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31.		Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans (bloomberg.com)
		110 points by JumpCrisscross on Jan 30, 2017 \| 127 comments
32.		Billionaire Is Reported Seized from Hong Kong Hotel and Taken into China (nytimes.com)
		263 points by walterbell on Jan 31, 2017 \| 171 comments
33.		Two English authors 'engineered start of Spanish civil war', claims new book (theguardian.com)
		56 points by lermontov on Jan 31, 2017 \| 16 comments
34.		Researchers use music and LSD to understand how we attribute meaning (researchgate.net)
		131 points by emersonrsantos on Jan 31, 2017 \| 24 comments
35.		Tesla – Lithium-ion storage is ready to power the grid (bloomberg.com)
		172 points by happyopossum on Jan 31, 2017 \| 51 comments
36.		Expense Calculator (1981) (c2.com)
		86 points by galfarragem on Jan 31, 2017 \| 15 comments
37.		Getting out of the cloud… (koehntopp.info)
		204 points by snw on Jan 31, 2017 \| 93 comments
38.		Bit permutations (sirrida.de)
		117 points by ingve on Jan 31, 2017 \| 4 comments
39.		Trump Fires Acting Attorney General (nytimes.com)
		424 points by davesque on Jan 31, 2017 \| 460 comments
40.		Club Penguin is shutting down (puffl.es)
		140 points by 18nleung on Jan 31, 2017 \| 88 comments
41.		XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350 (github.com/syscl)
		223 points by vletal on Jan 31, 2017 \| 233 comments
42.		Don't setenv in multi-threaded code on glibc (rachelbythebay.com)
		150 points by r4um on Jan 31, 2017 \| 104 comments
43.		Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/Node.js (microsoft.com)
		119 points by ratancs on Jan 31, 2017 \| 11 comments
44.		Ask HN: Ever faced difficulties pivoting your job or career later in your life?
		174 points by innomansland on Jan 31, 2017 \| 72 comments
45.		Libfmsynth: a C library which implements an FM synthesizer (github.com/themaister)
		84 points by vmorgulis on Jan 30, 2017 \| 19 comments
46.		A tiny sea creature is the earliest known step in humans’ evolutionary history (researchgate.net)
		45 points by diodorus on Jan 31, 2017 \| 19 comments
47.		Rebuilding, Testing and Documenting Self-Made Wi-Fi Antennas (notechmagazine.com)
		42 points by davesailer on Jan 30, 2017 \| 5 comments
48.		What's new in Docker 1.13: prune, secrets, checkpoints and more (cloudshare.com)
		82 points by assaflavie on Jan 31, 2017 \| 60 comments
49.		Rust creator Graydon Hoare is now at Apple working on Swift (swift.org)
		211 points by flount on Jan 31, 2017 \| 65 comments
50.		It's Fred Korematsu Day: Celebrating a Foe of U.S. Internment Camps (npr.org)
		120 points by t23 on Jan 30, 2017 \| 14 comments
51.		Robot Baristas Serve Up the Future of Coffee at Cafe X (wsj.com)
		50 points by lxm on Jan 31, 2017 \| 87 comments
52.		Instrumentation: Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (honeycomb.io)
		41 points by cyen on Jan 31, 2017
53.		Show HN: FUSE filesystems in Emacs Lisp (github.com/vkazanov)
		46 points by vkazanov on Jan 31, 2017 \| 6 comments
54.		Air pollution may lead to dementia in older women (sciencebulletin.org)
		52 points by devinp on Jan 31, 2017 \| 17 comments
55.		The deep roots of modern resentment (economist.com)
		103 points by dashboard on Jan 31, 2017 \| 116 comments
56.		A 24-year-old made $345K in 2 months by beating Kickstarters to market (cnbc.com)
		175 points by esalazar on Jan 31, 2017 \| 63 comments
57.		India's tech industry panics over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas (cnn.com)
		127 points by sizzle on Jan 31, 2017 \| 111 comments
58.		Ask HN: How to get money for running a non-profit project?
		62 points by apexkid on Jan 31, 2017 \| 43 comments
59.		RFC6637: Elliptic Curve Cryptography in OpenPGP (2012) (ietf.org)
		38 points by spaceboy on Jan 31, 2017 \| 7 comments
60.		A Digital Archive of the Brian Structures of Earth's Megafauna (brainark.org)
		20 points by rch on Jan 31, 2017 \| 14 comments
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