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31. Facebook Meets Skepticism in Bid to Expand Internet in India (nytimes.com)
45 points by Futurebot on Oct 25, 2015 | 21 comments
32. The Oldest Galaxies in the Universe (theatlantic.com)
54 points by Hooke on Oct 26, 2015 | 21 comments
33. The History of Spices Is the History of Trade (1998) (economist.com)
36 points by wormold on Oct 26, 2015 | 6 comments
34. Ex-NSA Chief’s Cybersecurity Startup Draws Funding (wsj.com)
61 points by kungfudoi on Oct 26, 2015 | 55 comments
35. Are tarballs obsolete? (ibiblio.org)
66 points by acheron on Oct 26, 2015 | 82 comments
36. List of the Most Popular MOOCs (onlinecoursereport.com)
200 points by Schiphol on Oct 26, 2015 | 85 comments
37. Java 8’s new Optional type doesn't solve anything (medium.com/bgourlie)
174 points by lelf on Oct 26, 2015 | 192 comments
38. Did Times Underplay Drone Program Leak? (nytimes.com)
114 points by pavornyoh on Oct 26, 2015 | 52 comments
39. The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree) (1996) [pdf] (psu.edu)
59 points by espeed on Oct 26, 2015 | 24 comments
40. The Cold Logic of Drunk People (2014) (theatlantic.com)
73 points by bkraz on Oct 26, 2015 | 64 comments
41. The Phlogiston Theory – Wonderfully wrong but fantastically fruitful (thonyc.wordpress.com)
63 points by Hooke on Oct 26, 2015 | 17 comments
42. The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock, the Radical Who Organized Visa (2012) (fastcompany.com)
45 points by JoachimS on Oct 26, 2015 | 10 comments
43. Bartleby, the Scrivener: An interactive, annotated story of Wall Street (slate.com)
27 points by samclemens on Oct 26, 2015 | 9 comments
44. Complexity budgets (scattered-thoughts.net)
46 points by luu on Oct 26, 2015 | 10 comments
45. Building digital products with simple feature phones in mind (medium.com/pbriod)
37 points by briodf on Oct 26, 2015 | 9 comments
46. Fuzzing with american fuzzy lop (lwn.net)
67 points by bootload on Oct 26, 2015 | 15 comments
47. Webwatch (github.com/jgrahamc)
105 points by jgrahamc on Oct 26, 2015 | 57 comments
48. An AI system has become the third-most important signal to Google search results (bloomberg.com)
110 points by adventured on Oct 26, 2015 | 71 comments
49. Whitemark: Steganographic encoding of a watermark in the whitespace of text (github.com/rlk)
40 points by luu on Oct 26, 2015 | 15 comments
50. Robots to the rescue: Lessons from emergency robot deployments (nsf.gov)
25 points by Oatseller on Oct 26, 2015 | 1 comment
51. IoT Intro: SMS me when I leave my garage door open (hammerproject.com)
100 points by cottsak on Oct 25, 2015 | 36 comments
52. The Two Asian Americas (newyorker.com)
138 points by lermontov on Oct 26, 2015 | 116 comments
53. Live classifying human movement through machine learning (telenor.io)
43 points by janjongboom on Oct 26, 2015 | 5 comments
54. Show HN: Luastatic – Build an executable from a Lua program (github.com/ers35)
44 points by ers35 on Oct 26, 2015 | 13 comments
55. Sam Klemke: The original selfie guy, a life catalogued in 35 years of filming (abc.net.au)
26 points by bootload on Oct 26, 2015 | 2 comments
56. Ben Franklin and Open Heart Surgery (1974) [pdf] (ahajournals.org)
24 points by vsbuffalo on Oct 26, 2015 | 4 comments
57. Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science (medium.com/zsupalla)
131 points by zsupalla on Oct 26, 2015 | 45 comments
58. Enter sugar snake: MEL Science’s next-gen chemistry kit (thenextweb.com)
29 points by pavornyoh on Oct 26, 2015 | 4 comments
59. SpaceWeather: Correlate solar activity with system health and outages (github.com/graylog2)
41 points by lennartkoopmann on Oct 26, 2015 | 3 comments
60. Switzerland Offers Counterpoint on Deflation’s Ills (wsj.com)
47 points by bpolania on Oct 26, 2015 | 78 comments

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