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31. British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website source code (waterstones.com)
148 points by e15ctr0n on Feb 20, 2015 | 35 comments
32. China Estimates Largest Capital Outflow in More Than a Decade in 2014 (wsj.com)
40 points by fown9 on Feb 20, 2015 | 36 comments
33. How Oregon's Second Largest City Vanished in a Day (smithsonianmag.com)
97 points by testrun on Feb 20, 2015 | 12 comments
34. Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (blog.twitter.com)
98 points by knes on Feb 20, 2015 | 22 comments
35. A World Made of Rotor Blades (notechmagazine.com)
73 points by davesailer on Feb 20, 2015 | 25 comments
36. A Weapon for Readers (2014) (nybooks.com)
46 points by nkurz on Feb 19, 2015 | 15 comments
37. Go-gl: Massive Overhaul (docs.google.com)
53 points by emidoots on Feb 20, 2015 | 11 comments
38. Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Serial Numbers Obliterated from Metals (nist.gov)
42 points by ledgeditor on Feb 20, 2015 | 22 comments
39. City of Detroit launches open data portal (detroitmi.gov)
46 points by rmason on Feb 19, 2015 | 9 comments
40. Vaccinating the World's Top Predators May Be the Only Way to Save Them (vice.com)
45 points by DiabloD3 on Feb 20, 2015 | 47 comments
41. Cloud-Based Bio Lab Transcriptic (YC W15) Lands $8.5M in Series A Funding (techcrunch.com)
41 points by frisco on Feb 19, 2015 | 4 comments
42. The Unlikely Airbnb Hosts of Japan (nytimes.com)
79 points by damian2000 on Feb 20, 2015 | 29 comments
43. Raspberry Pi Z-Wave kit exposes private key (simplicify.me)
35 points by bootstrapbill on Feb 20, 2015 | 21 comments
44. A string of unexpected lengths (hackerschool.com)
45 points by thomasballinger on Feb 20, 2015 | 6 comments
45. Visualizing Twitter Connections with D3 and ClojureScript (wtfleming.github.io)
50 points by michaelsbradley on Feb 20, 2015 | 14 comments
46. In Fake Universes, Evidence for String Theory (quantamagazine.org)
46 points by digital55 on Feb 20, 2015 | 45 comments
47. Ask HN: Sentiment Analysis – how to handle biased word list lengths?
51 points by markovbling on Feb 20, 2015 | 44 comments
48. A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale (reprogramming.com)
39 points by joedavison on Feb 20, 2015 | 10 comments
49. Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (priceonomics.com)
96 points by ryan_j_naughton on Feb 20, 2015 | 142 comments
50. Cracking Codes in Medieval Books (medievalbooks.nl)
36 points by benbreen on Feb 20, 2015 | 2 comments
51. Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire (1991) [pdf] (utwente.nl)
36 points by brudgers on Feb 20, 2015 | 2 comments
52. Why schools are failing our boys (washingtonpost.com)
109 points by mycroft-holmes on Feb 20, 2015 | 159 comments
53. Evolution 'favours bigger sea creatures' (bbc.com)
27 points by Libertatea on Feb 20, 2015 | 14 comments
54. Scott Aaronson, from computational complexity to quantum mechanics (nautil.us)
58 points by dnetesn on Feb 19, 2015 | 10 comments
55. Do the English Use More Words Than the French? (filipwolanski.com)
34 points by deleterofworlds on Feb 20, 2015 | 56 comments
56. E-Defense, World's Largest Earthquake Seismic Testing Table (alatown.com)
18 points by w00kie on Feb 20, 2015 | 2 comments
57. Clickbait in the Physical World: A Social Experiment (anishathalye.com)
18 points by anishathalye on Feb 20, 2015 | 5 comments
58. Regular test runs down to zero unexpected failures on multiple architectures (netbsd.org)
26 points by zdw on Feb 20, 2015 | 3 comments
59. The Man Who Quit Money: An Interview with Daniel Suelo (becomingminimalist.com)
34 points by bemmu on Feb 20, 2015 | 34 comments
60. Quiet Linear Mechanical Keyboard Switch Designed by the Open Steno Project (crowdsupply.com)
54 points by robertfw on Feb 20, 2015 | 25 comments

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