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31.Ironies of Automation (1983) [pdf] (ncsu.edu)
81 points by kiyanwang on Feb 11, 2019 | 27 comments
32.A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty (jasonhickel.org)
250 points by winterismute on Feb 11, 2019 | 245 comments
33.In Search of the Northern Lights (nytimes.com)
47 points by pseudolus on Feb 11, 2019 | 23 comments
34.Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value (techcrunch.com)
274 points by 0xedb on Feb 12, 2019 | 283 comments
35.A.I. Shows Promise as a Physician Assistant (nytimes.com)
72 points by rafaelc on Feb 12, 2019 | 14 comments
36.The Next Wave of ‘Unicorn’ Startups (nytimes.com)
111 points by rm2889 on Feb 11, 2019 | 48 comments
37.A 25-Inch Plot of Land in Greenwich Village Embodied ‘a Resistance’ (nytimes.com)
61 points by pseudolus on Feb 11, 2019 | 27 comments
38.Drivers claim Uber won’t pay fees to launch forced arbitration cases (reuters.com)
145 points by SilasX on Feb 12, 2019 | 98 comments
39.Go 1.12 Release Candidate 1 is released (groups.google.com)
138 points by 0xedb on Feb 12, 2019 | 56 comments
40.Wondering about the link between intelligence and meaning (scientificamerican.com)
187 points by headalgorithm on Feb 12, 2019 | 153 comments
41.The de Havilland Comet (greatdisasters.co.uk)
58 points by arunmp on Feb 12, 2019 | 53 comments
42.Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content, UK government report (cnbc.com)
125 points by pseudolus on Feb 12, 2019 | 98 comments
43.The Moral Equivalent of War (1906) (uky.edu)
53 points by Alupis on Feb 11, 2019 | 17 comments
44.The memory safety problem isn't bad coders (medium.com/sgrif)
250 points by steveklabnik on Feb 12, 2019 | 220 comments
45.Mapping Motor Vehicle Collisions in New York City (toddwschneider.com)
72 points by lil_tee on Feb 12, 2019 | 27 comments
46.Cultural Course Correcting: Black Rock City 2019 (burningman.org)
78 points by eplanit on Feb 12, 2019 | 40 comments
47.California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project: governor (reuters.com)
209 points by pseudolus on Feb 12, 2019 | 384 comments
48.Design Without Color First (medium.com/devsdesign)
105 points by febin on Feb 12, 2019 | 40 comments
49.El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown (nytimes.com)
120 points by ajay-d on Feb 12, 2019 | 83 comments
50.Show HN: Radio station WWV audio simulation (mcodes.org)
64 points by LVB on Feb 12, 2019 | 22 comments
51.Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers (serverhunter.com)
174 points by ServerHunter on Feb 12, 2019 | 88 comments
52.Launch HN: Dyneti (YC W19) – Helping apps stop fraud and process payments faster
60 points by julia-zheng on Feb 12, 2019 | 58 comments
53.What every physicist should know about string theory (scitation.org)
44 points by paulpauper on Feb 11, 2019 | 47 comments
54.Blockchain and Trust (schneier.com)
116 points by bb88 on Feb 12, 2019 | 107 comments
55. [dupe] Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test (zdnet.com)
109 points by yread on Feb 11, 2019 | 58 comments
56.The Chinese fascination with numbers (bbc.com)
90 points by MiriamWeiner on Feb 11, 2019 | 55 comments
57.Show HN: Synesthesia – Optimizing brainfuck compiler implemented as Nim macros (github.com/jeff-ciesielski)
33 points by jeff_ciesielski on Feb 11, 2019 | 3 comments
58.Flight to China turned back after airline forgets to remove Taiwan reference (stuff.co.nz)
95 points by ilamont on Feb 12, 2019 | 100 comments
59.Apple fails to block porn and gambling “enterprise” apps (techcrunch.com)
106 points by sharcerer on Feb 12, 2019 | 103 comments
60.Holography Transmission Equations (holographyforum.org)
40 points by headalgorithm on Feb 11, 2019 | 6 comments

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