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31.		Elsevier – My part in its downfall (2012) (gowers.wordpress.com)
		111 points by LolWolf on July 30, 2016 \| 37 comments
32.		Speed Traders Invade Sleepy Corner of England, Locals Bristle (bloomberg.com)
		58 points by chollida1 on July 29, 2016 \| 64 comments
33.		The Melancholy of Infinite Space (1996) (geoffreylandis.com)
		55 points by monort on July 29, 2016 \| 26 comments
34.		Uber Can’t Force Arbitration Over Pricing Antitrust Claim (bloomberg.com)
		78 points by lnguyen on July 30, 2016 \| 32 comments
35.		Ruby on Rails Tutorial (railstutorial.org)
		189 points by ehsan_akbari on July 30, 2016 \| 78 comments
36.		Is the Semi-Permanent “Gunpowder Empire” Historical Scenario Plausible? (bradford-delong.com)
		44 points by bootload on July 29, 2016 \| 34 comments
37.		Prolog.c: a simple Prolog interpreter written in 200 LOC of C++ (2000) (cam.ac.uk)
		109 points by adamnemecek on July 30, 2016 \| 19 comments
38.		FTLAB FSG-001 – A $30 Geiger Counter for Android and iOS (cnx-software.com)
		51 points by zxv on July 30, 2016 \| 20 comments
39.		Cross-Laminated Timber and the Race for Wooden Skyscrapers (bloomberg.com)
		43 points by Osiris30 on July 29, 2016 \| 22 comments
40.		Intel Programmable Systems Group takes step towards FPGA based system in package (newelectronics.co.uk)
		43 points by zxv on July 30, 2016 \| 16 comments
41.		The person(s) behind the mirror (josephkirwin.com)
		48 points by CarolineW on July 30, 2016 \| 2 comments
42.		The Blog That Disappeared (nytimes.com)
		80 points by jakevoytko on July 30, 2016 \| 39 comments
43.		The end of sprawl (washingtonpost.com)
		46 points by jseliger on July 30, 2016 \| 82 comments
44.		The Limits of Satire (2015) (nybooks.com)
		37 points by Tomte on July 30, 2016 \| 46 comments
45.		The dark side of entrepreneurship (shopify.com)
		94 points by rmason on July 30, 2016 \| 10 comments
46.		How to design parabolic, hyperbolic, elliptical reflectors for 3D printing (stratnel.com)
		45 points by krisraghavan on July 30, 2016 \| 9 comments
47.		EclairJS Nashorn: JavaScript API for Apache Spark (github.com/eclairjs)
		38 points by gfortaine on July 29, 2016
48.		The Security of Our Election Systems (schneier.com)
		95 points by yarapavan on July 30, 2016 \| 86 comments
49.		Debian .onion services (debian.org)
		82 points by ashitlerferad on July 30, 2016 \| 18 comments
50.		Uber Hasn't Had an Effect on Drunken-Driving Deaths, Study Finds (npr.org)
		36 points by mdagostino on July 30, 2016 \| 74 comments
51.		China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’ (nytimes.com)
		110 points by credo on July 30, 2016 \| 92 comments
52.		How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf] (corporateeurope.org)
		143 points by Jan_jw on July 30, 2016 \| 168 comments
53.		Shared Space: Balancing Astronomical Ads, Artificial Lights and Starry Nights (99percentinvisible.org)
		23 points by misnamed on July 30, 2016 \| 2 comments
54.		“Should this even be released?” Deep learning tool that may be used for doxxing (github.com/mlpoll)
		99 points by Zuider on July 30, 2016 \| 61 comments
55.		Russia says spyware found in state computer networks (reuters.com)
		34 points by djoldman on July 30, 2016 \| 12 comments
56.		Facebook Tax Bill Over Ireland Move Could Cost $5B (bloomberg.com)
		75 points by s_dev on July 30, 2016 \| 121 comments
57.		Remove Firefox Hello from FF49 (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
		74 points by onli on July 30, 2016 \| 83 comments
58.		Literary Beatdowns: Or, Excerpts from Smollett’s ‘Critical Review’ (themillions.com)
		11 points by pepys on July 30, 2016 \| 4 comments
59.		Show HN: DJ in the browser (lukeandersen.github.io)
		61 points by musicnrd on July 29, 2016 \| 35 comments
60.		New species of Pacific beaked whale confirmed (theguardian.com)
		19 points by adamnemecek on July 30, 2016 \| 1 comment
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