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31.Paid $75k to Love a Brand on Instagram – Is It an Ad? (nytimes.com)
160 points by mantesso on Aug 30, 2016 | 152 comments
32.Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in Norway (nytimes.com)
104 points by alizauf on Aug 30, 2016 | 42 comments
33.The Fall of Avalon Hill (1998) (earthlink.net)
60 points by shawndumas on Aug 30, 2016 | 53 comments
34.A Sneak Peek Comparison of x264, x265, and libvpx (netflix.com)
156 points by babak_ap on Aug 29, 2016 | 54 comments
35.Principles of Calm Technology (calmtech.com)
147 points by chaghalibaghali on Aug 30, 2016 | 66 comments
36.106 years after tragic crash, locomotive located in Lake Superior (duluthnewstribune.com)
57 points by wglb on Aug 29, 2016 | 17 comments
37.Teaching AI to race using NNs and genetic algorithms (tomasz-rewak.com)
141 points by Halienja on Aug 30, 2016 | 42 comments
38.Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs (github.com/delight-im)
136 points by marco1 on Aug 30, 2016 | 90 comments
39.Instruction Selection: Principles, Methods, and Applications [pdf] (diva-portal.org)
41 points by ingve on Aug 29, 2016
40.Malware that uses USB drives to covertly jump airgaps (arstechnica.com)
111 points by k__ on Aug 30, 2016 | 44 comments
41.How and why I made a zine (jvns.ca)
126 points by chaghalibaghali on Aug 30, 2016 | 19 comments
42.Profile of Qasar Younis and YC Investor Day (washingtonpost.com)
83 points by runesoerensen on Aug 30, 2016 | 17 comments
43.Arduino-Based Home Weather Station on the Elastic Stack (elastic.co)
81 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 30, 2016 | 39 comments
44.CloudFlare, SSL and unhealthy security absolutism (troyhunt.com)
141 points by jgrahamc on Aug 30, 2016 | 114 comments
45.Mathematician Says Big Data Is Causing a ‘Silent Financial Crisis’ (time.com)
146 points by rbanffy on Aug 30, 2016 | 106 comments
46.New Digital Currency Spikes as Drug Dealers Get More Secrecy (bloomberg.com)
105 points by uptown on Aug 30, 2016 | 56 comments
47.SESHAT: Handwritten math expression parser (github.com/falvaro)
84 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 30, 2016 | 23 comments
48.How to Expose an Eavesdropper (1984) (fermatslibrary.com)
76 points by joaobatalha on Aug 30, 2016 | 5 comments
49.Couple Pleads Guilty to $20M Visa Fraud Involving Indian Workers (justice.gov)
53 points by mavelikara on Aug 30, 2016 | 23 comments
50.Show HN: Architect – Hardware Description and Emulation JavaScript Library (github.com/mbad0la)
34 points by mbad0la on Aug 29, 2016 | 28 comments
51.SSL/TLS and PKI History (feistyduck.com)
65 points by okket on Aug 30, 2016 | 11 comments
52.Flying Car Dreams May Soon Be a Reality (pddnet.com)
29 points by lxm on Aug 30, 2016 | 57 comments
53.What Killed the Jingle? (theatlantic.com)
57 points by pmcpinto on Aug 30, 2016 | 60 comments
54.The Software Behind YC’s Investor Day (themacro.com)
81 points by craigcannon on Aug 30, 2016 | 9 comments
55.Micro v1.0 – a terminal-based text editor written in Go (github.com/zyedidia)
161 points by speckz on Aug 30, 2016 | 44 comments
56.UC Berkeley Launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (news.berkeley.edu)
60 points by apsec112 on Aug 29, 2016 | 5 comments
57.A Message to the Apple Community in Europe (apple.com)
316 points by epaga on Aug 30, 2016 | 417 comments
58.Ideas that Have Harmed Mankind (1946) (panarchy.org)
80 points by mutor on Aug 30, 2016 | 40 comments
59.The Marriage of DevOps and SecOps (evident.io)
56 points by kiyanwang on Aug 30, 2016 | 30 comments
60.Show HN: War on Ether (waronether.com)
76 points by kobigurk on Aug 30, 2016 | 36 comments

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