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31.		Battleship Rangefinders and Geometry (mathscinotes.wordpress.com)
		91 points by SuperChihuahua on July 18, 2014 \| 6 comments
32.		Show HN: A high-speed laser camera trigger for under $2 (vela.io)
		88 points by ascorbic on July 18, 2014 \| 28 comments
33.		Fastpass: A Centralized “Zero-Queue” Datacenter Network (fastpass.mit.edu)
		87 points by jonbaer on July 18, 2014 \| 28 comments
34.		Mac and Cheese Maze Mystery Resolved (krazydad.com)
		74 points by arrel on July 18, 2014 \| 13 comments
35.		[dupe] Keeping employees from discussing their salaries is illegal (theatlantic.com)
		74 points by ultimoo on July 18, 2014 \| 18 comments
36.		Elastic MapReduce Streaming in Go (nytimes.com)
		80 points by danso on July 18, 2014 \| 26 comments
37.		Holographic Displays Coming to Smartphones (ieee.org)
		70 points by shill on July 18, 2014 \| 46 comments
38.		Hacking POS Terminal for Fun and Non-profit (hp.com)
		65 points by lsh123 on July 18, 2014 \| 16 comments
39.		The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment (slate.com)
		59 points by rpm4321 on July 18, 2014 \| 90 comments
40.		Programming is not math (sarahmei.com)
		66 points by ivanmaeder on July 18, 2014 \| 113 comments
41.		Chrome 37 Beta: DirectWrite on Windows and the Dialog Element (chromium.org)
		63 points by frankacter on July 18, 2014 \| 33 comments
42.		Piri Reis Map (wikipedia.org)
		61 points by albertzeyer on July 18, 2014 \| 12 comments
43.		The American Poker Frat of Playa del Carmen (slate.com)
		56 points by ForHackernews on July 18, 2014 \| 12 comments
44.		Tips for Better Deep Learning Models (lauradhamilton.com)
		56 points by lauradhamilton on July 18, 2014 \| 15 comments
45.		Tips on Configuring Elasticsearch for High Performance (loggly.com)
		61 points by KarenS on July 18, 2014 \| 4 comments
46.		A New Digital Currency Whose Value Is Based on Your Reputation (wired.com)
		57 points by cjdulberger on July 18, 2014 \| 43 comments
47.		How to Get a Job Using a Technology You Don't Know (jasonswett.net)
		51 points by jasonswett on July 18, 2014 \| 32 comments
48.		Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers (nytimes.com)
		52 points by aeonflux on July 18, 2014 \| 38 comments
49.		Google Imagery: Cost-effective, accurate imagery for your operations (google-mkto.com)
		53 points by alternize on July 18, 2014 \| 17 comments
50.		Orthanc, free software for medical imaging, celebrates its second birthday (orthanc-server.com)
		50 points by jodogne on July 18, 2014 \| 9 comments
51.		Ask HN: What would attract you to a job in flyover country?
		39 points by midwestcoder on July 18, 2014 \| 78 comments
52.		Designers: Don't cover what I'm looking at (paulferrett.com)
		41 points by paulferrett on July 18, 2014 \| 14 comments
53.		The Children of Silicon Valley (nybooks.com)
		40 points by HarveyLee96 on July 18, 2014 \| 26 comments
54.		The BackDoor Factory: Patch win86/64 PE and linux86/64 binaries with shellcode (github.com/secretsquirrel)
		37 points by signa11 on July 18, 2014 \| 10 comments
55.		Storj Crowdsale (storj.io)
		37 points by trundlingtrain on July 18, 2014 \| 22 comments
56.		Introducing Ark: A Consensus Algorithm For TokuMX and MongoDB (tokutek.com)
		37 points by zardosht on July 18, 2014 \| 16 comments
57.		Things we learnt designing 'Register to vote' (designnotes.blog.gov.uk)
		33 points by joelanman on July 18, 2014 \| 19 comments
58.		R3 bindings for Node.js (github.com/othree)
		36 points by pedro93 on July 18, 2014 \| 11 comments
59.		The Wisdom of Insecurity (kirtimukha.com)
		33 points by t0dd on July 18, 2014 \| 7 comments
60.		Poll: How many emails do you have in your inbox right now?
		32 points by byoung2 on July 18, 2014 \| 45 comments
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