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31.C# 6.0: An Introduction (booker.codes)
123 points by bookerio on Aug 21, 2015 | 81 comments
32.Amazon joins in on killing Flash, stops accepting Flash ads (geek.com)
211 points by mukyu on Aug 21, 2015 | 77 comments
33.Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer (dwavesys.com)
93 points by johlo on Aug 21, 2015 | 41 comments
34.VMware vs. bhyve Performance Comparison (b3n.org)
62 points by adamnemecek on Aug 21, 2015 | 32 comments
35.The Handmade Manifesto (chronal.net)
70 points by AlexeyBrin on Aug 20, 2015 | 51 comments
36.Exploring the Wreck of USS Macon, the Navy's Last Flying Aircraft Carrier (usni.org)
61 points by curtis on Aug 21, 2015 | 17 comments
37.When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece (publicdomainreview.org)
29 points by benbreen on Aug 21, 2015 | 4 comments
38.The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market [pdf] (scholar.harvard.edu)
69 points by luu on Aug 21, 2015 | 47 comments
39.Errors and Exceptions (giantfublog.wordpress.com)
63 points by _y4o5 on Aug 21, 2015 | 52 comments
40.Accessing unaligned memory (fastcompression.blogspot.com)
70 points by djoldman on Aug 21, 2015 | 18 comments
41.Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB (allthingsdistributed.com)
43 points by dmahajan on Aug 21, 2015 | 28 comments
42.Uber Plans to Go Public in 18-24 Months, According to Leaked Presentation (techcrunch.com)
84 points by zhuxuefeng1994 on Aug 21, 2015 | 55 comments
43.Tarsnap exploit bounty (daemonology.net)
117 points by zdw on Aug 21, 2015 | 53 comments
44.The unique ecology of human predators (sciencemag.org)
40 points by noondip on Aug 21, 2015 | 7 comments
45.Unraveling the enigma of Nintendo's Virtual Boy (fastcompany.com)
74 points by technologizer on Aug 21, 2015 | 20 comments
46.Guile: Types and the Web (gnu.org)
57 points by davexunit on Aug 21, 2015 | 5 comments
47.Knuth and Plass line-breaking Revisited (sourceforge.net)
42 points by bootload on Aug 21, 2015 | 18 comments
48.Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories (arstechnica.co.uk)
187 points by PretzelFisch on Aug 21, 2015 | 120 comments
49.AirBnB's Pricing Algorithm (ieee.org)
106 points by taigeair on Aug 21, 2015 | 38 comments
50.Apprentice.at – Apprenticeships, not internships (apprentice.at)
97 points by kangman on Aug 21, 2015 | 79 comments
51.Abandoning the Work I Hated (nytimes.com)
101 points by aspanda on Aug 21, 2015 | 41 comments
52.China factory activity shrinks to six and a half year low as orders tumble (reuters.com)
56 points by tokenadult on Aug 21, 2015 | 55 comments
53.Raspberry Pi 2 Cluster Assembly Tutorial (pocketcluster.wordpress.com)
78 points by stkim1 on Aug 21, 2015 | 26 comments
54.Show HN: Smart-table-scroll – Browser-based tables with 1M rows (github.com/cmpolis)
47 points by cpolis on Aug 21, 2015 | 18 comments
55.Self-driving vehicle circles Waterloo campus (uwaterloo.ca)
42 points by xasos on Aug 21, 2015 | 6 comments
56.The Bright Students Left Behind (wsj.com)
133 points by tokenadult on Aug 21, 2015 | 203 comments
57.The Second Coming of Deep Linking (techcrunch.com)
35 points by dmitrig01 on Aug 20, 2015 | 14 comments
58.Oil Falls Below $40 for First Time Since 2009 as Glut Grows (bloomberg.com)
125 points by hgennaro on Aug 21, 2015 | 171 comments
59.Gaussian Process School Notes (gpss.cc)
36 points by groar on Aug 21, 2015 | 1 comment
60.Don't be a UN intern (desertqueensarah.wordpress.com)
152 points by desertqueen on Aug 21, 2015 | 67 comments

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