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31. Michael Crichton and Computers (michaelcrichton.com)
94 points by adefa on Aug 20, 2015 | 57 comments
32. An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (2007) (cam.ac.uk)
63 points by codezero on Aug 20, 2015 | 16 comments
33. Work Hard, Live Well (medium.com/moskov)
235 points by sethbannon on Aug 20, 2015 | 160 comments
34. Making Robots [video] (youtube.com)
68 points by albertzeyer on Aug 20, 2015 | 12 comments
35. Stripe Checkout in more languages (stripe.com)
53 points by krithix on Aug 20, 2015 | 40 comments
36. Rb: A Redis parallelization toolkit for Python (getsentry.com)
54 points by zeeg on Aug 20, 2015 | 7 comments
37. The story behind Curiosity's self-portraits on Mars (planetary.org)
67 points by sohkamyung on Aug 20, 2015 | 12 comments
38. Image Scaling using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (flipboard.com)
89 points by hlfw0rd on Aug 20, 2015 | 17 comments
39. July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded (noaa.gov)
219 points by yawz on Aug 20, 2015 | 195 comments
40. Lazy load responsive images (github.com/ivopetkov)
124 points by ivopetkov on Aug 20, 2015 | 53 comments
41. A GraphQL query parser in C++ with C and C++ APIs (github.com/graphql)
63 points by ifcologne on Aug 20, 2015 | 2 comments
42. Statistical Anomaly Detection (ebaytechblog.com)
55 points by anand-s on Aug 20, 2015 | 15 comments
43. Chicken Scheme Internals: Data Representation (more-magic.net)
56 points by ThatGeoGuy on Aug 19, 2015
44. On the orientation of Roman towns in Italy (2007) [pdf] (arxiv.org)
28 points by myrrh on Aug 20, 2015 | 4 comments
45. Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics? (aeaweb.org)
57 points by ghosh on Aug 20, 2015 | 19 comments
46. The Hollerith Machine (census.gov)
29 points by bsou on Aug 20, 2015 | 4 comments
47. Go, D, Erlang and C in real life: MQTT broker implementation shootout (2013) (atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com)
115 points by BufordTJustice on Aug 20, 2015 | 49 comments
48. Parsing Mach-O files (lowlevelbits.org)
44 points by AlexDenisov on Aug 20, 2015 | 5 comments
49. Obstacles to Developing Cost-Lowering Health Technology: The Inventor’s Dilemma (jamanetwork.com)
28 points by wormold on Aug 20, 2015 | 17 comments
50. With $100M in Funding, Carbon3D Will Make 3D Manufacturing a Reality (techcrunch.com)
58 points by falcor84 on Aug 20, 2015 | 45 comments
51. The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (1983) [pdf] (brightboys.org)
36 points by adventured on Aug 20, 2015 | 1 comment
52. Countries where flying is dangerous (economist.com)
35 points by somberi on Aug 20, 2015 | 17 comments
53. In search of performance – how we shaved 200ms off every POST request (gocardless.com)
87 points by Sinjo on Aug 20, 2015 | 15 comments
54. The Completely Different World of Python with IBM i (ibmsystemsmag.com)
53 points by rbanffy on Aug 20, 2015 | 22 comments
55. Stingray: 3D Game Engine and Design Visualization (autodesk.com)
26 points by rinesh on Aug 20, 2015 | 9 comments
56. Larry Ellison’s Cat Island (buzzfeed.com)
67 points by qzervaas on Aug 20, 2015 | 12 comments
57. Large-Scale Machine Learning with Spark on Amazon EMR (amazon.com)
47 points by eaxitect on Aug 20, 2015 | 11 comments
58. Online Lender Social Finance’s Latest Fundraising Implies $4B Valuation (wsj.com)
19 points by m_haggar on Aug 20, 2015 | 1 comment
59. Are Lawyers Getting Dumber? (bloomberg.com)
67 points by skunkwerks on Aug 20, 2015 | 101 comments
60. Zirtual Fired 400 Employees Right Before It Was Acquired. Now They’re Suing (slate.com)
74 points by grej on Aug 20, 2015 | 21 comments

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