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31.Polygonal Map Generation for Games (stanford.edu)
75 points by fivedogit on Aug 19, 2015 | 3 comments
32.Crowdfunding Is Driving a Board Game Renaissance (fivethirtyeight.com)
82 points by EtienneK on Aug 19, 2015 | 39 comments
33.Town residents pooled together their money to provide scholarships for everyone (citylab.com)
62 points by DarkContinent on Aug 19, 2015 | 45 comments
34.Upstarts raid giants for talent in Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
58 points by pramodbiligiri on Aug 19, 2015 | 41 comments
35.Views of the Tesseract (1904) (publicdomainreview.org)
37 points by hownottowrite on Aug 19, 2015 | 7 comments
36.Lesser-Known Google Projects (diygenius.com)
74 points by ssaddi on Aug 19, 2015 | 8 comments
37.The Weird Abandoned Spaces of Virtual Worlds (killscreendaily.com)
82 points by pepys on Aug 19, 2015 | 40 comments
38.Mozilla's Servo Engine Now Capable of Rendering GitHub (phoronix.com)
251 points by kungfudoi on Aug 19, 2015 | 82 comments
39.Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss – Melancholy Anthropology (theguardian.com)
23 points by benbreen on Aug 19, 2015 | 1 comment
40.How do we know if a crypto function is correctly implemented? (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
69 points by kevinalexbrown on Aug 19, 2015 | 30 comments
41.Exploratory computing with Python (mbakker7.github.io)
40 points by MichaelAO on Aug 19, 2015 | 1 comment
42.The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t (nytimes.com)
98 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 19, 2015 | 49 comments
43.The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist (newyorker.com)
27 points by lermontov on Aug 19, 2015 | 1 comment
44.Compressing Skeletal Animation Data (riotgames.com)
55 points by cpeterso on Aug 19, 2015 | 4 comments
45.Cameron's World (cameronsworld.net)
249 points by zeitg3ist on Aug 19, 2015 | 63 comments
46.Shutdownify is shutting down (shutdownify.com)
423 points by jawns on Aug 19, 2015 | 95 comments
47.FireTcl: Tcl embedded in Firefox browser (tcl.tk)
50 points by blacksqr on Aug 19, 2015 | 18 comments
48.Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet (pinterest.com)
144 points by jparise on Aug 19, 2015 | 85 comments
49.Cool Derivatives and Bank Consultants (bloombergview.com)
46 points by jackgavigan on Aug 19, 2015 | 19 comments
50.The mosquito-repelling activity of sweetgrass (bbc.com)
27 points by inm on Aug 19, 2015 | 16 comments
51.GrabTaxi Lands $350M from China’s Top Uber Rival Didi Kuaidi and Others (techcrunch.com)
23 points by mts_ on Aug 19, 2015 | 2 comments
52.High-Performance MATLAB with GPU Acceleration (nvidia.com)
24 points by bsprings on Aug 19, 2015 | 3 comments
53.Language Trends on GitHub (github.com/blog)
99 points by _jomo on Aug 19, 2015 | 59 comments
54.Science Isn’t Broken (fivethirtyeight.com)
74 points by ot on Aug 19, 2015 | 58 comments
55.Chimpanzees and monkeys use stone tools (bbc.com)
82 points by Someone on Aug 19, 2015 | 42 comments
56.Cross-Platform UI in GitHub Desktop (githubengineering.com)
61 points by samlambert on Aug 19, 2015 | 55 comments
57.Ask HN: Which job should I choose?
30 points by askhell on Aug 19, 2015 | 63 comments
58.Is Angular 2.0 ready? (splintercode.github.io)
66 points by splintercode on Aug 19, 2015 | 43 comments
59.Skylake’s graphics architecture: Intel is still gunning for dedicated GPUs (arstechnica.com)
48 points by tambourine_man on Aug 19, 2015 | 40 comments
60.Is ketamine the best hope for curing major depression? (bloomberg.com)
71 points by NN88 on Aug 19, 2015 | 52 comments

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