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31.Liftoff: a new baseline compiler for WebAssembly in V8 (v8project.blogspot.com)
150 points by titzer on Aug 20, 2018 | 20 comments
32.Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved (investvine.com)
130 points by doener on Aug 20, 2018 | 91 comments
33.Why Sitting May Be Bad for Your Brain (nytimes.com)
154 points by a_w on Aug 20, 2018 | 56 comments
34.Greyston Bakery hires on a first-come, first-served basis, no questions asked (fastcompany.com)
145 points by adwmayer on Aug 20, 2018 | 75 comments
35.Hume the Humane (aeon.co)
50 points by pepys on Aug 17, 2018 | 11 comments
36.Detailed articles on the avionics of NASA’s space shuttle (nasa.gov)
79 points by stevenhuang on Aug 19, 2018 | 12 comments
37.Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time (flatpak.org)
254 points by alexlarsson on Aug 20, 2018 | 204 comments
38.Intel firmware now unredistributable by OS vendors (debian.org)
218 points by rwmj on Aug 20, 2018 | 78 comments
39.An Online Magazine You Can’t Read Online (nautil.us)
71 points by elorant on Aug 17, 2018 | 16 comments
40.Bringing macros to Python by abusing type annotations (tinkering.xyz)
75 points by jxub on Aug 18, 2018 | 17 comments
41.London museum is livestreaming a key 21st-century artifact: festering sewage (arstechnica.com)
39 points by okket on Aug 18, 2018 | 13 comments
42.After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete (bloomberg.com)
131 points by dsgerard on Aug 20, 2018 | 139 comments
43.Is Lisp Still Unique? Or at Least Different? (2002) (norvig.com)
78 points by tosh on Aug 19, 2018 | 85 comments
44.Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
198 points by PieShell on Aug 20, 2018 | 315 comments
45.Let’s all go back to Tumblr (theoutline.com)
99 points by raleighm on Aug 19, 2018 | 134 comments
46.Going FLOSS-only on Android (codingquark.com)
109 points by ericdanielski on Aug 18, 2018 | 89 comments
47.Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs (bloomberg.com)
247 points by petethomas on Aug 20, 2018 | 185 comments
48.The truth about ‘breakthrough’ drugs (washingtonpost.com)
69 points by wellokthen on Aug 20, 2018 | 16 comments
49.Won and done? Sportsbooks banning the smart money (espn.com)
55 points by mudil on Aug 20, 2018 | 49 comments
50.How Do We Measure the Distance to a Star? (scientificamerican.com)
74 points by yaseen-rob on Aug 20, 2018 | 27 comments
51.Benzodiazepines: Our Other Prescription Drug Problem (journalistsresource.org)
81 points by pratheekrebala on Aug 20, 2018 | 81 comments
52.Uber’s Vision of Self-Driving Cars Begins to Blur (nytimes.com)
128 points by plasticchris on Aug 20, 2018 | 156 comments
53.'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture of tipping in SF (sfgate.com)
110 points by mbgaxyz on Aug 20, 2018 | 206 comments
54.They Don't Build Them Like They Used To: The New Construction Shortage (zillow.com)
73 points by jseliger on Aug 19, 2018 | 80 comments
55.Creating the Innocent Killer (2009) (ncsu.edu)
39 points by mlevental on Aug 18, 2018 | 54 comments
56.Data Organization in Spreadsheets (tandfonline.com)
77 points by fanf2 on Aug 18, 2018 | 27 comments
57.Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates fake posts (github.com/mb-14)
82 points by pjf on Aug 20, 2018 | 13 comments
58.Venezuela devalues the bolivar by 95% and pegs it to ‘oil-linked’ cryptocurrency (businessinsider.com)
149 points by sonnyblarney on Aug 20, 2018 | 126 comments
59.Sugar: Secure GPU Acceleration in Web Browsers [pdf] (uci.edu)
48 points by lainon on Aug 20, 2018 | 7 comments
60.Apple Pulls Gambling Apps Targeted by Chinese State Media (wsj.com)
91 points by plasticchris on Aug 20, 2018 | 49 comments

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