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31.		Henrietta Lacks' Lasting Impact Detailed in New Portrait (npr.org)
		73 points by Balgair on May 16, 2018 \| 19 comments
32.		IBM bans USB, SD cards, flash drives and portable devices from every office (theregister.co.uk)
		176 points by walterbell on May 16, 2018 \| 195 comments
33.		Hacker News Points Inflation (taimur.me)
		117 points by refrigerator on May 16, 2018 \| 72 comments
34.		Finland offers free online Artificial Intelligence course to anyone, anywhere (yle.fi)
		199 points by yarapavan on May 16, 2018 \| 16 comments
35.		Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads (medium.com/yoavanaki)
		186 points by hackathonguy on May 16, 2018 \| 105 comments
36.		Ask HN: Looking to branch out into remote work, how to start
		258 points by hamstercat on May 16, 2018 \| 71 comments
37.		California’s next bold step on climate should be building near transit (cityobservatory.org)
		109 points by jseliger on May 16, 2018 \| 113 comments
38.		The Curse of Cortés (nybooks.com)
		30 points by blegh on May 16, 2018
39.		Faulty Logic: Debating won’t bring us closer to truth (reallifemag.com)
		59 points by kawera on May 15, 2018 \| 67 comments
40.		Rust programs versus Go (debian.net)
		144 points by chatmasta on May 16, 2018 \| 202 comments
41.		Premium Account Activity API (developer.twitter.com)
		77 points by fniephaus on May 16, 2018 \| 52 comments
42.		Elon Musk hires 2 Newfoundland interns who solved problems at Tesla factory (cbc.ca)
		144 points by ranit on May 16, 2018 \| 105 comments
43.		OpenStreetCam sign detection code and training data open sourced (openstreetmap.org)
		76 points by mvexel on May 16, 2018 \| 6 comments
44.		Intel's First 10nm Cannon Lake CPU Confirmed (forbes.com/sites/antonyleather)
		76 points by john58 on May 16, 2018 \| 26 comments
45.		How Stripe's COO approaches company-building [audio] (lattice.com)
		80 points by jackaltman on May 16, 2018 \| 16 comments
46.		How to Run a Blockchain on a Deserted Island with Pen and Paper (hackernoon.com)
		70 points by jxub on May 16, 2018 \| 19 comments
47.		When the movies went west (2018) (longreads.com)
		21 points by kawera on May 15, 2018
48.		Asking Apple for all my data (zdnet.com)
		67 points by uptown on May 16, 2018 \| 30 comments
49.		Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engine (registry.Google) (github.com/google)
		62 points by r_singh on May 16, 2018 \| 18 comments
50.		Startup Wants to Replace Cars and Subways with Elevated Pods (fastcompany.com)
		51 points by mpweiher on May 16, 2018 \| 44 comments
51.		The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints (theparisreview.org)
		16 points by Petiver on May 16, 2018 \| 4 comments
52.		[dupe] Google One is coming soon (one.google.com)
		81 points by tvvocold on May 16, 2018 \| 86 comments
53.		Phages are making a comeback (motherjones.com)
		64 points by jackweirdy on May 16, 2018 \| 29 comments
54.		U.S. Judge Blocks Oakland Port's Ban on Coal Shipments (bloomberg.com)
		32 points by protomyth on May 16, 2018 \| 62 comments
55.		How much of the Internet is using QUIC? (apnic.net)
		29 points by okket on May 16, 2018 \| 2 comments
56.		Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Ethically Iffy ‘Philanthropy' (wired.com)
		39 points by tchalla on May 16, 2018 \| 32 comments
57.		European gambling company in talks to buy FanDuel for $700M (axios.com)
		17 points by mark-ruwt on May 16, 2018 \| 10 comments
58.		What if JavaScript wins? (medium.com/anildash)
		61 points by thisisit on May 16, 2018 \| 85 comments
59.		Library Genesis is down (libgen.io)
		41 points by godelmachine on May 16, 2018 \| 11 comments
60.		Bitcoin estimated to use 0.5% of the world's electric energy by end of 2018 (cell.com)
		66 points by e0m on May 16, 2018 \| 118 comments
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