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1.		Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record (nytimes.com)
		251 points by specialp 2 hours ago \| 85 comments
2.		Charlie Munger Donates $65M for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara (dailynexus.com)
		23 points by nikitabu 34 minutes ago \| 6 comments
3.		The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (revolutionanalytics.com)
		16 points by ggonweb 38 minutes ago \| 4 comments
4.		Why Samsung Knox Isn't Really a Fort Knox (mobilesecurityares.blogspot.com)
		126 points by robin_reala 5 hours ago \| 24 comments
5.		A New Answers App Aims to Succeed Where Quora Failed (wired.com)
		15 points by ForHackernews 48 minutes ago \| 2 comments
6.		MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin (mit.edu)
		79 points by dpmehta02 3 hours ago \| 47 comments
7.		Now Everyone Wants to Sell You a Magical Anonymity Router (wired.com)
		23 points by cyphersanctus 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
8.		The Wacky Geopolitics of ‘Civilization: Beyond Earth’ (washingtonpost.com)
		21 points by benbreen 1 hour ago \| 2 comments
9.		The Beard That Wasn't: Abe Lincoln's Whiskers (theappendix.net)
		9 points by samclemens 38 minutes ago \| discuss
10.		Show HN: A midterm test on basic SQL for my journalism class (padjo.org)
		9 points by danso 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
11.		Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, Pt. 3 (hypirion.com)
		49 points by JBiserkov 5 hours ago \| 19 comments
12.		Robot will beam live Moon pictures to Oculus users (bbc.co.uk)
		60 points by charlesmarshall 4 hours ago \| 19 comments
13.		Laura Poitras: ‘Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies’ (washingtonpost.com)
		195 points by Libertatea 4 hours ago \| 64 comments
14.		Nest Acquires Home Automation Hub Revolv, but Will Stop Selling It (recode.net)
		8 points by Duhck 53 minutes ago \| 4 comments
15.		AT&T Locks Apple SIM on Activation (apple.com)
		67 points by calvin_c 2 hours ago \| 27 comments
16.		Open-source metal 3D printer (appropedia.org)
		54 points by emrgx 5 hours ago \| 33 comments
17.		One Month Is Hiring a Student Happiness Engineer (onemonth.com)
		1 hour ago
18.		FTDI removes counterfeit-bricking driver from Windows Update (eevblog.com)
		121 points by joezydeco 6 hours ago \| 113 comments
19.		Autumn (moxiecode.com)
		319 points by robin_reala 7 hours ago \| 83 comments
20.		What's the Biggest Animal Gathering Ever? (npr.org)
		44 points by rfreytag 5 hours ago \| 23 comments
21.		Do-Not-Track and the Economics of Third-Party Advertising (ssrn.com)
		21 points by cpeterso 2 hours ago \| 3 comments
22.		The day UFOs stopped play (bbc.com)
		6 points by schrofer 1 hour ago \| discuss
23.		The Fire Phone Is Officially a Failure (wired.com)
		4 points by denzil_correa 12 minutes ago \| 1 comment
24.		Who Really Found the Higgs Boson (nautil.us)
		32 points by dnetesn 4 hours ago \| 11 comments
25.		Building an extensible syntax (breuleux.net)
		22 points by gozzoo 7 hours ago \| 15 comments
26.		Porsche: The Hedge Fund That Also Made Cars (priceonomics.com)
		4 points by ryan_j_naughton 14 minutes ago \| 2 comments
27.		Workers paid $1.21 an hour to install Fremont tech company's computers (mercurynews.com)
		36 points by velik_m 4 hours ago \| 30 comments
28.		A GPU Approach to Conway's Game of Life (nullprogram.com)
		5 points by mkirsche 3 hours ago \| discuss
29.		The Science of Crawl, Part 2: Content Freshness (urx.com)
		14 points by jisaacso 3 hours ago \| discuss
30.		Old Masters: After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign (nytimes.com)
		395 points by wallflower 20 hours ago \| 99 comments
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