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1.		Fellowship V2 (blog.ycombinator.com)
		383 points by philip1209 on Jan 26, 2016 \| 141 comments
2.		Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement (twitter.com/gavinjoyce)
		544 points by ishtu on Jan 26, 2016 \| 174 comments
3.		It’s Time to Open Up the GPU (gpuopen.com)
		459 points by jdub on Jan 26, 2016 \| 93 comments
4.		Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind Lectures (ocw.mit.edu)
		322 points by _pius on Jan 26, 2016 \| 6 comments
5.		Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008) (media.mit.edu)
		476 points by joaorico on Jan 26, 2016 \| 167 comments
6.		Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement (washingtonpost.com)
		401 points by nols on Jan 26, 2016 \| 298 comments
7.		A Badass Way to Connect Programs Together (joearms.github.io)
		351 points by norswap on Jan 26, 2016 \| 145 comments
8.		More evidence emerges for 'transmissible Alzheimer's' theory (nature.com)
		171 points by randomname2 on Jan 26, 2016 \| 33 comments
9.		From Python to Lua: Why We Switched (distelli.com)
		243 points by chase202 on Jan 26, 2016 \| 188 comments
10.		Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++ (zdnet.com)
		319 points by ingve on Jan 26, 2016 \| 331 comments
11.		HTTPS provides more than just privacy (certsimple.com)
		211 points by nailer on Jan 26, 2016 \| 83 comments
12.		Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite Sites (blog.mozilla.org)
		203 points by e15ctr0n on Jan 26, 2016 \| 98 comments
13.		“No Cost” License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Debt Collectors (eff.org)
		285 points by DiabloD3 on Jan 26, 2016 \| 194 comments
14.		OneOps – Open-source cloud ops platform from Walmart (oneops.com)
		131 points by numo16 on Jan 26, 2016 \| 79 comments
15.		Why OCaml? [video] (janestreet.com)
		134 points by arto on Jan 26, 2016 \| 76 comments
16.		Feynman’s Derivation of the Schrödinger Equation (fermatslibrary.com)
		153 points by luisb on Jan 26, 2016 \| 40 comments
17.		The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 Game, Part 1 (2015) (retrogamescollector.com)
		113 points by erickhill on Jan 26, 2016 \| 4 comments
18.		Marvin Minsky – Web of Stories (webofstories.com)
		104 points by dstein64 on Jan 26, 2016 \| 3 comments
19.		Why BPG will replace GIFs and more (eek.ro)
		173 points by antouank on Jan 26, 2016 \| 117 comments
20.		The unintentional side-effects of a bad concurrency model (joearms.github.io)
		91 points by davidw on Jan 26, 2016 \| 24 comments
21.		A.I. (1981) (newyorker.com)
		124 points by kercker on Jan 26, 2016 \| 10 comments
22.		How We Automate Our Infrastructure (segment.com)
		124 points by lambtron on Jan 25, 2016 \| 28 comments
23.		Windows 10 Privilege Escalation via Dolby's DAX2_API Service (obscurechannel.com)
		88 points by x42 on Jan 26, 2016 \| 23 comments
24.		From SMM to userland in a few bytes (scumjr.github.io)
		57 points by colinprince on Jan 26, 2016
25.		SoundCloud Will Be Worth More Than Spotify (techcrunch.com)
		100 points by Garbage on Jan 25, 2016 \| 39 comments
26.		Python to OCaml: Retrospective (roscidus.com)
		196 points by antouank on Jan 26, 2016 \| 55 comments
27.		A VR Cycling Experience for $40 (pauldyan.wordpress.com)
		122 points by smokeAndMirrors on Jan 26, 2016 \| 73 comments
28.		Why do people put on differing amounts of weight? (bbc.co.uk)
		183 points by soupangel on Jan 26, 2016 \| 146 comments
29.		Marvin Minsky: Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (1961) [pdf] (worrydream.com)
		107 points by joaorico on Jan 26, 2016 \| 1 comment
30.		Updated Firefox Security Indicators (blog.mozilla.org)
		129 points by robin_reala on Jan 26, 2016 \| 89 comments
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