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31.		A Disadvantaged Start Hurts Boys More Than Girls (nytimes.com)
		126 points by pavornyoh on Oct 22, 2015 \| 93 comments
32.		Work on stuff that matters, first principles (2009) (oreilly.com)
		80 points by rmason on Oct 23, 2015 \| 31 comments
33.		Nearly Every USGS Topo Map Ever Made (2014) (outdoors.org)
		62 points by brudgers on Oct 23, 2015 \| 14 comments
34.		How Windows 10 Rewrites OS Architecture: Battle of SKM and IUM [pdf] (alex-ionescu.com)
		59 points by transpute on Oct 23, 2015 \| 26 comments
35.		I killed my startup hours before closing a seed round (tamccann.com)
		89 points by rmason on Oct 23, 2015 \| 39 comments
36.		The Surprising Power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (nautil.us)
		79 points by pmcpinto on Oct 22, 2015 \| 7 comments
37.		How Germany Does Prison (themarshallproject.org)
		56 points by Tomte on Oct 23, 2015 \| 41 comments
38.		Entrepreneurs are redesigning the basic building block of capitalism (economist.com)
		66 points by linhmtran168 on Oct 23, 2015 \| 27 comments
39.		Paul Tudor Jones to Staff: Learn to Write or I'll Rip Up Your Memo (bloomberg.com)
		96 points by jskonhovd on Oct 23, 2015 \| 84 comments
40.		Evo, the First Prescription-Strength Video Game? (bloomberg.com)
		52 points by EwanG on Oct 23, 2015 \| 26 comments
41.		Australian academics seek to challenge 'web of avarice' in scientific publishing (theguardian.com)
		48 points by dredmorbius on Oct 22, 2015 \| 24 comments
42.		Jack Dorsey gives 1% Twitter stock to employee equity pool (twitter.com/jack)
		81 points by runesoerensen on Oct 23, 2015 \| 36 comments
43.		How I missed an engineering interview after getting singled out by Münchner cops (bina.me)
		237 points by vidbina on Oct 23, 2015 \| 158 comments
44.		Xkcd and Bill Gates on Polio Eradication (gatesnotes.com)
		205 points by Amorymeltzer on Oct 23, 2015 \| 61 comments
45.		The Benefits of Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty (theatlantic.com)
		45 points by katiey on Oct 23, 2015
46.		NASDAQ Acquires SecondMarket to Help Startups Sell Shares (techcrunch.com)
		59 points by lleims on Oct 22, 2015 \| 8 comments
47.		The electric eel's high-voltage discharges are subtle weapons (theatlantic.com)
		39 points by curtis on Oct 23, 2015 \| 6 comments
48.		California Leads the U.S. in Digital Privacy (eff.org)
		40 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 23, 2015 \| 2 comments
49.		Garum: Fermented Fish Sauce for the Ancient Roman Masses (notechmagazine.com)
		48 points by davesailer on Oct 22, 2015 \| 9 comments
50.		Etsy Manufacturing Opens to Designers (etsy.com)
		33 points by hownottowrite on Oct 23, 2015 \| 15 comments
51.		Inside Swiss Banks’ Tax-Cheating Machinery (wsj.com)
		52 points by jeo1234 on Oct 22, 2015 \| 56 comments
52.		Rosea: DSL in Tcl with relational algebra for generating executable UML (chiselapp.com)
		37 points by blacksqr on Oct 23, 2015 \| 5 comments
53.		Show HN: Sublime Text Database Client (sequoiastudios.io)
		44 points by alexggordon on Oct 23, 2015 \| 41 comments
54.		Odd ways to zeroing some x86_64 registers (hackingbits.github.io)
		40 points by geyslan on Oct 23, 2015 \| 6 comments
55.		Cold war files show UK fear of US H-bomb (ft.com)
		26 points by jeo1234 on Oct 23, 2015 \| 24 comments
56.		The Case for Startups to Make Transparency the Top Priority (firstround.com)
		27 points by cryptoz on Oct 23, 2015 \| 6 comments
57.		TalkTalk cyber-attack: Website hit by 'significant' breach (bbc.co.uk)
		41 points by sjclemmy on Oct 23, 2015 \| 24 comments
58.		In Defence of Monoliths (bozho.net)
		82 points by nkurz on Oct 23, 2015 \| 74 comments
59.		Ev Williams on Medium’s future, his new venture fund, and listening to his gut (theverge.com)
		30 points by cryptoz on Oct 23, 2015 \| 15 comments
60.		India's Great Parcel Race (wsj.com)
		53 points by anishkothari on Oct 23, 2015 \| 18 comments
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