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1.		Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know (slate.com)
		172 points by janvdberg 4 hours ago \| 90 comments
2.		What Does It Mean to Be Poor in Germany? (spiegel.de)
		292 points by nkurz 12 hours ago \| 195 comments
3.		A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a visit to a subsea cable site (arstechnica.com)
		61 points by matan_a 6 hours ago \| 6 comments
4.		Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's plan for a household robot (techinsider.io)
		101 points by ilamont 8 hours ago \| 15 comments
5.		Scientists say they have created a new platform for antibiotic discovery (genengnews.com)
		13 points by jseliger 2 hours ago \| discuss
6.		Keeping 1990s Virtual Reality Machines Alive (kotaku.com)
		26 points by evo_9 5 hours ago \| 1 comment
7.		The Geneva Free Port is crammed with storage vaults that contain great art (nytimes.com)
		9 points by bootload 2 hours ago \| 1 comment
8.		I've Been Waiting For The Oculus Rift, But Now It's Sitting In My Closet (forbes.com)
		67 points by r0h1n 4 hours ago \| 79 comments
9.		The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (economist.com)
		46 points by edward 6 hours ago \| 3 comments
10.		One reason cable companies won’t willingly compete against each other (washingtonpost.com)
		108 points by r0h1n 9 hours ago \| 83 comments
11.		Autonomous Plant Watering (monotonous.org)
		65 points by ashitlerferad 7 hours ago \| 21 comments
12.		Boys who live with books ‘earn more as adults’ (theguardian.com)
		29 points by bootload 5 hours ago \| 18 comments
13.		JVM JIT optimization techniques (advancedweb.hu)
		46 points by sashee 7 hours ago \| 20 comments
14.		Interpreting Analog Sticks (hypersect.com)
		80 points by jsnell 10 hours ago \| 5 comments
15.		An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories (smithsonianmag.com)
		37 points by samclemens 6 hours ago \| 36 comments
16.		Two Jet Skiers at Maverick's reef faced deadly 100-foot waves (2007) (sfgate.com)
		21 points by curtis 5 hours ago \| 5 comments
17.		PyThalesians: Python Open Source Financial Library (github.com)
		10 points by sndean 3 hours ago \| discuss
18.		After Tens of Thousands of Pigeons Vanish, One Comes Back (nationalgeographic.com)
		71 points by srikar 11 hours ago \| 10 comments
19.		The all-conquering Wikipedia? (the-tls.co.uk)
		10 points by Petiver 4 hours ago \| 4 comments
20.		Writing my first shellcode (0day.work)
		31 points by internetwache 7 hours ago \| 6 comments
21.		Paper Processor – What is fetch, decode, and execute? (sites.google.com)
		69 points by maastaar 10 hours ago \| 15 comments
22.		Students Build a Glove to Translate Sign Language into English (fastcompany.com)
		43 points by cpeterso 9 hours ago \| 11 comments
23.		Airport Trains Suck. Will REM Too? (cat-bus.com)
		13 points by luu 4 hours ago \| 18 comments
24.		The Metamorphosis - What is it like to be an animal? (newyorker.com)
		33 points by kawera 9 hours ago \| 12 comments
25.		The rare primates of “Drill Ranch” (dw.com)
		11 points by nkurz 5 hours ago \| discuss
26.		What should we learn from past AI forecasts? (openphilanthropy.org)
		55 points by ghosh 11 hours ago \| 21 comments
27.		Microscheme: scheme for the Arduino (microscheme.org)
		47 points by ducklord 12 hours ago \| 9 comments
28.		How Neanderthal DNA Helps Humanity (quantamagazine.org)
		36 points by Geojim 10 hours ago \| 18 comments
29.		The Boundaries of Westphalia (cato.org)
		17 points by em3rgent0rdr 7 hours ago \| 2 comments
30.		The E2 Dynamic Multicore System (microsoft.com)
		21 points by luu 8 hours ago \| 1 comment
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