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31.		Pharmacy Startup PillPack Could Change the Way America Takes Its Medicine (forbes.com/sites/sarahhedgecock)
		62 points by JrobertsHstaff on April 16, 2015 \| 28 comments
32.		Mysterious mechanisms at play at the edge of the event horizon (eso.org)
		48 points by dnetesn on April 16, 2015 \| 8 comments
33.		CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (8088mph.blogspot.com)
		93 points by ajenner on April 16, 2015 \| 11 comments
34.		When everybody’s reading, but nobody’s smarter, what value has the word? (themorningnews.org)
		45 points by pmcpinto on April 16, 2015 \| 16 comments
35.		Pharo 4.0 Released (pharo.org)
		107 points by estebanlor on April 16, 2015 \| 79 comments
36.		Snapchat Sneakily Uses Its Own App to Poach Uber Engineers (forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski)
		92 points by coloneltcb on April 16, 2015 \| 89 comments
37.		Cheese from the same proteins as milk, but from genetically modified yeast (wired.com)
		65 points by asciimo on April 15, 2015 \| 56 comments
38.		The Rise of Micro Startup Acquisitions (techcrunch.com)
		86 points by carlchenet on April 16, 2015 \| 18 comments
39.		How powerful was the Kaiser? (lrb.co.uk)
		46 points by lermontov on April 15, 2015 \| 29 comments
40.		Efficient Virtual Memory for Big Memory Servers [pdf] (wisc.edu)
		42 points by adamnemecek on April 15, 2015 \| 4 comments
41.		Optimizing TLS for High–Bandwidth Applications in FreeBSD [pdf] (freebsd.org)
		70 points by wglb on April 16, 2015 \| 12 comments
42.		Lisp Space – A Space for Parentheses (lisp.space)
		82 points by weavie on April 16, 2015 \| 52 comments
43.		Luajit IO framework (luajit.io)
		74 points by fcambus on April 16, 2015 \| 15 comments
44.		How the Mill CPU does fork() in a single address space (millcomputing.com)
		74 points by fla on April 16, 2015 \| 18 comments
45.		VersionPress 1.0 Released (versionpress.net)
		75 points by borekb on April 16, 2015 \| 24 comments
46.		4Q: the final archive format (github.com/robey)
		56 points by bpierre on April 16, 2015 \| 46 comments
47.		Show HN: Dependency-based prioritization makes HTTP/2 much faster than SPDY (kazuhooku.com)
		67 points by kazuho on April 16, 2015 \| 8 comments
48.		How Machines See the Web: Exploring the Web Algorithmically (algorithmia.com)
		49 points by Halienja on April 16, 2015 \| 3 comments
49.		I was interviewed by Fog Creek (catonmat.net)
		109 points by janvdberg on April 16, 2015 \| 96 comments
50.		Building a Distributed Fault-Tolerant Key-Value Store (fourthbit.com)
		48 points by alvatar on April 15, 2015
51.		“Eeny, meeny, miny, mo” and the ambiguous history of counting-out rhymes (theparisreview.org)
		45 points by pepys on April 16, 2015 \| 18 comments
52.		Accurate, Robust, and Flexible Real-Time Hand Tracking [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)
		33 points by noteloop on April 15, 2015 \| 2 comments
53.		How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013) (yosefk.com)
		109 points by mpweiher on April 16, 2015 \| 107 comments
54.		World-record electric motor for aircraft (phys.org)
		48 points by jonbaer on April 16, 2015 \| 54 comments
55.		Moore’s Law Hits 50, but It May Not See 60 (recode.net)
		37 points by simas on April 16, 2015 \| 40 comments
56.		Kickstarter: They’re Like Wreck-It-Ralph in a China Shop (goblinscomic.org)
		93 points by Mithaldu on April 16, 2015 \| 64 comments
57.		The story behind Jar’Edo Wens, the longest-running hoax in Wikipedia history (washingtonpost.com)
		52 points by halfimmortal on April 16, 2015 \| 38 comments
58.		Loading 180 tiled images with HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/1 (golang.org)
		71 points by mohamedattahri on April 16, 2015 \| 54 comments
59.		Reactive PostgreSQL for Meteor (github.com/numtel)
		50 points by taylorwc on April 16, 2015 \| 16 comments
60.		CryptDown – Client-side AES-encrypted Markdown pastes (cryptdown.eu)
		37 points by ikkez on April 16, 2015 \| 41 comments
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