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1.
Japan Keeps This Defunct Train Station Running for Just One Passenger (citylab.com)
606 points by hudibras on Jan 9, 2016 | 191 comments
2.
Nvidia GPUs can break Chrome's incognito mode (charliehorse55.wordpress.com)
474 points by charliehorse55 on Jan 9, 2016 | 166 comments
3.
Show HN: I've made a tool to generate beautiful gradient background images (quasi.ink)
448 points by tiborsaas on Jan 9, 2016 | 94 comments
4.
802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (wi-fi.org)
207 points by sengork on Jan 9, 2016 | 105 comments
5.
Why I Write Games in C (jonathanwhiting.com)
279 points by ingve on Jan 9, 2016 | 298 comments
6.
Hacker Monthly Shuts Down (hackermonthly.com)
241 points by quanganhdo on Jan 9, 2016 | 79 comments
7.
Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security Agency (reuters.com)
168 points by molteanu on Jan 9, 2016 | 40 comments
8.
Forbes asked readers to turn off adblockers then immediately served them malware (engadget.com)
365 points by temp on Jan 9, 2016 | 151 comments
9.
Lyft defies predictions by continuing to grow as a rival to Uber (latimes.com)
179 points by gwintrob on Jan 8, 2016 | 149 comments
10.
Netflix's async sendfile now in FreeBSD-current (freebsd.org)
179 points by drewg123 on Jan 9, 2016 | 28 comments
11.
Show HN: A decentralized social network with end-to-end encryption (github.com/mschultheiss)
167 points by mschultheiss on Jan 8, 2016 | 61 comments
12.
An Easy Way to Learn Hard Stuff (medium.com/learning-new-stuff)
186 points by mrborgen on Jan 9, 2016 | 48 comments
13.
Google Genomics: store, process, explore and share genomic data (cloud.google.com)
162 points by fitzwatermellow on Jan 9, 2016 | 53 comments
14.
Why I will be using RISC-V in my next chip (adapteva.com)
158 points by adapteva on Jan 8, 2016 | 97 comments
15.
Fast Servers (sdf1.org)
146 points by mr_tyzik on Jan 9, 2016 | 53 comments
16.
How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (2014) (sumall.com)
163 points by yanowitz on Jan 9, 2016 | 78 comments
17.
Be your own video hoster with Docker and Nginx (datarhei.github.io)
118 points by betablocker on Jan 9, 2016 | 30 comments
18.
Smashing the Z/OS LE "Daisy" Chain for Fun and Cease and Desist Letters (reddit.com)
99 points by luu on Jan 9, 2016 | 9 comments
19.
Exxo – build portable Python binaries (github.com/mbachry)
74 points by whalesalad on Jan 9, 2016 | 11 comments
20.
Analysis of Software Architectures (firatatagun.com)
111 points by fatagun on Jan 9, 2016 | 37 comments
21.
Why I'm joining the Dart Team (medium.com/filiph)
157 points by wstrange on Jan 8, 2016 | 131 comments
22.
What is the performance impact of using int64_t on 32-bit systems? (stackoverflow.com)
72 points by networked on Jan 9, 2016 | 30 comments
23.
How Ants Find Food (2003) (sourceforge.net)
53 points by ycmbntrthrwaway on Jan 8, 2016 | 5 comments
24.
Reverse engineering the VW electronic control unit (lwn.net)
123 points by oska on Jan 9, 2016 | 25 comments
25.
“My tires have RFID tags in them. Yours probably do also” (twitter.com/jgamblin)
118 points by aburan28 on Jan 9, 2016 | 84 comments
26.
How the Bitcoin protocol actually works (2013) (michaelnielsen.org)
81 points by dsr12 on Jan 9, 2016 | 4 comments
27.
Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives (2011) (lwn.net)
62 points by edward on Jan 9, 2016 | 17 comments
28.
How Qantas Ferried an Engine on the Wing of a 747 (flightradar24.com)
126 points by bootload on Jan 9, 2016 | 25 comments
29.
RustBelt: Logical Foundations for the Future of Safe Systems Programming (mpi-sws.org)
98 points by ingve on Jan 8, 2016 | 16 comments
30.
Long range forecast (antipope.org)
74 points by stakent on Jan 9, 2016 | 53 comments

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