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31.
Optimising the Unikernel (roscidus.com)
69 points by pietrofmaggi on Aug 21, 2014 | 1 comment
32.
Epic Drought in West Is Literally Moving Mountains (scientificamerican.com)
77 points by markmassie on Aug 21, 2014 | 73 comments
33.
Azure Search as a Service (azure.microsoft.com)
74 points by shliachtx on Aug 21, 2014 | 18 comments
34.
Popular and Free, SoundCloud Is Now Ready for Ads (nytimes.com)
77 points by pje on Aug 21, 2014 | 56 comments
35.
Ozone-Depleting Compound Persists, NASA Research Shows (nasa.gov)
80 points by happyscrappy on Aug 21, 2014 | 61 comments
36.
Fighting spam with BotMaker (blog.twitter.com)
74 points by kolev on Aug 21, 2014 | 20 comments
37.
Easter Egg Hidden in VMWare Fusion and Workstation (misc.name)
72 points by officialjunk on Aug 21, 2014 | 47 comments
38.
The 10,000 Hour Rule Is Not Real (smithsonianmag.com)
68 points by pif on Aug 21, 2014 | 92 comments
39.
Two aid workers infected with the Ebola virus have been discharged from hospital (bbc.co.uk)
66 points by jdmitch on Aug 21, 2014 | 45 comments
40.
It's Time for a Four-Day Workweek (citylab.com)
70 points by gkuan on Aug 21, 2014 | 57 comments
41.
Why a Six-Figure Salary No Longer Means You’re Rich (personalcapital.com)
65 points by outdooricon on Aug 21, 2014 | 98 comments
42.
Julia 0.3 Official Release (github.com/julialang)
67 points by yla92 on Aug 21, 2014 | 3 comments
43.
Diaspora social network cannot stop IS posts (bbc.com)
55 points by codeoclock on Aug 21, 2014 | 96 comments
44.
 [dupe] The White House Gives Up on Making Coders Dress Like Adults (wired.com)
62 points by luu on Aug 21, 2014 | 49 comments
45.
Consul Service Discovery with Docker (progrium.com)
60 points by progrium on Aug 21, 2014 | 3 comments
46.
Nearables Are Here: Introducing Estimote Stickers (estimote.com)
84 points by ljdk on Aug 21, 2014 | 17 comments
47.
 [dupe] Jasper – Control anything with your voice (jasperproject.github.io)
67 points by todd8 on Aug 21, 2014 | 14 comments
48.
Insects and Entropy (tomayko.com)
62 points by jodooshi on Aug 21, 2014 | 22 comments
49.
WWII Atomic Bomb Project Had More Than 1,500 "Leaks" (fas.org)
60 points by smacktoward on Aug 21, 2014 | 18 comments
50.
An Introduction to Futarchy (ethereum.org)
54 points by panarky on Aug 21, 2014 | 57 comments
51.
Loss of neurons for sleep may explain why older adults suffer from insomnia (futurity.org)
58 points by fraqed on Aug 21, 2014 | 31 comments
52.
Dynamically Typed Languages (2009) (tratt.net)
55 points by _qc3o on Aug 21, 2014 | 56 comments
53.
Cybersecurity as Realpolitik (tinho.net)
49 points by mzehrer on Aug 21, 2014 | 2 comments
54.
Student may be jailed for posting scientist’s thesis on web (nature.com)
48 points by ALee on Aug 21, 2014 | 13 comments
55.
Under the Knife: Why Chinese Patients are turning against their doctors (newyorker.com)
54 points by GabrielF00 on Aug 21, 2014 | 43 comments
56.
Reaction Engines brings us a step closer to Mach5 commercial air travel (thestar.com)
48 points by kareemm on Aug 21, 2014 | 62 comments
57.
UPS: We’ve Been Hacked – May have compromised customer card information (time.com)
43 points by markmassie on Aug 21, 2014 | 12 comments
58.
C as a portable assembly: porting RAEdit to 64-bit (rammichael.com)
41 points by akavel on Aug 21, 2014 | 18 comments
59.
The relatively unknown megafauna tragedy and its relevance today (barefootmuse.wordpress.com)
38 points by vjvj on Aug 21, 2014 | 29 comments
60.
Show HN: Friday – A fast image processing library written in Haskell (github.com/raphaelj)
41 points by raphaelj on Aug 21, 2014 | 1 comment

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