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1.		Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO (buzzfeed.com)
		581 points by philip1209 on Feb 9, 2016 \| 232 comments
2.		Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year (github.com/jbranchaud)
		819 points by jbranchaud on Feb 9, 2016 \| 150 comments
3.		Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns (nasdaq.com)
		438 points by praneshp on Feb 9, 2016 \| 145 comments
4.		Gmail Will Warn If Message Is Not Authenticated/Encrypted (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
		450 points by AdmiralAsshat on Feb 9, 2016 \| 209 comments
5.		Olbers’ Paradox: Why Is the Sky Dark at Night? (2000) (amnh.org)
		264 points by fauria on Feb 9, 2016 \| 143 comments
6.		Why Stack Overflow Doesn’t Care About Ad Blockers (stackoverflow.com)
		395 points by smacktoward on Feb 9, 2016 \| 165 comments
7.		Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents (vice.com)
		356 points by molecule on Feb 9, 2016 \| 171 comments
8.		Diff So Fancy: make Git diffs look good (github.com/stevemao)
		270 points by aram on Feb 8, 2016 \| 107 comments
9.		We're ditching the office completely (buffer.com)
		337 points by open-source-ux on Feb 9, 2016 \| 255 comments
10.		GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter (gnu.io)
		373 points by striking on Feb 9, 2016 \| 252 comments
11.		Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration (amazon.com)
		441 points by dshankar on Feb 9, 2016 \| 177 comments
12.		Nginx 1.9.11 with Dynamic Modules (nginx.org)
		201 points by Nekit1234007 on Feb 9, 2016 \| 59 comments
13.		Parse 2.0 (medium.com/newfosco)
		217 points by gfosco on Feb 8, 2016 \| 48 comments
14.		Is Redlock Safe? Reply to Redlock Analysis (antirez.com)
		181 points by antirez on Feb 9, 2016 \| 135 comments
15.		Will Bond (Package Control) Joins Sublime HQ (sublimetext.com)
		304 points by dmart on Feb 9, 2016 \| 88 comments
16.		How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking (wired.com)
		249 points by rschroed on Feb 8, 2016 \| 376 comments
17.		Feynman’s proof of the Maxwell equations (fermatslibrary.com)
		115 points by luisb on Feb 9, 2016 \| 29 comments
18.		GPS error caused '12 hours of problems' for companies (bbc.com)
		96 points by majke on Feb 9, 2016 \| 38 comments
19.		Jepsen: RethinkDB 2.2.3 reconfiguration (aphyr.com)
		167 points by emidln on Feb 9, 2016 \| 13 comments
20.		Show HN: The Deadlock Empire – Slay dragons, master concurrency (deadlockempire.github.io)
		269 points by prvak on Feb 9, 2016 \| 30 comments
21.		Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away (fail0verflow.com)
		118 points by axoltl on Feb 9, 2016 \| 22 comments
22.		Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer (ucla.edu)
		130 points by dstein64 on Feb 9, 2016 \| 27 comments
23.		A lambda is not necessarily a closure (wingolog.org)
		94 points by davexunit on Feb 8, 2016 \| 60 comments
24.		Erlang Scheduler Details and Why They Matter (hamidreza-s.github.io)
		188 points by hamidreza-s on Feb 9, 2016 \| 30 comments
25.		LinkedIn dark patterns, or why your friends keep spamming you to sign up for it (medium.com/danrschlosser)
		211 points by wfunction on Feb 9, 2016 \| 69 comments
26.		The Key to Higher Quality is Higher Quantity (medium.com/the-business-of-living)
		99 points by 0x54MUR41 on Feb 8, 2016 \| 56 comments
27.		Why don’t identical twins have identical fingerprints? (epfl.ch)
		77 points by fgeorgy on Feb 9, 2016 \| 33 comments
28.		How Do Genetic Algorithms Work? [video] (youtube.com)
		75 points by henning on Feb 9, 2016 \| 13 comments
29.		The Reality of Missing Out (stratechery.com)
		147 points by rememberlenny on Feb 9, 2016 \| 46 comments
30.		Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment (djangoproject.com)
		352 points by intellectronica on Feb 9, 2016 \| 119 comments
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