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31.		Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi (mmtimes.com)
		123 points by sgt on Sept 20, 2018 \| 64 comments
32.		The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media (newyorker.com)
		161 points by uptown on Sept 20, 2018 \| 135 comments
33.		Constraint Solver (2015) (mattkeeter.com)
		109 points by kasbah on Sept 19, 2018 \| 23 comments
34.		Are New York’s Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Tracking Your Movements? (theintercept.com)
		98 points by rfreytag on Sept 19, 2018 \| 56 comments
35.		Pause/unpause any X11 application (vermaden.wordpress.com)
		119 points by vermaden on Sept 19, 2018 \| 49 comments
36.		Practical Deep Learning for Coders (fast.ai)
		213 points by rspivak on Sept 20, 2018 \| 37 comments
37.		Show HN: Solo, open source FIDO2 security key (github.com/solokeyssec)
		98 points by ecesena on Sept 20, 2018 \| 23 comments
38.		Google’s revamped Cloud Source Repositories in beta (cloud.google.com)
		135 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Sept 20, 2018 \| 54 comments
39.		Well-Behaved Dogs May Have Happier Owners (psychologytoday.com)
		49 points by whatami on Sept 18, 2018 \| 45 comments
40.		Crippling DDoS vulnerability put the entire Bitcoin market at risk (thenextweb.com)
		92 points by sahin on Sept 20, 2018 \| 61 comments
41.		Steam Play Compatibility Reports (spcr.netlify.com)
		91 points by Jeaye on Sept 20, 2018 \| 31 comments
42.		On SGQR, Singapore's unified QR code payment system (tongwing.woon.sg)
		58 points by cow9 on Sept 19, 2018 \| 30 comments
43.		The Kit Programming Language (kitlang.org)
		115 points by BerislavLopac on Sept 19, 2018 \| 69 comments
44.		We Now Know More About the Apparent Poisoning of the Pussy Riot Member (newyorker.com)
		218 points by jbegley on Sept 20, 2018 \| 127 comments
45.		China appears to be accelerating development of a super-heavy lift rocket (arstechnica.com)
		87 points by AliCollins on Sept 20, 2018 \| 46 comments
46.		Kidney Stones Are More Beautiful Than You Might Think (nytimes.com)
		77 points by sohkamyung on Sept 20, 2018 \| 36 comments
47.		How to code a sine scroll on Amiga (stashofcode.com)
		73 points by erickhill on Sept 20, 2018 \| 7 comments
48.		What Makes a Waif? (lrb.co.uk)
		47 points by drjohnson on Sept 18, 2018 \| 5 comments
49.		Scientists discover why many Alzheimer’s drugs fail, identify one that may work (independent.co.uk)
		65 points by tomduncalf on Sept 20, 2018 \| 9 comments
50.		National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe (theregister.co.uk)
		54 points by baud147258 on Sept 20, 2018 \| 14 comments
51.		Dropbike: Data Breaches and Free Bike Rides (ipfs.io)
		147 points by d4l3k on Sept 20, 2018 \| 47 comments
52.		A new antenna using single atoms could usher in the age of atomic radio (arstechnica.com)
		91 points by vezycash on Sept 20, 2018 \| 19 comments
53.		Kai-Fu Lee talks about AI, jobs, and the human heart (ieee.org)
		51 points by NicoJuicy on Sept 20, 2018 \| 14 comments
54.		Twilight Of The Terminal: The Disruption Of Bloomberg L.P (cbinsights.com)
		52 points by anonu on Sept 20, 2018 \| 24 comments
55.		A Breakthrough for U.S. Troops: Combat-Ready Pizza (nytimes.com)
		99 points by extarial on Sept 20, 2018 \| 80 comments
56.		A giant crawling brain: the world of termites (theguardian.com)
		38 points by kawera on Sept 18, 2018 \| 5 comments
57.		China’s all-seeing surveillance network (abc.net.au)
		124 points by playpause on Sept 20, 2018 \| 81 comments
58.		Introducing Cloud Inference API (cloud.google.com)
		70 points by stablemap on Sept 20, 2018 \| 4 comments
59.		From Scratch: AI Balancing Act in 50 Lines of Python (towardsdatascience.com)
		67 points by amasad on Sept 20, 2018 \| 9 comments
60.		How did medieval people dance? (2013) (medievalists.net)
		59 points by gpvos on Sept 19, 2018 \| 19 comments
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