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31.		Datasette Facets: Faceted Browse and a JSON API for any CSV File or SQLite DB (simonwillison.net)
		116 points by simonw on May 20, 2018 \| 13 comments
32.		NYC housing court, created to protect tenants, has become a tool for landlords (nytimes.com)
		132 points by danso on May 21, 2018 \| 258 comments
33.		People Loved MoviePass Nearly to Death (bloomberg.com)
		151 points by pat2man on May 21, 2018 \| 151 comments
34.		Value Type Hygiene (java.net)
		103 points by kjeetgill on May 21, 2018 \| 57 comments
35.		Tech Platforms and the Knowledge Problem (americanaffairsjournal.org)
		82 points by kawera on May 20, 2018 \| 4 comments
36.		Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017) (nealmueller.com)
		144 points by lamby on May 21, 2018 \| 291 comments
37.		A ‘delayed infection’ theory of childhood leukaemia (icr.ac.uk)
		148 points by pera on May 21, 2018 \| 73 comments
38.		How Developers Use Dynamic Features of Programming Languages: Smalltalk [pdf] (uchile.cl)
		87 points by mpweiher on May 20, 2018 \| 10 comments
39.		Scanner: Processing Terabytes of Video on Hundreds of Machines (cmu.edu)
		79 points by apoms on May 21, 2018 \| 11 comments
40.		Making of “Logon's run – 3D meets the aging bits” (cpcscene.net)
		52 points by userbinator on May 20, 2018 \| 10 comments
41.		Python for Lisp Programmers (2000) (norvig.com)
		133 points by bshanks on May 21, 2018 \| 100 comments
42.		The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents (theverge.com)
		119 points by coloneltcb on May 21, 2018 \| 28 comments
43.		Remembering the ‘Knocker-Ups’ Hired to Wake Workers with Pea Shooters (atlasobscura.com)
		60 points by DmenshunlAnlsis on May 20, 2018 \| 17 comments
44.		Scientists think the cell nucleolus may play an important role in aging (nytimes.com)
		123 points by rbanffy on May 21, 2018 \| 67 comments
45.		Live Coding in Sporth: A Stack-Based Language for Audio Synthesis [pdf] (livecodenetwork.org)
		83 points by aturley on May 21, 2018 \| 37 comments
46.		Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users' browsing data (theguardian.com)
		148 points by nns on May 21, 2018 \| 90 comments
47.		The Surprising History and Future of Fingerprints (theparisreview.org)
		23 points by lxm on May 20, 2018 \| 2 comments
48.		Ask HN: How are you building cross-platform (mobile and browser) apps?
		158 points by aosaigh on May 21, 2018 \| 82 comments
49.		Adobe to Acquire Magento (magento.com)
		142 points by uptown on May 21, 2018 \| 151 comments
50.		The Year on the Net (1996) (wsj.com)
		82 points by bookofjoe on May 21, 2018 \| 45 comments
51.		The ‘Pedestrian’ Who Became One of America’s First Black Sports Stars (atlasobscura.com)
		40 points by samclemens on May 21, 2018 \| 8 comments
52.		Big tech products are mostly useless (theguardian.com)
		173 points by ahjones on May 21, 2018 \| 135 comments
53.		Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum (uni-luebeck.de)
		52 points by ghosthamlet on May 21, 2018 \| 14 comments
54.		Fun with Macros: Gathering (stevelosh.com)
		59 points by stevelosh on May 21, 2018 \| 6 comments
55.		On doppelgängers and perception (aeon.co)
		45 points by suchow on May 21, 2018 \| 8 comments
56.		Age of Enlightenment: The Promise of Circadian Lighting (undark.org)
		65 points by anarbadalov on May 21, 2018 \| 30 comments
57.		A Very Hungry Black Hole Is Found, Gorging on Stars (nytimes.com)
		37 points by SREinSF on May 20, 2018 \| 11 comments
58.		Was Cleopatra Beautiful? (1997) (uchicago.edu)
		51 points by diodorus on May 21, 2018 \| 53 comments
59.		Visiting Newton's Atelier before The Principia, 1679-1684 (arxiv.org)
		19 points by sohkamyung on May 21, 2018 \| 2 comments
60.		Unexploded Ordnance found in Server Room (reddit.com)
		175 points by empath75 on May 21, 2018 \| 48 comments
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