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31.		Risky South Pole mission: retrieve sick scientists from research station (smh.com.au)
		104 points by molecule on June 16, 2016 \| 51 comments
32.		Yakyak: Electron Chat Client for Google Hangouts (github.com/yakyak)
		103 points by obilgic on June 17, 2016 \| 82 comments
33.		Computer model matches humans at predicting how objects move (news.mit.edu)
		63 points by tekromancr on June 16, 2016 \| 31 comments
34.		We shut down our startup (maqtoob.com)
		138 points by hunvreus on June 17, 2016 \| 111 comments
35.		FasterPath: Faster Pathname Handling for Ruby Written in Rust (github.com/danielpclark)
		131 points by wofo on June 17, 2016 \| 22 comments
36.		Rules for Writing Technical Documentation (2009) (developer.com)
		74 points by Tomte on June 16, 2016 \| 7 comments
37.		Google accused of stealing balloon network tech behind Project Loon (thestack.com)
		98 points by ivank on June 16, 2016 \| 61 comments
38.		Flipping Secret Exponent Bits Using Timing Analysis (iacr.org)
		49 points by nanis on June 17, 2016 \| 1 comment
39.		3D Mandelbrot Fractal in Blender Python (slicker.me)
		67 points by swietlik on June 17, 2016 \| 9 comments
40.		The Anthropodermic Book Project analyzes books rumored to be bound in human skin (nautil.us)
		43 points by dnetesn on June 17, 2016 \| 8 comments
41.		[dupe] The DAO is currently being attacked, over 2M Ethereum missing so far (etherscan.io)
		377 points by droffel on June 17, 2016 \| 2 comments
42.		Long Names are Long (stuffwithstuff.com)
		149 points by skybrian on June 17, 2016 \| 80 comments
43.		Cassini, Rømer, and the velocity of light (2008) (fermatslibrary.com)
		39 points by mgdo on June 17, 2016 \| 6 comments
44.		Apple-sans-adjectives – A font that redacts Apple-esque superlatives from text (appleadjectiv.es)
		128 points by slurpp on June 17, 2016 \| 56 comments
45.		Why aren't PGP and SSH keys popular as a second factor for authentication? (security.stackexchange.com)
		117 points by verandaguy on June 17, 2016 \| 73 comments
46.		Dancers and Diplomats: NYC Ballet in Moscow, October 1962 (2014) (theappendix.net)
		38 points by benbreen on June 17, 2016 \| 1 comment
47.		Hands: What We Do With Them (theguardian.com)
		31 points by howrude on June 17, 2016 \| 9 comments
48.		Taking legal action against the most active sellers of viewbot services (twitch.tv)
		48 points by xPaw on June 17, 2016 \| 14 comments
49.		Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Stumbled After Secret Truce with Activist Investor (wsj.com)
		79 points by jackgavigan on June 17, 2016 \| 121 comments
50.		Escaped robot holds up traffic in Russia (torontosun.com)
		56 points by artf on June 17, 2016 \| 31 comments
51.		How ‘Smart’ Do You Want Your Blender to Be? (nytimes.com)
		24 points by bootload on June 16, 2016 \| 49 comments
52.		Chemists Were Wrong About Splenda (acsh.org)
		86 points by nkurz on June 17, 2016 \| 128 comments
53.		Ask HN: How do you find a good corp-to-corp tech recruiter?
		52 points by barefootcoder on June 17, 2016 \| 58 comments
54.		Why I think TheDAO is a Success (jackgavigan.com)
		28 points by jackgavigan on June 17, 2016 \| 22 comments
55.		E-Go Personal Plane Fits in Your Garage (seeker.com)
		19 points by lxm on June 16, 2016 \| 5 comments
56.		Curtsy (YC S16) lets women borrow dresses from their neighbors (themacro.com)
		27 points by stvnchn on June 17, 2016 \| 55 comments
57.		Like Comcast, Google Fiber now forces customers into arbitration (arstechnica.com)
		42 points by infinotize on June 17, 2016 \| 70 comments
58.		Jury awards $22m to man locked in closet by police for four days (cleveland.com)
		67 points by jackgavigan on June 17, 2016 \| 57 comments
59.		Crisis based forking can pierce the Decentralized Veil of Ethereum (stakeventures.com)
		25 points by pelle on June 17, 2016 \| 8 comments
60.		HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib (blindspotsecurity.com)
		25 points by orlp on June 17, 2016 \| 4 comments
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