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31.		The Perils of Peak Attention (newrepublic.com)
		76 points by benbreen on Oct 22, 2016 \| 5 comments
32.		Coding for Kids: Linda Liukas on Nurturing Your Child’s Technical Imagination (dailyfig.com)
		76 points by mcone on Oct 23, 2016 \| 15 comments
33.		Kaldi Speech Recognition Toolkit (github.com/kaldi-asr)
		71 points by based2 on Oct 23, 2016 \| 18 comments
34.		NPM v4.0.0 (github.com/npm)
		113 points by Jarlakxen on Oct 23, 2016 \| 56 comments
35.		A New Tack to Stave Off Alzheimer's Years Before the First Symptom (scientificamerican.com)
		71 points by mrestko on Oct 21, 2016 \| 15 comments
36.		Mixcrate shuts down (mixcrate.com)
		79 points by empressplay on Oct 23, 2016 \| 34 comments
37.		The Prophecies of Jane Jacobs (theatlantic.com)
		77 points by pmcpinto on Oct 23, 2016 \| 15 comments
38.		Nevada’s $35B fund manager does as little as possible, usually nothing (wsj.com)
		90 points by breck on Oct 23, 2016 \| 36 comments
39.		Proposing an Incremental Java EE Roadmap (johnclingan.com)
		37 points by wodencafe on Oct 23, 2016 \| 3 comments
40.		Can Mental Illness Be Prevented in the Womb? (npr.org)
		51 points by Mz on Oct 22, 2016 \| 25 comments
41.		Infrastructure discovery with etcd (ducky.cloud)
		53 points by iwalz on Oct 23, 2016 \| 29 comments
42.		Apple Adds ARM Support to MacOS Sierra Kernel (iclarified.com)
		151 points by rcarmo on Oct 23, 2016 \| 81 comments
43.		A Little-Known Company That Enables Mass Surveillance (theintercept.com)
		127 points by a-no-n on Oct 23, 2016 \| 24 comments
44.		Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day (telegraph.co.uk)
		151 points by bilifuduo on Oct 23, 2016 \| 76 comments
45.		How can you tell if someone is kind? Ask how rich they are (washingtonpost.com)
		104 points by davesque on Oct 22, 2016 \| 134 comments
46.		Lynk and Co automotive unveil, specifications (reuters.com)
		12 points by technobabble on Oct 23, 2016 \| 2 comments
47.		Elon Musk's finances (economist.com)
		154 points by sajid on Oct 23, 2016 \| 86 comments
48.		Chicken Scheme (call-cc.org)
		88 points by qwertyuiop924 on Oct 23, 2016 \| 31 comments
49.		Java 8 Method Reference Evaluation (kynosarges.org)
		45 points by cnahr on Oct 23, 2016 \| 11 comments
50.		Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany (publicdomainreview.org)
		17 points by Hooke on Oct 22, 2016
51.		Canadian pilots no longer have to fly real aircraft to keep valid licences (theglobeandmail.com)
		47 points by drittich on Oct 23, 2016 \| 49 comments
52.		Why Friday's Massive DDoS Attack Should Be Terrifying (truevault.com)
		55 points by jason_wang on Oct 23, 2016 \| 52 comments
53.		Sound Transit 3, the light rail initative, can bring mobility to Seattle (thatopinion.com)
		35 points by jseliger on Oct 22, 2016 \| 65 comments
54.		Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?
		114 points by arikr on Oct 23, 2016 \| 82 comments
55.		Static typing will not save us from broken software (drmaciver.com)
		63 points by nickmain on Oct 23, 2016 \| 93 comments
56.		What I Learned About Julian Assange While Working Alongside Him (buzzfeed.com)
		93 points by danso on Oct 23, 2016 \| 158 comments
57.		Air India creates record by flying 15,300 kilometres in 14.5 hours non stop (businessinsider.in)
		22 points by praving5 on Oct 23, 2016 \| 21 comments
58.		[dupe] Dyn Statement on 10/21/2016 DDoS Attack (dyn.com)
		56 points by mariuscoto on Oct 23, 2016 \| 1 comment
59.		The Fatal Mistake That Doomed Samsung’s Galaxy Note (wsj.com)
		36 points by ssclafani on Oct 23, 2016 \| 36 comments
60.		No, it is not illegal to read Wikileaks (popehat.com)
		87 points by Natsu on Oct 23, 2016 \| 11 comments
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