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31.		The first commercial gene therapy to provide an outright cure (technologyreview.com)
		135 points by jerryhuang100 on May 6, 2016 \| 37 comments
32.		Facebook bends the rules of audience engagement to its advantage (nytimes.com)
		114 points by hvo on May 5, 2016 \| 114 comments
33.		Millennials and the Working Class Are Leaving America's Expensive Cities (citylab.com)
		175 points by jseliger on May 6, 2016 \| 275 comments
34.		'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after David Attenborough (bbc.co.uk)
		214 points by sghi on May 6, 2016 \| 249 comments
35.		Humans are the highest energy apes, making us smarter but also fatter (sciencemag.org)
		95 points by Petiver on May 5, 2016 \| 22 comments
36.		The Productivity of Working Hours (2014) [pdf] (iza.org)
		82 points by luu on May 5, 2016 \| 16 comments
37.		When code is suspiciously fast: adventures in dead code elimination (jeffq.com)
		116 points by signa11 on May 6, 2016 \| 45 comments
38.		Fixing Vulnerabilities in the Zcash Protocol (z.cash)
		63 points by sibrahim on May 6, 2016 \| 10 comments
39.		Results from Candy Japan box design A/B test (candyjapan.com)
		121 points by NickSharp on May 6, 2016 \| 93 comments
40.		Why James Baldwin Still Matters (vanityfair.com)
		57 points by samclemens on May 4, 2016 \| 13 comments
41.		Coinbase, Ripple Close to Landing New York Bitcoin Licenses (reuters.com)
		56 points by petethomas on May 5, 2016 \| 7 comments
42.		Introducing yakbak: Record and playback HTTP interactions in Node.js (flickr.net)
		60 points by johns on May 6, 2016 \| 11 comments
43.		Square Falls on Concerns Over Financing of Loan Program (bloomberg.com)
		41 points by iamchmod on May 5, 2016 \| 7 comments
44.		Peer Street (peerstreet.com)
		66 points by up_and_up on May 6, 2016 \| 35 comments
45.		US Senate website says use HTTP instead of HTTPS (senate.gov)
		173 points by kurttheviking on May 6, 2016 \| 127 comments
46.		Show HN: Cloud-based GIF editor to augment any video (gifs.com)
		70 points by anonfunction on May 6, 2016 \| 31 comments
47.		XKCD Plots in Matplotlib: Going the Whole Way (jakevdp.github.io)
		137 points by YeGoblynQueenne on May 6, 2016 \| 19 comments
48.		PacketQ: SQL queries for pcap files (github.com/dotse)
		76 points by chrissnell on May 5, 2016 \| 5 comments
49.		Uber's China Rival Close to Raising $2B in New Funding (bloomberg.com)
		54 points by davidiach on May 6, 2016 \| 50 comments
50.		A multitouch musical synth built in Typescript/React (femurdesign.com)
		102 points by lukephills on May 6, 2016 \| 20 comments
51.		Count me as a systemd convert (complete.org)
		116 points by KKKKkkkk1 on May 5, 2016 \| 137 comments
52.		Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals (wsj.com)
		154 points by Osiris30 on May 6, 2016 \| 76 comments
53.		[dupe] FBI Harassing Core Tor Developer, Demand Meeting, but Refusing to Explain Why (techdirt.com)
		249 points by xkiwi on May 6, 2016 \| 122 comments
54.		Cipherli.st – Strong Ciphers for Apache, Nginx and Lighttpd (cipherli.st)
		55 points by josephscott on May 6, 2016 \| 20 comments
55.		Flexbox-layout: Flexbox for Android (github.com/google)
		45 points by tilt on May 6, 2016 \| 7 comments
56.		Hackers are the new lawyers (calebmadrigal.com)
		53 points by calebm on May 6, 2016 \| 47 comments
57.		National (JavaScript) Security Agency (nsa.gov)
		48 points by thewavelength on May 6, 2016 \| 39 comments
58.		Microsoft is cutting free OneDrive storage from 15 to 5 GB (office.com)
		95 points by rfjedwards on May 6, 2016 \| 66 comments
59.		After Bin Laden raid, CIA Pakistan chief came home suspecting poisoning by ISI (washingtonpost.com)
		60 points by suprgeek on May 6, 2016 \| 30 comments
60.		Bad cops: A new database collects information about cop misconduct (slate.com)
		69 points by jseliger on May 6, 2016 \| 6 comments
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