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31.		How I Recovered Millions of Transactions Using Tcl (2016) (activestate.com)
		69 points by gglitch on Aug 14, 2018 \| 28 comments
32.		Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders (wsj.com)
		323 points by mji on Aug 15, 2018 \| 414 comments
33.		Geospatial indexing on Hilbert curves (zen.ly)
		82 points by poudro on Aug 15, 2018 \| 18 comments
34.		GitHub Classroom report predicts positive student learning outcomes (blog.github.com)
		53 points by guessmyname on Aug 15, 2018 \| 14 comments
35.		Show HN: A Go implementation of TensorFlow's streaming quantiles estimator (github.com/axiomhq)
		98 points by seiflotfy on Aug 15, 2018 \| 6 comments
36.		Do electrons think? (1949) (quantumlifescience.wordpress.com)
		71 points by benryon on Aug 15, 2018 \| 60 comments
37.		Passive observations of a large DNS service (apnic.net)
		56 points by xuande on Aug 14, 2018 \| 21 comments
38.		QLBridge – Go SQL Runtime Engine (github.com/araddon)
		71 points by ngaut on Aug 15, 2018 \| 1 comment
39.		What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes (2017) (wired.com)
		83 points by indumania on Aug 15, 2018 \| 45 comments
40.		Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free (2015) (ecrypt-eu.blogspot.com)
		72 points by ColinWright on Aug 15, 2018 \| 9 comments
41.		Intangible investment behaves differently (gatesnotes.com)
		149 points by ZeljkoS on Aug 15, 2018 \| 89 comments
42.		Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability (lwn.net)
		95 points by ingve on Aug 14, 2018 \| 10 comments
43.		Show HN: Unyt – Handle, manipulate, and convert data with units in Python (theoj.org)
		64 points by ngoldbaum on Aug 15, 2018 \| 4 comments
44.		Embedded builtins (v8project.blogspot.com)
		24 points by stablemap on Aug 14, 2018 \| 4 comments
45.		Production Ramp-Up of a Hardware Startup (2016) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
		58 points by Smaointe on Aug 14, 2018 \| 1 comment
46.		As Barnes and Noble Struggles to Find Footing, Founder Takes Heat (nytimes.com)
		58 points by SREinSF on Aug 13, 2018 \| 87 comments
47.		A new form of carbon, schwartzites, has been created (independent.co.uk)
		80 points by pmoriarty on Aug 13, 2018 \| 37 comments
48.		On Not Being Able to Read (longreads.com)
		56 points by axiomdata316 on Aug 14, 2018 \| 20 comments
49.		The Design is the Implementation (danshumway.com)
		67 points by danShumway on Aug 14, 2018 \| 21 comments
50.		$100M Was Once Big Money for a Startup. Now, It’s Common (nytimes.com)
		145 points by lxm on Aug 15, 2018 \| 153 comments
51.		Cubans cheer as internet goes nationwide for a day (reuters.com)
		97 points by jonbaer on Aug 15, 2018 \| 89 comments
52.		Observations on the testing culture of test-driven development (freecodecamp.org)
		35 points by solidist on Aug 14, 2018 \| 30 comments
53.		Vue.js Tutorial for beginners (adrianmejia.com)
		117 points by adriansky on Aug 14, 2018 \| 21 comments
54.		Five deep questions in computing (2008) [pdf] (cmu.edu)
		41 points by steven741 on Aug 14, 2018 \| 7 comments
55.		Why some computer viruses refuse to die (bbc.com)
		65 points by goldminer88 on Aug 14, 2018 \| 5 comments
56.		My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (2002) (gnu.org)
		60 points by tosh on Aug 15, 2018 \| 3 comments
57.		The rise (and rise) of the healthcare administrator (athenahealth.com)
		76 points by SQL2219 on Aug 14, 2018 \| 75 comments
58.		Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health (frontiersin.org)
		88 points by yasp on Aug 15, 2018 \| 12 comments
59.		New Zealand Passes Law to Crack Down on Foreign Home Buyers (bloomberg.com)
		106 points by uptown on Aug 15, 2018 \| 173 comments
60.		How Insulin Helped Create Ant Societies (quantamagazine.org)
		34 points by digital55 on Aug 14, 2018 \| 7 comments
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