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31.		Why California's Privacy Law Won't Hurt Facebook or Google (wired.com)
		54 points by octosphere on Sept 1, 2018 \| 16 comments
32.		I don't want to learn your query language (erikbern.com)
		289 points by nreece on Sept 1, 2018 \| 153 comments
33.		The Code-Breaking Women Who Unmasked Soviet Spies (smithsonianmag.com)
		63 points by axiomdata316 on Sept 1, 2018 \| 43 comments
34.		Abelian sandpile model (wikipedia.org)
		66 points by fanf2 on Aug 31, 2018 \| 5 comments
35.		Inside the haywire world of Beirut’s electricity brokers (wired.com)
		51 points by sygma on Aug 31, 2018 \| 5 comments
36.		Volunteers scour drone footage in search for woman who went missing on hike (geekwire.com)
		77 points by curtis on Sept 1, 2018 \| 79 comments
37.		Tesla, software and disruption (ben-evans.com)
		117 points by slyall on Sept 1, 2018 \| 125 comments
38.		The Communist Cookbook That Defined Prague’s Cuisine (atlasobscura.com)
		69 points by UpshotKnothole on Aug 31, 2018 \| 25 comments
39.		A Better Way to Cancel Noise (nautil.us)
		80 points by lxm on Sept 1, 2018 \| 55 comments
40.		Labor Board Backs Startup Engineers Fired for Unionizing (wired.com)
		132 points by gingernaut on Aug 30, 2018 \| 100 comments
41.		The Twenty-Five Year Journey of Magic the Gathering (newyorker.com)
		61 points by wskinner on Aug 31, 2018 \| 48 comments
42.		Apparent Evidence for Hawking Points in the CMB Sky (arxiv.org)
		71 points by xparadigm on Sept 1, 2018 \| 20 comments
43.		Robots to start killing crown-of-thorns starfish on Great Barrier Reef (abc.net.au)
		61 points by astdb on Aug 31, 2018 \| 35 comments
44.		Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act (wsj.com)
		36 points by petethomas on Sept 1, 2018 \| 16 comments
45.		Shimport: Use JavaScript modules in all browsers, including dynamic imports (github.com/rich-harris)
		44 points by octosphere on Sept 1, 2018 \| 19 comments
46.		South Korea scrambles to avoid going the way of Japan (ozy.com)
		68 points by starpilot on Aug 31, 2018 \| 28 comments
47.		How America Killed Transit (citylab.com)
		77 points by kimsk112 on Sept 1, 2018 \| 93 comments
48.		A New Hunt for Dark Matter Is Taking Place Under a Mountain (vice.com)
		21 points by dsr12 on Aug 31, 2018 \| 1 comment
49.		How and When to Use ROC Curves and Precision-Recall Curves for Classification (machinelearningmastery.com)
		29 points by rch on Aug 31, 2018 \| 6 comments
50.		Articles on container implementation (pierrchen.blogspot.com)
		61 points by hatchNew on Sept 1, 2018 \| 1 comment
51.		Otter – Searchable Voice Notes with Speech-To-Text (otter.ai)
		37 points by rayshan on Aug 31, 2018 \| 6 comments
52.		Paul Graham on why he doesn’t like seeing college-age and younger founders (techcrunch.com)
		98 points by kaboro on Sept 1, 2018 \| 50 comments
53.		Book review: Head First Statistics vs. The Manga Guide to Statistics (asymptotic.co.uk)
		59 points by domedefelice on Sept 1, 2018 \| 18 comments
54.		Largest brain imaging study identifies drivers of brain aging (sciencedaily.com)
		52 points by lxm on Sept 1, 2018 \| 30 comments
55.		John Turturro Introduces America to the World Wide Web in 1999 (openculture.com)
		36 points by hownottowrite on Sept 1, 2018 \| 8 comments
56.		Fail (facebook.com)
		78 points by siddg on Sept 1, 2018 \| 19 comments
57.		Secrets, lies and a child: On Chekhov’s marriage (theguardian.com)
		16 points by lermontov on Sept 1, 2018
58.		[flagged] Terry Davis, Author of TempleOS, has passed away [unconfirmed, mods please rm] (twitter.com/cthulhu20234)
		164 points by rjeli on Sept 1, 2018 \| 60 comments
59.		How to Retire in Your 30s with $1M in the Bank (nytimes.com)
		130 points by pdog on Sept 1, 2018 \| 125 comments
60.		Show HN: Portable matrix multiplication library (github.com/webdva)
		15 points by webdva on Aug 31, 2018 \| 10 comments
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