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31.		Bitcoin’s Price Falls 12%, to Lowest Value Since May (nytimes.com)
		78 points by conover on Aug 19, 2014 \| 83 comments
32.		DIY diagnosis: How an extreme athlete uncovered her genetic flaw (mosaicscience.com)
		78 points by nikbackm on Aug 19, 2014 \| 5 comments
33.		When 'Right-Sizing' Vacant Properties Goes Wrong (citylab.com)
		71 points by Mz on Aug 19, 2014 \| 46 comments
34.		YC Demo Day Session 4 (techcrunch.com)
		76 points by jasontraff on Aug 19, 2014 \| 34 comments
35.		Vedeu: Ruby-based terminal GUI framework
		91 points by TheRealGL on Aug 19, 2014 \| 18 comments
36.		Half a Decade After Demo Day (billclerico.com)
		82 points by vasusen on Aug 19, 2014 \| 11 comments
37.		My First 12 Years at Amazon.com (jeff-barr.com)
		70 points by jeffbarr on Aug 19, 2014 \| 11 comments
38.		Old car batteries could make cheaper, more efficient solar panels (washingtonpost.com)
		75 points by nkzednan on Aug 19, 2014 \| 19 comments
39.		[flagged] I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me (washingtonpost.com)
		68 points by chuckharmston on Aug 19, 2014 \| 55 comments
40.		Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back (ignorenomoreapp.com)
		76 points by juliann on Aug 19, 2014 \| 94 comments
41.		Always Talk to Strangers (theatlantic.com)
		66 points by tokenadult on Aug 19, 2014 \| 32 comments
42.		Computer Eyesight Gets a Lot More Accurate (nytimes.com)
		61 points by dumitrue on Aug 19, 2014 \| 18 comments
43.		Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer (ethereum.org)
		61 points by MichaelAO on Aug 19, 2014 \| 1 comment
44.		Inequality and Web Search Trends (nytimes.com)
		63 points by programmernews on Aug 19, 2014 \| 20 comments
45.		YC Demo Day Session 3 (techcrunch.com)
		62 points by TheMakeA on Aug 19, 2014 \| 18 comments
46.		Sins of software development (ionelmc.ro)
		56 points by ionelm on Aug 19, 2014 \| 41 comments
47.		A tool that converts PDFs to SVG, built using PDF.js (pramodhkp.github.io)
		59 points by async5 on Aug 19, 2014 \| 12 comments
48.		Windows XP upgrade proves tricky business for John Lewis (bbc.co.uk)
		53 points by ilghiro on Aug 19, 2014 \| 66 comments
49.		Stanley Kubrick Photos (mcny.org)
		53 points by pmcpinto on Aug 19, 2014 \| 5 comments
50.		Show HN: Datastringer, a tool for hacker-journalists (bbc-news-labs.github.io)
		60 points by 5c2v on Aug 19, 2014 \| 18 comments
51.		On GNU and on hackers (wingolog.org)
		55 points by p4bl0 on Aug 19, 2014 \| 35 comments
52.		Police Drop Bomb on Radicals' Home in Philadelphia (1985) (nytimes.com)
		50 points by sarchertech on Aug 19, 2014 \| 60 comments
53.		Why Genius may struggle to annotate the world (themassolit.wordpress.com)
		56 points by christudor on Aug 19, 2014 \| 18 comments
54.		DOM: attributes sadness (annevankesteren.nl)
		52 points by bpierre on Aug 19, 2014 \| 12 comments
55.		ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition (image-net.org)
		50 points by luu on Aug 19, 2014 \| 14 comments
56.		Linux-on-the-desktop pioneer Munich now considering a switch back to Windows (arstechnica.com)
		48 points by vilgax on Aug 19, 2014 \| 50 comments
57.		Reddit Advertising: Results of a 1-Week Campaign (blogwriterswanted.com)
		47 points by tyler-b on Aug 19, 2014 \| 26 comments
58.		How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever (npr.org)
		44 points by jedberg on Aug 19, 2014 \| 27 comments
59.		Ecuador Turning to Virtual Currency (bloomberg.com)
		51 points by bfwi on Aug 19, 2014 \| 34 comments
60.		Ask HN: Current best practice for drag-and-drop?
		41 points by couchand on Aug 19, 2014 \| 26 comments
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