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31.		Liftoff: a new baseline compiler for WebAssembly in V8 (v8project.blogspot.com)
		150 points by titzer on Aug 20, 2018 \| 20 comments
32.		Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved (investvine.com)
		130 points by doener on Aug 20, 2018 \| 91 comments
33.		Why Sitting May Be Bad for Your Brain (nytimes.com)
		154 points by a_w on Aug 20, 2018 \| 56 comments
34.		Greyston Bakery hires on a first-come, first-served basis, no questions asked (fastcompany.com)
		145 points by adwmayer on Aug 20, 2018 \| 75 comments
35.		Hume the Humane (aeon.co)
		50 points by pepys on Aug 17, 2018 \| 11 comments
36.		Detailed articles on the avionics of NASA’s space shuttle (nasa.gov)
		79 points by stevenhuang on Aug 19, 2018 \| 12 comments
37.		Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time (flatpak.org)
		254 points by alexlarsson on Aug 20, 2018 \| 204 comments
38.		Intel firmware now unredistributable by OS vendors (debian.org)
		218 points by rwmj on Aug 20, 2018 \| 78 comments
39.		An Online Magazine You Can’t Read Online (nautil.us)
		71 points by elorant on Aug 17, 2018 \| 16 comments
40.		Bringing macros to Python by abusing type annotations (tinkering.xyz)
		75 points by jxub on Aug 18, 2018 \| 17 comments
41.		London museum is livestreaming a key 21st-century artifact: festering sewage (arstechnica.com)
		39 points by okket on Aug 18, 2018 \| 13 comments
42.		After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete (bloomberg.com)
		131 points by dsgerard on Aug 20, 2018 \| 139 comments
43.		Is Lisp Still Unique? Or at Least Different? (2002) (norvig.com)
		78 points by tosh on Aug 19, 2018 \| 85 comments
44.		Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
		198 points by PieShell on Aug 20, 2018 \| 315 comments
45.		Let’s all go back to Tumblr (theoutline.com)
		99 points by raleighm on Aug 19, 2018 \| 134 comments
46.		Going FLOSS-only on Android (codingquark.com)
		109 points by ericdanielski on Aug 18, 2018 \| 89 comments
47.		Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs (bloomberg.com)
		247 points by petethomas on Aug 20, 2018 \| 185 comments
48.		The truth about ‘breakthrough’ drugs (washingtonpost.com)
		69 points by wellokthen on Aug 20, 2018 \| 16 comments
49.		Won and done? Sportsbooks banning the smart money (espn.com)
		55 points by mudil on Aug 20, 2018 \| 49 comments
50.		How Do We Measure the Distance to a Star? (scientificamerican.com)
		74 points by yaseen-rob on Aug 20, 2018 \| 27 comments
51.		Benzodiazepines: Our Other Prescription Drug Problem (journalistsresource.org)
		81 points by pratheekrebala on Aug 20, 2018 \| 81 comments
52.		Uber’s Vision of Self-Driving Cars Begins to Blur (nytimes.com)
		128 points by plasticchris on Aug 20, 2018 \| 156 comments
53.		'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture of tipping in SF (sfgate.com)
		110 points by mbgaxyz on Aug 20, 2018 \| 206 comments
54.		They Don't Build Them Like They Used To: The New Construction Shortage (zillow.com)
		73 points by jseliger on Aug 19, 2018 \| 80 comments
55.		Creating the Innocent Killer (2009) (ncsu.edu)
		39 points by mlevental on Aug 18, 2018 \| 54 comments
56.		Data Organization in Spreadsheets (tandfonline.com)
		77 points by fanf2 on Aug 18, 2018 \| 27 comments
57.		Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates fake posts (github.com/mb-14)
		82 points by pjf on Aug 20, 2018 \| 13 comments
58.		Venezuela devalues the bolivar by 95% and pegs it to ‘oil-linked’ cryptocurrency (businessinsider.com)
		149 points by sonnyblarney on Aug 20, 2018 \| 126 comments
59.		Sugar: Secure GPU Acceleration in Web Browsers [pdf] (uci.edu)
		48 points by lainon on Aug 20, 2018 \| 7 comments
60.		Apple Pulls Gambling Apps Targeted by Chinese State Media (wsj.com)
		91 points by plasticchris on Aug 20, 2018 \| 49 comments
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