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31. What a Sensory Isolation Tank Taught Me About My Brain (nytimes.com)
82 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 31, 2016 | 57 comments
32. FLAC 1.3.2 (xiph.org)
136 points by louis-paul on Jan 1, 2017 | 63 comments
33. The red Solo Cup is a marvel of modern engineering (washingtonpost.com)
120 points by SmkyMt on Dec 31, 2016 | 29 comments
34. Richard Feynman and Computation (1999) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
77 points by maverick_iceman on Jan 1, 2017 | 2 comments
35. US Govt Data Shows Russia Used Outdated Ukrainian PHP Malware (wordfence.com)
97 points by Natsu on Jan 1, 2017 | 113 comments
36. Show HN: Shadowsocks-rust – A fast SOCKSv5 proxy in Rust (github.com/loggerhead)
68 points by loggerhead on Jan 1, 2017 | 6 comments
37. The Mathematical Mesh (prismproof.org)
58 points by buovjaga on Jan 1, 2017 | 11 comments
38. MARS: Replicating Petabytes Over Long Distances [pdf] (ipfs.io)
50 points by BuuQu9hu on Jan 1, 2017 | 8 comments
39. What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? (edge.org)
77 points by booleandilemma on Jan 1, 2017 | 104 comments
40. Top 50 Vendors by Total Number of Distinct Vulnerabilities in 2016 (cvedetails.com)
38 points by inian on Jan 1, 2017 | 13 comments
41. New evidence that Nixon sabotaged 1968 Vietnam peace deal (nytimes.com)
284 points by how-about-this on Jan 1, 2017 | 149 comments
42. How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs (2010) (bib-arch.org)
70 points by Mz on Dec 30, 2016 | 13 comments
43. My Personal Hero: Robert Sapolsky on Rudolf Virchow (nautil.us)
26 points by allthebest on Dec 31, 2016 | 2 comments
44. Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with Fitness Tracking (backchannel.com)
103 points by colinprince on Jan 1, 2017 | 169 comments
45. Metaknowledge (aeon.co)
67 points by clumsysmurf on Jan 1, 2017 | 9 comments
46. Macaque monkeys have the anatomy for human speech, so why can’t they speak? (kurzweilai.net)
58 points by hyperpallium on Jan 1, 2017 | 42 comments
47. Günter Grass: From Enfant Terrible to Grand Old Man (spectator.co.uk)
32 points by lermontov on Dec 31, 2016 | 3 comments
48. Rhythm of Food (rhythm-of-food.net)
37 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 31, 2016 | 6 comments
49. Why does unsupervised deep learning work? (arxiv.org)
90 points by MrQuincle on Jan 1, 2017 | 9 comments
50. Neurodiversity (edge.org)
74 points by itamarb on Jan 1, 2017 | 74 comments
51. Lavabit returning in 19 days (lavabit.com)
144 points by temp on Jan 1, 2017 | 137 comments
52. Why Wordpress? (johnmaeda.com)
75 points by shervinafshar on Jan 1, 2017 | 82 comments
53. Seattle's record apartment boom is ready to explode (seattletimes.com)
48 points by jseliger on Jan 1, 2017 | 27 comments
54. My Personal Hero: Alan Lightman on William Gerace (nautil.us)
14 points by dnetesn on Dec 31, 2016
55. Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading (coindesk.com)
95 points by sidko on Jan 1, 2017 | 72 comments
56. Trump expresses doubts about security of all computers (washingtonpost.com)
29 points by em3rgent0rdr on Jan 1, 2017 | 40 comments
57. Hacker News: 2016 Top Stories (hn.algolia.com)
42 points by saycheese on Jan 1, 2017 | 10 comments
58. Why Russia’s Economy Survives (wsj.com)
32 points by jseliger on Dec 31, 2016 | 36 comments
59. 8086tiny: a tiny PC emulator/virtual machine (github.com/adriancable)
32 points by ingve on Jan 1, 2017 | 1 comment
60. Exponential Laws of Computing Growth (acm.org)
10 points by king_kerr on Jan 1, 2017

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