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1.		Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record (nytimes.com)
		341 points by specialp 3 hours ago \| 111 comments
2.		The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (revolutionanalytics.com)
		80 points by ggonweb 1 hour ago \| 23 comments
3.		Porsche: The Hedge Fund That Also Made Cars (priceonomics.com)
		41 points by ryan_j_naughton 1 hour ago \| 12 comments
4.		The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems [pdf] (ams.org)
		17 points by GFK_of_xmaspast 51 minutes ago \| 2 comments
5.		Show HN: A midterm test on basic SQL for my journalism class (padjo.org)
		30 points by danso 2 hours ago \| 6 comments
6.		PSA: Don’t Open Random PowerPoint Presentations from Strangers (techcrunch.com)
		18 points by elon_musk 1 hour ago \| 8 comments
7.		How Verizon's Advertising Header Works (webpolicy.org)
		19 points by jonathanmayer 1 hour ago \| 9 comments
8.		Fountain aims to turn the answers game into a Siri-like smartphone experience (wired.com)
		26 points by ForHackernews 1 hour ago \| 16 comments
9.		MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin (mit.edu)
		96 points by dpmehta02 4 hours ago \| 53 comments
10.		Why Samsung Knox Isn't Really a Fort Knox (mobilesecurityares.blogspot.com)
		137 points by robin_reala 6 hours ago \| 28 comments
11.		The Beard That Wasn't: Abe Lincoln's Whiskers (theappendix.net)
		22 points by samclemens 1 hour ago \| discuss
12.		Now Everyone Wants to Sell You a Magical Anonymity Router (wired.com)
		35 points by cyphersanctus 2 hours ago \| 2 comments
13.		The Wacky Geopolitics of ‘Civilization: Beyond Earth’ (washingtonpost.com)
		34 points by benbreen 2 hours ago \| 7 comments
14.		The Fire Phone Is Officially a Failure (wired.com)
		44 points by denzil_correa 1 hour ago \| 29 comments
15.		Charlie Munger Donates $65M for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara (dailynexus.com)
		42 points by nikitabu 1 hour ago \| 19 comments
16.		How a computer error helped Deep Blue beat humanity's best chess player (theverge.com)
		11 points by Voodoo463 3 hours ago \| 4 comments
17.		Nest Acquires Home Automation Hub Revolv, but Will Stop Selling It (recode.net)
		19 points by Duhck 1 hour ago \| 11 comments
18.		The discovery of Homo floresiensis: Tales of the hobbit (nature.com)
		9 points by Thevet 1 hour ago \| discuss
19.		The day UFOs stopped play (bbc.com)
		16 points by schrofer 2 hours ago \| 5 comments
20.		Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011) (tratt.net)
		8 points by wslh 1 hour ago \| discuss
21.		Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, Pt. 3 (hypirion.com)
		52 points by JBiserkov 6 hours ago \| 29 comments
22.		Microsoft's Q1 2015: Surface growing strongly and Lumia sales up (theverge.com)
		9 points by widowlark 3 hours ago \| 2 comments
23.		Robot will beam live Moon pictures to Oculus users (bbc.co.uk)
		65 points by charlesmarshall 5 hours ago \| 21 comments
24.		Laura Poitras: ‘Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies’ (washingtonpost.com)
		206 points by Libertatea 5 hours ago \| 68 comments
25.		One Month Is Hiring a Student Happiness Engineer (onemonth.com)
		2 hours ago
26.		The Missing Maps initiative aims to chart slums around the world (newscientist.com)
		7 points by chippy 4 hours ago \| 1 comment
27.		Open-source metal 3D printer (appropedia.org)
		55 points by emrgx 6 hours ago \| 35 comments
28.		AT&T Locks Apple SIM on Activation (apple.com)
		82 points by calvin_c 3 hours ago \| 34 comments
29.		Reviewing common API Editors (medium.com)
		6 points by orliesaurus 2 hours ago \| discuss
30.		The Halloween Core War Tournament (corewar.co.uk)
		5 points by impomatic 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
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