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31.		A cheap 555-based Geiger counter (hackaday.com)
		127 points by dragonbonheur on Oct 17, 2016 \| 45 comments
32.		.NET on Linux – bye, Windows 10 (piotrgankiewicz.com)
		214 points by spetz on Oct 17, 2016 \| 282 comments
33.		Open Source is not dead: On the recent demise of RethinkDB (deepstream.io)
		117 points by EpicWaligora on Oct 17, 2016 \| 82 comments
34.		Jakarta's Aeromovel – mass transit powered by pressurized air [video] (youtube.com)
		40 points by curtis on Oct 16, 2016 \| 19 comments
35.		Why We're Living in the Age of Fear (rollingstone.com)
		210 points by jonathanehrlich on Oct 16, 2016 \| 196 comments
36.		High-fidelity 3D Haptic Shape Rendering on Handheld VR Controllers (acm.org)
		42 points by eDameXxX on Oct 17, 2016 \| 8 comments
37.		A sense of scale: the best microscopy of 2016 (arstechnica.com)
		100 points by Tomte on Oct 16, 2016 \| 11 comments
38.		How Apple Scaled Back Its Titanic Plan to Take on Detroit (bloomberg.com)
		127 points by _davidturnbull on Oct 17, 2016 \| 114 comments
39.		Chipotle Eats Itself (fastcompany.com)
		111 points by Overtonwindow on Oct 17, 2016 \| 58 comments
40.		Show HN: Rebridge – A transparent bridge between JavaScript and Redis (npmjs.com)
		57 points by CapacitorSet on Oct 17, 2016 \| 21 comments
41.		Pushing your website to Android without an app (beaconfreaks.com)
		39 points by mazodude on Oct 17, 2016 \| 20 comments
42.		Reverse Engineering Using Chrome (rudk.ws)
		86 points by rudkovskyi on Oct 17, 2016 \| 11 comments
43.		A Model Railway Journey (cabinetmagazine.org)
		66 points by Thevet on Oct 16, 2016 \| 15 comments
44.		How to create a game bot and publish your HTML5 games on Telegram (ludei.com)
		88 points by karliky on Oct 17, 2016 \| 10 comments
45.		Ask HN: How to ask companies about problems they are facing?
		145 points by prats226 on Oct 17, 2016 \| 39 comments
46.		Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language (2015) (nautil.us)
		80 points by dnetesn on Oct 16, 2016 \| 80 comments
47.		The 2016 Election (samaltman.com)
		474 points by firloop on Oct 17, 2016 \| 620 comments
48.		How Britain's most secret court imprisoned a grandmother (telegraph.co.uk)
		123 points by koenigdavidmj on Oct 17, 2016 \| 69 comments
49.		New paper: “Why most of psychology is statistically unfalsifiable” (medium.com/richarddmorey)
		81 points by yk on Oct 17, 2016 \| 18 comments
50.		Fujifilm X-T2 review: for the love of photography (theverge.com)
		157 points by Tomte on Oct 16, 2016 \| 68 comments
51.		Tesla and Panasonic to Collaborate on Photovoltaic Cell (tesla.com)
		75 points by ot on Oct 17, 2016 \| 14 comments
52.		How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment (ted.com)
		137 points by yinso on Oct 17, 2016 \| 137 comments
53.		A Kickstarter idea could be on sale in China before fundraising has finished (qz.com)
		142 points by sergeant3 on Oct 17, 2016 \| 55 comments
54.		Millions of Men Are Missing from the Job Market (nytimes.com)
		163 points by stefap2 on Oct 17, 2016 \| 271 comments
55.		“Julian Assange’s internet link has been intentionally severed” (twitter.com/wikileaks)
		231 points by zipwitch on Oct 17, 2016 \| 16 comments
56.		The state of the Scala website and documentation (groups.google.com)
		133 points by 0xmohit on Oct 17, 2016 \| 98 comments
57.		[flagged] Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions (medium.com/projectinclude)
		450 points by beardicus on Oct 17, 2016 \| 381 comments
58.		Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation (aeon.co)
		93 points by jonbaer on Oct 17, 2016 \| 18 comments
59.		The Wonderful World of Keyboards (atom.io)
		54 points by okket on Oct 17, 2016 \| 21 comments
60.		Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region (amazon.com)
		98 points by jeffbarr on Oct 17, 2016 \| 41 comments
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