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1.		Box Breathing (quietkit.com)
		625 points by mkempe on Jan 28, 2017 \| 127 comments
2.		Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order (thehill.com)
		664 points by anarazel on Jan 29, 2017 \| 358 comments
3.		Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled (chromium.org)
		446 points by ivank on Jan 29, 2017 \| 285 comments
4.		New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code (sciencealert.com)
		275 points by walterbell on Jan 29, 2017 \| 145 comments
5.		Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO (theverge.com)
		685 points by _pius on Jan 29, 2017 \| 348 comments
6.		Houdini was an inventor, but didn't want anybody to know (smithsonianmag.com)
		231 points by whatami on Jan 29, 2017 \| 29 comments
7.		Typing Practice for Programmers (speedcoder.net)
		346 points by kryptos1 on Jan 29, 2017 \| 166 comments
8.		Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running computer (cpushack.com)
		219 points by protomyth on Jan 29, 2017 \| 123 comments
9.		Ruby terminal apps toolkit (piotrmurach.github.io)
		285 points by pmurach on Jan 28, 2017 \| 50 comments
10.		Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US (twitter.com/bchesky)
		359 points by peapod91 on Jan 29, 2017 \| 135 comments
11.		The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity (newyorker.com)
		250 points by mathgenius on Jan 29, 2017 \| 114 comments
12.		Comcast uses MITM JavaScript injection to serve account related information (privateinternetaccess.com)
		219 points by Deinos on Jan 29, 2017 \| 56 comments
13.		Trunk-Based Development (trunkbaseddevelopment.com)
		199 points by solarengineer on Jan 29, 2017 \| 205 comments
14.		Godot Game Engine – Tutorial Series (gamefromscratch.com)
		193 points by generic_user on Jan 29, 2017 \| 27 comments
15.		How to Unlock Netflix Hidden Categories (thebrotalk.com)
		213 points by joker87 on Jan 29, 2017 \| 39 comments
16.		SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition (slashdot.org)
		211 points by MilnerRoute on Jan 29, 2017 \| 72 comments
17.		Does Not Work (importblogkit.com)
		121 points by jjuhl on Jan 28, 2017 \| 62 comments
18.		Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms (thelocal.at)
		288 points by lando2319 on Jan 29, 2017 \| 108 comments
19.		Free Range VHDL – VHDL programming book available for free (freerangefactory.org)
		101 points by EvgeniyZh on Jan 29, 2017 \| 52 comments
20.		The Post-Snowden Cyber Arms Hustle (bloomberg.com)
		125 points by pier0 on Jan 29, 2017 \| 6 comments
21.		Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change (oracle-base.com)
		194 points by phonon on Jan 29, 2017 \| 234 comments
22.		Mcasm – A Microcode Assembler (bedroomlan.org)
		84 points by jsnell on Jan 29, 2017 \| 15 comments
23.		How companies should treat their most enthusiastic customers (economist.com)
		99 points by ad on Jan 29, 2017 \| 16 comments
24.		Microplastics found in supermarket fish, shellfish (cbc.ca)
		183 points by rhschan on Jan 28, 2017 \| 61 comments
25.		PDP-10/its: Incompatible Timesharing System (github.com/pdp-10)
		121 points by protomyth on Jan 29, 2017 \| 50 comments
26.		Speak IPA – Text to Speech for International Phonetic Alphabet (bearbin.net)
		102 points by bearbin on Jan 29, 2017 \| 40 comments
27.		ClojureScript 1.9.456, Externs Inference and Comprehensive JavaScript Modules (groups.google.com)
		166 points by tosh on Jan 29, 2017 \| 16 comments
28.		What Is the Oldest Computer Program Still in Use? (technologyreview.com)
		138 points by amalantony06 on Jan 29, 2017 \| 84 comments
29.		Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing (numerical.recipes)
		119 points by brudgers on Jan 29, 2017 \| 50 comments
30.		Designing for failure (lwn.net)
		97 points by jsnell on Jan 29, 2017 \| 7 comments
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