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31.		The Imposter's Handbook (impostershandbook.com)
		331 points by isp on Aug 24, 2016 \| 227 comments
32.		Singapore to require public servants to access internet from separate PCs (theguardian.com)
		79 points by kawera on Aug 24, 2016 \| 38 comments
33.		Building a Real-Time Recommendation Engine (neo4j.com)
		108 points by levbrie on Aug 24, 2016 \| 15 comments
34.		Turning Instagram into a Radically Unfiltered Travel Guide (nytimes.com)
		88 points by dpflan on Aug 24, 2016 \| 52 comments
35.		Detecting voting rings using HyperLogLog counters (2013) (opensourceconnections.com)
		57 points by bemmu on Aug 24, 2016 \| 12 comments
36.		Evolution of shells in Linux (2011) (ibm.com)
		67 points by kercker on Aug 24, 2016 \| 46 comments
37.		Ang Lee Is Embracing a Faster Film Format. Can Theaters Keep Up? (nytimes.com)
		54 points by dnetesn on Aug 23, 2016 \| 40 comments
38.		Kung Fu, Once Central to Hong Kong Life, Is Waning (nytimes.com)
		155 points by fuzzythinker on Aug 24, 2016 \| 173 comments
39.		The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions (quantamagazine.org)
		82 points by aethertap on Aug 24, 2016 \| 30 comments
40.		Insurance Startup Oscar Quits Two Markets, Rethinks Obamacare Plans (bloomberg.com)
		59 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 24, 2016 \| 64 comments
41.		First study to explore language and LSD since the 1960s (sciencedaily.com)
		53 points by eplanit on Aug 24, 2016 \| 12 comments
42.		Four Big Banks to Create a New Digital Currency for Inter-Bank Transactions (bitcoin.com)
		97 points by minamisan on Aug 24, 2016 \| 61 comments
43.		Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature (biomedcentral.com)
		64 points by campuscodi on Aug 24, 2016 \| 59 comments
44.		Animation That Explains Multi-GPU Algorithms [video] (youtube.com)
		66 points by ScottMichaud on Aug 24, 2016
45.		Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac (msdn.microsoft.com)
		59 points by sagadotworld on Aug 24, 2016 \| 14 comments
46.		The implosion of the daily fantasy industry (espn.com)
		93 points by golfstrom on Aug 24, 2016 \| 50 comments
47.		Uber launches flat fares in San Francisco through subscription (uber.com)
		121 points by nikunjk on Aug 24, 2016 \| 172 comments
48.		Taking stock of the new French-German encryption proposal (politico.com)
		51 points by taylorbuley on Aug 24, 2016 \| 22 comments
49.		Sitting Up: A brief history of chairs (theparisreview.org)
		50 points by pepys on Aug 24, 2016 \| 8 comments
50.		GitMonitor on Elixir (gitmonitor.com)
		105 points by lumannnn on Aug 24, 2016 \| 21 comments
51.		Long-Range (200m) BLE Beacons with 1Mb EEPROM (estimote.com)
		47 points by jimiasty on Aug 24, 2016 \| 20 comments
52.		The Nature of the Firm (1937) (wiley.com)
		61 points by maverick_iceman on Aug 23, 2016 \| 14 comments
53.		Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You (nytimes.com)
		75 points by eplanit on Aug 24, 2016 \| 87 comments
54.		How a Case of Pure Alexia Confirmed the Role of Brain's Visual Word Form Area (scientificamerican.com)
		42 points by jessaustin on Aug 24, 2016 \| 9 comments
55.		Factoring may be easier than we think (math.mit.edu)
		89 points by vinchuco on Aug 24, 2016 \| 83 comments
56.		Death and Suicide in Universal Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)
		55 points by apsec112 on Aug 24, 2016 \| 8 comments
57.		Practical Guide to PostgreSQL Optimizations (lendinghome.com)
		124 points by omarish on Aug 24, 2016 \| 16 comments
58.		Interactive EasyFlow (wikipedia.org)
		34 points by simonsquiff on Aug 24, 2016 \| 6 comments
59.		The Concept of ‘Cat Face’ (lrb.co.uk)
		59 points by campbellmorgan on Aug 24, 2016 \| 37 comments
60.		Hunting Down Dirty Memory Pages (stosb.com)
		45 points by tasn on Aug 24, 2016 \| 2 comments
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