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31.		Thinking in GraphQL (facebook.github.io)
		100 points by bholdr on Oct 8, 2015 \| 42 comments
32.		Why ancient Rome matters to the modern world (theguardian.com)
		90 points by anigbrowl on Oct 8, 2015 \| 87 comments
33.		Chinese headwear fad grows like weeds (nytimes.com)
		72 points by anigbrowl on Oct 8, 2015 \| 38 comments
34.		CERN prepares to test revolutionary mini-accelerator (nature.com)
		64 points by jonbaer on Oct 8, 2015 \| 2 comments
35.		Persistent Networking with Irmin and MirageOS [video] (youtube.com)
		32 points by luu on Oct 7, 2015
36.		Freestart collisions for SHA-1 (sites.google.com)
		124 points by dchest on Oct 8, 2015 \| 35 comments
37.		How the USGS uses Twitter data to track earthquakes (blog.twitter.com)
		41 points by coloneltcb on Oct 7, 2015 \| 4 comments
38.		In 1957, Two Tiny Pellets Were the First Objects to Escape Earth’s Gravity (airspacemag.com)
		37 points by curtis on Oct 8, 2015 \| 14 comments
39.		Show HN: Wriber – Idea Generator (wriber.com)
		128 points by wriber on Oct 8, 2015 \| 44 comments
40.		FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridiculous," "embarrassing" (washingtonpost.com)
		148 points by jsvine on Oct 8, 2015 \| 232 comments
41.		Amazon EC2 Container Registry (amazon.com)
		119 points by pzb on Oct 8, 2015 \| 48 comments
42.		“Alister Maclin” can break Bitcoin on command (vice.com)
		53 points by davidgerard on Oct 8, 2015 \| 58 comments
43.		What Politicians Believe About Their Constituents: Asymmetric Misperceptions [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		54 points by dangerman on Oct 8, 2015 \| 43 comments
44.		Hitler's Drug Addiction (guernicamag.com)
		99 points by hecubus on Oct 8, 2015 \| 70 comments
45.		‘Beyond disgusting,’ says journalist Matthew Keys of his hacking conviction (washingtonpost.com)
		89 points by ourmandave on Oct 8, 2015 \| 138 comments
46.		Britain's water crisis (theguardian.com)
		21 points by sasvari on Oct 8, 2015 \| 6 comments
47.		The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 (nobelprize.org)
		56 points by davidiach on Oct 8, 2015 \| 17 comments
48.		Jet.com changes business plan, drops membership fee (nytimes.com)
		61 points by swingbridge on Oct 8, 2015 \| 63 comments
49.		Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials, but only in US (nature.com)
		49 points by DanBC on Oct 8, 2015 \| 55 comments
50.		Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers (pocketsquare.io)
		76 points by alanfriedman on Oct 8, 2015 \| 51 comments
51.		Allure and exploitation in post-Soviet ruin photography (calvertjournal.com)
		32 points by sr_banksy on Oct 8, 2015 \| 7 comments
52.		Testing Asynchronous Code (engineering.wix.com)
		26 points by orrsella on Oct 8, 2015
53.		Show HN: Sempl – Stupid Simple Bash Templating (github.com/nextrevision)
		30 points by nextrevision on Oct 8, 2015 \| 8 comments
54.		Discoverer of the Buckyball Offers Tips on Winning a Nobel Prize (npr.org)
		20 points by acsillag on Oct 8, 2015 \| 1 comment
55.		How a reclusive computer programmer became a GOP money powerhouse (washingtonpost.com)
		52 points by fahimulhaq on Oct 8, 2015 \| 26 comments
56.		HypriotOS: Docker playground for Raspberry Pi (hypriot.com)
		73 points by beagile on Oct 8, 2015 \| 14 comments
57.		Complex living brain simulation replicates sensory rat behaviour (theguardian.com)
		44 points by phreeza on Oct 8, 2015 \| 9 comments
58.		The paranoid person's guide to a complete Mac backup (macworld.com)
		36 points by bemmu on Oct 8, 2015 \| 38 comments
59.		Think Tanked (1999) (wired.com)
		23 points by wormold on Oct 8, 2015 \| 1 comment
60.		OpenPGP SEIP downgrade attack (metzdowd.com)
		43 points by mukyu on Oct 8, 2015 \| 5 comments
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