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31.		What Americans ate on an average day, for the past several decades (flowingdata.com)
		112 points by hokkos on May 20, 2016 \| 54 comments
32.		CEO Larry Page defends Google on the stand: “Declaring code is not code” (arstechnica.com)
		119 points by monocasa on May 19, 2016 \| 180 comments
33.		uWebSockets: Scalable WebSocket server library for Node.js and C++11 (github.com/alexhultman)
		108 points by _e3th on May 20, 2016 \| 80 comments
34.		Stanza: A New Optionally-Typed General Purpose Language from UC Berkeley
		117 points by patricksli on May 17, 2016 \| 77 comments
35.		Antibiotics Are Dead; Long Live Antibiotics (edge.org)
		60 points by ghubbard on May 20, 2016 \| 27 comments
36.		Export your Hacker News saved links to CSV using only Chrome console (github.com/thomaskcr)
		89 points by thomaskcr on May 20, 2016 \| 16 comments
37.		Show HN: tesserocr – A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API (github.com/sirfz)
		78 points by reubano on May 20, 2016 \| 14 comments
38.		Hello world in every programming language (github.com/leachim6)
		104 points by afshinmeh on May 20, 2016 \| 69 comments
39.		An insomniac's guide to the group theory of mattress flipping (2005) (americanscientist.org)
		62 points by luckysahaf on May 20, 2016 \| 14 comments
40.		What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter? (github.com/alex)
		132 points by sourabhkt on May 20, 2016 \| 38 comments
41.		Programming the ENIAC: an example of why computer history is hard (computerhistory.org)
		44 points by ingve on May 19, 2016 \| 16 comments
42.		Partnering with Microsoft to run Jenkins infrastructure on Azure (jenkins.io)
		66 points by dstaheli on May 20, 2016 \| 15 comments
43.		Tech firms may violate Palo Alto zoning: Writing code not allowed downtown (docdroid.net)
		93 points by apsec112 on May 20, 2016 \| 88 comments
44.		Your project's RCS history affects ease of contribution (or: don't squash PRs) (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		43 points by JoshTriplett on May 20, 2016 \| 28 comments
45.		Tally raises $15M for app to make credit cards less expensive, easier to manage (techcrunch.com)
		57 points by david_lieb on May 19, 2016 \| 44 comments
46.		A former Facebook engineer on algorithmic ranking for Facebook Trending (linkedin.com)
		57 points by smoyer on May 20, 2016 \| 23 comments
47.		Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic (wsj.com)
		77 points by lxm on May 20, 2016 \| 221 comments
48.		An Exact Value for the Planck Constant: Why Reaching It Took 100 Years (wolfram.com)
		49 points by _kcxz on May 20, 2016 \| 11 comments
49.		Bits of Me – Confronting your data doppelgänger (schirn.de)
		25 points by pmcpinto on May 20, 2016
50.		Nvidia-Docker: Build and Run Docker Containers Leveraging Nvidia GPUs (github.com/nvidia)
		63 points by charlieegan3 on May 20, 2016 \| 19 comments
51.		I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy (2007) (archive.org)
		21 points by Tomte on May 19, 2016 \| 2 comments
52.		Majority of U.S. public school students are eligible for federal food program (washingtonpost.com)
		91 points by Futurebot on May 20, 2016 \| 116 comments
53.		Import C++ files directly from Python (github.com/tbenthompson)
		42 points by ratneshmadaan on May 20, 2016 \| 4 comments
54.		JavaFX: Call to ARMs (justmy2bits.com)
		34 points by youjiuzhifeng on May 20, 2016 \| 17 comments
55.		Jason: Scriptable iOS JSON Client (jasonclient.org)
		45 points by tga on May 20, 2016 \| 19 comments
56.		The price of Ethereum is soaring because of the DAO experiment (qz.com)
		56 points by lxm on May 20, 2016 \| 52 comments
57.		How George Lucas Lost His Integrity…and Why It’s So Important (coach.me)
		53 points by ghosh on May 20, 2016 \| 22 comments
58.		Stockholm's 20-year waiting lists for rent-controlled housing (bbc.com)
		53 points by pmcpinto on May 19, 2016 \| 59 comments
59.		Senate Passes Bill Exposing Saudi Arabia to 9/11 Legal Claims (nytimes.com)
		76 points by espeed on May 20, 2016 \| 37 comments
60.		Scientists and inspiration (stactivist.com)
		20 points by azuajef on May 20, 2016
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