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31.The 9 lines of code that Google allegedly stole from Oracle (majadhondt.wordpress.com)
358 points by nkurz on May 18, 2016 | 196 comments
32.Does power really corrupt? (1843magazine.com)
118 points by Turukawa on May 16, 2016 | 112 comments
33.Thousands of Hip Hop Mix Tapes, Why Not (textfiles.com)
218 points by ingve on May 16, 2016 | 60 comments
34.Is Gut Science Biased? (fivethirtyeight.com)
87 points by tokenadult on May 17, 2016 | 19 comments
35.Vindinium is an Artificial Intelligence programming challenge (vindinium.org)
103 points by jonbaer on May 18, 2016 | 15 comments
36.Archiving a Website for Ten Thousand Years (theatlantic.com)
70 points by r721 on May 14, 2016 | 31 comments
37.The TSA is a waste of money that doesn't save lives and might actually cost them (vox.com)
258 points by paulpauper on May 18, 2016 | 254 comments
38.The Experts Have Spoken (theawl.com)
65 points by colinprince on May 15, 2016 | 12 comments
39.Medical research: If depression were cancer (2014) (nature.com)
69 points by amelius on May 17, 2016 | 25 comments
40. [dupe] Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy (washingtonpost.com)
173 points by Libertatea on May 18, 2016 | 150 comments
41.Folding Paper with a Hydraulic Press (medium.com/yonatanzunger)
144 points by SapphireSun on May 14, 2016 | 31 comments
42.Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours (heroku.com)
121 points by ropiku on May 18, 2016 | 58 comments
43.I love my Amazon Workspace (amazon.com)
135 points by ShaneOG on May 18, 2016 | 111 comments
44.Software Licenses and Failed States (250bpm.com)
60 points by rumcajz on May 16, 2016 | 48 comments
45.Svalbard Global Seed Vault (wikipedia.org)
63 points by gilles_bertaux on May 15, 2016 | 11 comments
46.The death of the web design agency (medium.com/net-magazine)
62 points by robin_reala on May 17, 2016 | 41 comments
47.Kolmogorov Complexity (2014) [pdf] (informationtheory.weebly.com)
73 points by rfreytag on May 18, 2016 | 21 comments
48.Surface-Only Liquids (columbia.edu)
90 points by fitzwatermellow on May 18, 2016 | 12 comments
49.Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves (nytimes.com)
35 points by _miqu on May 15, 2016 | 4 comments
50.Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins (newscientist.com)
32 points by gulda on May 17, 2016 | 18 comments
51.Can Portland Avoid Repeating San Francisco’s Mistakes? (theatlantic.com)
95 points by trusche on May 17, 2016 | 73 comments
52.Browsix – A Unix-Like Operating System for the Browser (github.com/plasma-umass)
66 points by tremguy on May 14, 2016 | 26 comments
53.Security Fraud in Europe's “Quantum Manifesto” (cr.yp.to)
55 points by okket on May 17, 2016 | 33 comments
54.I went to the hospital to give birth and tested positive for meth (narrative.ly)
162 points by pmcpinto on May 18, 2016 | 244 comments
55.Inside the IBM FlashSystem 900 All-Flash Array (tomshardware.com)
34 points by desdiv on May 17, 2016 | 16 comments
56.The Future of Reproduction Is Mind-Boggling (newstatesman.com)
43 points by Hooke on May 15, 2016 | 33 comments
57.Komodo X released – new version of Komodo IDE (komodoide.com)
49 points by vbit on May 18, 2016 | 30 comments
58.Pictures from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (oeis.org)
31 points by callmekit on May 17, 2016 | 5 comments
59.Rethinking Knowledge in the Internet Age (lareviewofbooks.org)
39 points by Dowwie on May 18, 2016 | 4 comments
60.Demon in the Freezer (nytimes.com)
47 points by Tomte on May 17, 2016 | 27 comments

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