonianmag.com)
59 points by pseudolus on Oct 16, 2019 | 9 comments
41. Study in mice explains how brain can turn pain signals up or down (nih.gov)
46 points by laurex on Oct 16, 2019 | 11 comments
42. Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservices (microsoft.com)
180 points by gabrtv on Oct 16, 2019 | 76 comments
43. My 2019 Mathematics a to Z: Linear Programming (nebusresearch.wordpress.com)
101 points by ColinWright on Oct 15, 2019 | 11 comments
44. Docker containers in space (balena.io)
83 points by adunk on Oct 16, 2019 | 29 comments
45. [dupe] How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries (quantamagazine.org)
58 points by _Microft on Oct 16, 2019 | 3 comments
46. Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell (chrispenner.ca)
162 points by rachitnigam on Oct 16, 2019 | 185 comments
47. A History of Chop Suey (historytoday.com)
36 points by Thevet on Oct 15, 2019 | 17 comments
48. And 'Lo!': How the internet was born (bbc.co.uk)
39 points by alexanderdmitri on Oct 16, 2019 | 28 comments
49. Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball (ploopy.co)
95 points by zdw on Oct 15, 2019 | 84 comments
50. The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris (2017) (dtrace.org)
79 points by kick on Oct 16, 2019 | 126 comments
51. Voyage Around My Cell (theparisreview.org)
43 points by benbreen on Oct 14, 2019 | 3 comments
52. The Structure of DNA (nature.com)
42 points by mr_golyadkin on Oct 15, 2019 | 9 comments
53. Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium (windows.com)
88 points by coldtea on Oct 16, 2019 | 92 comments
54. Show HN: A simple scheduler for running jobs on GPUs (github.com/expectationmax)
60 points by ExpectationMax on Oct 16, 2019 | 28 comments
55. Stones and Apples (mathspace.co)
55 points by oxplot on Oct 13, 2019 | 12 comments
56. Show HN: Schema.org with GitHub and scripts: A tool to make data more useful (ditabase.io)
69 points by IsaiahShiner on Oct 15, 2019 | 18 comments
57. Orchids: An Ugly History of Beautiful Things (longreads.com)
37 points by axiomdata316 on Oct 15, 2019 | 11 comments
58. Computers Don't Argue (1965) (atariarchives.org)
38 points by EndXA on Oct 16, 2019 | 8 comments
59. Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1% (bloomberg.com)
146 points by pseudolus on Oct 16, 2019 | 225 comments
60. How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries (quantamagazine.org)
37 points by theafh on Oct 15, 2019 | 35 comments

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