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31.		GNU Emacs conversion to Git (lists.gnu.org)
		191 points by kfogel on Nov 11, 2014 \| 64 comments
32.		Google’s Chromebooks Rule Schools as IDC Pegs Them as Top Sellers in K-12 (techcrunch.com)
		82 points by sidcool on Nov 11, 2014 \| 44 comments
33.		Infrastructure for Data Streams (vilkeliskis.com)
		75 points by tadasv on Nov 11, 2014 \| 23 comments
34.		What women in technology really think (150 of them at least) (jvns.ca)
		141 points by p4bl0 on Nov 11, 2014 \| 182 comments
35.		A Billion Holes Can Make a Battery (umd.edu)
		58 points by sjcsjc on Nov 11, 2014 \| 13 comments
36.		GitHub Enterprise 2.0 (enterprise.github.com)
		161 points by jglovier on Nov 11, 2014 \| 65 comments
37.		Txt – A canvas font and typesetting engine (txtjs.com)
		70 points by harrisreynolds on Nov 11, 2014 \| 20 comments
38.		The Math Behind Bitcoin (coindesk.com)
		101 points by typedweb on Nov 11, 2014 \| 7 comments
39.		Police Can Seize and Sell Assets Even When the Owner Broke No Law (npr.org)
		195 points by dpieri on Nov 11, 2014 \| 89 comments
40.		Give Me Bare-Metal (subbu.org)
		47 points by jessaustin on Nov 11, 2014 \| 47 comments
41.		Alibaba's Singles' Day sales exceed predictions at $9.3B (bbc.com)
		101 points by theklub on Nov 11, 2014 \| 70 comments
42.		Node-iMessage – Query iMessage from terminal and Node.js (github.com/nicola)
		81 points by nicolagreco on Nov 11, 2014 \| 24 comments
43.		Things I learned from reading and writing the PouchDB source (pouchdb.com)
		84 points by daleharvey on Nov 11, 2014 \| 11 comments
44.		The Cost of Features (2013) (greer.fm)
		38 points by dennisgorelik on Nov 11, 2014 \| 7 comments
45.		Listen to a melody made by Wikipedia article changes (hatnote.com)
		68 points by Diastro on Nov 11, 2014 \| 10 comments
46.		Philae Lander Nears a Cosmic Touchdown (nytimes.com)
		57 points by elijahparker on Nov 11, 2014 \| 10 comments
47.		Analog's answer to FPGA opens field to masses (2008) (eetimes.com)
		78 points by pointfree on Nov 11, 2014 \| 39 comments
48.		The Lives of Elevators (2008) (newyorker.com)
		50 points by pepys on Nov 11, 2014 \| 15 comments
49.		A practical Git introduction (mrchlblng.me)
		116 points by mrchlblng on Nov 11, 2014 \| 33 comments
50.		What neurons tell us about the 'hipster effect' when contrarians look the same (washingtonpost.com)
		127 points by huherto on Nov 11, 2014 \| 44 comments
51.		The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1997) (stanford.edu)
		38 points by dcpdx on Nov 11, 2014 \| 11 comments
52.		Time lapse of the Sun reveals the largest sunspot in 24 years (vox.com)
		69 points by wglb on Nov 11, 2014 \| 26 comments
53.		How Jim Henson Turned His Art into a Business (2013) (longreads.com)
		46 points by Thevet on Nov 11, 2014 \| 5 comments
54.		Show HN: Pfs – A Git-like distributed file system for the Docker ecosystem (pachyderm-io.github.io)
		74 points by jdoliner on Nov 11, 2014 \| 28 comments
55.		The Twilight of the Indoor Mall (theawl.com)
		54 points by benbreen on Nov 11, 2014 \| 53 comments
56.		Startup depression (startupdepression.com)
		90 points by jcap49 on Nov 11, 2014 \| 23 comments
57.		The Life of a Pot Critic for the Denver Post (nytimes.com)
		55 points by samclemens on Nov 11, 2014 \| 41 comments
58.		Portable AWS-style infrastructure service for Docker (github.com/rancherio)
		46 points by inakiabt on Nov 11, 2014 \| 13 comments
59.		[dupe] Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated (groupon.com)
		112 points by johngd on Nov 11, 2014 \| 42 comments
60.		Prime number patterns (chrisdavies.github.io)
		60 points by christophilus on Nov 11, 2014 \| 45 comments
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