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1.		YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video (youtube-eng.blogspot.com)
		1035 points by derpenxyne on Jan 27, 2015 \| 393 comments
2.		CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow (openwall.com)
		531 points by martius on Jan 27, 2015 \| 241 comments
3.		Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		486 points by twrkit on Jan 27, 2015 \| 276 comments
4.		U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars (wsj.com)
		393 points by dctoedt on Jan 26, 2015 \| 250 comments
5.		Long term support considered harmful (tedunangst.com)
		207 points by luu on Jan 27, 2015 \| 148 comments
6.		Source Code Similarities Between NSA Malware and 'Regin' Trojan (spiegel.de)
		489 points by Libertatea on Jan 27, 2015 \| 191 comments
7.		Main is usually a function – when is it not? (jroweboy.github.io)
		338 points by b0b_d0e on Jan 27, 2015 \| 60 comments
8.		Advancing the realtime web (rethinkdb.com)
		222 points by coffeemug on Jan 27, 2015 \| 48 comments
9.		Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results (apple.com)
		262 points by antr on Jan 27, 2015 \| 358 comments
10.		Luna – Hack your sleep (lunasleep.com)
		347 points by maghis on Jan 27, 2015 \| 151 comments
11.		Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds (lwn.net)
		190 points by meskio on Jan 26, 2015 \| 33 comments
12.		Chess game in 487 bytes – new record (pouet.net)
		177 points by jamesbrownuhh on Jan 27, 2015 \| 51 comments
13.		Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends (vivaldi.com)
		352 points by vetler on Jan 27, 2015 \| 250 comments
14.		From 0 to $1B – Slack's Founder Shares Their Launch Strategy (firstround.com)
		255 points by zt on Jan 27, 2015 \| 93 comments
15.		Show HN: Ultra, a Leiningen plugin for a superior development environment (github.com/venantius)
		144 points by venantius on Jan 27, 2015 \| 18 comments
16.		Facebook was down (facebook.com)
		325 points by sgloutnikov on Jan 27, 2015 \| 265 comments
17.		Yahoo to Spin Off Its Stake in Alibaba (nytimes.com)
		136 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 27, 2015 \| 80 comments
18.		That Didn’t Need to Take an Hour (feld.com)
		176 points by mooreds on Jan 27, 2015 \| 52 comments
19.		Wake No More – The exhausting world of the hypersomniac (medium.com/matter)
		159 points by interkats on Jan 26, 2015 \| 29 comments
20.		Lodash v3.0.0 (lodash.com)
		245 points by gitspirit on Jan 27, 2015 \| 79 comments
21.		John Carmack's adolescent years (2003) (books.google.com)
		144 points by danso on Jan 27, 2015 \| 77 comments
22.		The Fight to Save Japan’s Young Shut-Ins (wsj.com)
		118 points by executive on Jan 26, 2015 \| 76 comments
23.		Valve Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Finance Minister of Greece (bloomberg.com)
		272 points by Jacqued on Jan 27, 2015 \| 157 comments
24.		Visualizing AWS Storage with Real-Time Latency Spectrograms (sysdigcloud.com)
		109 points by degio on Jan 27, 2015 \| 16 comments
25.		Elite's crazy tokenized string routine (xania.org)
		88 points by luu on Jan 26, 2015 \| 17 comments
26.		COMSEC: Beyond Encryption [pdf] (grugq.github.io)
		94 points by grugq on Jan 27, 2015 \| 51 comments
27.		Inside the Tragic, Obsessive World of Video Game Addicts (vice.com)
		112 points by Thevet on Jan 27, 2015 \| 73 comments
28.		“Another World” Code Review (2011) (fabiensanglard.net)
		81 points by StylifyYourBlog on Jan 27, 2015 \| 13 comments
29.		Immutability Changes Everything [pdf] (cidrdb.org)
		90 points by jpmc on Jan 27, 2015 \| 25 comments
30.		Nvidia GeForce GTX 970: Correcting the Specs and Exploring Memory Allocation (anandtech.com)
		88 points by wtallis on Jan 27, 2015 \| 43 comments
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