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31.		US Senator demands review of loot box policies, citing potential harm (arstechnica.com)
		115 points by thg on Feb 17, 2018 \| 100 comments
32.		Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong (theconversation.com)
		184 points by okket on Feb 17, 2018 \| 63 comments
33.		Tutorial: HTTP Client in C with libdill (libdill.org)
		110 points by rumcajz on Feb 17, 2018 \| 22 comments
34.		Stealing Data with CSS: Attack and Defense (mike-gualtieri.com)
		55 points by bpierre on Feb 16, 2018 \| 11 comments
35.		Earn a Pirate Certificate from MIT (mitpe.mit.edu)
		145 points by worldvoyageur on Feb 17, 2018 \| 57 comments
36.		Does wearing glasses weaken your eyesight? (2014) (bbc.com)
		80 points by walterbell on Feb 17, 2018 \| 56 comments
37.		Nuggets of Thought – Modern thinkers on business, philosophy of success and life (nuggetsofthought.com)
		60 points by eric_cartman on Feb 17, 2018 \| 9 comments
38.		Archiving JPEGs for long-term storage (github.com/danielgtaylor)
		73 points by turrini on Feb 17, 2018 \| 24 comments
39.		GitHub Fork and Pull Request Workflow - Quick Reference Guide (github.com/susam)
		83 points by susam on Feb 17, 2018 \| 32 comments
40.		Preventative care doesn't save money (nytimes.com)
		71 points by richardhod on Feb 17, 2018 \| 62 comments
41.		Apple dictates that all new apps must fully support the iPhone X screen (arstechnica.com)
		76 points by hungerstrike on Feb 17, 2018 \| 62 comments
42.		MySQL 8.0 features which will improve a DBA's life (lefred.be)
		50 points by okket on Feb 17, 2018 \| 10 comments
43.		iMac Pro review: Hard to upgrade, but holy Jony Ive it’s fast (arstechnica.com)
		52 points by smacktoward on Feb 17, 2018 \| 107 comments
44.		China’s tech industry is catching up with Silicon Valley (economist.com)
		34 points by nopinsight on Feb 17, 2018 \| 48 comments
45.		SpaceX is set to launch its first two test satellites on Sunday (cnbc.com)
		54 points by SirLJ on Feb 17, 2018 \| 46 comments
46.		[flagged] 56 Bills Have Been Introduced in 30 States to Restrict Protests (thenation.com)
		68 points by mcone on Feb 17, 2018 \| 42 comments
47.		Ask HN: Does increasing our life expectancy save or cost money?
		34 points by aniijbod on Feb 17, 2018 \| 24 comments
48.		On AMP for Email (rodriguezcommaj.com)
		35 points by rodriguezcommaj on Feb 17, 2018 \| 33 comments
49.		Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
		80 points by joshdance on Feb 17, 2018 \| 94 comments
50.		[dupe] Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude (economist.com)
		28 points by ALee on Feb 16, 2018 \| 1 comment
51.		Performance debugging: from 1.3X slower to 48X faster than Apache Kafka (alexgallego.org)
		30 points by ingve on Feb 17, 2018 \| 4 comments
52.		New Spectre, Meltdown variants leave victims open to side-channel attacks (techrepublic.com)
		10 points by rbanffy on Feb 17, 2018 \| 3 comments
53.		[flagged] Ethereum founder warns cryptocurrencies 'could drop to near zero at any time' (businessinsider.com)
		18 points by ivanche on Feb 17, 2018 \| 26 comments
54.		Guy Spends Almost a Year Gluing 42,000 Matches to Make a Giant Sphere (boredpanda.com)
		26 points by Myrmornis on Feb 17, 2018 \| 13 comments
55.		[dupe] James Damore’s labor complaint against Google was completely shut down (theverge.com)
		28 points by shawndumas on Feb 16, 2018 \| 1 comment
56.		Has the original Labyrinth been found? (2009) (independent.co.uk)
		10 points by evo_9 on Feb 17, 2018
57.		[dupe] Labor Board Found Google Was Within Its Rights to Fire James Damore (gizmodo.com)
		7 points by erispoe on Feb 17, 2018 \| 1 comment
58.		Meta HN: About the quality of discussion or rather the lack therof
		28 points by mrleiter on Feb 17, 2018 \| 43 comments
59.		Common signs that a person is toxic (AskReddit) (reddit.com)
		7 points by owens99 on Feb 17, 2018 \| 1 comment
60.		[dupe] MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images (loopinsight.com)
		5 points by okket on Feb 17, 2018 \| 1 comment

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