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31.		Unit testing a TCP stack (snellman.net)
		89 points by djoldman on July 9, 2015 \| 7 comments
32.		I.R.S. Cracks Down on Hedge Fund Tax Strategy (nytimes.com)
		90 points by jgalt212 on July 9, 2015 \| 129 comments
33.		Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals (nytimes.com)
		109 points by mrmaddog on July 9, 2015 \| 80 comments
34.		Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz (2011) (newscientist.com)
		57 points by bentaber on July 9, 2015 \| 5 comments
35.		VirtualBox 5.0 officially released (oracle.com)
		172 points by therealmarv on July 9, 2015 \| 60 comments
36.		Show HN: A paperless 401k with automated advising built-in (captain401.com)
		83 points by psawaya on July 9, 2015 \| 63 comments
37.		JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately (cube-drone.com)
		213 points by ScottWRobinson on July 9, 2015 \| 94 comments
38.		AWS CodeCommit (amazon.com)
		136 points by rjsamson on July 9, 2015 \| 60 comments
39.		In-Place Merge Sort Demystified (xinok.wordpress.com)
		34 points by sytelus on July 9, 2015 \| 2 comments
40.		We've Adapted Our Reading Habits to Fit Our Screens, but at a Cost (fastcodesign.com)
		48 points by samclemens on July 9, 2015 \| 24 comments
41.		Three Days on the Startup Bus (theatlantic.com)
		49 points by ltnately on July 8, 2015 \| 10 comments
42.		Show HN: The Most Influential Works on TvTropes According to PageRank (joshuasnider.com)
		38 points by jsnider3 on July 9, 2015 \| 12 comments
43.		Google’s Ad System Has Become Too Big to Control (wired.com)
		69 points by Fjolsvith on July 9, 2015 \| 63 comments
44.		The ARMiga Project – Amiga 500 Retro Gaming Console (armigaproject.com)
		52 points by nallerooth on July 9, 2015 \| 14 comments
45.		Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006) (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
		59 points by brudgers on July 9, 2015 \| 43 comments
46.		Ask HN: Is a static site hosted on AWS S3 'hackable'?
		51 points by bikamonki on July 9, 2015 \| 47 comments
47.		Show HN: Compare LGBT Rights Between Any Country, State, or Province (equaldex.com)
		50 points by danlev on July 9, 2015 \| 26 comments
48.		How some new programmers made the most popular Android game in Iran (techrasa.com)
		48 points by Emyjamalian on July 9, 2015 \| 11 comments
49.		Confessions of an Ex-Opponent of Whois Privacy (circleid.com)
		41 points by ca98am79 on July 9, 2015 \| 4 comments
50.		Pinboard Turns Six (blog.pinboard.in)
		79 points by thisisblurry on July 9, 2015 \| 17 comments
51.		The age of unreason (economist.com)
		32 points by lxm on July 9, 2015 \| 16 comments
52.		Angular vs. React – the tie breaker (airpair.com)
		76 points by tilt on July 9, 2015 \| 76 comments
53.		The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bitcoin Transaction (vice.com)
		39 points by Thorondor on July 9, 2015 \| 22 comments
54.		Establishing the Rust-Python FFI (wafflespeanut.github.io)
		33 points by wafflespeanut on July 8, 2015 \| 3 comments
55.		Cray-1 Hardware Reference Manual (ed-thelen.org)
		29 points by dlcmh on July 8, 2015 \| 5 comments
56.		Llilum: LLVM-based code generator for MSIL and UWP apps targeting microcontrollers (github.com/netmf)
		39 points by andyjohnson0 on July 9, 2015 \| 2 comments
57.		Did American volcanoes deal the final blow to the Roman Empire? (telegraph.co.uk)
		27 points by mml on July 9, 2015 \| 29 comments
58.		Ask HN: Examples of startups that failed due to moving slowly?
		64 points by fooshint on July 9, 2015 \| 58 comments
59.		The Development of Wooden Skyscrapers (theguardian.com)
		18 points by a_w on July 9, 2015 \| 3 comments
60.		A Man’s Quest to Save the Most Colossal Fishes on Earth (wired.com)
		28 points by kb21 on July 9, 2015 \| 4 comments
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