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31. The Chinese Typewriter: A History (lrb.co.uk)
48 points by forapurpose on Aug 8, 2018 | 27 comments
32. High resolution timers and high uptime headaches (cookieplmonster.github.io)
91 points by lathiat on Aug 9, 2018 | 38 comments
33. Tech’s Military Dilemma (newrepublic.com)
88 points by Bender on Aug 8, 2018 | 85 comments
34. On the uses and misuses of panics in Go (thegreenplace.net)
98 points by r4um on Aug 9, 2018 | 73 comments
35. Inside the Business of Dog Cloning (vanityfair.com)
65 points by pseudolus on Aug 9, 2018 | 32 comments
36. Leibniz's Explanation of Binary Arithmetic (1701) (leibniz-translations.com)
84 points by caiocaiocaio on Aug 9, 2018 | 15 comments
37. A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos (theguardian.com)
301 points by lingz on Aug 9, 2018 | 210 comments
38. Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages (help.twitter.com)
179 points by f_allwein on Aug 9, 2018 | 114 comments
39. F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Google Scale [pdf] (vldb.org)
75 points by anuragbiyani on Aug 8, 2018 | 8 comments
40. Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lotus Notes system (baltimoresun.com)
175 points by linkmotif on Aug 9, 2018 | 229 comments
41. Wanted: ‘Lost Einsteins.’ Please Apply (nytimes.com)
162 points by dsr12 on Aug 9, 2018 | 104 comments
42. Systemd's DynamicUser feature is currently dangerous (utcc.utoronto.ca)
100 points by pwg on Aug 9, 2018 | 45 comments
43. Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead (nationalgeographic.com)
220 points by lisper on Aug 9, 2018 | 64 comments
44. Clear defensive programming with Go using Verifier library (itnext.io)
70 points by kiyanwang on Aug 9, 2018 | 41 comments
45. A timesyncd failure and systemd's lack of debugability (utcc.utoronto.ca)
140 points by zdw on Aug 9, 2018 | 123 comments
46. How to Recover from Romantic Heartbreak? (scientificamerican.com)
153 points by yarapavan on Aug 9, 2018 | 86 comments
47. How 2,000-year-old roads predict modern-day prosperity (washingtonpost.com)
61 points by lazydon on Aug 8, 2018 | 49 comments
48. A little bump in the wire that makes the Internet faster (apenwarr.ca)
156 points by eadmund on Aug 9, 2018 | 59 comments
49. “Common view” that Japanese are typically collectivists is not supported by data (wiley.com)
62 points by DyslexicAtheist on Aug 9, 2018 | 52 comments
50. Cyber Security Awareness Challenge (disa.mil)
41 points by smnscu on Aug 9, 2018 | 20 comments
51. Taking an Ancestry Test Could Make It Harder to Buy Life Insurance (cbslocal.com)
96 points by Jerry2 on Aug 9, 2018 | 91 comments
52. Go 1.11beta3 is in average 11x faster for crypto/tls benchmarks on ARM64 (gist.github.com)
105 points by carlosedp on Aug 9, 2018 | 10 comments
53. Handling of U.S. trade dispute causes rift in Chinese leadership: sources (reuters.com)
94 points by microdrum on Aug 9, 2018 | 79 comments
54. Step-by-step code execution on the Toshiba FlashAir SD card (docs.google.com)
63 points by guedou on Aug 9, 2018 | 13 comments
55. Tarpits and Antiflocks (ribbonfarm.com)
47 points by andyraskin on Aug 9, 2018 | 4 comments
56. New organic battery can operate for decades (differentimpulse.com)
73 points by virtualthings on Aug 9, 2018 | 13 comments
57. Six Months at Riot Games (meagan-marie.tumblr.com)
320 points by nostalgeek on Aug 9, 2018 | 248 comments
58. Show HN: I built OLEDify to help save battery by pure-blacking your wallpapers
49 points by busymom0 on Aug 9, 2018 | 13 comments
59. Show HN: An online drawing tool that lets you change colors via MIDI controller (h3nk.com)
26 points by rhklein on Aug 8, 2018 | 3 comments
60. Launch HN: MAC'D (YC S18) – Fast-Casual, Build-Your-own Mac and Cheese
51 points by antonybello on Aug 9, 2018 | 40 comments

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