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1.		Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know (slate.com)
		92 points by janvdberg 2 hours ago \| 45 comments
2.		I've Been Waiting For The Oculus Rift, But Now It's Sitting In My Closet (forbes.com)
		42 points by r0h1n 2 hours ago \| 28 comments
3.		What Does It Mean to Be Poor in Germany? (spiegel.de)
		270 points by nkurz 10 hours ago \| 157 comments
4.		Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's plan for a household robot (techinsider.io)
		77 points by ilamont 6 hours ago \| 10 comments
5.		The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (economist.com)
		38 points by edward 4 hours ago \| 2 comments
6.		A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a visit to a subsea cable site (arstechnica.com)
		36 points by matan_a 4 hours ago \| 4 comments
7.		Autonomous Plant Watering (monotonous.org)
		59 points by ashitlerferad 5 hours ago \| 20 comments
8.		The all-conquering Wikipedia? (the-tls.co.uk)
		8 points by Petiver 2 hours ago \| discuss
9.		Keeping 1990s Virtual Reality Machines Alive (kotaku.com)
		13 points by evo_9 3 hours ago \| discuss
10.		One reason cable companies won’t willingly compete against each other (washingtonpost.com)
		98 points by r0h1n 7 hours ago \| 73 comments
11.		Boys who live with books ‘earn more as adults’ (theguardian.com)
		19 points by bootload 3 hours ago \| 11 comments
12.		JVM JIT optimization techniques (advancedweb.hu)
		39 points by sashee 5 hours ago \| 18 comments
13.		An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories (smithsonianmag.com)
		30 points by samclemens 4 hours ago \| 27 comments
14.		Interpreting Analog Sticks (hypersect.com)
		77 points by jsnell 8 hours ago \| 5 comments
15.		Two Jet Skiers at Maverick's reef faced deadly 100-foot waves (2007) (sfgate.com)
		15 points by curtis 3 hours ago \| 1 comment
16.		Airport Trains Suck. Will REM Too? (cat-bus.com)
		8 points by luu 2 hours ago \| 6 comments
17.		After Tens of Thousands of Pigeons Vanish, One Comes Back (nationalgeographic.com)
		66 points by srikar 9 hours ago \| 10 comments
18.		Students Build a Glove to Translate Sign Language into English (fastcompany.com)
		35 points by cpeterso 7 hours ago \| 11 comments
19.		The Delightful Perversity of Québec's Catholic Swear Words (atlasobscura.com)
		182 points by auxym 14 hours ago \| 59 comments
20.		Paper Processor – What is fetch, decode, and execute? (sites.google.com)
		62 points by maastaar 8 hours ago \| 13 comments
21.		Writing my first shellcode (0day.work)
		19 points by internetwache 5 hours ago \| 4 comments
22.		The rare primates of “Drill Ranch” (dw.com)
		9 points by nkurz 3 hours ago \| discuss
23.		Ethereum’s $150M DAO Opens as Researchers Call for a Halt (ieee.org)
		154 points by sangfroid 15 hours ago \| 75 comments
24.		Writing an OS in Rust: Catching CPU Exceptions (phil-opp.com)
		145 points by phil-opp 14 hours ago \| 24 comments
25.		The Metamorphosis - What is it like to be an animal? (newyorker.com)
		29 points by kawera 7 hours ago \| 11 comments
26.		What should we learn from past AI forecasts? (openphilanthropy.org)
		51 points by ghosh 9 hours ago \| 19 comments
27.		The Boundaries of Westphalia (cato.org)
		14 points by em3rgent0rdr 5 hours ago \| 1 comment
28.		Microscheme: scheme for the Arduino (microscheme.org)
		43 points by ducklord 10 hours ago \| 7 comments
29.		How Neanderthal DNA Helps Humanity (quantamagazine.org)
		32 points by Geojim 8 hours ago \| 16 comments
30.		The E2 Dynamic Multicore System (microsoft.com)
		18 points by luu 6 hours ago \| 1 comment
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