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31.		MIT Invents Alterable Pin Surface That Lets Objects Assemble Themselves (fastcodesign.com)
		104 points by metakermit on Oct 15, 2015 \| 22 comments
32.		Chattanooga to offer 10 gigabit internet service starting today (timesfreepress.com)
		98 points by soccerdave on Oct 15, 2015 \| 43 comments
33.		Hackers Prove They Can ‘Pwn’ the Lives of Those Not Hyperconnected (nytimes.com)
		105 points by pavornyoh on Oct 15, 2015 \| 71 comments
34.		Banknotes for a Japanese-occupied Hawaii (atlasobscura.com)
		55 points by Thorondor on Oct 15, 2015 \| 2 comments
35.		Federal Whistleblower Investigator Fired After Blowing the Whistle on Own Agency (nbcbayarea.com)
		198 points by wcbeard10 on Oct 15, 2015 \| 21 comments
36.		Higher Order Macros in C++ (stuffwithstuff.com)
		82 points by ingve on Oct 15, 2015 \| 29 comments
37.		I Would Rather Be Herod’s Pig: The History of a Taboo (longreads.com)
		52 points by lermontov on Oct 14, 2015 \| 21 comments
38.		Civic Tech Startup OpenGov Raises $25M, Adds Marc Andreessen to Board (recode.net)
		63 points by sethbannon on Oct 15, 2015 \| 18 comments
39.		Unit testing IO in Haskell (pusher.com)
		69 points by fractalsea on Oct 15, 2015 \| 10 comments
40.		Guix-tox, a functional version of tox (rdoproject.org)
		56 points by civodul on Oct 15, 2015 \| 31 comments
41.		Show HN: Lambda Complex: build apps that run in AWS Lambda and SQS (github.com/exratione)
		41 points by exratione on Oct 14, 2015 \| 6 comments
42.		Confessions of a Private Space Rocket Engineer (popularmechanics.com)
		44 points by fmstephe on Oct 15, 2015 \| 9 comments
43.		The Art of the Propagator (2009) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
		45 points by _zhqs on Oct 15, 2015 \| 5 comments
44.		What it's like to write for content farms, from Brooklyn to the Philippines (hopesandfears.com)
		58 points by nols on Oct 15, 2015 \| 26 comments
45.		Why Companies Have Stopped Outsourcing IT (wsj.com)
		84 points by frostmatthew on Oct 14, 2015 \| 56 comments
46.		More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Synchronization [pdf] (sydney.edu.au)
		44 points by nkurz on Oct 15, 2015
47.		COZ: Finding Code That Counts with Causal Profiling [pdf] (sigops.org)
		36 points by epsylon on Oct 15, 2015 \| 3 comments
48.		Should cars be fully driverless? No, says an MIT engineer and historian (news.mit.edu)
		57 points by ra7 on Oct 15, 2015 \| 102 comments
49.		Did three men actually survive the escape from Alcatraz? (telegraph.co.uk)
		43 points by rickdale on Oct 15, 2015 \| 29 comments
50.		Coding Interview Tips (interviewcake.com)
		164 points by gameguy43 on Oct 15, 2015 \| 54 comments
51.		Graffiti on ‘Homeland,’ Unnoticed by Producers, Calls Show Racist (nytimes.com)
		185 points by yk on Oct 15, 2015 \| 170 comments
52.		The Metric Football Game (2012) (themetricmaven.com)
		35 points by Thrymr on Oct 15, 2015 \| 3 comments
53.		Architecture in Video Games: Designing for Impact (gamasutra.com)
		36 points by nlawalker on Oct 14, 2015 \| 8 comments
54.		Is Life Special Just Because It’s Rare? (nautil.us)
		45 points by pmcpinto on Oct 15, 2015 \| 45 comments
55.		Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17 (bloombergview.com)
		102 points by henrik_w on Oct 15, 2015 \| 49 comments
56.		Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion (theregister.co.uk)
		56 points by blue1 on Oct 14, 2015 \| 27 comments
57.		Programma 101, the first commercial “desktop computer” (wikipedia.org)
		40 points by tilt on Oct 15, 2015 \| 9 comments
58.		Show HN: Zertcore5 – C++11 Server framework (github.com/warriorguo)
		27 points by warriorguo on Oct 15, 2015 \| 3 comments
59.		A protocol for storing up to 1277 bytes in the Bitcoin blockchain (github.com/blockai)
		50 points by williamcotton on Oct 15, 2015 \| 44 comments
60.		Journalists Trespass, Assault Tesla Employees at the Gigafactory (teslamotors.com)
		143 points by adanto6840 on Oct 14, 2015 \| 75 comments
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