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1.		Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered in copy of Lord of the Rings (theguardian.com)
		325 points by benbreen on Oct 23, 2015 \| 33 comments
2.		IPFS Pics (github.com/ipfspics)
		330 points by andars on Oct 23, 2015 \| 113 comments
3.		Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy (github.com/reinderien)
		408 points by epsylon on Oct 23, 2015 \| 171 comments
4.		System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance (medium.com/mwichary)
		287 points by 0x10c0fe11ce on Oct 23, 2015 \| 119 comments
5.		OAuth Has Ruined Everything (telerik.com)
		297 points by lxm on Oct 23, 2015 \| 185 comments
6.		Start of Lightning Bolt Caught on Camera (realclearscience.com)
		224 points by lelf on Oct 23, 2015 \| 35 comments
7.		Dechoker medical device could end deaths by choking (insiderlouisville.com)
		215 points by alvinktai on Oct 23, 2015 \| 104 comments
8.		'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch (cornell.edu)
		187 points by jonbaer on Oct 23, 2015 \| 79 comments
9.		Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android (readytalk.com)
		87 points by dkharrat on Oct 23, 2015 \| 28 comments
10.		Swarm vs. Fleet vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos (oreilly.com)
		205 points by amouat on Oct 23, 2015 \| 83 comments
11.		Use this instead of press releases (mbites.com)
		178 points by audace on Oct 23, 2015 \| 53 comments
12.		Tell HN: Full Hacker News dataset now available on BigQuery
		238 points by minimaxir on Oct 23, 2015 \| 43 comments
13.		Devd: a small, self-contained web daemon for developers (corte.si)
		229 points by cortesi on Oct 23, 2015 \| 34 comments
14.		Should You Be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit? (nytimes.com)
		111 points by danmccorm on Oct 23, 2015 \| 101 comments
15.		Social Anxiety (inessential.com)
		179 points by ingve on Oct 23, 2015 \| 112 comments
16.		Google Brain Residency Program (g.co)
		151 points by keveman on Oct 23, 2015 \| 58 comments
17.		US film of parachuting beavers found after 65 years (theguardian.com)
		135 points by rickdale on Oct 23, 2015 \| 50 comments
18.		How to Get Press for Your Startup (medium.com/user-acquisition-for-hackers)
		151 points by austenallred on Oct 23, 2015 \| 64 comments
19.		Decline in the labor share of income in the U.S. (vox.com)
		117 points by whocansay on Oct 23, 2015 \| 119 comments
20.		Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat (google.com)
		152 points by chris_wot on Oct 23, 2015 \| 77 comments
21.		In unexpected discovery, comet contains alcohol, sugar (phys.org)
		82 points by lelf on Oct 23, 2015 \| 21 comments
22.		Mirador: a tool for visual exploration of complex datasets (fathom.info)
		74 points by hemapani on Oct 23, 2015 \| 5 comments
23.		Fonts in Use (fontsinuse.com)
		89 points by rangibaby on Oct 23, 2015 \| 14 comments
24.		How NOP Nearly Became a Non-NOP on AMD64 (2007) (pagetable.com)
		72 points by mtviewdave on Oct 23, 2015 \| 16 comments
25.		A Gentle Introduction to Randomized Decision Forests (bertolami.com)
		81 points by flowerspell on Oct 23, 2015 \| 2 comments
26.		Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code (2013) (safetyresearch.net)
		96 points by CharlesFinley on Oct 23, 2015 \| 106 comments
27.		A debtors’ prison in Mississippi (washingtonpost.com)
		229 points by nthitz on Oct 23, 2015 \| 196 comments
28.		Biologists Discover Bacteria Communicate Like Neurons in the Brain (ucsd.edu)
		68 points by Oatseller on Oct 23, 2015 \| 9 comments
29.		JP Morgan to Grant IPO Access to Everyone (techcrunch.com)
		63 points by areski on Oct 23, 2015 \| 30 comments
30.		Wendelstein 7-X – a fusion reactor with a twist (news.sciencemag.org)
		90 points by atombender on Oct 23, 2015 \| 22 comments
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