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31. Bright (YC W15) raises $4M to bring solar to the developing world (medium.com/jgreenberger)
51 points by sethbannon on Aug 5, 2015 | 24 comments
32. On Monolithic Repositories (gregoryszorc.com)
84 points by tristanz on Aug 5, 2015 | 72 comments
33. New evidence of Japan's effort to build atom bomb at the end of WWII (latimes.com)
89 points by leephillips on Aug 5, 2015 | 74 comments
34. Dislodged in New York (nybooks.com)
53 points by Thevet on Aug 5, 2015 | 38 comments
35. In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions (nytimes.com)
243 points by zabramow on Aug 5, 2015 | 207 comments
36. TypeScript vs. Haxe (onthewings.net)
90 points by larsiusprime on Aug 5, 2015 | 48 comments
37. Startup School Radio: How Optimizely Knew It Was on to Something Big (blog.ycombinator.com)
48 points by loyalelectron on Aug 5, 2015 | 13 comments
38. I Tried VR and It Was Just OK (codinghorror.com)
162 points by cremno on Aug 5, 2015 | 136 comments
39. PostgreSQL: A full text search engine, part 1 (2014) (shisaa.jp)
87 points by kodekracker on Aug 5, 2015 | 13 comments
40. Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret (theguardian.com)
95 points by primroot on Aug 4, 2015 | 110 comments
41. 1491 (2002) (theatlantic.com)
50 points by primroot on Aug 5, 2015 | 18 comments
42. How I Designed a Compact Weatherproof Raspberry Pi Camera Case (tinkererblog.wordpress.com)
78 points by zdw on Aug 5, 2015 | 21 comments
43. How Not to Die (2007) (paulgraham.com)
80 points by bluejellybean on Aug 5, 2015 | 30 comments
44. 142857 (wikipedia.org)
100 points by merraksh on Aug 5, 2015 | 22 comments
45. China to Set Up ‘Security Offices’ Inside Internet Companies (bloomberg.com)
101 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Aug 5, 2015 | 80 comments
46. MSG-4, Europe’s latest weather satellite, delivers first image (esa.int)
70 points by eplanit on Aug 5, 2015 | 34 comments
47. What's it like being a non-profit in Y Combinator? (80000hours.org)
41 points by BenjaminTodd on Aug 5, 2015 | 7 comments
48. Strictly Tagged Clojure (arrdem.com)
50 points by jonnybgood on Aug 5, 2015 | 13 comments
49. Protecting email metadata by pouring it down the Memory Hole (modernpgp.org)
40 points by hacim on Aug 4, 2015 | 3 comments
50. Welcome Simon (blog.ycombinator.com)
46 points by runesoerensen on Aug 5, 2015 | 12 comments
51. Microsoft Expands Its Parental Leave, Bolsters Paid Time Off And 401k Matching (techcrunch.com)
119 points by someear on Aug 5, 2015 | 102 comments
52. Exploring Qualcomm's TrustZone Implementation (bits-please.blogspot.com)
48 points by laginimaineb on Aug 4, 2015 | 15 comments
53. The BCPL Reference Manual (1973) [pdf] (uni-stuttgart.de)
37 points by ingve on Aug 5, 2015 | 10 comments
54. Gitualize – Like YouTube for GitHub (gitualize.com)
42 points by _xnjw on Aug 4, 2015 | 17 comments
55. Neanderthals had outsize effect on human biology (nature.com)
51 points by kf on Aug 5, 2015 | 23 comments
56. The Chutzpah of a Police Union in Santa Ana, California (theatlantic.com)
128 points by jseliger on Aug 5, 2015 | 58 comments
57. Google Fiber Is Coming to San Antonio (fiber.google.com)
110 points by JaakkoP on Aug 5, 2015 | 58 comments
58. Redline Smalltalk for the JVM (redline.st)
33 points by brudgers on Aug 5, 2015 | 11 comments
59. Worldwide Tablet Market Continues to Decline (idc.com)
40 points by lxm on Aug 4, 2015 | 30 comments
60. Surfing the Internet from My TRS-80 Model 100 (arstechnica.com)
34 points by cpeterso on Aug 5, 2015 | 11 comments

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