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31. Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo packets (2016) (github.com/yarrick)
119 points by signa11 on Oct 24, 2017 | 44 comments
32. Attack of the week: DUHK (cryptographyengineering.com)
139 points by sohkamyung on Oct 24, 2017 | 21 comments
33. Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
68 points by abrax3141 on Oct 24, 2017 | 24 comments
34. Boustrophedon (wikipedia.org)
82 points by breck on Oct 24, 2017 | 59 comments
35. Remote Maintenance of Molten Salt Reactors [video] (youtube.com)
45 points by beefman on Oct 24, 2017 | 6 comments
36. Clarifying Recent Tests (fb.com)
45 points by afalk on Oct 23, 2017 | 12 comments
37. The Escapist Lays Off Majority of Staff (gamerevolution.com)
66 points by jordigh on Oct 24, 2017 | 55 comments
38. C++17 Is Here: Interview with Herb Sutter (infoq.com)
148 points by AndreyKarpov on Oct 24, 2017 | 102 comments
39. Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain Works (eff.org)
247 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 24, 2017 | 18 comments
40. Cape Coral, a boomtown that shouldn’t exist (politico.com)
85 points by fmihaila on Oct 20, 2017 | 59 comments
41. Astronaut Paul Weitz has died (collectspace.com)
96 points by iamthirsty on Oct 24, 2017 | 25 comments
42. Executing Parallel Statements to Improve Performance (cockroachlabs.com)
53 points by nvanbenschoten on Oct 24, 2017 | 14 comments
43. Remember that $86M license plate scanner I replicated? I caught someone (freecodecamp.org)
142 points by boyter on Oct 24, 2017 | 26 comments
44. Delphi buys self-driving car startup Nutonomy for $400M (techcrunch.com)
78 points by edshiro on Oct 24, 2017 | 44 comments
45. The Future of Programming (2013) (worrydream.com)
225 points by illo on Oct 24, 2017 | 66 comments
46. Intractable Problems in Control Theory (1986) [pdf] (mit.edu)
52 points by pizza on Oct 24, 2017 | 11 comments
47. Ask HN: Are there drawing tool plugins to be used within forums?
55 points by maruhan2 on Oct 24, 2017 | 32 comments
48. Show HN: Hypewatching – crowdsourced, geolocated trends around the world (hypewatching.com)
71 points by toomasb on Oct 24, 2017 | 33 comments
49. Faktory, a new background job system (mikeperham.com)
194 points by mperham on Oct 24, 2017 | 53 comments
50. Deuce: lightweight structured editing in Sketch-n-Sketch (ravichugh.github.io)
28 points by kasbah on Oct 24, 2017 | 5 comments
51. Singapore to Stop Adding Cars in February 2018 (bloomberg.com)
108 points by atupem on Oct 23, 2017 | 76 comments
52. What Would Happen If There Were No Number 6? (fivethirtyeight.com)
55 points by ryan_j_naughton on Oct 24, 2017 | 96 comments
53. Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (slatestarcodex.com)
98 points by ggreer on Oct 24, 2017 | 20 comments
54. America has a monopoly problem (thenation.com)
214 points by Futurebot on Oct 24, 2017 | 188 comments
55. IBM has simulated a quantum computer with 56 qubits on a classical computer (alphr.com)
88 points by rbanffy on Oct 24, 2017 | 49 comments
56. Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs (neh.gov)
30 points by samclemens on Oct 24, 2017 | 2 comments
57. Bitcoin Pioneer Says New Coin to Work on Multiple Blockchains (bloomberg.com)
83 points by SirLJ on Oct 24, 2017 | 77 comments
58. The Icon Journey (visualstudio.com)
104 points by nkjoep on Oct 24, 2017 | 37 comments
59. Neom – an entire new land, purpose-built for a new way of living (discoverneom.com)
94 points by renke1 on Oct 24, 2017 | 116 comments
60. Obscurity Is a Valid Security Layer (danielmiessler.com)
141 points by danielrm26 on Oct 24, 2017 | 109 comments

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