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31.		Simplicity (2016) (stanford.edu)
		56 points by peter_d_sherman on Nov 18, 2018 \| 24 comments
32.		The Invention of the Aeropress (2014) (priceonomics.com)
		60 points by cribbles on Nov 17, 2018 \| 52 comments
33.		SIM Card Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor (vice.com)
		82 points by walterbell on Nov 18, 2018 \| 40 comments
34.		US Senate Candy Desk (wikipedia.org)
		128 points by akubera on Nov 18, 2018 \| 40 comments
35.		MythBusters Results – List of Myths and Summaries (mythresults.com)
		126 points by bookofjoe on Nov 17, 2018 \| 10 comments
36.		Overlooked No More: Pandita Ramabai, Indian Scholar, Feminist and Educator (nytimes.com)
		49 points by jedwhite on Nov 18, 2018 \| 3 comments
37.		Nebula Genomics aims to speed research and lower cost of genome sequencing (npr.org)
		30 points by _33o6 on Nov 18, 2018 \| 5 comments
38.		The complexity of UNO (2010) (arxiv.org)
		34 points by indigodaddy on Nov 17, 2018 \| 5 comments
39.		To the Gulf of Minneapolis (2016) (streets.mn)
		27 points by jonkratz on Nov 17, 2018 \| 5 comments
40.		SpaceX Isn't Planning to Reuse the Falcon 9 Rocket's second stage (bloomberg.com)
		32 points by rbanffy on Nov 17, 2018 \| 52 comments
41.		China Rules – The Land That Failed to Fail (nytimes.com)
		91 points by pseudolus on Nov 18, 2018 \| 100 comments
42.		End-to-end encryption does not prevent Facebook from accessing WhatsApp chats (medium.com/gzanon)
		173 points by humanetech on Nov 18, 2018 \| 59 comments
43.		The High Priestess of Posterity (2011) (outsideonline.com)
		17 points by Tomte on Nov 18, 2018 \| 1 comment
44.		Meta-analysis finds little evidence for the Macbeth effect (bps.org.uk)
		25 points by laurex on Nov 17, 2018 \| 8 comments
45.		Jonathan Franzen Is Fine with All of It (nytimes.com)
		17 points by platz on Nov 17, 2018 \| 9 comments
46.		Stamos says the US must ‘come together to protect’ democracy from misinformation (theverge.com)
		77 points by Tomte on Nov 18, 2018 \| 144 comments
47.		Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?
		246 points by schappim on Nov 18, 2018 \| 163 comments
48.		The New York Hustle of Amazon’s Second Headquarters (newyorker.com)
		65 points by lobo_tuerto on Nov 18, 2018 \| 75 comments
49.		Targeted advertising has become the norm on the internet, and it's hurting us (vice.com)
		66 points by jrepinc on Nov 18, 2018 \| 31 comments
50.		[flagged] Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mr. Rogers’ (recode.net)
		135 points by crunchlibrarian on Nov 18, 2018 \| 79 comments
51.		Ask HN: I’m a non-tech founder, would you recommend me working with freelancers?
		61 points by danidan on Nov 18, 2018 \| 57 comments
52.		ProtonMail: Alleged data breach was a “hoax and failed extortion attempt” (reddit.com)
		79 points by dredmorbius on Nov 18, 2018 \| 42 comments
53.		Why Google can’t technically do customer support (2011) (seroundtable.com)
		32 points by TanakaTarou on Nov 18, 2018 \| 48 comments
54.		The Oil Price Is Now Controlled by Just Three Men (bloomberg.com)
		49 points by jonbaer on Nov 18, 2018 \| 21 comments
55.		Why affordable housing is scarce in progressive cities (curbed.com)
		45 points by jseliger on Nov 18, 2018 \| 102 comments
56.		Concealed weapons: erectile claws in African frogs (2008) (royalsocietypublishing.org)
		10 points by bookofjoe on Nov 18, 2018 \| 1 comment
57.		Brexit uncertainty means UK is uninvestable (businessinsider.com)
		32 points by pjc50 on Nov 18, 2018 \| 64 comments
58.		[dupe] Introducing Amazon Corretto, a No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK with LTS (amazon.com)
		27 points by apayan on Nov 18, 2018 \| 1 comment
59.		Ask HN: Knowing what we know about Facebook, why do you still have an account?
		36 points by cityzen on Nov 18, 2018 \| 58 comments
60.		The Doctor Who theme and beyond: female pioneers of electronic music (nature.com)
		25 points by fredley on Nov 17, 2018 \| 3 comments
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