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1411.

Neural Programmer: Inducing Latent Programs with Gradient Descent [pdf] (xxx.lanl.gov)

59 points by dave_sullivan on Nov 17, 2015 | 21 comments

1412.

Did Facebook Just Build a Kickstarter Competitor? (techcrunch.com)

59 points by devhxinc on Nov 19, 2015 | 19 comments

1413.

Scientists argue that beer motivated our ancestors to start grain farming (m.nautil.us)

59 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 29, 2015 | 15 comments

1414.

Storing solar, wind, and water energy underground could replace burning fuel (kurzweilai.net)

59 points by tdurden on Nov 27, 2015 | 10 comments

1415.

The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library (newyorker.com)

59 points by diodorus on Nov 11, 2015 | 6 comments

1416.

An app recreating the experience of controlling trains in the NYC Subway system (nycsubway.org)

59 points by sgfc on Nov 16, 2015 | 6 comments

1417.

The Elements of Drawing: John Ruskin’s Teaching Collection at Oxford [video] (ruskin.ashmolean.org)

59 points by wyclif on Nov 24, 2015 | 6 comments

1418.

Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician, to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom (wvgazettemail.com)

59 points by ColinWright on Nov 18, 2015 | 2 comments

1419.

Why the Cure for a Sluggish Economy Is Actually Longer Vacations (cepr.net)

58 points by lujim on Nov 12, 2015 | 101 comments

1420.

BNSF Railyway Co. helped lead fight to delay train safety technology (reuters.com)

58 points by jstreebin on Nov 4, 2015 | 79 comments

1421.

More Apple Car Thoughts: Software Culture (mondaynote.com)

58 points by subnaught on Nov 1, 2015 | 77 comments

1422.

How Soylent Auto-Transcribes Phone Calls to Build a Database of Legal Advice (zapier.com)

58 points by mikeknoop on Nov 11, 2015 | 70 comments

1423.

The perfect TV (technology.siekerman.nl)

58 points by tvtechnology on Nov 21, 2015 | 60 comments

1424.

Why most public apologies suck (blog.statuspage.io)

58 points by blakethorne on Nov 25, 2015 | 60 comments

1425.

The German Tank Problem (2010) (statisticalconsultants.co.nz)

58 points by flashman on Nov 6, 2015 | 52 comments

1426.

How Early Exit Disease Stunts the Growth of Midwest Startup Communities (techcrunch.com)

58 points by mtviewdave on Nov 17, 2015 | 51 comments

1427.

Is the web platform getting too big? (nczonline.net)

58 points by ausjke on Nov 28, 2015 | 41 comments

1428.

Detroit Businesswomen Team Up to Get Rape Kits Tested (nytimes.com)

58 points by thehoff on Nov 9, 2015 | 38 comments

1429.

Why has Italian cinema lost its appeal abroad? (theparisreview.org)

58 points by prismatic on Nov 21, 2015 | 37 comments

1430.

Quietly, the new space race between SpaceX and Boeing burns hot (arstechnica.com)

58 points by jseliger on Nov 11, 2015 | 36 comments

1431.

In Patagonia 2k years ago, it was common for people to modify skulls of babies (bbc.com)

58 points by nsgi on Nov 20, 2015 | 33 comments

1432.

The 50-year quest to build a mechanical heart (theverge.com)

58 points by fisherjeff on Nov 4, 2015 | 32 comments

1433.

How Cocaine Changes the Brain (neurosciencenews.com)

58 points by snake117 on Nov 30, 2015 | 27 comments

1434.

The Expanding Ecosystem For GPU Computing (nextplatform.com)

58 points by Katydid on Nov 12, 2015 | 25 comments

1435.

Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away? (theguardian.com)

58 points by ghosh on Nov 2, 2015 | 24 comments

1436.

Show HN: PicoTorrent, a tiny BitTorrent client for Windows (picotorrent.org)

58 points by viktorelofsson on Nov 11, 2015 | 21 comments

1437.

Opaleye’s sugar on top: SQL in the type system (ren.zone)

58 points by michaelsbradley on Nov 7, 2015 | 19 comments

1438.

An Ode to Kai's Power Goo (macworld.com)

58 points by bado on Nov 18, 2015 | 18 comments

1439.

TRIZ – Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (en.wikipedia.org)

58 points by d99kris on Nov 17, 2015 | 16 comments

1440.

The impact of Docker containers on the performance of genomic pipelines (peerj.com)

58 points by michaelhoffman on Nov 10, 2015 | 10 comments