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31.		Language and Structure in Non-Programmers Solutions to Programming Problems [pdf] (ucr.edu)
		71 points by charlieegan3 on April 17, 2016 \| 17 comments
32.		Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones (creativedeletion.com)
		128 points by tosh on April 17, 2016 \| 80 comments
33.		What to do with the “rm -rf” hoax question (serverfault.com)
		115 points by stonesam92 on April 17, 2016 \| 65 comments
34.		How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
		106 points by aaronbrethorst on April 17, 2016 \| 90 comments
35.		Facetmobile FMX-4 Research Airplane (2008) (wainfan.com)
		62 points by akavel on April 16, 2016 \| 10 comments
36.		Ask HN: Can't concentrate to focus, until it's last minute or later
		351 points by kbody on April 17, 2016 \| 191 comments
37.		Drone hits British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Airport (bbc.co.uk)
		111 points by basisword on April 17, 2016 \| 99 comments
38.		Show HN: YC interview practice app (dheera.net)
		59 points by dheera on April 17, 2016 \| 10 comments
39.		This Device Could Provide a Third of America's Power (bloomberg.com)
		56 points by electic on April 17, 2016 \| 44 comments
40.		Caroline Lucretia Herschel – Comet Huntress (1999) [pdf] (u-strasbg.fr)
		14 points by Hooke on April 17, 2016 \| 1 comment
41.		Skiena's Algorithms Video Lectures (algorist.com)
		93 points by espeed on April 17, 2016 \| 23 comments
42.		Show HN: XMoto.js (github.com/michaelhoste)
		36 points by MichaelHoste on April 17, 2016 \| 15 comments
43.		DC faces Silicon Valley's riches and ever-growing power (theguardian.com)
		42 points by electic on April 17, 2016 \| 46 comments
44.		Madness of Geo-Blocking (Hidden Camera Prank) (youtube.com)
		46 points by nxzero on April 17, 2016 \| 47 comments
45.		10 years of Ubuntu:How Linux’s beloved newcomer became its criticized king(2014) (arstechnica.com)
		34 points by phantom_oracle on April 17, 2016 \| 24 comments
46.		UC Berkeley student questioned, refused service after speaking Arabic on flight (dailycal.org)
		66 points by raju on April 17, 2016 \| 91 comments
47.		The New Man of 4chan (thebaffler.com)
		34 points by pron on April 17, 2016 \| 32 comments
48.		Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE?
		76 points by tzz on April 17, 2016 \| 76 comments
49.		Barnum effect (wikipedia.org)
		11 points by bnischal on April 17, 2016 \| 1 comment
50.		272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants? (nytimes.com)
		21 points by hvo on April 16, 2016 \| 39 comments
51.		No one could see the colour blue until modern times (businessinsider.com.au)
		28 points by ZeljkoS on April 17, 2016 \| 24 comments
52.		Ask HN: My website is better than my competitor's, how do I bring traffic?
		30 points by _dt47 on April 17, 2016 \| 19 comments
53.		The End of the American Empire (strategic-culture.org)
		14 points by Jerry2 on April 17, 2016 \| 5 comments
54.		Helicopter Parenting Has Given Birth to a Generation of Entitled Victims (huffingtonpost.com)
		20 points by walterclifford on April 17, 2016 \| 18 comments
55.		FinFisher's step-by-step hack of Hacking Team (pastebin.com)
		11 points by superobserver on April 17, 2016
56.		Ask HN: I've made a huge mistake; working in tech is killing me
		26 points by gottagetaway on April 17, 2016 \| 21 comments

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