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31.Vietnam War Deserters Who Sought Asylum in Sweden (lithub.com)
56 points by raleighm on Aug 4, 2018 | 40 comments
32.The Pencil of Nature (1846) (gutenberg.org)
40 points by brudgers on Aug 3, 2018 | 2 comments
33.Peeking Behind the Curtains of Serverless Platforms [pdf] (wisc.edu)
60 points by ingve on Aug 4, 2018
34.Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?
432 points by 88e282102ae2e5b on Aug 5, 2018 | 494 comments
35.An office building in Seattle that doesn't have air conditioning (kuow.org)
92 points by dsr12 on Aug 5, 2018 | 203 comments
36.Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities (npr.org)
130 points by gscott on Aug 5, 2018 | 36 comments
37.The Computer Chronicles – Microchip Technology (1983) [video] (youtube.com)
48 points by bane on Aug 5, 2018 | 9 comments
38.Open-guides/og-aws:Amazon Web Services – a practical guide (github.com/open-guides)
86 points by axiomdata316 on Aug 5, 2018 | 4 comments
39.Traceability on the Internet (acm.org)
59 points by tapanjk on Aug 4, 2018 | 23 comments
40.The Soundtrack of Your Life: Muzak in the realm of retail theatre (2006) (newyorker.com)
26 points by CaliforniaKarl on Aug 2, 2018
41.Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system (wikipedia.org)
104 points by TekMol on Aug 5, 2018 | 87 comments
42.A more realistic route to autonomous driving (economist.com)
80 points by dsr12 on Aug 5, 2018 | 87 comments
43.Pygmy: Open-source URL shortener in Python (github.com/amitt001)
54 points by amitt001 on Aug 5, 2018 | 16 comments
44.Wells Fargo says hundreds of customers lost homes after computer glitch (cnn.com)
137 points by bufferoverflow on Aug 5, 2018 | 95 comments
45.Hottest Rain on Record: Rain Falls at 119°F in Imperial, California (wunderground.com)
98 points by curtis on Aug 5, 2018 | 140 comments
46.Imagvue: An image processing component for Vue.js (github.com/runkids)
56 points by runkids on Aug 5, 2018 | 17 comments
47. [flagged] Patrick Stewart Returns as Jean-Luc Picard for a New Star Trek Series (techcrunch.com)
206 points by hdivider on Aug 5, 2018 | 85 comments
48.Yuval Noah Harari extract: ‘Humans are a post-truth species’ (theguardian.com)
84 points by tim333 on Aug 5, 2018 | 61 comments
49.Poplar study shows trees can be genetically engineered not to spread (phys.org)
14 points by dnetesn on Aug 4, 2018 | 1 comment
50.Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes with a Philanthropic Loophole (nytimes.com)
104 points by ingve on Aug 5, 2018 | 79 comments
51.GitHub will now tell you if your password has been pwned (blog.github.com)
54 points by PascLeRasc on Aug 4, 2018 | 29 comments
52.Some Reflections on Musical and Legal Interpretation (ssrn.com)
13 points by raleighm on Aug 5, 2018
53.Developing a viable cannabis breathalyzer (npr.org)
28 points by newman8r on Aug 5, 2018 | 51 comments
54.Venezuela President Maduro 'survives drone attack' (bbc.com)
58 points by munin on Aug 5, 2018 | 63 comments
55.Scorching Summer in Europe Signals Long-Term Climate Changes (nytimes.com)
76 points by tchalla on Aug 5, 2018 | 98 comments
56. [dupe] Colaboratory, a free cloud based Jupyter notebook environment requires no setup (colab.research.google.com)
113 points by saranshk on Aug 5, 2018 | 33 comments
57.AI Chips: Past, Present and Future (semiengineering.com)
27 points by Lind5 on Aug 5, 2018 | 4 comments
58.Beijing is planning world’s longest rail tunnel to link Taiwan to mainland (scmp.com)
35 points by dosy on Aug 5, 2018 | 33 comments
59.OpenAI plays DOTA against former professionals in an hour (twitch.tv)
50 points by ipsum2 on Aug 5, 2018 | 8 comments
60. [flagged] Everybody Hates Uber (lawless.tech)
28 points by zxcdsf on Aug 5, 2018 | 50 comments

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