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31.		British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website source code (waterstones.com)
		148 points by e15ctr0n on Feb 20, 2015 \| 35 comments
32.		China Estimates Largest Capital Outflow in More Than a Decade in 2014 (wsj.com)
		40 points by fown9 on Feb 20, 2015 \| 36 comments
33.		How Oregon's Second Largest City Vanished in a Day (smithsonianmag.com)
		97 points by testrun on Feb 20, 2015 \| 12 comments
34.		Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (blog.twitter.com)
		98 points by knes on Feb 20, 2015 \| 22 comments
35.		A World Made of Rotor Blades (notechmagazine.com)
		73 points by davesailer on Feb 20, 2015 \| 25 comments
36.		A Weapon for Readers (2014) (nybooks.com)
		46 points by nkurz on Feb 19, 2015 \| 15 comments
37.		Go-gl: Massive Overhaul (docs.google.com)
		53 points by emidoots on Feb 20, 2015 \| 11 comments
38.		Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Serial Numbers Obliterated from Metals (nist.gov)
		42 points by ledgeditor on Feb 20, 2015 \| 22 comments
39.		City of Detroit launches open data portal (detroitmi.gov)
		46 points by rmason on Feb 19, 2015 \| 9 comments
40.		Vaccinating the World's Top Predators May Be the Only Way to Save Them (vice.com)
		45 points by DiabloD3 on Feb 20, 2015 \| 47 comments
41.		Cloud-Based Bio Lab Transcriptic (YC W15) Lands $8.5M in Series A Funding (techcrunch.com)
		41 points by frisco on Feb 19, 2015 \| 4 comments
42.		The Unlikely Airbnb Hosts of Japan (nytimes.com)
		79 points by damian2000 on Feb 20, 2015 \| 29 comments
43.		Raspberry Pi Z-Wave kit exposes private key (simplicify.me)
		35 points by bootstrapbill on Feb 20, 2015 \| 21 comments
44.		A string of unexpected lengths (hackerschool.com)
		45 points by thomasballinger on Feb 20, 2015 \| 6 comments
45.		Visualizing Twitter Connections with D3 and ClojureScript (wtfleming.github.io)
		50 points by michaelsbradley on Feb 20, 2015 \| 14 comments
46.		In Fake Universes, Evidence for String Theory (quantamagazine.org)
		46 points by digital55 on Feb 20, 2015 \| 45 comments
47.		Ask HN: Sentiment Analysis – how to handle biased word list lengths?
		51 points by markovbling on Feb 20, 2015 \| 44 comments
48.		A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale (reprogramming.com)
		39 points by joedavison on Feb 20, 2015 \| 10 comments
49.		Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (priceonomics.com)
		96 points by ryan_j_naughton on Feb 20, 2015 \| 142 comments
50.		Cracking Codes in Medieval Books (medievalbooks.nl)
		36 points by benbreen on Feb 20, 2015 \| 2 comments
51.		Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire (1991) [pdf] (utwente.nl)
		36 points by brudgers on Feb 20, 2015 \| 2 comments
52.		Why schools are failing our boys (washingtonpost.com)
		109 points by mycroft-holmes on Feb 20, 2015 \| 159 comments
53.		Evolution 'favours bigger sea creatures' (bbc.com)
		27 points by Libertatea on Feb 20, 2015 \| 14 comments
54.		Scott Aaronson, from computational complexity to quantum mechanics (nautil.us)
		58 points by dnetesn on Feb 19, 2015 \| 10 comments
55.		Do the English Use More Words Than the French? (filipwolanski.com)
		34 points by deleterofworlds on Feb 20, 2015 \| 56 comments
56.		E-Defense, World's Largest Earthquake Seismic Testing Table (alatown.com)
		18 points by w00kie on Feb 20, 2015 \| 2 comments
57.		Clickbait in the Physical World: A Social Experiment (anishathalye.com)
		18 points by anishathalye on Feb 20, 2015 \| 5 comments
58.		Regular test runs down to zero unexpected failures on multiple architectures (netbsd.org)
		26 points by zdw on Feb 20, 2015 \| 3 comments
59.		The Man Who Quit Money: An Interview with Daniel Suelo (becomingminimalist.com)
		34 points by bemmu on Feb 20, 2015 \| 34 comments
60.		Quiet Linear Mechanical Keyboard Switch Designed by the Open Steno Project (crowdsupply.com)
		54 points by robertfw on Feb 20, 2015 \| 25 comments
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