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1.		Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know (slate.com)
		137 points by janvdberg 3 hours ago \| 71 comments
2.		I've Been Waiting For The Oculus Rift, But Now It's Sitting In My Closet (forbes.com)
		54 points by r0h1n 3 hours ago \| 51 comments
3.		The Liberal Blind Spot (nytimes.com)
		22 points by nkzednan 2 hours ago \| 5 comments
4.		What Does It Mean to Be Poor in Germany? (spiegel.de)
		279 points by nkurz 11 hours ago \| 169 comments
5.		A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a visit to a subsea cable site (arstechnica.com)
		49 points by matan_a 5 hours ago \| 4 comments
6.		One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections Hides Behind This Fence (nytimes.com)
		7 points by bootload 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
7.		Russia has a new robot soldier and it's a little troubling (businessinsider.com)
		8 points by espeed 1 hour ago \| 9 comments
8.		Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's plan for a household robot (techinsider.io)
		87 points by ilamont 7 hours ago \| 14 comments
9.		Keeping 1990s Virtual Reality Machines Alive (kotaku.com)
		20 points by evo_9 4 hours ago \| 1 comment
10.		The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (economist.com)
		43 points by edward 5 hours ago \| 2 comments
11.		One reason cable companies won’t willingly compete against each other (washingtonpost.com)
		103 points by r0h1n 8 hours ago \| 77 comments
12.		Autonomous Plant Watering (monotonous.org)
		62 points by ashitlerferad 6 hours ago \| 19 comments
13.		Boys who live with books ‘earn more as adults’ (theguardian.com)
		23 points by bootload 4 hours ago \| 14 comments
14.		JVM JIT optimization techniques (advancedweb.hu)
		43 points by sashee 6 hours ago \| 19 comments
15.		The all-conquering Wikipedia? (the-tls.co.uk)
		9 points by Petiver 3 hours ago \| 1 comment
16.		Airport Trains Suck. Will REM Too? (cat-bus.com)
		11 points by luu 3 hours ago \| 11 comments
17.		An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories (smithsonianmag.com)
		35 points by samclemens 5 hours ago \| 30 comments
18.		Interpreting Analog Sticks (hypersect.com)
		79 points by jsnell 9 hours ago \| 5 comments
19.		Writing my first shellcode (0day.work)
		28 points by internetwache 6 hours ago \| 6 comments
20.		Harvard Team Takes Major Step Toward Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance (genengnews.com)
		5 points by jseliger 1 hour ago \| discuss
21.		Two Jet Skiers at Maverick's reef faced deadly 100-foot waves (2007) (sfgate.com)
		19 points by curtis 4 hours ago \| 2 comments
22.		After Tens of Thousands of Pigeons Vanish, One Comes Back (nationalgeographic.com)
		68 points by srikar 10 hours ago \| 10 comments
23.		Paper Processor – What is fetch, decode, and execute? (sites.google.com)
		66 points by maastaar 9 hours ago \| 15 comments
24.		Students Build a Glove to Translate Sign Language into English (fastcompany.com)
		39 points by cpeterso 8 hours ago \| 11 comments
25.		The rare primates of “Drill Ranch” (dw.com)
		10 points by nkurz 4 hours ago \| discuss
26.		The Metamorphosis - What is it like to be an animal? (newyorker.com)
		32 points by kawera 8 hours ago \| 11 comments
27.		PyThalesians: Python Open Source Financial Library (github.com)
		4 points by sndean 2 hours ago \| discuss
28.		What should we learn from past AI forecasts? (openphilanthropy.org)
		54 points by ghosh 10 hours ago \| 19 comments
29.		The Boundaries of Westphalia (cato.org)
		16 points by em3rgent0rdr 6 hours ago \| 1 comment
30.		How Neanderthal DNA Helps Humanity (quantamagazine.org)
		35 points by Geojim 9 hours ago \| 18 comments
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