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61.		My Last Day as a Surgeon (newyorker.com)
		88 points by hkmurakami on Jan 13, 2016 \| 2 comments
62.		Ring Doorbell Vulnerability Exposes Wifi Password (pentestpartners.com)
		46 points by kposehn on Jan 13, 2016 \| 35 comments
63.		Why Bitcoin Can't Help the Poorest, Yet (techcrunch.com)
		37 points by kennethologist on Jan 13, 2016 \| 50 comments
64.		PC Sales Drop to Historic Lows (wsj.com)
		35 points by jseliger on Jan 13, 2016 \| 58 comments
65.		Solitaire, written inside the bootloader (github.com/masneyb)
		66 points by masneyb on Jan 13, 2016 \| 8 comments
66.		Heteroglot: Project Euler problem #16 in Pascal, #17 in Inform 7 (eev.ee)
		30 points by hoverbear on Jan 13, 2016 \| 15 comments
67.		ElasticSearch Crud Repository 1.1.0 (github.com/jloisel)
		29 points by rultor on Jan 12, 2016
68.		The Nano Membrane Toilet (cranfield.ac.uk)
		41 points by ph0rque on Jan 13, 2016 \| 40 comments
69.		How Federica Fragapane visualized organized crime in northern Italy (storybench.org)
		27 points by ot on Jan 13, 2016 \| 1 comment
70.		The CIA-backed startup that's taking over Palo Alto (cnbc.com)
		85 points by adventured on Jan 13, 2016 \| 110 comments
71.		Why is the latest AMD hardware unsupported in libreboot? (libreboot.org)
		85 points by rnhmjoj on Jan 13, 2016 \| 60 comments
72.		Git2Go’s 2015 sales numbers (medium.com/building-git2go)
		22 points by herbigt on Jan 12, 2016 \| 14 comments
73.		Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Scalable Datastore Using MySQL (uber.com)
		59 points by cosql on Jan 13, 2016 \| 13 comments
74.		Why Zapier Doesn't Use Gevent Yet (zapier.com)
		34 points by mikeknoop on Jan 13, 2016 \| 15 comments
75.		GE will move headquarters to Boston (boston.com)
		58 points by lsllc on Jan 13, 2016 \| 72 comments
76.		I run a SV startup but refuse to own a cellphone (theguardian.com)
		55 points by crikli on Jan 12, 2016 \| 89 comments
77.		How a man accused of fraud uncovered the Stingray surveillance device (theverge.com)
		85 points by kanche on Jan 13, 2016 \| 12 comments
78.		HTML5 Tidy: The granddaddy of HTML tools (html-tidy.org)
		58 points by vmorgulis on Jan 13, 2016 \| 11 comments
79.		Crude Falls Below $30 a Barrel for the First Time in 12 Years (bloomberg.com)
		62 points by siscia on Jan 13, 2016 \| 87 comments
80.		Stone Tools in Sulawesi Point to Neighbor of Flores ‘Hobbit’ (nationalgeographic.com)
		17 points by r0muald on Jan 13, 2016 \| 3 comments
81.		Python hasattr() Considered Harmful (hynek.me)
		45 points by blaze33 on Jan 13, 2016 \| 54 comments
82.		Why we shouldn’t worry about leaving print behind (nautil.us)
		24 points by ernesto95 on Jan 11, 2016 \| 22 comments
83.		Watchdog: FAA failing to ensure pilots are trained to fly manually (thehill.com)
		31 points by JamilD on Jan 13, 2016 \| 7 comments
84.		Show HN: Particle Simulation with OpenGL compute shader – 8M particles (github.com/mauricegit)
		29 points by EllipticCurve on Jan 13, 2016 \| 21 comments
85.		Whatever happened to the laptop computer? (1985) (nytimes.com)
		48 points by vdfs on Jan 13, 2016 \| 53 comments
86.		Yiwu: the Chinese city where Christmas is made and sold (bbc.com)
		19 points by gedrap on Jan 11, 2016 \| 1 comment
87.		Visit the World’s Largest Model Railroad in Street View (techcrunch.com)
		25 points by mstolpm on Jan 13, 2016 \| 12 comments
88.		Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: Letter to Facebook [pdf] (trai.gov.in)
		36 points by stultus on Jan 13, 2016 \| 13 comments
89.		Neuronal Networks: Flip-Flops in the Brain (2005) (sciencedirect.com)
		21 points by jhallenworld on Jan 13, 2016
90.		The Help Center That Everyone Hated (supportify.io)
		17 points by jyaker on Jan 12, 2016 \| 3 comments
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