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31.		Microsoft to Shutter Xbox Entertainment Studios (recode.net)
		96 points by blacktulip on July 17, 2014 \| 37 comments
32.		Proposed New York State Virtual Currency Regulations [pdf] (ny.gov)
		91 points by mdelias on July 17, 2014 \| 54 comments
33.		Google Reports Better-Than-Seen Revenue Growth (wsj.com)
		99 points by reflect on July 17, 2014 \| 80 comments
34.		Fail2ban security update (debian.org)
		92 points by TimWolla on July 17, 2014 \| 57 comments
35.		Rust for C++ Programmers – Part 9 (featherweightmusings.blogspot.com)
		85 points by valarauca1 on July 17, 2014 \| 5 comments
36.		Pigeon photography (wikipedia.org)
		79 points by josephpmay on July 17, 2014 \| 11 comments
37.		What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub (github.com/search)
		73 points by BaltoRouberol on July 17, 2014 \| 68 comments
38.		Vint Cerf on Colbert
		70 points by maroonblazer on July 17, 2014 \| 20 comments
39.		Show HN: Pastor generates and stores passwords without storing any passwords (github.com/appnician)
		67 points by Appnician on July 17, 2014 \| 70 comments
40.		The optional “else” in Python loops (shahriar.svbtle.com)
		67 points by s16h on July 17, 2014 \| 48 comments
41.		Show HN: A Javascript library to overcomplicate Five (jackdcrawford.github.io)
		69 points by joezo on July 17, 2014 \| 28 comments
42.		The Big Winner from Y Combinator’s Success? Sequoia Capital (priceonomics.com)
		64 points by ryan_j_naughton on July 17, 2014 \| 17 comments
43.		18,000 Microsoft Jobs Gone Eventually? (minimsft.blogspot.com)
		54 points by programminggeek on July 17, 2014 \| 6 comments
44.		Microsoft Ending its Short-Lived Tenure as Android Phone Maker (recode.net)
		49 points by jefflinwood on July 17, 2014 \| 48 comments
45.		A major upgrade of the LIGO gravitational-wave detector is almost complete (nature.com)
		52 points by alphanumeric0 on July 17, 2014 \| 15 comments
46.		What is CI and why use it? (rainforestqa.com)
		55 points by smathieu on July 17, 2014 \| 45 comments
47.		One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat (nationalgeographic.com)
		43 points by zvanness on July 17, 2014 \| 94 comments
48.		Discouraged Developer (tbray.org)
		45 points by pswenson on July 17, 2014 \| 10 comments
49.		Product/Market Fit (2007) (stanford.edu)
		44 points by rahooligan on July 17, 2014 \| 20 comments
50.		What I see (jeremiahshackelford.com)
		45 points by grey-area on July 17, 2014 \| 26 comments
51.		#Love: Virtually No Sex (techcrunch.com)
		44 points by JayCH on July 17, 2014 \| 60 comments
52.		[dupe] Microsoft To Cut Workforce By 18,000 This Year, ‘Moving Now’ To Cut First 13,000 (techcrunch.com)
		43 points by sandeepmzr on July 17, 2014 \| 6 comments
53.		Slow and Steady is Bullshit (usuallypragmatic.com)
		43 points by carpdiem on July 17, 2014 \| 36 comments
54.		XPath tips from the web scraping trenches (scrapinghub.com)
		40 points by predius on July 17, 2014 \| 5 comments
55.		A Simple Network Client in Rust (wycd.net)
		39 points by wyc on July 17, 2014 \| 4 comments
56.		Yogscast Kickstarter failure is a painful reminder of the risks of crowdfunding (polygon.com)
		37 points by smacktoward on July 17, 2014 \| 43 comments
57.		Testing a New Way to Discover and Buy Products on Facebook (facebook.com)
		39 points by arrel on July 17, 2014 \| 21 comments
58.		Flair – HVAC 2.0 (flair.zone)
		40 points by dmritard96 on July 17, 2014 \| 26 comments
59.		How We Hire (getadministrate.com)
		36 points by nemesisj on July 17, 2014 \| 43 comments
60.		Show HN: Fav.ninja – makes icons (fav.ninja)
		32 points by nstory on July 17, 2014 \| 9 comments
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