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31.		Facebook’s automatic alt-text for images (facebook.com)
		196 points by boyter on April 6, 2016 \| 77 comments
32.		Non-obvious indicators that a transaction might be fraudulent (simility.com)
		117 points by teuobk on April 6, 2016 \| 88 comments
33.		How Secure is TextSecure? (iacr.org)
		80 points by kushti on April 6, 2016 \| 21 comments
34.		New website lets anyone spy on Tinder users (theguardian.com)
		93 points by Jerry2 on April 5, 2016 \| 27 comments
35.		TextExpander 6 or How Not to Launch Your SaaS (rhymeswithdiploma.com)
		107 points by arm on April 6, 2016 \| 80 comments
36.		Money for Nothing: The Lucrative World of Club Appearances (gq.com)
		113 points by JackPoach on April 5, 2016 \| 85 comments
37.		Seattle is putting up $50B for transit (thetransportpolitic.com)
		129 points by jseliger on April 6, 2016 \| 201 comments
38.		Games with creative copy protection (2013) (gameological.com)
		63 points by aaronbrethorst on April 5, 2016 \| 21 comments
39.		Spies and shadowy allies lurk in secret, thanks to firm’s bag of tricks (newsobserver.com)
		59 points by Jerry2 on April 6, 2016 \| 1 comment
40.		In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing (newyorker.com)
		107 points by bootload on April 5, 2016 \| 116 comments
41.		Let's Make a Voxel Engine (2013) (sites.google.com)
		67 points by z3phyr on April 6, 2016 \| 17 comments
42.		Five hundred days using Ubuntu Phone (bobthegnome.blogspot.com)
		134 points by cujanovic on April 6, 2016 \| 87 comments
43.		Apple and WebRTC need each other (techcrunch.com)
		54 points by cpncrunch on April 5, 2016 \| 17 comments
44.		De Blasio Postpones Work on Crucial Water Tunnel (nytimes.com)
		77 points by jstreebin on April 5, 2016 \| 62 comments
45.		Samsung patents smart contact lenses with a built-in camera (mashable.com)
		50 points by lelf on April 6, 2016 \| 47 comments
46.		What is a “Good Job?” (conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)
		83 points by MaysonL on April 5, 2016 \| 58 comments
47.		Computing the Uncomputable (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
		78 points by mathgenius on April 3, 2016 \| 23 comments
48.		Lyft’s Logan Green on Building Uber’s ‘Happier’ U.S. Rival (wsj.com)
		69 points by lxm on April 6, 2016 \| 63 comments
49.		Ancient horse-dung bacteria is helping locate where Hannibal crossed the Alps (theconversation.com)
		44 points by benbreen on April 5, 2016 \| 2 comments
50.		One Billion Files: Scalability Limits in Linux File Systems (2010) [pdf] (linuxfoundation.org)
		62 points by tim_sw on April 6, 2016 \| 26 comments
51.		Apply HN: Brightwork – Making APIs More Intelligent
		64 points by josh_carterPDX on April 6, 2016 \| 54 comments
52.		Semantic Mining of Social Networks [pdf] (tsinghua.edu.cn)
		47 points by kercker on April 6, 2016 \| 1 comment
53.		Show HN: A tool to measure how responsive images benefit your page weight (imgix.com)
		45 points by zacman85 on April 5, 2016 \| 12 comments
54.		View from Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America (nytimes.com)
		36 points by curtis on April 6, 2016
55.		Ram air turbine (wikipedia.org)
		37 points by Hooke on April 5, 2016 \| 19 comments
56.		Icarus Verilog Simulator (github.com/steveicarus)
		34 points by luu on April 5, 2016 \| 11 comments
57.		Young Greek entrepreneurs: 'We are unfazed' (cnbc.com)
		38 points by YeGoblynQueenne on April 6, 2016 \| 15 comments
58.		Solar and Wind Energy May Be Nice, but How Can We Store It? (npr.org)
		50 points by evo_9 on April 5, 2016 \| 32 comments
59.		Coffee wars: South Korea's cafe boom nears saturation point (reuters.com)
		46 points by jseliger on April 5, 2016 \| 50 comments
60.		The Internet Archive, ALA, and SAA Brief Filed in TV News Fair Use Case (archive.org)
		47 points by edward on April 6, 2016 \| 5 comments
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