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31. Home computing for $5/month (pandoricity.blogspot.com)
174 points by wryun on Aug 17, 2017 | 149 comments
32. The Attention Economy and the Net (1997) (firstmonday.org)
73 points by _culy on Aug 17, 2017 | 6 comments
33. The Matasano Crypto Challenges (2013) (blog.pinboard.in)
151 points by CarolineW on Aug 17, 2017 | 29 comments
34. The ZX80 manuals and inserts (medium.com/leoferres)
81 points by leoferres on Aug 17, 2017 | 18 comments
35. John Carmack on Functional Programming (2013) [video] (youtube.com)
258 points by tosh on Aug 17, 2017 | 84 comments
36. 72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is (exstreamist.com)
181 points by artsandsci on Aug 17, 2017 | 130 comments
37. A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M (nytimes.com)
287 points by el_benhameen on Aug 17, 2017 | 301 comments
38. How we built the unbeatable Dota 2 bot (blog.openai.com)
103 points by sillysaurus3 on Aug 16, 2017 | 33 comments
39. Concrete-free washing machines are lighter to transport, just as good in a spin (newatlas.com)
154 points by the-dude on Aug 17, 2017 | 161 comments
40. Launch HN: PullRequest (YC S17) – On-Demand Code Review
90 points by lyal on Aug 17, 2017 | 65 comments
41. An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence (medium.com/wordsandcode)
114 points by eaguyhn on Aug 17, 2017 | 65 comments
42. iOS 11 has a feature to temporarily disable Touch ID (theverge.com)
162 points by Shank on Aug 17, 2017 | 83 comments
43. Ericsson is reportedly planning to cut 25,000 jobs in response to crisis (businessinsider.com)
101 points by scrpn on Aug 17, 2017 | 36 comments
44. Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of AI (1969) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
45 points by _culy on Aug 17, 2017 | 28 comments
45. Desktop Kit (facebook.design)
105 points by michelephant on Aug 17, 2017 | 18 comments
46. How Hardware Drives the Shape of Databases to Come (nextplatform.com)
66 points by arnon on Aug 17, 2017 | 1 comment
47. Show HN: Appster – Free Bootstrap 4 App Landing Page Template (wireddots.com)
79 points by attacomsian on Aug 17, 2017 | 34 comments
48. Thai activist jailed under lese majeste laws for sharing an article on Facebook (eff.org)
112 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 17, 2017 | 89 comments
49. Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About (hackaday.com)
123 points by szczys on Aug 17, 2017 | 130 comments
50. Python Threading Beginners Tutorial [video] (youtube.com)
90 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 17, 2017 | 15 comments
51. Video is Coming to Reddit (redditblog.com)
96 points by _ps6d on Aug 17, 2017 | 109 comments
52. Serverless Event Gateway (serverless.com)
72 points by rmason on Aug 17, 2017 | 20 comments
53. The Crisis of Connected Cars: When Vulnerabilities Affect the CAN Standard (trendmicro.com)
38 points by SanderMak on Aug 17, 2017 | 18 comments
54. Trezor hardware Bitcoin wallet – Security glitches reveal private keys (medium.com/zero404cool)
83 points by mbgaxyz on Aug 17, 2017 | 46 comments
55. The Life of a South Central Statistic (newyorker.com)
40 points by wallflower on Aug 17, 2017 | 13 comments
56. Optimizing React Apps in Practice (marmelab.com)
70 points by alexwolfe on Aug 17, 2017 | 9 comments
57. Reverse Engineering x86 Processor Microcode [pdf] (usenix.org)
73 points by gcp on Aug 17, 2017 | 9 comments
58. Launch HN: VergeSense (YC S17) – AI-Powered Sensors for Building Management
36 points by dpryan on Aug 17, 2017 | 15 comments
59. When Government Rules by Software, Citizens Are Left in the Dark (wired.com)
79 points by AndrewDucker on Aug 17, 2017 | 29 comments
60. Data Science Rosetta Stone: Classification in R, Python, Matlab, SAS, Julia (heatonresearch.com)
61 points by jeffheaton on Aug 17, 2017 | 10 comments

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