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31.Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases [pdf] (columbia.edu)
69 points by luu on Jan 18, 2016 | 1 comment
32.The Secrets of Sherlock’s Mind Palace (smithsonianmag.com)
76 points by walterbell on Jan 18, 2016 | 39 comments
33.Probability of GUID collisions with different versions (msdn.microsoft.com)
93 points by yanowitz on Jan 18, 2016 | 45 comments
34.Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (lowtechmagazine.com)
100 points by bootload on Jan 18, 2016 | 11 comments
35.Learning to Read at Age 41 (nypl.org)
57 points by prismatic on Jan 16, 2016 | 3 comments
36.A reply to Russell Okung (paulgraham.com)
110 points by abdullahkhalids on Jan 18, 2016 | 97 comments
37.Teletext time travel (transdiffusion.org)
105 points by dsr12 on Jan 17, 2016 | 10 comments
38.Singapore witnesses the rise of the entrepreneur (themalaymailonline.com)
60 points by bootload on Jan 18, 2016 | 28 comments
39.Is Apple Using Swift? (medium.com/ryanolsonk)
142 points by ingve on Jan 18, 2016 | 129 comments
40.Abusing Your Browser: Infinitely Large Favicons (ejj.io)
92 points by ejcx on Jan 18, 2016 | 44 comments
41.Things I learned from OpenSSH about reading very sensitive files (utcc.utoronto.ca)
90 points by jsnell on Jan 15, 2016 | 54 comments
42.UCI Machine Learning Repository (uci.edu)
69 points by Jasamba on Jan 17, 2016 | 14 comments
43.C or C++ for my game engine? (kapsi.fi)
108 points by AlexeyBrin on Jan 17, 2016 | 120 comments
44.How many hours a week should academics work? (timeshighereducation.com)
80 points by samclemens on Jan 18, 2016 | 38 comments
45.Galileo’s Moon Drawings (2014) (openculture.com)
39 points by Hooke on Jan 18, 2016 | 4 comments
46.Speed reading promises are too good to be true (sciencedaily.com)
69 points by apsec112 on Jan 17, 2016 | 42 comments
47.Creolabs: Language, IDE and UI framework for building native apps (creolabs.com)
83 points by theraven on Jan 18, 2016 | 35 comments
48.Show HN: Scrawl (samgentle.com)
34 points by sgentle on Jan 17, 2016 | 13 comments
49.How Measurement Fails Doctors and Teachers (nytimes.com)
33 points by e15ctr0n on Jan 18, 2016 | 53 comments
50.Show HN: Tufte's line graph sparklines with D3.js (dataviztalk.blogspot.com)
30 points by rooviz on Jan 17, 2016 | 4 comments
51.Are cities the new countries? (bbc.com)
98 points by ximeng on Jan 18, 2016 | 99 comments
52.Jewish problems (2011) (arxiv.org)
120 points by replicant on Jan 18, 2016 | 95 comments
53.Open Problems in Theoretical Computer Science (a3nm.net)
78 points by p4bl0 on Jan 18, 2016 | 13 comments
54.Richest 1% will own more than all the rest by 2016 (oxfam.org)
141 points by Excluse on Jan 18, 2016 | 131 comments
55.Ncurses Programming How to (2005) (tldp.org)
60 points by brudgers on Jan 17, 2016 | 20 comments
56.Why I Always Wanted to Be a Secretary (nytimes.com)
70 points by e15ctr0n on Jan 18, 2016 | 32 comments
57.Why You Love That Ikea Table, Even If It's Crooked (2013) (npr.org)
29 points by pykello on Jan 17, 2016 | 27 comments
58.A Very Brief History of Computing, 1948-2015 [video] (gresham.ac.uk)
33 points by edsykes on Jan 18, 2016 | 3 comments
59.The Joys and Challenges of Hiring Developer Bootcamp Grads (sfviapgh.com)
75 points by brit200313 on Jan 17, 2016 | 26 comments
60.Firm: a C library with graph-based IR suitable for compilers (kit.edu)
64 points by vmorgulis on Jan 18, 2016 | 19 comments

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