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61.		Why do we write dedications in books? (spectator.co.uk)
		41 points by lermontov on Oct 15, 2019 \| 12 comments
62.		Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience (techcrunch.com)
		98 points by elies on Oct 18, 2019 \| 76 comments
63.		[dupe] Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Issue with 737 Max in 2016 (nytimes.com)
		126 points by jgwil2 on Oct 18, 2019 \| 42 comments
64.		On Recent Controversial Events (ebb.org)
		161 points by richardfontana on Oct 17, 2019 \| 136 comments
65.		The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people (arstechnica.com)
		95 points by mataug on Oct 18, 2019 \| 139 comments
66.		The Real Reasons I Don’t Hire You (charity.wtf)
		99 points by mooreds on Oct 18, 2019 \| 117 comments
67.		We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients Before Profits (rooseveltinstitute.org)
		85 points by howard941 on Oct 18, 2019 \| 199 comments
68.		The outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor (theguardian.com)
		78 points by xigency on Oct 18, 2019 \| 101 comments
69.		Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test (quantamagazine.org)
		46 points by howard941 on Oct 18, 2019 \| 52 comments
70.		Free for Developers (free-for.dev)
		169 points by Mike_Andreuzza on Oct 17, 2019 \| 12 comments
71.		[dupe] Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak (voice.mozilla.org)
		33 points by tminima on Oct 18, 2019 \| 6 comments
72.		[flagged] If a tweet declares war, is it treason to take it down? (abe-winter.github.io)
		64 points by awinter-py on Oct 18, 2019 \| 40 comments
73.		COBOL turns 60: why it will outlive us all (zdnet.com)
		37 points by mindcrime on Oct 18, 2019 \| 14 comments
74.		[dupe] Oracle Says Co-CEO Mark Hurd Has Died (wsj.com)
		70 points by dcgudeman on Oct 18, 2019 \| 22 comments
75.		The Life, Death and Resurrection of Computer Art Group Mistigris (paleotronic.com)
		13 points by empressplay on Oct 16, 2019 \| 3 comments
76.		The Fallacy That Is Cryptocurrency (hackernoon.com)
		32 points by eaguyhn on Oct 17, 2019 \| 36 comments
77.		Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations (betacat.io)
		41 points by feltsense on Oct 18, 2019 \| 16 comments
78.		Mess Paper Simulator (2015) (arrozcru.org)
		9 points by rbanffy on Oct 16, 2019
79.		I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator (stackoverflow.com)
		68 points by btilly on Oct 17, 2019 \| 12 comments
80.		Qatar now so hot it has started air-conditioning the outdoors (independent.co.uk)
		54 points by nabla9 on Oct 18, 2019 \| 51 comments
81.		It took 10 minutes to convict a 14-year-old and 70 years to exonerate him (2014) (washingtonpost.com)
		38 points by EndXA on Oct 18, 2019 \| 14 comments
82.		[dupe] San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless (city-journal.org)
		49 points by undefined1 on Oct 18, 2019 \| 38 comments
83.		Free Pascal has now a WebAssembly back end (freepascal.org)
		40 points by mariuz on Oct 18, 2019 \| 4 comments
84.		How Guilty Should You Feel About Flying? (nytimes.com)
		28 points by tysone on Oct 18, 2019 \| 115 comments
85.		REST Is the New Soap (medium.com/free-code-camp)
		32 points by kiyanwang on Oct 18, 2019 \| 15 comments
86.		[dupe] WireGuard restored in Google Play Store after controversial removal (zx2c4.com)
		37 points by christoph-heiss on Oct 18, 2019 \| 11 comments
87.		Ask HN: Where do you find products at their early stage?
		38 points by gomangogo on Oct 18, 2019 \| 26 comments
88.		GetAwesomeness: A Directory of Lists (getawesomeness.herokuapp.com)
		10 points by rullopat on Oct 18, 2019 \| 4 comments
89.		Demikernel: A library OS for kernel-bypass devices, now with Rust TCP/IP stack (github.com/iyzhang)
		35 points by drkp on Oct 18, 2019 \| 6 comments
90.		What actually happens if a city gets nuked [video] (youtube.com)
		33 points by MKais on Oct 18, 2019 \| 15 comments
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