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31.		Neuroscientists decode the brain activity of the worm (phys.org)
		100 points by henriquemaia on Oct 18, 2015 \| 16 comments
32.		Improving Floating Point Accuracy: A Look at Sums (uwplse.org)
		66 points by aSanchezStern on Oct 19, 2015 \| 30 comments
33.		Show HN: Minimal freestanding C runtime for bare-metal/embedded PC projects (github.com/marssaxman)
		97 points by marssaxman on Oct 19, 2015 \| 14 comments
34.		Similarities between the behavioural effects of oxytocin and alcohol (eurekalert.org)
		65 points by JohnHammersley on Oct 19, 2015 \| 30 comments
35.		Intelligent intelligence – Just how good are government analysts? (economist.com)
		73 points by kawera on Oct 19, 2015 \| 28 comments
36.		Windchill Refrigerator: Cheap device to keep food cold without electricity (cbc.ca)
		76 points by nkurz on Oct 19, 2015 \| 19 comments
37.		Hosted Microsoft OCR library: Free OCR API web service (a9t9.com)
		72 points by kargo on Oct 18, 2015 \| 28 comments
38.		What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon (medium.com/jaycarney)
		343 points by samhoggnz on Oct 19, 2015 \| 260 comments
39.		All Your Modem Are Belong to Us (rowetel.com)
		128 points by zdw on Oct 19, 2015 \| 35 comments
40.		Deconstructing the CAP Theorem for CM and DevOps (2013) (markburgess.org)
		33 points by shin_lao on Oct 19, 2015 \| 2 comments
41.		Iris Decentralized Cloud Messaging (bravenewgeek.com)
		33 points by norswap on Oct 19, 2015 \| 8 comments
42.		MEGA is genius (setec.io)
		97 points by hlieberman on Oct 19, 2015 \| 30 comments
43.		Scientists Create Artificial 'Skin' for Prosthetics That Senses Touch (bbc.co.uk)
		38 points by JohnHammersley on Oct 19, 2015 \| 2 comments
44.		How my Apache server became a malicious free internet proxy (atrament.net)
		53 points by MariuszGalus on Oct 18, 2015 \| 41 comments
45.		Hacker News as a case study to test the wisdom of the crowd theory (venngage.com)
		140 points by snake_case on Oct 19, 2015 \| 112 comments
46.		The Hard Math of the Cinderella Story (theplayerstribune.com)
		30 points by bootload on Oct 19, 2015 \| 34 comments
47.		Comparing a web service written in Python and Go [pdf] (cern.ch)
		85 points by guai898 on Oct 19, 2015 \| 75 comments
48.		Restoration of defocused and blurred images, Part 2 – Practice (2012) (yuzhikov.com)
		37 points by nkurz on Oct 18, 2015 \| 3 comments
49.		Lists: design and construction (2007) (edwardtufte.com)
		49 points by danso on Oct 19, 2015 \| 6 comments
50.		Investment in Spanish startups to surpass $500M in 2015 for the first time (novobrief.com)
		60 points by lleims on Oct 19, 2015 \| 25 comments
51.		Even More Brainfuck Optimisations (wilfred.me.uk)
		56 points by mmastrac on Oct 19, 2015 \| 2 comments
52.		The problem with packaging in Python (ionelmc.ro)
		44 points by jimsojim on Oct 18, 2015 \| 45 comments
53.		Netmap-fwd – An IPv4 router over netmap for FreeBSD (github.com/netgateusa)
		30 points by gonzo on Oct 19, 2015 \| 11 comments
54.		Notifications for targeted attacks (facebook.com)
		79 points by fahimulhaq on Oct 19, 2015 \| 81 comments
55.		Social Skills Are Last Line of Defense for Humans Seeking Work (bloomberg.com)
		48 points by spking on Oct 19, 2015 \| 38 comments
56.		Ask HN: Inexpensive dedicated servers for testing Skylake?
		31 points by nkurz on Oct 19, 2015 \| 26 comments
57.		Australia’s war on feral cats (theconversation.com)
		33 points by lermontov on Oct 19, 2015 \| 42 comments
58.		Rant: On the C++ std::experimental::variant to come (fusionfenix.com)
		34 points by ingve on Oct 18, 2015 \| 11 comments
59.		Remembering George Mueller, Leader of Early Human Spaceflight (nasa.gov)
		22 points by Garbage on Oct 19, 2015 \| 2 comments
60.		How MindGeek transformed the economics of porn (fusion.net)
		56 points by fraqed on Oct 19, 2015 \| 26 comments
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