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31. Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs (easydns.com)
237 points by StuntPope on Dec 6, 2019 | 101 comments
32. New membrane unlocks energy from chemical difference between fresh and saltwater (sciencemag.org)
144 points by vo2maxer on Dec 6, 2019 | 77 comments
33. Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find (nytimes.com)
148 points by pseudolus on Dec 6, 2019 | 48 comments
34. The eleven nations of the United States and their cultures (businessinsider.com)
120 points by daddy_drank on Dec 6, 2019 | 98 comments
35. Mitigating a DDoS on Mastodon (coffee-and-dreams.uk)
150 points by dredmorbius on Dec 6, 2019 | 63 comments
36. Mining Social Media (socialdata.site)
81 points by danso on Dec 5, 2019 | 3 comments
37. What is an Operating System? A historical investigation (1954–1964) (archives-ouvertes.fr)
66 points by matt_d on Dec 5, 2019 | 5 comments
38. The Siege of Carrie Lam (idlewords.com)
187 points by raleighm on Dec 6, 2019 | 94 comments
39. PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library [pdf] (arxiv.org)
113 points by stablemap on Dec 6, 2019 | 16 comments
40. Strongly Typed Events (tbray.org)
85 points by pabo on Dec 4, 2019 | 23 comments
41. Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break internet and cable titans (cnbc.com)
260 points by HenryKissinger on Dec 6, 2019 | 301 comments
42. John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ Exploded a Discipline (aeon.co)
108 points by prismatic on Dec 5, 2019 | 18 comments
43. The unending quest to explain consciousness (bookforum.com)
96 points by hoffmannesque on Dec 4, 2019 | 242 comments
44. Verifiable Voting: A Primer (rcoh.me)
74 points by rusbus on Dec 6, 2019 | 65 comments
45. Show HN: A Go web server with logging, tracing, and demo apps in a single file (github.com/photonlines)
116 points by photon_lines on Dec 6, 2019 | 32 comments
46. Honu: Syntactic Extension for Algebraic Notation (2012) [pdf] (utah.edu)
71 points by goranmoomin on Dec 6, 2019 | 61 comments
47. False Friends of the Slavist (wikibooks.org)
59 points by striking on Dec 5, 2019 | 18 comments
48. Plug and Play Language Model: Steer topic and attributes of GPT-2 models (github.com/uber-research)
44 points by sdan on Dec 6, 2019 | 3 comments
49. Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online (nhk.or.jp)
63 points by ytch on Dec 6, 2019 | 64 comments
50. Neurosymbolic AI Advances State of the Art on Math Word Problems (pureai.com)
67 points by daram on Dec 5, 2019 | 6 comments
51. The Infantorium (99percentinvisible.org)
67 points by neonate on Dec 5, 2019 | 11 comments
52. Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves (news.mit.edu)
61 points by rbanffy on Dec 4, 2019 | 8 comments
53. Deep Dive Into C# 9 (c-sharpcorner.com)
103 points by alugili on Dec 6, 2019 | 133 comments
54. Review of “Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey” (1993) (stanford.edu)
20 points by oumua_don17 on Dec 4, 2019 | 9 comments
55. Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis: 160k Pages of Medieval Manuscripts Digitized (openculture.com)
65 points by vo2maxer on Dec 6, 2019
56. Setup for Your Next Golang Project (martinheinz.dev)
88 points by MartinHeinz on Dec 6, 2019 | 52 comments
57. Blackmail (2012) (volokh.com)
30 points by zdw on Dec 4, 2019 | 2 comments
58. Accidentally Overwriting Another Local Variable in C and C++ (petrzemek.net)
42 points by ingve on Dec 5, 2019 | 51 comments
59. Machine Learning Christmas Calendar (ml.christmas)
77 points by selbekk on Dec 6, 2019 | 5 comments
60. Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says (cjr.org)
145 points by robtherobber on Dec 6, 2019 | 156 comments

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