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31.		DB-19 Substitute, Take Two (bigmessowires.com)
		56 points by yuhong on March 5, 2016 \| 12 comments
32.		The apt command: Combining apt-get and apt-cache and adds a progress bar (2014) (mvogt.wordpress.com)
		175 points by JelteF on March 5, 2016 \| 74 comments
33.		String Interning Done Right (getkerf.wordpress.com)
		56 points by cronjobber on March 5, 2016 \| 12 comments
34.		The Linux Security Circus: On GUI Isolation (2011) (theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com)
		121 points by dandelion_lover on March 5, 2016 \| 84 comments
35.		How Snapchat Built a Business by Confusing Olds (bloomberg.com)
		56 points by peterkrieg on March 3, 2016 \| 53 comments
36.		Two paths, one peak: a view on high-performance language implementations (wingolog.org)
		47 points by mr_tyzik on March 5, 2016 \| 7 comments
37.		Ask HN: Which successful startups were rejected by YC?
		159 points by mrborgen on March 5, 2016 \| 60 comments
38.		In defense of Unix (leancrew.com)
		110 points by ingve on March 5, 2016 \| 185 comments
39.		BleachBit: GPL System Cleaner (bleachbit.org)
		34 points by vmorgulis on March 5, 2016 \| 9 comments
40.		Customers Don't Want to Call for Support (forrester.com)
		44 points by wslh on March 5, 2016 \| 59 comments
41.		Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind (quantamagazine.org)
		38 points by bpolania on March 5, 2016
42.		Popular WordPress plugin comes with a backdoor, steals site admin credentials (softpedia.com)
		75 points by ValentineC on March 5, 2016 \| 29 comments
43.		Energy revolution? Grabat introduces its graphene batteries (energynews.es)
		42 points by FrankyHollywood on March 5, 2016 \| 20 comments
44.		The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968 [pdf] (trafficways.org)
		38 points by dang on March 5, 2016 \| 4 comments
45.		“I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline” (slashdot.org)
		197 points by notlukejr on March 5, 2016 \| 223 comments
46.		How Ray Dalio built the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund (2011) (newyorker.com)
		38 points by jimsojim on March 5, 2016 \| 22 comments
47.		Debugging why ping was Broken in Docker Images (cyphar.com)
		32 points by plausibility on March 5, 2016 \| 16 comments
48.		Interview with Dr. Bennet Omalu – the risk of high-impact contact sports (startribune.com)
		15 points by xtacy on March 5, 2016 \| 5 comments
49.		[flagged] Political Correctness Devours yet Another College, Fighting Over Mini-Sombreros (washingtonpost.com)
		83 points by salmonet on March 5, 2016 \| 84 comments
50.		The Disney Lion King Disaster (2013) (alexstjohn.com)
		35 points by sdrothrock on March 5, 2016 \| 10 comments
51.		The Watney Rule for Startups and the Return to the ‘Old Normal’ (medium.com/firstround)
		21 points by btrautsc on March 4, 2016 \| 6 comments
52.		Walkers don Google cameras to map 2,500 miles of ancient trails (theguardian.com)
		22 points by codlet on March 5, 2016 \| 4 comments
53.		Show HN: Thunkable – A drag-and-drop tool for anyone to build native mobile apps (thunkable.com)
		68 points by arunsaigal1 on March 5, 2016 \| 33 comments
54.		Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone? (washingtonpost.com)
		41 points by cpitman on March 5, 2016 \| 85 comments
55.		Ask HN: Book Recommendations?
		98 points by baccheion on March 5, 2016 \| 81 comments
56.		Why not C++? (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
		47 points by cronjobber on March 5, 2016 \| 84 comments
57.		The Searcher of Patterns and the Keeper of Things (lareviewofbooks.org)
		9 points by lxm on March 5, 2016
58.		Monkeys learn to drive wheelchairs with their thoughts (kurzweilai.net)
		16 points by 0x4542 on March 5, 2016 \| 2 comments
59.		Show HN: Collaborative text editing with unobtrusive markdown and code highlighting (bluedocs.io)
		25 points by c0da on March 5, 2016 \| 9 comments
60.		Refugee Crisis Pushes Europe to the Brink (spiegel.de)
		38 points by ZoeZoeBee on March 5, 2016 \| 10 comments
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