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31.A Sex Pistols Concert Film Languished for Four Decades (nytimes.com)
53 points by SirLJ on Dec 23, 2017 | 16 comments
32.Opinions on functional programming and OCaml (gist.github.com)
113 points by ry_harper on Dec 23, 2017 | 108 comments
33.Apple-centric guide to improve privacy and security (gacallea.github.io)
84 points by gacallea on Dec 23, 2017 | 13 comments
34.While teaching in Japan, it took an enemy to make me feel at home (catapult.co)
79 points by fern12 on Dec 23, 2017 | 20 comments
35.A Key Lesson from the 1918 Flu Pandemic? 'Tell the Truth,' One Historian Says (wbur.org)
55 points by Aloha on Dec 23, 2017 | 6 comments
36.Ask HN: Why is Docker so popular in comparison to other containerization tech?
144 points by justaj on Dec 23, 2017 | 103 comments
37.Haven: Snowden's New App Turns Your Phone into a Home Security System (wired.com)
172 points by tony101 on Dec 23, 2017 | 27 comments
38.In Malaysia, Nutritionists Take Money from Food Giants (nytimes.com)
78 points by sohkamyung on Dec 23, 2017 | 32 comments
39.Multiplayer Tron in the terminal (zachlatta.com)
97 points by rbanffy on Dec 22, 2017 | 23 comments
40.Opinion: How Apple could have prevented the iPhone-slowdown controversy (marketwatch.com)
77 points by chmaynard on Dec 23, 2017 | 114 comments
41.Louisiana, Sinking Fast, Prepares to Empty Out Its Coastal Plain (bloomberg.com)
82 points by pulisse on Dec 23, 2017 | 33 comments
42.Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain (medium.com/kaistinchcombe)
270 points by doener on Dec 23, 2017 | 212 comments
43.The Californian Ideology (1995) (metamute.org)
55 points by jasonhansel on Dec 23, 2017 | 95 comments
44.Project Fi will take your Google Voice number (davywybiral.blogspot.com)
74 points by wybiral on Dec 22, 2017 | 34 comments
45.The Unix Koans of Master Foo (rationalfiction.io)
54 points by sundarurfriend on Dec 23, 2017 | 4 comments
46.Wal-Mart Suspends a Controversial Shoplifting Punishment (msn.com)
66 points by ourmandave on Dec 23, 2017 | 82 comments
47.Why Not Build Your Own Self-Driving Car? (zeroequalsfalse.press)
42 points by majikarp on Dec 23, 2017 | 22 comments
48.DND Shades – “Horse Blinkers for Knowledge Workers” (masonsimon.com)
50 points by masonicb00m on Dec 23, 2017 | 20 comments
49.Demonstration of Two-Qubit Algorithms with a Quantum Processor (2009) (arxiv.org)
32 points by vtomole on Dec 23, 2017 | 2 comments
50.Amazon apologises for 'threats' to customer (bbc.co.uk)
74 points by DanBC on Dec 23, 2017 | 23 comments
51.Diary Days from Christmas Past (publicdomainreview.org)
9 points by pepys on Dec 21, 2017
52.How the Rohingya Escaped (nytimes.com)
116 points by dankohn1 on Dec 22, 2017 | 66 comments
53.Why you can’t cash out pt 2: Bitcoin and KYC/AML (davidgerard.co.uk)
69 points by davidgerard on Dec 23, 2017 | 62 comments
54.Show HN: Nymph – A slightly different version of C (github.com/roecrew)
73 points by nymph019283 on Dec 23, 2017 | 14 comments
55.Best Tech Books of 2017 (technologyreview.com)
34 points by rbanffy on Dec 23, 2017 | 7 comments
56. [flagged] On the growing risk of the 51% attack against BCash (notehub.org)
60 points by yourrng on Dec 22, 2017 | 57 comments
57.The Fragile Generation (reason.com)
15 points by nocoder on Dec 23, 2017 | 11 comments
58.When and why did popcorn become a popular and common movie snack? (reddit.com)
25 points by vinchuco on Dec 22, 2017 | 2 comments
59. [flagged] Telegram releases it's own blockchain capable of millions of transactions / sec (youtube.com)
20 points by nicolrx on Dec 23, 2017 | 9 comments
60.Ask HN: What were the most important new programming languages released in 2017?
25 points by aniijbod on Dec 23, 2017 | 30 comments

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