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31.		25 Civil Liberties Orgs Call for Open Hearings on Section 702 Surveillance (eff.org)
		132 points by DiabloD3 on Jan 28, 2016 \| 2 comments
32.		Not just Flint: Poor communities across the country live with extreme polluters (washingtonpost.com)
		115 points by privong on Jan 28, 2016 \| 60 comments
33.		Show HN: Visual Search using features extracted from Tensor Flow inception model (github.com/akshayubhat)
		75 points by visualsearchsv on Jan 28, 2016 \| 8 comments
34.		Visualizing Concurrency in Go (divan.github.io)
		258 points by pella on Jan 27, 2016 \| 18 comments
35.		What a PhD Really Means in the US National Security Community (vice.com)
		120 points by bootload on Jan 27, 2016 \| 72 comments
36.		Ray Tracing in One Weekend (in1weekend.blogspot.com)
		104 points by dahart on Jan 27, 2016 \| 23 comments
37.		Head of Navy intelligence hasn't been allowed to see military secrets for years (washingtonpost.com)
		109 points by greenyoda on Jan 28, 2016 \| 37 comments
38.		GitHub Outage (github.com)
		420 points by philip1209 on Jan 28, 2016 \| 281 comments
39.		The 1986 ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations (computerhistory.org)
		49 points by jamesbowman on Jan 28, 2016 \| 2 comments
40.		BotLibre – Free Open Artificial Intelligence for Everyone (botlibre.org)
		123 points by nikolay on Jan 26, 2016 \| 11 comments
41.		Improved commenting with Markdown (github.com/blog)
		65 points by Amorymeltzer on Jan 28, 2016 \| 30 comments
42.		Astronomers discover largest solar system (bbc.com)
		69 points by krislig on Jan 27, 2016 \| 16 comments
43.		Aereo Founder Is Back with New High-Speed Wireless Service (wsj.com)
		68 points by e15ctr0n on Jan 28, 2016 \| 27 comments
44.		The Fire Last Time: The Bronze Age Apocalypse (thebreakingtime.typepad.com)
		83 points by smacktoward on Jan 27, 2016 \| 31 comments
45.		How Following Others Will Leave You Broke (calmscience.net)
		120 points by dennisgorelik on Jan 28, 2016 \| 47 comments
46.		Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 (oracle.com)
		117 points by nikanj on Jan 27, 2016 \| 68 comments
47.		New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time (quantamagazine.org)
		85 points by ohjeez on Jan 27, 2016 \| 4 comments
48.		Don’t believe quotation websites (decisionsciencenews.com)
		77 points by luu on Jan 28, 2016 \| 33 comments
49.		React and the economics of dynamic web interfaces (nczonline.net)
		76 points by tbassetto on Jan 26, 2016 \| 15 comments
50.		ADHD Is Fuel for Adventure (outsideonline.com)
		98 points by pmcpinto on Jan 27, 2016 \| 82 comments
51.		To Prevent Back Pain, Orthotics Are Out, Exercise Is In (nytimes.com)
		63 points by adamsi on Jan 28, 2016 \| 31 comments
52.		Shan-Zhen: How a Small Irish Town Influenced the Mega-City Shenzhen (archdaily.com)
		60 points by jackgavigan on Jan 28, 2016 \| 15 comments
53.		Spiders that have formed armies 50,000 strong (bbc.com)
		47 points by unsettledtck on Jan 27, 2016 \| 8 comments
54.		Marvin Minsky’s Marvelous Meat Machine (medium.com/backchannel)
		45 points by steven on Jan 26, 2016 \| 11 comments
55.		China: Surviving the Camps (nybooks.com)
		57 points by quickfox on Jan 28, 2016 \| 2 comments
56.		New paper by Robin Dunbar exploring social media vs. real world networks (royalsocietypublishing.org)
		30 points by bootload on Jan 26, 2016 \| 1 comment
57.		Go 1.6 Release Candidate 1 is released (groups.google.com)
		87 points by pella on Jan 28, 2016 \| 22 comments
58.		SSO-23: Memory-Optimal Small String Optimization Implementation for C++ (github.com/elliotgoodrich)
		38 points by vmorgulis on Jan 27, 2016 \| 10 comments
59.		Dear Hedge Funds: Index Funds Didn’t Eat Your Returns (pragcap.com)
		47 points by wslh on Jan 28, 2016 \| 35 comments
60.		Genetically modified mosquitoes used to fight dengue, zika in Brazil (foxnews.com)
		40 points by apsec112 on Jan 27, 2016 \| 28 comments
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