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31. The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010) (slate.com)
163 points by leksak on Sept 4, 2016 | 98 comments
32. Amazon and Wells Fargo part ways on private student loan deal (washingtonpost.com)
36 points by e15ctr0n on Sept 4, 2016 | 7 comments
33. Does Conflict Drive Cooperation? (econlib.org)
43 points by datelligence on Sept 4, 2016 | 4 comments
34. Ask HN: What does an electrical engineer actually do at work?
140 points by johan_larson on Sept 4, 2016 | 110 comments
35. New Edition of “Programming in Haskell” Now Available (nott.ac.uk)
117 points by javinpaul on Sept 4, 2016 | 23 comments
36. Employers Find ‘Soft Skills’ Like Critical Thinking in Short Supply (wsj.com)
156 points by lxm on Sept 4, 2016 | 128 comments
37. Read and Write Other Process Memory (nullprogram.com)
43 points by ingve on Sept 4, 2016 | 3 comments
38. The 1950's Jet Launching Tiny Satellites (bbc.com)
58 points by jcbeard on Sept 3, 2016 | 17 comments
39. Teens Who Say No to Social Media (wsj.com)
134 points by lxm on Sept 4, 2016 | 77 comments
40. Mitochondrial evolution in snails gives hints on the adaptation from sea to land (biomedcentral.com)
39 points by kurono on Sept 4, 2016 | 6 comments
41. Dependency graphs of Go web frameworks (github.com/groob)
114 points by markkit on Sept 4, 2016 | 33 comments
42. How DNA could store all the world’s data (nature.com)
57 points by lzlarryli on Sept 4, 2016 | 26 comments
43. Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?
170 points by s3b on Sept 4, 2016 | 130 comments
44. Show HN: Granim.js – Create fluid and interactive gradients animations (sarcadass.github.io)
74 points by Sarcadass on Sept 4, 2016 | 15 comments
45. Cow Dung Goes High Design (nytimes.com)
34 points by endswapper on Sept 4, 2016 | 3 comments
46. How Elixir Helped Us Scale Our Video User Profile Service for the Olympics (medium.com/software-sandwich)
132 points by onlydole on Sept 4, 2016 | 6 comments
47. In Norway, everyone can know how much you earn [video] (youtube.com)
124 points by open-source-ux on Sept 4, 2016 | 161 comments
48. Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood (nytimes.com)
53 points by sndean on Sept 4, 2016 | 33 comments
49. Inclusivity Is a Joke (medium.com/hasharray)
320 points by brakmic on Sept 4, 2016 | 216 comments
50. The Biotech Empires (techcrunch.com)
30 points by endswapper on Sept 4, 2016 | 5 comments
51. Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit (sky.com)
122 points by okket on Sept 4, 2016 | 201 comments
52. Is lambdatalk a Turing machine? (epsilonwiki.free.fr)
19 points by martyalain on Sept 4, 2016
53. Ask HN: Labour of love projects
58 points by muhic on Sept 4, 2016 | 47 comments
54. College has been oversold (2011) (marginalrevolution.com)
45 points by jseliger on Sept 4, 2016 | 60 comments
55. ClausIE: Clause-Based Open Information Extraction (mpg.de)
24 points by aoldoni on Sept 4, 2016 | 5 comments
56. Small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco (nytimes.com)
61 points by GabrielF00 on Sept 4, 2016 | 63 comments
57. Persistence modules for the invesdwin-context module system (github.com/subes)
48 points by gsubes on Sept 4, 2016 | 19 comments
58. Crockford (paulstraw.svbtle.com)
240 points by knes on Sept 4, 2016 | 104 comments
59. The Donbass Paradox (theblacksea.eu)
42 points by iamjeff on Sept 4, 2016 | 28 comments
60. How China Is Building a Startup Boom (nytimes.com)
43 points by my_first_acct on Sept 3, 2016 | 11 comments

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