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31.		Ask HN: Is Python dying?
		240 points by tanlermin on Feb 14, 2016 \| 348 comments
32.		Ignore the GPS – That Ocean Is Not a Road (nytimes.com)
		65 points by leephillips on Feb 14, 2016 \| 61 comments
33.		Why I don't like smartphones (devever.net)
		289 points by antitamper on Feb 14, 2016 \| 281 comments
34.		'Lost' Roads of Ancient Rome Discovered with 3D Laser Scanners (livescience.com)
		61 points by mtviewdave on Feb 13, 2016 \| 5 comments
35.		Clojure Compilation: Parenthetical Prose to Bewildering Bytecode (2014) (ndk.io)
		93 points by turbohz on Feb 14, 2016 \| 2 comments
36.		Trade Officials Sign the TPP but It's Still Up to Lawmakers to Reject It (eff.org)
		88 points by walterbell on Feb 14, 2016 \| 24 comments
37.		Unicorns Seemingly Reach a Tipping Point (techcrunch.com)
		112 points by adidash on Feb 14, 2016 \| 55 comments
38.		We Are Hopelessly Hooked (nybooks.com)
		92 points by sergeant3 on Feb 14, 2016 \| 51 comments
39.		People in Silicon Valley Don’t Click on Ads (medium.com/robleathern)
		127 points by coloneltcb on Feb 13, 2016 \| 115 comments
40.		Parinfer in Emacs Lisp (github.com/oakmac)
		49 points by dwc on Feb 11, 2016 \| 4 comments
41.		No more 300ms tap delay: touch-action now supported in all major mobile browsers (twitter.com/kuizinas)
		81 points by aram on Feb 13, 2016 \| 9 comments
42.		Let's add a statistical profiler to Chicken Scheme (more-magic.net)
		48 points by kryptiskt on Feb 14, 2016 \| 3 comments
43.		Akka, Haskell, Erlang, Go and .NET Core compared on 1M threads (github.com/atemerev)
		170 points by atemerev on Feb 14, 2016 \| 158 comments
44.		Long-Lost Mozart-Salieri Collaboration Found in Prague (abc.net.au)
		48 points by adamnemecek on Feb 13, 2016 \| 20 comments
45.		A Clone of “Space Invaders” in VHDL (github.com/fabioperez)
		36 points by unwind on Feb 12, 2016 \| 1 comment
46.		Who Was Kafka? (thenation.com)
		49 points by samclemens on Feb 13, 2016 \| 34 comments
47.		Padding oracles and the decline of CBC-mode cipher suites (cloudflare.com)
		63 points by carey on Feb 13, 2016 \| 9 comments
48.		Reimagining electric utilities (vox.com)
		19 points by aburan28 on Feb 13, 2016 \| 13 comments
49.		Ebiten – A simple SNES-like 2D game library in Go (hajimehoshi.github.io)
		32 points by mkirsche on Feb 13, 2016 \| 2 comments
50.		Mattel Is Using 3D Printing to Resurrect an Old Hit (fortune.com)
		47 points by bane on Feb 14, 2016 \| 20 comments
51.		Rejit: a work-in-progress JIT-powered regex engine (github.com/kirbyfan64)
		43 points by adamnemecek on Feb 14, 2016 \| 14 comments
52.		Show HN: Chaos-game – Play to create fractal images (github.com/jaybosamiya)
		40 points by jaybosamiya on Feb 13, 2016 \| 4 comments
53.		Advertisers using face recognition to watch people watching TV (fortune.com)
		24 points by lxm on Feb 13, 2016 \| 6 comments
54.		Lessons from Interviews of Pre-Eminent VCs in 2000 (2014) (tomtunguz.com)
		45 points by marvel_boy on Feb 13, 2016 \| 3 comments
55.		Diffbot Aims to Build the Intel of Data for Artificial Intelligence (techcrunch.com)
		44 points by dwynings on Feb 12, 2016 \| 11 comments
56.		Tests vs. Types (kevinmahoney.co.uk)
		61 points by charlieegan3 on Feb 13, 2016 \| 75 comments
57.		Why the maker of Roomba vacuums is getting out of the warbot business (washingtonpost.com)
		36 points by lxm on Feb 13, 2016 \| 23 comments
58.		All Late Projects Are the Same (2011) [pdf] (systemsguild.com)
		50 points by musha68k on Feb 14, 2016 \| 20 comments
59.		Thunder – Large-scale image and time series analysis (thunder-project.org)
		43 points by jonbaer on Feb 13, 2016 \| 1 comment
60.		Tutorial of Nulan – Lisp with Pattern Matching, Hygienic Macros and More (pauan.github.io)
		40 points by vmorgulis on Feb 14, 2016 \| 5 comments
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