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31.Technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air (nottingham.ac.uk)
121 points by Shivetya on Aug 12, 2013 | 67 comments
32.Android is better (paulstamatiou.com)
120 points by PStamatiou on Aug 12, 2013 | 40 comments
33.BlackBerry puts itself up for sale (theglobeandmail.com)
112 points by uladzislau on Aug 12, 2013 | 110 comments
34.The NSA-DEA police state tango (salon.com)
114 points by rosser on Aug 12, 2013 | 29 comments
35.Spy access to NZ used as bargaining tool (nzherald.co.nz)
109 points by Andome on Aug 12, 2013 | 31 comments
36.No HTML needed (kojika17.com)
99 points by jasoncartwright on Aug 12, 2013 | 45 comments
37.City of London calls halt to smartphone tracking bins (bbc.co.uk)
100 points by evilstreak on Aug 12, 2013 | 38 comments
38.Show HN: My new domain search tool (shortdomainsearch.net)
95 points by chaosmachine on Aug 12, 2013 | 57 comments
39.Windows 8.1 Bing passes local PC searches to advertisers (computerworld.com)
96 points by tanglesome on Aug 12, 2013 | 45 comments
40.Messaging as a programming model (eventuallyconsistent.net)
96 points by pcdevils on Aug 12, 2013 | 22 comments
41.Cap'n Proto v0.2: Compiler rewritten from Haskell to C++11 (kentonv.github.io)
84 points by kentonv on Aug 12, 2013 | 46 comments
42.Etcd v0.1.0 release (coreos.com)
83 points by polvi on Aug 12, 2013 | 28 comments
43.Rust's new documentation generator: 95% done (mail.mozilla.org)
80 points by cmrx64 on Aug 12, 2013 | 28 comments
44.1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools (bullittcountyhistory.com)
78 points by daegloe on Aug 12, 2013 | 102 comments
45.APL in JavaScript (ngn.github.io)
77 points by smanuel on Aug 12, 2013 | 17 comments
46.Stop Thinking That Tech Hacks Are the Solution to Our Surveillance Woes (wired.com)
78 points by rvschuilenburg on Aug 12, 2013 | 40 comments
47.Code documentation written as code (github.com/adambard)
76 points by logvol on Aug 12, 2013 | 12 comments
48.NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access): An Overview (acm.org)
75 points by llambda on Aug 12, 2013 | 19 comments
49.Elon Musk to outline 'Hyperloop' idea (bbc.co.uk)
76 points by morphics on Aug 12, 2013 | 40 comments
50.Casetext (YC S13): New Angle on Legal Research With Wikipedia-Style Annotations (techcrunch.com)
68 points by joannahuey on Aug 12, 2013 | 23 comments
51.Introducing Daala part 3: Time/Frequency Resolution Switching (xiph.org)
65 points by xiphmont on Aug 12, 2013 | 2 comments
52.Why Tipping Should (And May) Be Made Illegal (jayporter.com)
60 points by signed0 on Aug 12, 2013 | 88 comments
53.How Cold War nuclear testing once made orbit unsafe for Apollo (arstechnica.com)
58 points by llambda on Aug 12, 2013 | 23 comments
54.Hackermeter (YC S13) Wants To Kill Your Résumé And Replace It With A High Score (techcrunch.com)
57 points by rjvir on Aug 12, 2013 | 57 comments
55.Bridging Economics and Data Science (medium.com/about-data)
53 points by calcsam on Aug 12, 2013 | 23 comments
56.ZTE Will Soon Start Sales of Firefox OS Phones on eBay (blog.mozilla.org)
53 points by abrowne on Aug 12, 2013 | 17 comments
57.Experiment: To work primarily on an iPad for a week (inkmobility.com)
52 points by ananddass on Aug 12, 2013 | 59 comments
58. [dupe] Mio: A High-Performance Multicore IO Manager for GHC (yale.edu)
49 points by m0nastic on Aug 12, 2013 | 6 comments
59.Teaching Programming the Way It Works Outside the Classroom (acm.org)
47 points by gkuan on Aug 12, 2013 | 16 comments
60.Hyper Social is Dying (medium.com/i-m-h-o)
48 points by williamldennis on Aug 12, 2013 | 58 comments

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