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31. DIY diagnosis: How an extreme athlete uncovered her genetic flaw (mosaicscience.com)
78 points by nikbackm on Aug 19, 2014 | 5 comments
32. Bitcoin’s Price Falls 12%, to Lowest Value Since May (nytimes.com)
78 points by conover on Aug 19, 2014 | 83 comments
33. When 'Right-Sizing' Vacant Properties Goes Wrong (citylab.com)
71 points by Mz on Aug 19, 2014 | 46 comments
34. YC Demo Day Session 4 (techcrunch.com)
76 points by jasontraff on Aug 19, 2014 | 34 comments
35. Vedeu: Ruby-based terminal GUI framework
91 points by TheRealGL on Aug 19, 2014 | 18 comments
36. Half a Decade After Demo Day (billclerico.com)
82 points by vasusen on Aug 19, 2014 | 11 comments
37. My First 12 Years at Amazon.com (jeff-barr.com)
70 points by jeffbarr on Aug 19, 2014 | 11 comments
38. Old car batteries could make cheaper, more efficient solar panels (washingtonpost.com)
75 points by nkzednan on Aug 19, 2014 | 19 comments
39. [flagged] I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me (washingtonpost.com)
68 points by chuckharmston on Aug 19, 2014 | 55 comments
40. Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back (ignorenomoreapp.com)
76 points by juliann on Aug 19, 2014 | 94 comments
41. Always Talk to Strangers (theatlantic.com)
66 points by tokenadult on Aug 19, 2014 | 32 comments
42. Computer Eyesight Gets a Lot More Accurate (nytimes.com)
61 points by dumitrue on Aug 19, 2014 | 18 comments
43. Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer (ethereum.org)
61 points by MichaelAO on Aug 19, 2014 | 1 comment
44. Inequality and Web Search Trends (nytimes.com)
63 points by programmernews on Aug 19, 2014 | 20 comments
45. YC Demo Day Session 3 (techcrunch.com)
62 points by TheMakeA on Aug 19, 2014 | 18 comments
46. Sins of software development (ionelmc.ro)
56 points by ionelm on Aug 19, 2014 | 41 comments
47. A tool that converts PDFs to SVG, built using PDF.js (pramodhkp.github.io)
59 points by async5 on Aug 19, 2014 | 12 comments
48. Windows XP upgrade proves tricky business for John Lewis (bbc.co.uk)
53 points by ilghiro on Aug 19, 2014 | 66 comments
49. Stanley Kubrick Photos (mcny.org)
53 points by pmcpinto on Aug 19, 2014 | 5 comments
50. Show HN: Datastringer, a tool for hacker-journalists (bbc-news-labs.github.io)
60 points by 5c2v on Aug 19, 2014 | 18 comments
51. On GNU and on hackers (wingolog.org)
55 points by p4bl0 on Aug 19, 2014 | 35 comments
52. Police Drop Bomb on Radicals' Home in Philadelphia (1985) (nytimes.com)
50 points by sarchertech on Aug 19, 2014 | 60 comments
53. Why Genius may struggle to annotate the world (themassolit.wordpress.com)
56 points by christudor on Aug 19, 2014 | 18 comments
54. DOM: attributes sadness (annevankesteren.nl)
52 points by bpierre on Aug 19, 2014 | 12 comments
55. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition (image-net.org)
50 points by luu on Aug 19, 2014 | 14 comments
56. Linux-on-the-desktop pioneer Munich now considering a switch back to Windows (arstechnica.com)
48 points by vilgax on Aug 19, 2014 | 50 comments
57. Reddit Advertising: Results of a 1-Week Campaign (blogwriterswanted.com)
47 points by tyler-b on Aug 19, 2014 | 26 comments
58. How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever (npr.org)
44 points by jedberg on Aug 19, 2014 | 27 comments
59. Ecuador Turning to Virtual Currency (bloomberg.com)
51 points by bfwi on Aug 19, 2014 | 34 comments
60. Ask HN: Current best practice for drag-and-drop?
41 points by couchand on Aug 19, 2014 | 26 comments

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