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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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