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31.Boring Company to use Tesla’s technology for its tunnel project under LA (electrek.co)
139 points by doener on Aug 13, 2017 | 121 comments
32.Tacitus’ Perfect Man (historytoday.com)
34 points by diodorus on Aug 13, 2017 | 11 comments
33.The LaTeX Fetish (2016) (danielallington.net)
145 points by nbmh on Aug 13, 2017 | 179 comments
34.JrGQL, a GraphQL alternative (jrgql.github.io)
75 points by jamesgt on Aug 13, 2017 | 58 comments
35.EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take on Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance (eff.org)
152 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 12, 2017 | 19 comments
36.Why English is such a great language for puns (economist.com)
103 points by sohkamyung on Aug 13, 2017 | 76 comments
37.The extraordinary story of Britain’s efforts to finance the First World War (bankunderground.co.uk)
63 points by hunglee2 on Aug 13, 2017 | 17 comments
38. [dupe] New deep learning course by Andrew Ng (fastcompany.com)
119 points by _ieq6 on Aug 13, 2017 | 35 comments
39.Hokkaido characters (wikipedia.org)
57 points by benbreen on Aug 13, 2017 | 4 comments
40. [flagged] Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us (nytimes.com)
177 points by Eduardo3rd on Aug 13, 2017 | 281 comments
41.Split user stories ruthlessly and get value earlier (mikeborozdin.com)
98 points by mikeborozdin on Aug 13, 2017 | 94 comments
42.The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy (bbc.com)
62 points by gpvos on Aug 13, 2017 | 45 comments
43.A trick to visualizing higher dimensions [video] (youtube.com)
76 points by sillysaurus3 on Aug 13, 2017 | 13 comments
44.Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon (newscientist.com)
107 points by ohjeez on Aug 13, 2017 | 73 comments
45.Open Sesame: Science centre unveiled in Jordan (bbc.com)
25 points by ComputerGuru on Aug 12, 2017 | 6 comments
46.Ask HN: How do you deal with piracy?
84 points by ttoinou on Aug 13, 2017 | 121 comments
47.Bitcoin Surpasses $4,000, Reaches Another Milestone (forbes.com/sites/cbovaird)
87 points by sndean on Aug 13, 2017 | 82 comments
48.On the Forgetting of College Academics: At “Ebbinghaus Speed”? [pdf] (cbmm.mit.edu)
18 points by SQL2219 on Aug 13, 2017 | 2 comments
49.Dev vs. Ops (bassi.io)
66 points by executesorder66 on Aug 13, 2017 | 12 comments
50.Tesla workers: To hell and back again (mercurynews.com)
74 points by mcone on Aug 13, 2017 | 87 comments
51.Show HN: Unlimited UI design (fairpixels.pro)
41 points by fairpx on Aug 13, 2017 | 23 comments
52.Should tech recruiters learn to code? (2014) (rosario.io)
31 points by gk1 on Aug 13, 2017 | 51 comments
53. [flagged] Leonard Guarente’s Anti-Aging Pill (2016) (nymag.com)
27 points by honorable on Aug 13, 2017 | 20 comments
54.Why Are Police Officers More Dangerous Than Airplanes? (nytimes.com)
61 points by dankohn1 on Aug 13, 2017 | 88 comments
55.Why we fell for clean eating (theguardian.com)
56 points by ALee on Aug 13, 2017 | 36 comments
56. [flagged] The Misguided Attacks on ACLU (theintercept.com)
55 points by kushti on Aug 13, 2017 | 54 comments
57.Airbnb’s ban of Nazis in Charlottesville sets an important standard (slate.com)
38 points by rbanffy on Aug 13, 2017 | 102 comments
58. [dupe] The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (uchicago.edu)
19 points by whocanfly on Aug 13, 2017 | 3 comments
59. [flagged] Tech’s Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd (nytimes.com)
47 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 13, 2017 | 39 comments
60.Malay manuscripts from Patani (blogs.bl.uk)
7 points by Thevet on Aug 12, 2017

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