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31. Richard Attenborough dies aged 90 (bbc.co.uk)
57 points by sturadnidge on Aug 24, 2014 | 6 comments
32. MIT study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders (newsoffice.mit.edu)
60 points by sgy on Aug 24, 2014 | 33 comments
33. Swift is a lot like Scala (leverich.github.io)
62 points by javinpaul on Aug 24, 2014 | 50 comments
34. Obama orders review of US police use of military hardware (reuters.com)
56 points by anigbrowl on Aug 24, 2014 | 51 comments
35. The Parable of the Perfect Connection (janestreet.com)
50 points by yminsky on Aug 24, 2014 | 4 comments
36. Exploring Racket for Computational Science (khinsen.wordpress.com)
49 points by dil8 on Aug 24, 2014 | 4 comments
37. Behind the App: The Story of Alfred (lifehacker.com)
50 points by srikar on Aug 24, 2014 | 7 comments
38. Two Countries, Two Vastly Different Phone Bills (nytimes.com)
49 points by fideloper on Aug 24, 2014 | 65 comments
39. Shifts in Algorithm Design (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
47 points by mzehrer on Aug 24, 2014 | 3 comments
40. Fields Medals 2014: the maths of Avila, Bhargava, Hairer, and Mirzakhani (theguardian.com)
46 points by akbarnama on Aug 24, 2014
41. Doom3 in Ada (plus.google.com)
46 points by tosh on Aug 24, 2014 | 5 comments
42. Japanese companies seek international graduates (nytimes.com)
46 points by ylem on Aug 24, 2014 | 32 comments
43. Intel memory ordering, fence instructions, and atomic operations (2009) (peeterjoot.wordpress.com)
45 points by luu on Aug 24, 2014 | 7 comments
44. What We See When We Read (theparisreview.org)
43 points by dnetesn on Aug 24, 2014 | 9 comments
45. Reverse-engineering censorship in China [pdf] (gking.harvard.edu)
43 points by justincormack on Aug 24, 2014 | 4 comments
46. Deliberate Practice and Performance: A Meta-Analysis [pdf] (scottbarrykaufman.com)
42 points by BobbyVsTheDevil on Aug 24, 2014 | 15 comments
47. John F. Akers, 79, Dies; Led IBM as PCs Ascended (nytimes.com)
39 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 24, 2014 | 1 comment
48. Sandboxed applications for Gnome, part 2 (gnome.org)
42 points by catern on Aug 24, 2014 | 19 comments
49. Relaxed-Memory Concurrency (cam.ac.uk)
41 points by luu on Aug 24, 2014 | 1 comment
50. Tire makers race to turn dandelions into rubber (reuters.com)
38 points by ximeng on Aug 24, 2014 | 9 comments
51. Why Are PC Sales Up and Tablet Sales Down? (techcrunch.com)
35 points by bane on Aug 24, 2014 | 71 comments
52. Truth We Won't Admit: Drinking Is Healthy (psmag.com)
34 points by acangiano on Aug 24, 2014 | 19 comments
53. Fortune's Child (laphamsquarterly.org)
32 points by drjohnson on Aug 24, 2014 | 6 comments
54. Opsmatic (opsmatic.com)
34 points by coder2222 on Aug 24, 2014 | 3 comments
55. Neural Network FAQ (vikasing.github.io)
32 points by mutor on Aug 24, 2014
56. How to Get Girls into Engineering? Let Them Build Toys (wsj.com)
35 points by sonabinu on Aug 24, 2014 | 49 comments
57. XREPL: eXtended REPL (racket-lang.org)
28 points by networked on Aug 24, 2014 | 16 comments
58. Flatley's Law: The Company Speeding A Genetic Revolution (forbes.com/sites/matthewherper)
30 points by NnamdiJr on Aug 24, 2014 | 7 comments
59. Do Object-Oriented Languages Need Special Hardware Support? (1995) [pdf] (ucsb.edu)
29 points by luu on Aug 24, 2014 | 12 comments
60. [dupe] VidFall.com – Pay with your time, not your wallet (vidfall.com)
22 points by badgercapital on Aug 24, 2014 | 18 comments

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