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31.		Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (donellameadows.org)
		114 points by pjc50 on Aug 15, 2018 \| 12 comments
32.		What makes Paris look like Paris? (2012) (acm.org)
		88 points by mxschumacher on Aug 15, 2018 \| 84 comments
33.		Dissecting a Shader Quine (gpfault.net)
		71 points by nice_byte on Aug 15, 2018 \| 12 comments
34.		A tweet storm explaining the history and state of Ethereum's Casper research (twitter.com/vitalikbuterin)
		99 points by vilhelm_s on Aug 16, 2018 \| 20 comments
35.		Dugout Loop (boringcompany.com)
		211 points by ot on Aug 16, 2018 \| 195 comments
36.		Introducing Driver Module Framework (windows.com)
		88 points by vezycash on Aug 16, 2018 \| 20 comments
37.		Show HN: Buzzngo.io – Real-time public polls using RethinkDB (buzzngo.io)
		60 points by lionpixel on Aug 16, 2018 \| 37 comments
38.		What else is in Go 1.11? (godoc.org)
		141 points by ngaut on Aug 16, 2018 \| 89 comments
39.		Pixel Objectness (2017) (utexas.edu)
		63 points by lainon on Aug 15, 2018 \| 7 comments
40.		The Revolution Against the Revolution: Looking Back on Shays’ Rebellion (city-journal.org)
		77 points by blegh on Aug 15, 2018 \| 120 comments
41.		Twitter's Secret “Guest Mode” (shkspr.mobi)
		308 points by edent on Aug 16, 2018 \| 28 comments
42.		Collective awareness, or the models that we use to understand the world (edge.org)
		85 points by weirdtunguska on Aug 15, 2018 \| 5 comments
43.		Products Are Functions (feltpresence.com)
		89 points by tobr on Aug 15, 2018 \| 27 comments
44.		Australians who won't unlock their phones could face ten years in jail (sophos.com)
		229 points by luord on Aug 16, 2018 \| 163 comments
45.		TLS 1.3 Is an Opportunity for Amazon, Google and Microsoft to End Censorship (privateinternetaccess.com)
		166 points by walterbell on Aug 16, 2018 \| 96 comments
46.		Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption (electricitymap.org)
		129 points by robin_reala on Aug 16, 2018 \| 71 comments
47.		Amazon in Running to Acquire Landmark Movie Chain (bloomberg.com)
		92 points by rchaudhary on Aug 16, 2018 \| 105 comments
48.		Leonard Euler's Solution to the Konigsberg Bridge Problem (2006) (maa.org)
		61 points by _culy on Aug 15, 2018 \| 12 comments
49.		Disposable Ballpoint Pen History: Pennies on the Dollar (tedium.co)
		54 points by lxm on Aug 16, 2018 \| 44 comments
50.		Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine for China (nytimes.com)
		234 points by tysone on Aug 16, 2018 \| 214 comments
51.		The Eno notation language (eno-lang.org)
		89 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2018 \| 32 comments
52.		Salt-infused graphene creates an infrared cloaking device (arstechnica.com)
		75 points by lingzb on Aug 15, 2018 \| 7 comments
53.		Show HN: Simple way to obtain pseudorandomness from CPU context switch in Go (github.com/maxamel)
		34 points by maxamel on Aug 15, 2018 \| 7 comments
54.		On exploiting the jemalloc memory manager (2014) (phrack.com)
		36 points by jxub on Aug 16, 2018 \| 4 comments
55.		The topology of impossible spaces (ams.org)
		55 points by danharaj on Aug 15, 2018 \| 3 comments
56.		US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage (theguardian.com)
		172 points by eplanit on Aug 16, 2018 \| 205 comments
57.		Open Source REST API for SpaceX data (github.com/r-spacex)
		92 points by sdoering on Aug 16, 2018 \| 18 comments
58.		SC-IM: An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal (github.com/andmarti1424)
		61 points by 0xmohit on Aug 14, 2018 \| 10 comments
59.		MoviePass Owner Sued by Shareholders as Business Model Falters (bloomberg.com)
		92 points by nimos on Aug 16, 2018 \| 101 comments
60.		Cryptocurrency investor robbed via his cellphone account sues AT&T for $224M (cnbc.com)
		163 points by ProAm on Aug 16, 2018 \| 133 comments
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