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31. The first commercial gene therapy to provide an outright cure (technologyreview.com)
135 points by jerryhuang100 on May 6, 2016 | 37 comments
32. Facebook bends the rules of audience engagement to its advantage (nytimes.com)
114 points by hvo on May 5, 2016 | 114 comments
33. Millennials and the Working Class Are Leaving America's Expensive Cities (citylab.com)
175 points by jseliger on May 6, 2016 | 275 comments
34. 'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after David Attenborough (bbc.co.uk)
214 points by sghi on May 6, 2016 | 249 comments
35. Humans are the highest energy apes, making us smarter but also fatter (sciencemag.org)
95 points by Petiver on May 5, 2016 | 22 comments
36. The Productivity of Working Hours (2014) [pdf] (iza.org)
82 points by luu on May 5, 2016 | 16 comments
37. When code is suspiciously fast: adventures in dead code elimination (jeffq.com)
116 points by signa11 on May 6, 2016 | 45 comments
38. Fixing Vulnerabilities in the Zcash Protocol (z.cash)
63 points by sibrahim on May 6, 2016 | 10 comments
39. Results from Candy Japan box design A/B test (candyjapan.com)
121 points by NickSharp on May 6, 2016 | 93 comments
40. Why James Baldwin Still Matters (vanityfair.com)
57 points by samclemens on May 4, 2016 | 13 comments
41. Coinbase, Ripple Close to Landing New York Bitcoin Licenses (reuters.com)
56 points by petethomas on May 5, 2016 | 7 comments
42. Introducing yakbak: Record and playback HTTP interactions in Node.js (flickr.net)
60 points by johns on May 6, 2016 | 11 comments
43. Square Falls on Concerns Over Financing of Loan Program (bloomberg.com)
41 points by iamchmod on May 5, 2016 | 7 comments
44. Peer Street (peerstreet.com)
66 points by up_and_up on May 6, 2016 | 35 comments
45. US Senate website says use HTTP instead of HTTPS (senate.gov)
173 points by kurttheviking on May 6, 2016 | 127 comments
46. Show HN: Cloud-based GIF editor to augment any video (gifs.com)
70 points by anonfunction on May 6, 2016 | 31 comments
47. XKCD Plots in Matplotlib: Going the Whole Way (jakevdp.github.io)
137 points by YeGoblynQueenne on May 6, 2016 | 19 comments
48. PacketQ: SQL queries for pcap files (github.com/dotse)
76 points by chrissnell on May 5, 2016 | 5 comments
49. Uber's China Rival Close to Raising $2B in New Funding (bloomberg.com)
54 points by davidiach on May 6, 2016 | 50 comments
50. A multitouch musical synth built in Typescript/React (femurdesign.com)
102 points by lukephills on May 6, 2016 | 20 comments
51. Count me as a systemd convert (complete.org)
116 points by KKKKkkkk1 on May 5, 2016 | 137 comments
52. Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals (wsj.com)
154 points by Osiris30 on May 6, 2016 | 76 comments
53. [dupe] FBI Harassing Core Tor Developer, Demand Meeting, but Refusing to Explain Why (techdirt.com)
249 points by xkiwi on May 6, 2016 | 122 comments
54. Cipherli.st – Strong Ciphers for Apache, Nginx and Lighttpd (cipherli.st)
55 points by josephscott on May 6, 2016 | 20 comments
55. Flexbox-layout: Flexbox for Android (github.com/google)
45 points by tilt on May 6, 2016 | 7 comments
56. Hackers are the new lawyers (calebmadrigal.com)
53 points by calebm on May 6, 2016 | 47 comments
57. National (JavaScript) Security Agency (nsa.gov)
48 points by thewavelength on May 6, 2016 | 39 comments
58. Microsoft is cutting free OneDrive storage from 15 to 5 GB (office.com)
95 points by rfjedwards on May 6, 2016 | 66 comments
59. After Bin Laden raid, CIA Pakistan chief came home suspecting poisoning by ISI (washingtonpost.com)
60 points by suprgeek on May 6, 2016 | 30 comments
60. Bad cops: A new database collects information about cop misconduct (slate.com)
69 points by jseliger on May 6, 2016 | 6 comments

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