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31.		A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep? (newyorker.com)
		47 points by danso on Aug 23, 2014 \| 14 comments
32.		How to Write an Opening Sentence (author-zone.com)
		48 points by techdog on Aug 23, 2014 \| 13 comments
33.		Final exams for kindergartners (washingtonpost.com)
		45 points by ColinWright on Aug 23, 2014 \| 56 comments
34.		Could We Build a Dyson Sphere? (popularmechanics.com)
		45 points by itazula on Aug 23, 2014 \| 14 comments
35.		Software Defined Radio with HackRF (greatscottgadgets.com)
		47 points by jvermillard on Aug 23, 2014 \| 8 comments
36.		Is Breakfast Overrated? (nytimes.com)
		43 points by tchalla on Aug 23, 2014 \| 46 comments
37.		The U.S. Digital Services Playbook (cio.gov)
		42 points by dandrewsen on Aug 23, 2014 \| 9 comments
38.		Marshall McLuhan: The Playboy Interview (1969) (nextnature.net)
		40 points by applecore on Aug 23, 2014 \| 2 comments
39.		How plagues really work (aeon.co)
		39 points by gregd on Aug 23, 2014 \| 11 comments
40.		Geohash: text representation allows you to sort locations by proximity (wikipedia.org)
		39 points by ncw96 on Aug 23, 2014 \| 8 comments
41.		Erlang language kernel for IPython (github.com/robbielynch)
		38 points by areski on Aug 23, 2014 \| 5 comments
42.		Ghost: Stealth Attack Hydrofoil Uses Supercavitation (businessweek.com)
		37 points by Hoff on Aug 23, 2014 \| 18 comments
43.		Show HN: LCON – Ludicrously Compact Object Notation (github.com/ar-nelson)
		35 points by ar-nelson on Aug 23, 2014 \| 24 comments
44.		American’s Star Power Unrivaled in Japan (nytimes.com)
		34 points by danso on Aug 23, 2014 \| 12 comments
45.		Chengdu chef Lan Guijun: the new emperor of Chinese gastronomy (ft.com)
		33 points by quantisan on Aug 23, 2014 \| 6 comments
46.		The Hedge Fund and the Despot (businessweek.com)
		38 points by tehrania on Aug 23, 2014 \| 7 comments
47.		Servers are fun: Ansible (lauris.github.io)
		32 points by lauriswtf on Aug 23, 2014 \| 24 comments
48.		Secure communication based on ambient audio (2013) [pdf] (tu-bs.de)
		32 points by mo on Aug 23, 2014
49.		Conway's game of life implemented in Dwarf Fortress (2010) (bay12forums.com)
		27 points by swombat on Aug 23, 2014 \| 4 comments
50.		Simulating a global Ebola outbreak (wolfram.com)
		36 points by doomrobo on Aug 23, 2014 \| 9 comments
51.		Can the Crowd Solve Medical Mysteries? (pbs.org)
		29 points by namin on Aug 23, 2014 \| 2 comments
52.		The No Excuse List (noexcuselist.com)
		29 points by opusdie on Aug 23, 2014 \| 8 comments
53.		APROL: Array Processing Lisp (1993) [pdf] (trinity.edu)
		23 points by chesterfield on Aug 23, 2014 \| 1 comment
54.		Clojure is imperative as opposed to declarative (lispcast.com)
		28 points by dgellow on Aug 23, 2014 \| 17 comments
55.		Linking and loading: what's incidental? (cam.ac.uk)
		24 points by chubot on Aug 23, 2014 \| 5 comments
56.		Red Hook’s Cutting-Edge Wireless Network (nytimes.com)
		23 points by jrbaldwin on Aug 23, 2014 \| 4 comments
57.		Kpatch: Dynamic Linux kernel patching (github.com/dynup)
		27 points by patrickaljord on Aug 23, 2014 \| 7 comments
58.		Software engineers expected to make sacrifices to work for this company
		23 points by djvv on Aug 23, 2014 \| 6 comments
59.		Joybubbles, an indie documentary about a phone phreak (joybubblesthemovie.com)
		21 points by loupereira on Aug 23, 2014 \| 5 comments
60.		Small eruption near Bardarbunga (ruv.is)
		29 points by kristjanmik on Aug 23, 2014 \| 11 comments
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