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31. Emoji: how do you render U+1F355? (meowni.ca)
92 points by holman on May 20, 2016 | 51 comments
32. How to ask for reviews without feeling icky about it (signalvnoise.com)
80 points by coloneltcb on May 20, 2016 | 29 comments
33. A Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch (newyorker.com)
27 points by samclemens on May 19, 2016
34. The curious case of the weapon that didn't exist (publicmedievalist.com)
87 points by hendler on May 19, 2016 | 45 comments
35. Where Code Comes From: Architectures of Automatic Control from Babbage to Algol [pdf] (tomandmaria.com)
36 points by hcs on May 21, 2016 | 4 comments
36. Charlie Chaplin was the ideal actor for members of the Soviet avant garde (theguardian.com)
30 points by never-the-bride on May 21, 2016 | 3 comments
37. Open sourcing a Contracted project: I toggled the “public” switch, now what? (medium.com/alonisser)
55 points by alonisser on May 19, 2016 | 31 comments
38. Woman's blindness apparently reversed by stem cell treatment (baltimoresun.com)
94 points by paulpauper on May 21, 2016 | 22 comments
39. A YSlow Alternative for Making Web Pages Faster (maxcdn.com)
71 points by vinnyglennon on May 19, 2016 | 7 comments
40. “Eat, sleep, code, repeat” is such bullshit (signalvnoise.com)
357 points by ingve on May 21, 2016 | 179 comments
41. Building Fast and Resilient Web Applications (igvita.com)
84 points by tim_sw on May 21, 2016 | 20 comments
42. Food for Rome: Stable Isotope Investigation of Diet in the Imperial Era (2013) (researchgate.net)
22 points by diodorus on May 19, 2016
43. Ask HN: Why do browsers still support pop up dialogs and other bad behavior?
133 points by twshoopboop on May 21, 2016 | 80 comments
44. Show HN: JSONScript – Asynchronous scripting language using JSON format (json-script.com)
49 points by epoberezkin on May 21, 2016 | 47 comments
45. Deep Gate Recurrent Neural Network (arxiv.org)
50 points by vonnik on May 20, 2016 | 8 comments
46. Turbulent times for Formula 1 engines result in unprecedented efficiency gains (arstechnica.com)
95 points by nkurz on May 19, 2016 | 35 comments
47. Apple Shifts from Genius Bars to Genius Groves, Hoping Patrons Linger (nytimes.com)
50 points by uladzislau on May 21, 2016 | 33 comments
48. Our Week Without Slack (vice.com)
87 points by ShaneBonich on May 21, 2016 | 72 comments
49. The Fading Dream to Liberate Africa’s Last Colony (newrepublic.com)
58 points by pmcpinto on May 20, 2016 | 58 comments
50. The Essayification of Everything (2013) (nytimes.com)
35 points by Tomte on May 20, 2016 | 11 comments
51. The Business of Too Much TV (vulture.com)
42 points by pmcpinto on May 19, 2016 | 15 comments
52. RoboCop is real at the Stanford Shopping Center (theguardian.com)
65 points by Udik on May 20, 2016 | 32 comments
53. Brooklyn's Internet Bonsai Kingpin (atlasobscura.com)
33 points by prismatic on May 19, 2016 | 6 comments
54. 3D Printing Homo naledi (virtebra.wordpress.com)
19 points by diodorus on May 21, 2016
55. Can text in different colors help you tackle the most difficult books? (mashable.com)
62 points by prismatic on May 18, 2016 | 20 comments
56. Stealth Research and Theranos: Reflections and Update 1 Year Later (jamanetwork.com)
52 points by mmastrac on May 19, 2016 | 17 comments
57. Statistical interpretation of Logistic Regression (medium.com/a-year-of-artificial-intellig...)
60 points by mckapur2 on May 21, 2016 | 5 comments
58. A new photo of Mars from the Hubble Telescope (theverge.com)
79 points by Tomte on May 21, 2016 | 21 comments
59. Letter from West Virginia (theparisreview.org)
22 points by samclemens on May 18, 2016 | 2 comments
60. The little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (2014) (arstechnica.com)
73 points by david-given on May 21, 2016 | 10 comments

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