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31.		Court Of Human Rights: Convictions For File-Sharing Violate Human Rights (falkvinge.net)
		77 points by dutchbrit on Feb 8, 2013 \| 19 comments
32.		Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity (2009) (ft.com)
		72 points by Anon84 on Feb 8, 2013 \| 24 comments
33.		What Really Killed the Dinosaurs? (slate.com)
		71 points by tokenadult on Feb 8, 2013 \| 65 comments
34.		Google: Self-driving cars in 3-5 years. Feds: Not so fast (extremetech.com)
		64 points by lispython on Feb 8, 2013 \| 94 comments
35.		Playing to Lose: How Competitive Tetris Players Approach An Unwinnable Game (chrishiggins.com)
		60 points by digitalmud on Feb 8, 2013 \| 29 comments
36.		Wi-Fi “as free as air” – totally false story (arstechnica.com)
		60 points by iProject on Feb 8, 2013 \| 39 comments
37.		Programming from the Ground Up (programminggroundup.blogspot.com)
		59 points by mck- on Feb 8, 2013 \| 11 comments
38.		From jQuery to JavaScript and back again (benhowdle.im)
		58 points by benhowdle89 on Feb 8, 2013 \| 58 comments
39.		The R learning curve (datagrad.blogspot.com)
		58 points by sonabinu on Feb 8, 2013 \| 71 comments
40.		Rack - Important Security Upgrade (rack.github.com)
		56 points by dpaluy on Feb 8, 2013 \| 35 comments
41.		Monads for Normal Programmers (jorgenschaefer.de)
		53 points by zachallaun on Feb 8, 2013 \| 45 comments
42.		Collection of 6,850 video games and 330 consoles up for sale on Ebay for $550K (ebay.com)
		51 points by mikek on Feb 8, 2013 \| 38 comments
43.		Fixing Google Analytics for Ghostery (ejohn.org)
		51 points by lispython on Feb 8, 2013 \| 17 comments
44.		Show HN: Slidescroll – view your slide decks together (slidescroll.com)
		57 points by mayop100 on Feb 8, 2013 \| 23 comments
45.		Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship (antipope.org)
		47 points by cstross on Feb 8, 2013 \| 56 comments
46.		Giving.Code (giving.github.com)
		46 points by bencevans on Feb 8, 2013 \| 16 comments
47.		How To Make A Million Dollars (danshipper.com)
		45 points by revorad on Feb 8, 2013 \| 18 comments
48.		Introducing django-db-tools - A read-only mode for your Django app (craigkerstiens.com)
		48 points by craigkerstiens on Feb 8, 2013 \| 9 comments
49.		REPL? A bit more (and less) than that – Erlang shell (ferd.ca)
		44 points by telemachos on Feb 8, 2013 \| 2 comments
50.		Cube (YC W12) Goes Deeper Than Your Standard iPad Register (techcrunch.com)
		43 points by swohns on Feb 8, 2013 \| 32 comments
51.		Row blows up over ownership of 'space marine' term (bbc.co.uk)
		42 points by hansbo on Feb 8, 2013 \| 54 comments
52.		Symbiotic Languages [video] (ashkenas.com)
		45 points by lispython on Feb 8, 2013 \| 16 comments
53.		Show HN: Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN (skimhn.com)
		43 points by raimonds on Feb 8, 2013 \| 20 comments
54.		Finally confirmed: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs (extremetech.com)
		40 points by lispython on Feb 8, 2013 \| 15 comments
55.		What's the point of writing good scientific software? (bioinformaticszen.com)
		40 points by michaelbarton on Feb 8, 2013 \| 51 comments
56.		Patents and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History [pdf] (aeaweb.org)
		37 points by asdf333 on Feb 8, 2013 \| 27 comments
57.		Show HN: Followshows – Never miss an episode again (followshows.com)
		36 points by ds on Feb 8, 2013 \| 60 comments
58.		Why You’re Failing to Realize Your Potential as a Developer (aaronstannard.com)
		35 points by yitznewton on Feb 8, 2013 \| 27 comments
59.		Ask HN: in 2013, is it still worth learning RoR/Django?
		34 points by urlwolf on Feb 8, 2013 \| 31 comments
60.		Adobe issues emergency Flash update for attacks on Windows, Mac (arstechnica.com)
		34 points by shawndumas on Feb 8, 2013 \| 8 comments
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