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1.		Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record (nytimes.com)
		395 points by specialp 4 hours ago \| 137 comments
2.		The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (revolutionanalytics.com)
		115 points by ggonweb 2 hours ago \| 30 comments
3.		Porsche: The Hedge Fund That Also Made Cars (priceonomics.com)
		70 points by ryan_j_naughton 2 hours ago \| 23 comments
4.		How Verizon's Advertising Header Works (webpolicy.org)
		44 points by jonathanmayer 2 hours ago \| 11 comments
5.		PSA: Don’t Open Random PowerPoint Presentations from Strangers (techcrunch.com)
		35 points by elon_musk 2 hours ago \| 14 comments
6.		The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems [pdf] (ams.org)
		34 points by GFK_of_xmaspast 1 hour ago \| 18 comments
7.		URX (YC S13) is hiring distributed systems engineers to handle terabytes of data (goo.gl)
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8.		Show HN: A midterm test on basic SQL for my journalism class (padjo.org)
		43 points by danso 3 hours ago \| 17 comments
9.		MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin (mit.edu)
		104 points by dpmehta02 5 hours ago \| 55 comments
10.		Why Samsung Knox Isn't Really a Fort Knox (mobilesecurityares.blogspot.com)
		144 points by robin_reala 7 hours ago \| 31 comments
11.		The Beard That Wasn't: Abe Lincoln's Whiskers (theappendix.net)
		27 points by samclemens 2 hours ago \| discuss
12.		Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011) (tratt.net)
		21 points by wslh 2 hours ago \| 2 comments
13.		Now Everyone Wants to Sell You a Magical Anonymity Router (wired.com)
		41 points by cyphersanctus 3 hours ago \| 2 comments
14.		How a computer error helped Deep Blue beat humanity's best chess player (theverge.com)
		22 points by Voodoo463 4 hours ago \| 7 comments
15.		Fountain aims to turn the answers game into a Siri-like smartphone experience (wired.com)
		27 points by ForHackernews 2 hours ago \| 20 comments
16.		The day UFOs stopped play (bbc.com)
		28 points by schrofer 3 hours ago \| 18 comments
17.		The Wacky Geopolitics of ‘Civilization: Beyond Earth’ (washingtonpost.com)
		38 points by benbreen 3 hours ago \| 11 comments
18.		Microsoft's Q1 2015: Surface growing strongly and Lumia sales up (theverge.com)
		19 points by widowlark 4 hours ago \| 6 comments
19.		Reviewing common API Editors (medium.com)
		18 points by orliesaurus 3 hours ago \| 2 comments
20.		Nest Acquires Home Automation Hub Revolv, but Will Stop Selling It (recode.net)
		22 points by Duhck 2 hours ago \| 12 comments
21.		The discovery of Homo floresiensis: Tales of the hobbit (nature.com)
		13 points by Thevet 2 hours ago \| discuss
22.		Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews (teleread.com)
		6 points by suninwinter 42 minutes ago \| 1 comment
23.		Charlie Munger Donates $65M for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara (dailynexus.com)
		48 points by nikitabu 2 hours ago \| 23 comments
24.		Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, Pt. 3 (hypirion.com)
		56 points by JBiserkov 7 hours ago \| 30 comments
25.		The Missing Maps initiative aims to chart slums around the world (newscientist.com)
		10 points by chippy 5 hours ago \| 2 comments
26.		Robot will beam live Moon pictures to Oculus users (bbc.co.uk)
		68 points by charlesmarshall 6 hours ago \| 22 comments
27.		Laura Poitras: ‘Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies’ (washingtonpost.com)
		211 points by Libertatea 6 hours ago \| 70 comments
28.		Workers paid $1.21 an hour to install Fremont tech company's computers (mercurynews.com)
		49 points by velik_m 6 hours ago \| 39 comments
29.		The Halloween Core War Tournament (corewar.co.uk)
		7 points by impomatic 2 hours ago \| 1 comment
30.		AT&T Locks Apple SIM on Activation (apple.com)
		93 points by calvin_c 4 hours ago \| 45 comments
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