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31.		San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft (wsj.com)
		199 points by virtica on Aug 31, 2018 \| 301 comments
32.		“Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (1986) [pdf] (edu.mt)
		78 points by akkartik on Aug 30, 2018 \| 17 comments
33.		Anbox – A container-based approach to boot full Android on a regular Linux (github.com/anbox)
		98 points by homarp on Aug 31, 2018 \| 18 comments
34.		Scientists make a touch tablet that rolls and scrolls (techcrunch.com)
		62 points by Ours90 on Aug 31, 2018 \| 34 comments
35.		Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech (cloud.google.com)
		76 points by rayshan on Aug 31, 2018 \| 38 comments
36.		Value-Oriented Programming (diephouse.com)
		87 points by glhaynes on Aug 30, 2018 \| 58 comments
37.		Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life? (nature.com)
		52 points by Vigier on Aug 31, 2018 \| 3 comments
38.		Bureaucracy as Active Ingredient (slatestarcodex.com)
		71 points by elvinyung on Aug 31, 2018 \| 40 comments
39.		The Chinese were solving 14th degree polynomials in 1303. Why? (reddit.com)
		162 points by tombh on Aug 31, 2018 \| 74 comments
40.		Assertions in Production Code? (2008) (drdobbs.com)
		100 points by ScottWRobinson on Aug 30, 2018 \| 87 comments
41.		Telco lobbyists accidentally send their talking points (techdirt.com)
		198 points by econ4all on Aug 31, 2018 \| 27 comments
42.		Russia tries more precise technology to block Telegram messenger (reuters.com)
		127 points by Mereruka on Aug 31, 2018 \| 102 comments
43.		Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing (economist.com)
		119 points by qubitcoder on Aug 31, 2018 \| 114 comments
44.		Java is still available at zero-cost (joda.org)
		175 points by lemming on Aug 31, 2018 \| 162 comments
45.		Remote Mac Exploitation via Custom URL Schemes (objective-see.com)
		70 points by mef on Aug 31, 2018 \| 19 comments
46.		Theranos: Blitzscaling, Blitzfailing, or Blitzfrauding? (linkedin.com)
		48 points by kaboro on Aug 31, 2018 \| 47 comments
47.		Unsupervised machine translation (fb.com)
		86 points by Kemet on Aug 31, 2018 \| 23 comments
48.		Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen (theverge.com)
		133 points by aogl on Aug 31, 2018 \| 131 comments
49.		Discerning the Out-Of-Order Advantage: Is It Speculation or Dynamism? (2013) [pdf] (illinois.edu)
		32 points by matt_d on Aug 30, 2018 \| 8 comments
50.		The Functional Programmer – Keeping Repetitive Strain Injury at Bay [video] (lunarlogic.io)
		48 points by ArturT on Aug 31, 2018 \| 20 comments
51.		Drawing Spirograph curves in Python (johndcook.com)
		60 points by chmaynard on Aug 31, 2018 \| 10 comments
52.		Viewtron (wikipedia.org)
		27 points by js2 on Aug 30, 2018 \| 10 comments
53.		I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		97 points by zdw on Aug 31, 2018 \| 79 comments
54.		A Universal Scripting Framework (1996) [ps] (neu.edu)
		34 points by wtetzner on Aug 31, 2018 \| 10 comments
55.		Incarceration as Incapacitation: An Intellectual History (americanaffairsjournal.org)
		38 points by barry-cotter on Aug 31, 2018 \| 11 comments
56.		Byteconf React – free React.js conf streamed on Twitch, live right now (byteconf.com)
		48 points by kmf on Aug 31, 2018 \| 6 comments
57.		When Science Was Big (2017) (bunkhistory.org)
		19 points by Hooke on Aug 29, 2018 \| 1 comment
58.		Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans (reuters.com)
		126 points by AnatMl2 on Aug 31, 2018 \| 108 comments
59.		Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing (nytimes.com)
		91 points by blondie9x on Aug 31, 2018 \| 98 comments
60.		Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn (bbc.com)
		102 points by AhmadM91 on Aug 31, 2018 \| 96 comments
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