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31.		Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans (recode.net)
		63 points by chris-at on Nov 3, 2015 \| 13 comments
32.		Advanced economies are so sick we need a new way to think about them (washingtonpost.com)
		147 points by Amorymeltzer on Nov 3, 2015 \| 189 comments
33.		RoboVM Is No Longer Open-Source (infoq.com)
		130 points by macmac on Nov 3, 2015 \| 97 comments
34.		Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans (nytimes.com)
		106 points by pappyo on Nov 2, 2015 \| 98 comments
35.		How the F.B.I. Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com)
		242 points by balderdash on Nov 3, 2015 \| 115 comments
36.		A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (2013) (moertel.com)
		97 points by ingve on Nov 2, 2015 \| 11 comments
37.		Psychosynth, a synthesizer and modular audio framework inspired by Reactable (psychosynth.com)
		55 points by MrBra on Nov 2, 2015 \| 8 comments
38.		New Tricks for Browser Fingerprinting [pdf] (scripts.mit.edu)
		81 points by renlinx on Nov 2, 2015 \| 10 comments
39.		Show HN: Invoice Boilerplate – Simple automated LaTeX invoicing system (github.com/mrzool)
		72 points by mrzool on Nov 2, 2015 \| 16 comments
40.		How Do Plastic Bags Get into the Ocean? (discovery.com)
		43 points by Oatseller on Nov 3, 2015 \| 29 comments
41.		Exercising Software Freedom in the Global Email System (sfconservancy.org)
		64 points by pmoriarty on Nov 2, 2015 \| 19 comments
42.		Haskell Web Development: A Freely Available Book (indiegogo.com)
		123 points by ingve on Nov 3, 2015 \| 43 comments
43.		Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization (rjmetrics.com)
		161 points by ColinWright on Nov 3, 2015 \| 75 comments
44.		Large analysis finds that low-fat diets have low impact (nature.com)
		47 points by cryoshon on Nov 2, 2015 \| 57 comments
45.		[dupe] A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a startling rate (washingtonpost.com)
		156 points by dsmithatx on Nov 3, 2015 \| 182 comments
46.		The Black Box of Product Management (medium.com/brandonmchu)
		71 points by saadatq on Nov 3, 2015 \| 41 comments
47.		What would the taxes be if I exercise my startup options? (medium.com/jaredcohe)
		63 points by itsjaredc on Nov 2, 2015 \| 36 comments
48.		Hackers Claim Million-Dollar Bounty for iOS Zero Day Attack (wired.com)
		73 points by deegles on Nov 2, 2015 \| 15 comments
49.		The Able Archer War Scare Declassified (1983) (gwu.edu)
		36 points by mathgenius on Nov 3, 2015 \| 3 comments
50.		Alan Kay at MIT Media Lab 30 [video] (youtube.com)
		38 points by kennethfriedman on Nov 3, 2015
51.		Show HN: A Firefox extension to break the habit of typing distracting websites (addons.mozilla.org)
		37 points by vishaldpatel on Nov 2, 2015 \| 28 comments
52.		MTN seeks to reduce $5.2B Nigerian fine (bbc.com)
		36 points by tonteldoos on Nov 3, 2015 \| 7 comments
53.		Feds explain (sort of) why they really want data on seized iPhone 5S (arstechnica.com)
		25 points by nkurz on Nov 2, 2015 \| 7 comments
54.		The Selective Laziness of Reasoning (wiley.com)
		34 points by texan on Nov 3, 2015 \| 10 comments
55.		V8 crankshaft vs. arguments object (mrale.ph)
		49 points by luu on Nov 3, 2015 \| 18 comments
56.		Watch an AI bot play Go [video] (facebook.com)
		75 points by r-u-serious on Nov 3, 2015 \| 45 comments
57.		NASA confirms yet again that the 'impossible' EMdrive thruster works (yahoo.com)
		85 points by jsnathan on Nov 3, 2015 \| 35 comments
58.		Watchdog: U.S. Paid for 'World's Most Expensive' Gas Station in Afghanistan (npr.org)
		50 points by vinhboy on Nov 2, 2015 \| 11 comments
59.		[dupe] Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery (2014) (pgbovine.net)
		143 points by tdurden on Nov 3, 2015 \| 160 comments
60.		Leo P. Kadanoff, Physicist of Phase Transitions, Dies at 78 (nytimes.com)
		32 points by espeed on Nov 3, 2015 \| 1 comment
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