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31.		A new app allows blind people to listen to an audio readback of printed text (reuters.com)
		60 points by sethbannon on Sept 20, 2014 \| 27 comments
32.		Startup School acceptances are out
		52 points by phildini on Sept 20, 2014 \| 63 comments
33.		A proof of Löb's theorem in Haskell (lesswrong.com)
		49 points by cubetime on Sept 20, 2014 \| 2 comments
34.		Show HN: Battleboat.js – A robot that plays Battleship (kortaggio.github.io)
		52 points by Kortaggio on Sept 20, 2014 \| 16 comments
35.		Defining Powerhouse Fruits and Vegetables: A Nutrient Density Approach (cdc.gov)
		46 points by rottyguy on Sept 20, 2014 \| 25 comments
36.		Testing Distributed Systems with Deterministic Simulation [video] (youtube.com)
		61 points by tosh on Sept 20, 2014 \| 6 comments
37.		The 8-Byte Two-Step (zinascii.com)
		48 points by rzezeski on Sept 20, 2014 \| 31 comments
38.		If net neutrality falls, what happens next?
		44 points by pastycrinkles on Sept 20, 2014 \| 57 comments
39.		Ruby Kaigi 2014: Day 2 (brewhouse.io)
		40 points by MrBra on Sept 20, 2014 \| 2 comments
40.		Plutonium: The element that saved the crew of Apollo 13 (bbc.com)
		36 points by roc123 on Sept 20, 2014 \| 11 comments
41.		Using a Loop Invariant to Help Think About a Program (drdobbs.com)
		33 points by ingve on Sept 20, 2014 \| 12 comments
42.		Sony develops transparent lens eyewear “SmartEyeglass” (sony.net)
		31 points by Istof on Sept 20, 2014 \| 22 comments
43.		SEED: Software Engineering Evidence Database (evidencebasedse.com)
		29 points by cipher0 on Sept 20, 2014 \| 6 comments
44.		On the Trail of Nazi Counterfeiters (thedailybeast.com)
		28 points by benbreen on Sept 20, 2014 \| 1 comment
45.		Show HN: Practical, Pure Functional Game Engine (github.com/bryanedds)
		29 points by DrDimension on Sept 20, 2014 \| 3 comments
46.		Swish-e – Tool for full-text indexing local files (swish-e.org)
		22 points by fiatjaf on Sept 20, 2014 \| 6 comments
47.		History of Genius (nybooks.com)
		20 points by ohaikbai on Sept 20, 2014 \| 6 comments
48.		Uselessd – the useless daemon, or the daemon that uses less (darknedgy.net)
		19 points by modinfo on Sept 20, 2014 \| 4 comments
49.		Ask HN: Key-Value Store Database with Historical Lookup?
		21 points by huy on Sept 20, 2014 \| 34 comments
50.		More than just words: Lambda, the ultimate political party (1995) (nhplace.com)
		17 points by bshanks on Sept 20, 2014
51.		Lectures on Constructive Functional Programming (1988) [pdf] (ox.ac.uk)
		16 points by tosh on Sept 20, 2014
52.		Show HN: Strobie – Strobe tuner for Mac (strobie-app.com)
		15 points by dsego on Sept 20, 2014 \| 13 comments
53.		Js13kGames 2014 winners announced (js13kgames.com)
		21 points by end33r on Sept 20, 2014 \| 3 comments
54.		People with night-time chronotype more likely to be narcissists and psychopaths [pdf] (peterjonason.com)
		17 points by pdknsk on Sept 20, 2014 \| 19 comments
55.		Oculus Reveals Its New “Crescent Bay” Developer Kit (techcrunch.com)
		16 points by nikunjk on Sept 20, 2014 \| 5 comments
56.		Ask HN: How to remember what I've read in a book?
		14 points by jozi9 on Sept 20, 2014 \| 10 comments
57.		Boeing Isn’t Getting More NASA Money Because It’s Doing a Better Job Than SpaceX (nationalreview.com)
		17 points by JumpCrisscross on Sept 20, 2014
58.		Apple must recall or fix all 2011 Macbook Pros with Graphics Failures (change.org)
		16 points by oversc0re on Sept 20, 2014 \| 7 comments
59.		Why the Kitchen Computing Dream of the 80s Never Caught On (vice.com)
		17 points by badboyboyce on Sept 20, 2014 \| 7 comments
60.		HackinScience. A Python Crash Course (hackinscience.github.io)
		16 points by mazr on Sept 20, 2014
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