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31.		Is grit the true secret of success? (theguardian.com)
		84 points by sgift on May 8, 2016 \| 86 comments
32.		Fear and Loathing across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization (2015) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		51 points by thedevil on May 7, 2016 \| 25 comments
33.		Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal (theverge.com)
		105 points by doener on May 8, 2016 \| 43 comments
34.		Show HN: Subasub – Learn Languages with Translated Subtitles (subasub.com)
		52 points by larion1 on May 8, 2016 \| 32 comments
35.		Witness Juno's Arrival at Jupiter Live from JPL (nasa.gov)
		66 points by Osiris30 on May 8, 2016 \| 7 comments
36.		Living Only on Bitcoins (evilsocket.net)
		182 points by evilsocket on May 8, 2016 \| 174 comments
37.		One-letter programming languages (computerworld.com)
		51 points by phantom_oracle on May 8, 2016 \| 42 comments
38.		Performance of green threads and why it matters (250bpm.com)
		56 points by rumcajz on May 8, 2016 \| 31 comments
39.		Cron best practices (sanctum.geek.nz)
		97 points by leejo on May 8, 2016 \| 19 comments
40.		Using LLVM to Accelerate Application Performance on GPUs (mapd.com)
		61 points by jtsymonds on May 8, 2016 \| 12 comments
41.		MSVC CRT Sneaks in Telemetry by Default? (reddit.com)
		130 points by frozenport on May 8, 2016 \| 33 comments
42.		Why Suburbia Sucks (likewise.am)
		226 points by wonder_er on May 8, 2016 \| 295 comments
43.		A few tips for writing macros in Clojure (altometrics.com)
		49 points by dwighttk on May 6, 2016 \| 43 comments
44.		Synchronization primitives in the Linux kernel, Part 4 (github.com/0xax)
		58 points by 0xAX on May 8, 2016 \| 2 comments
45.		Romanian hacker who claims he breached Clinton server says he spoke with FBI (foxnews.com)
		48 points by testrun on May 8, 2016 \| 32 comments
46.		Ask HN: What are the cons of Google Polymer?
		87 points by LukeFitzpatrick on May 8, 2016 \| 77 comments
47.		Magic Roundabout: Circumnavigating the World’s Most Complex Intersection (99percentinvisible.org)
		50 points by misnamed on May 8, 2016 \| 38 comments
48.		Cal Flyn: the terrible truths in my family history (theaustralian.com.au)
		25 points by Thevet on May 6, 2016 \| 36 comments
49.		World's Obese Population Hits 641M (scientificamerican.com)
		48 points by okket on May 8, 2016 \| 92 comments
50.		Let's Make a Varint (carlmastrangelo.com)
		26 points by saturncoleus on May 6, 2016 \| 20 comments
51.		Two-Thirds of Americans Would Utilize High-Speed Rail If It Was Available (evobsession.com)
		67 points by misnamed on May 8, 2016 \| 83 comments
52.		The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov (1989) (tufts.edu)
		99 points by maverick_iceman on May 8, 2016 \| 60 comments
53.		[dupe] FBI can obtain a warrant if you run Tor [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
		125 points by dineshp2 on May 8, 2016 \| 22 comments
54.		Why the Media Fixation on “Transit Is Failing” Stories? (humantransit.org)
		67 points by another on May 8, 2016 \| 66 comments
55.		Artistic style transfer for videos [video] (youtube.com)
		51 points by mmastrac on May 2, 2016 \| 11 comments
56.		The ELM701 is a low-power chip for creating mouse-like noises [pdf] (elmelectronics.com)
		28 points by sgt on May 5, 2016 \| 8 comments
57.		Show HN: Run your own A/B testing back end on AWS Lambda and Redis HyperLogLog (github.com/alephbet)
		31 points by gingerlime on May 8, 2016 \| 5 comments
58.		The connected car may be the dumbest idea ever, but it’s not going away (arstechnica.com)
		24 points by shawndumas on May 8, 2016 \| 37 comments
59.		Is There an Artificial God? (1998) (biota.org)
		54 points by bigblind on May 8, 2016 \| 90 comments
60.		GPU-buying gamers are subsidizing the future of analytics (businessinsider.com)
		39 points by tmostak on May 8, 2016 \| 9 comments
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