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31. San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft (wsj.com)
199 points by virtica on Aug 31, 2018 | 301 comments
32. “Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (1986) [pdf] (edu.mt)
78 points by akkartik on Aug 30, 2018 | 17 comments
33. Anbox – A container-based approach to boot full Android on a regular Linux (github.com/anbox)
98 points by homarp on Aug 31, 2018 | 18 comments
34. Scientists make a touch tablet that rolls and scrolls (techcrunch.com)
62 points by Ours90 on Aug 31, 2018 | 34 comments
35. Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech (cloud.google.com)
76 points by rayshan on Aug 31, 2018 | 38 comments
36. Value-Oriented Programming (diephouse.com)
87 points by glhaynes on Aug 30, 2018 | 58 comments
37. Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life? (nature.com)
52 points by Vigier on Aug 31, 2018 | 3 comments
38. Bureaucracy as Active Ingredient (slatestarcodex.com)
71 points by elvinyung on Aug 31, 2018 | 40 comments
39. The Chinese were solving 14th degree polynomials in 1303. Why? (reddit.com)
162 points by tombh on Aug 31, 2018 | 74 comments
40. Assertions in Production Code? (2008) (drdobbs.com)
100 points by ScottWRobinson on Aug 30, 2018 | 87 comments
41. Telco lobbyists accidentally send their talking points (techdirt.com)
198 points by econ4all on Aug 31, 2018 | 27 comments
42. Russia tries more precise technology to block Telegram messenger (reuters.com)
127 points by Mereruka on Aug 31, 2018 | 102 comments
43. Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing (economist.com)
119 points by qubitcoder on Aug 31, 2018 | 114 comments
44. Java is still available at zero-cost (joda.org)
175 points by lemming on Aug 31, 2018 | 162 comments
45. Remote Mac Exploitation via Custom URL Schemes (objective-see.com)
70 points by mef on Aug 31, 2018 | 19 comments
46. Theranos: Blitzscaling, Blitzfailing, or Blitzfrauding? (linkedin.com)
48 points by kaboro on Aug 31, 2018 | 47 comments
47. Unsupervised machine translation (fb.com)
86 points by Kemet on Aug 31, 2018 | 23 comments
48. Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen (theverge.com)
133 points by aogl on Aug 31, 2018 | 131 comments
49. Discerning the Out-Of-Order Advantage: Is It Speculation or Dynamism? (2013) [pdf] (illinois.edu)
32 points by matt_d on Aug 30, 2018 | 8 comments
50. The Functional Programmer – Keeping Repetitive Strain Injury at Bay [video] (lunarlogic.io)
48 points by ArturT on Aug 31, 2018 | 20 comments
51. Drawing Spirograph curves in Python (johndcook.com)
60 points by chmaynard on Aug 31, 2018 | 10 comments
52. Viewtron (wikipedia.org)
27 points by js2 on Aug 30, 2018 | 10 comments
53. I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports (utcc.utoronto.ca)
97 points by zdw on Aug 31, 2018 | 79 comments
54. A Universal Scripting Framework (1996) [ps] (neu.edu)
34 points by wtetzner on Aug 31, 2018 | 10 comments
55. Incarceration as Incapacitation: An Intellectual History (americanaffairsjournal.org)
38 points by barry-cotter on Aug 31, 2018 | 11 comments
56. Byteconf React – free React.js conf streamed on Twitch, live right now (byteconf.com)
48 points by kmf on Aug 31, 2018 | 6 comments
57. When Science Was Big (2017) (bunkhistory.org)
19 points by Hooke on Aug 29, 2018 | 1 comment
58. Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans (reuters.com)
126 points by AnatMl2 on Aug 31, 2018 | 108 comments
59. Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing (nytimes.com)
91 points by blondie9x on Aug 31, 2018 | 98 comments
60. Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn (bbc.com)
102 points by AhmadM91 on Aug 31, 2018 | 96 comments

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