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31.		The NSA cracked the Kryptos sculpture years before the CIA (2013) (wired.co.uk)
		57 points by nefitty on Oct 27, 2015 \| 25 comments
32.		Rhinoplasty – attacking poaching problems from the supply side (laura-krantz.com)
		37 points by mooreds on Oct 28, 2015 \| 5 comments
33.		PublicVotes – Ethereum-Based Voting Application (publicvotes.org)
		76 points by dominiksch on Oct 28, 2015 \| 41 comments
34.		Internet Radio Copyright Is Dumb: A Comprehensive Explainer (vice.com)
		70 points by Amorymeltzer on Oct 28, 2015 \| 46 comments
35.		List of Y Combinator companies I have worked with (hacked) (introvertmac.wordpress.com)
		206 points by introvertmac on Oct 28, 2015 \| 77 comments
36.		How we became the heaviest drinkers in a century (mosaicscience.com)
		93 points by tomkwok on Oct 28, 2015 \| 84 comments
37.		Sonic tractor beams that can lift and move objects using soundwaves (theguardian.com)
		53 points by yitchelle on Oct 28, 2015 \| 18 comments
38.		Unmanned surveillance blimp breaks tether, floats over Pennsylvania (washingtonpost.com)
		109 points by blueatlas on Oct 28, 2015 \| 52 comments
39.		A Certain Tendency of the Database Community (christophermeiklejohn.com)
		73 points by cmeiklejohn on Oct 28, 2015 \| 13 comments
40.		Graph-scroll.js – Simple scrolling events for D3.js graphics (1wheel.github.io)
		71 points by sebg on Oct 28, 2015 \| 11 comments
41.		The Physical Origin of Universal Computing (quantamagazine.org)
		42 points by jonbaer on Oct 28, 2015 \| 1 comment
42.		Microsoft Unveils Its Arrow Launcher for Android (techcrunch.com)
		58 points by yinyinwu on Oct 28, 2015 \| 39 comments
43.		How Old Is Your Globe? (replogleglobes.com)
		48 points by Tomte on Oct 28, 2015 \| 18 comments
44.		The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools (newyorker.com)
		74 points by bpolania on Oct 28, 2015 \| 111 comments
45.		The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions (codecombat.com)
		48 points by nwinter on Oct 28, 2015 \| 10 comments
46.		9.5 Low Latency Decision as a Service Design Patterns (forter.com)
		54 points by itaifrenkel on Oct 28, 2015 \| 6 comments
47.		Convoy presents itself as “Uber for trucking” (theverge.com)
		47 points by lxm on Oct 28, 2015 \| 46 comments
48.		Cerebral cortex in rats' brains is set up like the Internet (usc.edu)
		28 points by Oatseller on Oct 28, 2015 \| 19 comments
49.		Chicken study reveals evolution can happen faster than thought (ox.ac.uk)
		41 points by dnetesn on Oct 28, 2015 \| 18 comments
50.		Prevent information leaking in Rails (molnar.io)
		27 points by gregmolnar on Oct 28, 2015 \| 5 comments
51.		Incoming space junk a scientific opportunity (nature.com)
		29 points by cryoshon on Oct 28, 2015 \| 5 comments
52.		Inductive Programming Meets the Real World [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)
		31 points by alanfranz on Oct 28, 2015 \| 7 comments
53.		The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine (2012) (smithsonianmag.com)
		20 points by never-the-bride on Oct 28, 2015
54.		The Nightmare of Replacing a Battery on a Mac Laptop (photofocus.com)
		179 points by jpatel3 on Oct 28, 2015 \| 237 comments
55.		Moon Parka: Outerwear Made from Synthetic Spider Silk (spoon-tamago.com)
		46 points by ph0rque on Oct 28, 2015 \| 27 comments
56.		An Administrator’s Guide to Internet Password Research (2014) [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)
		20 points by jebarb on Oct 28, 2015
57.		Growth in VC funding to Bitcoin startups slowed substantially last quarter (bloomberg.com)
		23 points by lxm on Oct 28, 2015 \| 11 comments
58.		Agate: A Data Analysis Library for Journalists (opennews.org)
		57 points by benderbending on Oct 28, 2015 \| 11 comments
59.		Sending a potato to near-space (ianww.com)
		38 points by typpo on Oct 28, 2015 \| 17 comments
60.		ZX Spectrum Emulator Written in Small Basic (msdn.com)
		25 points by ingve on Oct 28, 2015 \| 7 comments
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