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31.		The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010) (slate.com)
		163 points by leksak on Sept 4, 2016 \| 98 comments
32.		Amazon and Wells Fargo part ways on private student loan deal (washingtonpost.com)
		36 points by e15ctr0n on Sept 4, 2016 \| 7 comments
33.		Does Conflict Drive Cooperation? (econlib.org)
		43 points by datelligence on Sept 4, 2016 \| 4 comments
34.		Ask HN: What does an electrical engineer actually do at work?
		140 points by johan_larson on Sept 4, 2016 \| 110 comments
35.		New Edition of “Programming in Haskell” Now Available (nott.ac.uk)
		117 points by javinpaul on Sept 4, 2016 \| 23 comments
36.		Employers Find ‘Soft Skills’ Like Critical Thinking in Short Supply (wsj.com)
		156 points by lxm on Sept 4, 2016 \| 128 comments
37.		Read and Write Other Process Memory (nullprogram.com)
		43 points by ingve on Sept 4, 2016 \| 3 comments
38.		The 1950's Jet Launching Tiny Satellites (bbc.com)
		58 points by jcbeard on Sept 3, 2016 \| 17 comments
39.		Teens Who Say No to Social Media (wsj.com)
		134 points by lxm on Sept 4, 2016 \| 77 comments
40.		Mitochondrial evolution in snails gives hints on the adaptation from sea to land (biomedcentral.com)
		39 points by kurono on Sept 4, 2016 \| 6 comments
41.		Dependency graphs of Go web frameworks (github.com/groob)
		114 points by markkit on Sept 4, 2016 \| 33 comments
42.		How DNA could store all the world’s data (nature.com)
		57 points by lzlarryli on Sept 4, 2016 \| 26 comments
43.		Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?
		170 points by s3b on Sept 4, 2016 \| 130 comments
44.		Show HN: Granim.js – Create fluid and interactive gradients animations (sarcadass.github.io)
		74 points by Sarcadass on Sept 4, 2016 \| 15 comments
45.		Cow Dung Goes High Design (nytimes.com)
		34 points by endswapper on Sept 4, 2016 \| 3 comments
46.		How Elixir Helped Us Scale Our Video User Profile Service for the Olympics (medium.com/software-sandwich)
		132 points by onlydole on Sept 4, 2016 \| 6 comments
47.		In Norway, everyone can know how much you earn [video] (youtube.com)
		124 points by open-source-ux on Sept 4, 2016 \| 161 comments
48.		Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood (nytimes.com)
		53 points by sndean on Sept 4, 2016 \| 33 comments
49.		Inclusivity Is a Joke (medium.com/hasharray)
		320 points by brakmic on Sept 4, 2016 \| 216 comments
50.		The Biotech Empires (techcrunch.com)
		30 points by endswapper on Sept 4, 2016 \| 5 comments
51.		Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit (sky.com)
		122 points by okket on Sept 4, 2016 \| 201 comments
52.		Is lambdatalk a Turing machine? (epsilonwiki.free.fr)
		19 points by martyalain on Sept 4, 2016
53.		Ask HN: Labour of love projects
		58 points by muhic on Sept 4, 2016 \| 47 comments
54.		College has been oversold (2011) (marginalrevolution.com)
		45 points by jseliger on Sept 4, 2016 \| 60 comments
55.		ClausIE: Clause-Based Open Information Extraction (mpg.de)
		24 points by aoldoni on Sept 4, 2016 \| 5 comments
56.		Small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco (nytimes.com)
		61 points by GabrielF00 on Sept 4, 2016 \| 63 comments
57.		Persistence modules for the invesdwin-context module system (github.com/subes)
		48 points by gsubes on Sept 4, 2016 \| 19 comments
58.		Crockford (paulstraw.svbtle.com)
		240 points by knes on Sept 4, 2016 \| 104 comments
59.		The Donbass Paradox (theblacksea.eu)
		42 points by iamjeff on Sept 4, 2016 \| 28 comments
60.		How China Is Building a Startup Boom (nytimes.com)
		43 points by my_first_acct on Sept 3, 2016 \| 11 comments
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