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1.		Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World (techcrunch.com)
		720 points by pearlsteinj on Feb 1, 2016 \| 419 comments
2.		15 years of VLC and VideoLAN (jbkempf.com)
		585 points by bpierre on Feb 1, 2016 \| 149 comments
3.		Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode (betanews.com)
		686 points by fgeorgy on Feb 1, 2016 \| 213 comments
4.		Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units (reuters.com)
		351 points by uptown on Feb 1, 2016 \| 301 comments
5.		Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime” (openwall.com)
		321 points by mrb on Feb 1, 2016 \| 191 comments
6.		How we use Slack in our family (earthpeople.se)
		383 points by fjallstrom on Feb 1, 2016 \| 115 comments
7.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
		455 points by whoishiring on Feb 1, 2016 \| 787 comments
8.		GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3 (github.com/blog)
		249 points by richerlariviere on Feb 1, 2016 \| 115 comments
9.		Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client (shout-irc.com)
		222 points by rocky1138 on Feb 1, 2016 \| 62 comments
10.		Huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf (github.com/cantino)
		264 points by metachris on Feb 1, 2016 \| 44 comments
11.		Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers (addons.mozilla.org)
		281 points by throwaway2048 on Feb 1, 2016 \| 111 comments
12.		How convolutional neural networks see the world (keras.io)
		214 points by makmanalp on Jan 31, 2016 \| 49 comments
13.		Show HN: Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library (kushagragour.in)
		253 points by chinchang on Feb 1, 2016 \| 62 comments
14.		Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center (projectnatick.com)
		202 points by Qworg on Feb 1, 2016 \| 156 comments
15.		Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)
		612 points by ipozgaj on Feb 1, 2016 \| 380 comments
16.		Treasure in a Cornfield (imgur.com)
		276 points by aaron695 on Jan 31, 2016 \| 55 comments
17.		Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe (elms.wordpress.com)
		137 points by fforflo on Feb 1, 2016 \| 48 comments
18.		Deploying a Haskell Web Service with Nix (jezenthomas.com)
		120 points by yakshaving_jgt on Feb 1, 2016 \| 23 comments
19.		Deep Learning Tutorial by Y. LeCun and Y. Bengio (research.microsoft.com)
		189 points by Anon84 on Jan 31, 2016 \| 8 comments
20.		How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections (support.mozilla.org)
		174 points by bsilvereagle on Feb 1, 2016 \| 27 comments
21.		Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some Professions (wsj.com)
		110 points by luu on Feb 1, 2016 \| 146 comments
22.		The maths of the paper disproving conspiracy theories don't add up (littleatoms.com)
		107 points by r0muald on Jan 31, 2016 \| 60 comments
23.		Super Mario Wallpaper Maker (nintendo.co.jp)
		125 points by pdknsk on Feb 1, 2016 \| 20 comments
24.		Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
		349 points by kalzium on Feb 1, 2016 \| 535 comments
25.		Show HN: Wired Logic – a pixel-based logic simulator (github.com/martinkirsche)
		176 points by mkirsche on Jan 31, 2016 \| 15 comments
26.		The Wreck of Amtrak 188 (nytimes.com)
		126 points by danso on Jan 31, 2016 \| 106 comments
27.		Show HN: GraphvizAnim, a tool to create animated graphs, based on graphviz (github.com/mapio)
		70 points by mapio on Feb 1, 2016 \| 18 comments
28.		How Hamming codes work (datagenetics.com)
		145 points by squeakynick on Jan 31, 2016 \| 10 comments
29.		Currency War: U.S. Hedge Funds Mount New Attacks on China's Yuan (wsj.com)
		113 points by yulunli on Feb 1, 2016 \| 144 comments
30.		In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (custodians.online)
		176 points by atondwal on Feb 1, 2016 \| 25 comments
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