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31.		Show HN: Chrome/FF plugin brings the HN and Reddit conversation to you as you surf (metafruit.com)
		55 points by spenvo on Aug 2, 2015 \| 53 comments
32.		The Banach–Tarski Paradox [video] (youtube.com)
		51 points by selectnull on Aug 2, 2015 \| 36 comments
33.		Unicorn: a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework (unicorn-engine.org)
		46 points by luu on Aug 2, 2015 \| 24 comments
34.		Functional Fixedness (wikipedia.org)
		34 points by dedalus on Aug 2, 2015 \| 26 comments
35.		[dupe] How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing (2014) (lookatmeimdanny.tumblr.com)
		193 points by jon-wood on Aug 2, 2015 \| 110 comments
36.		Exchange-traded funds have overtaken hedge funds as an investment vehicle (economist.com)
		25 points by lxm on Aug 2, 2015 \| 22 comments
37.		Galaxy Quest (texasmonthly.com)
		41 points by markmassie on Aug 2, 2015 \| 34 comments
38.		Teeth Whitening and the Hygiene Hypothesis (nautil.us)
		57 points by dnetesn on Aug 2, 2015 \| 67 comments
39.		Always Connected: Generation Z, the “Digitarians” (randyapuzzo.com)
		26 points by ardeay on Aug 2, 2015 \| 29 comments
40.		Project Euler has been hacked (projecteuler.net)
		80 points by donutboy on Aug 2, 2015 \| 35 comments
41.		A message from the FFmpeg project (ffmpeg.org)
		84 points by atombender on Aug 2, 2015 \| 10 comments
42.		Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+ (mashable.com)
		151 points by amlgsmsn on Aug 2, 2015 \| 155 comments
43.		OverType – The Over-the-Top Typewriter Simulator (uniqcode.com)
		73 points by henriquemaia on Aug 2, 2015 \| 25 comments
44.		Microsoft to Alter Software in Response to Privacy Concerns (1999) (nytimes.com)
		74 points by myhnaccount108 on Aug 2, 2015 \| 67 comments
45.		Goldenballs: Not for Nothing Was Jacob Fugger Known as “Jacob the Rich” (economist.com)
		20 points by diodorus on Aug 2, 2015 \| 9 comments
46.		Puush hack postmortem (puushstatus.tumblr.com)
		27 points by sajal83 on Aug 2, 2015 \| 9 comments
47.		HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour (cbc.ca)
		71 points by kelukelugames on Aug 2, 2015 \| 53 comments
48.		GetAwesomeness – retrieve all amazing awesomeness from GitHub (getawesomeness.com)
		62 points by snake_case on Aug 2, 2015 \| 12 comments
49.		Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?
		98 points by i336_ on Aug 2, 2015 \| 108 comments
50.		Show HN: Bloop – Declarative Modeling for DynamoDB (github.com/numberoverzero)
		16 points by crossj on Aug 1, 2015 \| 2 comments
51.		Abusing the MPC-HC WebUI to steal private pictures (3vildata.tumblr.com)
		19 points by kmfrk on Aug 2, 2015 \| 7 comments
52.		Customs officer confiscates passenger's phone and then uses it to secretly text (smh.com.au)
		36 points by jdaley on Aug 2, 2015 \| 4 comments
53.		The Millennial Commune (nytimes.com)
		31 points by applecore on Aug 2, 2015 \| 58 comments
54.		It’s time for the Uber of air travel (washingtonpost.com)
		49 points by molecule on Aug 2, 2015 \| 60 comments
55.		Chinese Textile Mills Are Now Hiring in Places Where Cotton Was King (nytimes.com)
		27 points by danso on Aug 2, 2015 \| 2 comments
56.		Unicode skin-tone modifiers (unicode.org)
		31 points by weinzierl on Aug 2, 2015 \| 63 comments
57.		Europe's Waiting Room (roadsandkingdoms.com)
		35 points by Thevet on Aug 2, 2015 \| 59 comments
58.		Phoneless in Paris (bbc.co.uk)
		19 points by ColinWright on Aug 2, 2015 \| 14 comments
59.		Passion Capital Plain English Term Sheet [pdf] (dropbox.com)
		16 points by rokhayakebe on Aug 2, 2015 \| 10 comments
60.		Screenotate – Automatically annotate your screenshots (github.com/osnr)
		14 points by luu on Aug 1, 2015 \| 4 comments
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