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31. Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19 (elm-lang.org)
313 points by liquid_x on Aug 21, 2018 | 122 comments
32. Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed (independent.co.uk)
117 points by Thevet on Aug 19, 2018 | 52 comments
33. Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft (reuters.com)
139 points by rbanffy on Aug 21, 2018 | 238 comments
34. Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions (iacr.org)
51 points by luu on Aug 18, 2018 | 8 comments
35. Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor (newyorker.com)
88 points by pm24601 on Aug 21, 2018 | 42 comments
36. Malaysia Resists China’s Investments, Fearing ‘Colonialism’ (nytimes.com)
171 points by ilamont on Aug 20, 2018 | 75 comments
37. Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one (washingtonpost.com)
180 points by bradleybuda on Aug 21, 2018 | 185 comments
38. Google created a fake pizza brand to test creative strategies for YouTube ads (techcrunch.com)
88 points by CrazedGeek on Aug 21, 2018 | 69 comments
39. Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Autism in Offspring (psychiatryonline.org)
78 points by OKWhatNow on Aug 20, 2018 | 15 comments
40. Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time (reason.com)
160 points by danso on Aug 21, 2018 | 185 comments
41. Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries (github.com/jetbrains)
114 points by dleskov on Aug 21, 2018 | 67 comments
42. Massachusetts gives workers new protections against noncompete clauses (arstechnica.com)
139 points by LinuxBender on Aug 21, 2018 | 82 comments
43. Man sues over Google’s “Location History” fiasco, case could affect millions (arstechnica.com)
149 points by plasticchris on Aug 20, 2018 | 37 comments
44. Is China a developed country? A long and better answer (inkstonenews.com)
85 points by alanwong on Aug 21, 2018 | 54 comments
45. Service as a SKU (2012) (a16z.com)
29 points by yarapavan on Aug 21, 2018 | 4 comments
46. The Mechanical Universe (1986) [video] (youtube.com)
56 points by bocahrokok on Aug 19, 2018 | 6 comments
47. The History of Greco-Roman Vegetarianism (2010) (britannica.com)
46 points by plasticchris on Aug 21, 2018 | 21 comments
48. Frédéric Chopin and George Sand Go to Majorca (laphamsquarterly.org)
46 points by tintinnabula on Aug 19, 2018 | 12 comments
49. Companies shouldn't give candidates homework assignments (gayle.com)
136 points by le-mark on Aug 21, 2018 | 175 comments
50. The Secrets of the Wave Pilots (2016) (nytimes.com)
32 points by Tomte on Aug 21, 2018 | 5 comments
51. Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B (techcrunch.com)
132 points by Manu1987 on Aug 21, 2018 | 201 comments
52. In horrific detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches (chicagotribune.com)
160 points by HoppedUpMenace on Aug 20, 2018 | 48 comments
53. Who needs democracy when you have data? (technologyreview.com)
117 points by raleighm on Aug 20, 2018 | 107 comments
54. Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target (thisisinsider.com)
191 points by plasticchris on Aug 21, 2018 | 172 comments
55. China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium (thoriumenergyworld.com)
117 points by tfy11aro on Aug 21, 2018 | 27 comments
56. Kenya burial site shows community spirit of herders 5,000 years ago (theguardian.com)
24 points by a_w on Aug 21, 2018 | 1 comment
57. Usability and Key Management (2009) [pdf] (nist.gov)
42 points by tosh on Aug 21, 2018 | 6 comments
58. Ask HN: How to deal with GDPR / cookie notices in the context of a crawler?
65 points by mgliwka on Aug 19, 2018 | 47 comments
59. Clicker Diet: Tracking Diet with Tally Counter (clickerdiet.com)
79 points by hippich on Aug 21, 2018 | 94 comments
60. Exception Handling in Programming Languages [video] (youtube.com)
44 points by kjeetgill on Aug 20, 2018 | 3 comments

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