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31. Billionaire founder of Free launches free coding college (arstechnica.com)
135 points by chewymouse on Aug 15, 2016 | 66 comments
32. Life as an anxious scientist (dynamicecology.wordpress.com)
75 points by elsherbini on Aug 14, 2016 | 17 comments
33. An Elementary Proof of Wallis’ Product Formula for Pi (2005) (fermatslibrary.com)
58 points by johnaston on Aug 15, 2016 | 19 comments
34. The FCC Can't Save Community Broadband, But We Can (eff.org)
95 points by dwaxe on Aug 14, 2016 | 45 comments
35. JetBrains IDE Remote Code Execution and Local File Disclosure (saynotolinux.com)
145 points by mandatory on Aug 15, 2016 | 33 comments
36. The Shame of Palo Alto: An Interview with Kate Downing on Affordable Housing (stanfordpolitics.com)
149 points by jseliger on Aug 15, 2016 | 199 comments
37. Theano Implementation of Tree Recursive Neural Networks (github.com/ofirnachum)
53 points by sndean on Aug 15, 2016 | 8 comments
38. A Texting Truth Often Forgotten in Politics: Your Phone Remembers Everything (nytimes.com)
89 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 15, 2016 | 48 comments
39. Verifying copies (jrs-s.net)
41 points by snaky on Aug 14, 2016 | 18 comments
40. Maintainers Wanted, open source projects looking for new maintainers (github.com/pickhardt)
180 points by jrpt on Aug 15, 2016 | 32 comments
41. Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS don’t accurately seek them (marco.org)
202 points by okket on Aug 15, 2016 | 85 comments
42. GitTips (kernel.org)
166 points by gkst on Aug 15, 2016 | 55 comments
43. In Bungled Spying Operation, NSA Targeted Pro-Democracy Campaigner (theintercept.com)
146 points by r721 on Aug 15, 2016 | 58 comments
44. The Four Flaws of Haskell (neilmitchell.blogspot.com)
108 points by kccqzy on Aug 15, 2016 | 75 comments
45. The age of stream of consciousness and insanity (washingtonpost.com)
44 points by hellbanTHIS on Aug 14, 2016 | 13 comments
46. Equation Group Cyber Weapons Auction (theshadowbrokers.tumblr.com)
224 points by moyix on Aug 15, 2016 | 137 comments
47. Peter Thiel: The Online Privacy Debate Won’t End With Gawker (nytimes.com)
119 points by paulsutter on Aug 15, 2016 | 194 comments
48. What is copyleft? (opensource.com)
52 points by gexos on Aug 15, 2016 | 28 comments
49. Why you should never use MongoDB (2013) (sarahmei.com)
194 points by wheresvic1 on Aug 15, 2016 | 183 comments
50. What’s New with “The Rust Programming Language”? (steveklabnik.com)
143 points by doppp on Aug 15, 2016 | 50 comments
51. IBM model-M keyboard sound emulation to annoy co-workers (github.com/zevv)
94 points by av500 on Aug 15, 2016 | 165 comments
52. How Home Loans Have Changed since 2000 (zillow.com)
97 points by bradleybuda on Aug 15, 2016 | 115 comments
53. There’s a $200k reward for anyone who proves Microsoft ripped off MS-DOS source (thenextweb.com)
102 points by bndr on Aug 15, 2016 | 69 comments
54. The awkward journey towards less back end (medium.com/deepstreamio)
70 points by wolframhempel on Aug 15, 2016 | 27 comments
55. DuoSkin – On-skin User Interfaces (media.mit.edu)
73 points by scuttle22 on Aug 15, 2016 | 4 comments
56. Autotune – Cloud Diagnostics and Performance Tuning (acksin.com)
28 points by abhiyerra on Aug 15, 2016 | 20 comments
57. Sway Finance (YC S16) Automates Accounting for SaaS Companies (themacro.com)
33 points by stvnchn on Aug 15, 2016 | 17 comments
58. Startups, let’s act: Make Nov 8 a Holiday (amium.com)
110 points by yurisagalov on Aug 15, 2016 | 114 comments
59. The cost of small modules (nolanlawson.com)
74 points by okket on Aug 15, 2016 | 24 comments
60. Is Apple's Cloud Key Vault a Crypto Backdoor? (cryptographyengineering.com)
54 points by _xenonx_ on Aug 15, 2016 | 20 comments

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