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1.		Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case (bloomberg.com)
		888 points by sbuk on Feb 25, 2016 \| 240 comments
2.		What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (nytimes.com)
		667 points by aarghh on Feb 25, 2016 \| 263 comments
3.		Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS (air.mozilla.org)
		646 points by bpierre on Feb 25, 2016 \| 222 comments
4.		Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack (nytimes.com)
		620 points by rquantz on Feb 24, 2016 \| 401 comments
5.		Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience (brembs.net)
		525 points by ingve on Feb 25, 2016 \| 157 comments
6.		What Does It Take to Be a ‘Best-Selling Author’? $3 and 5 Minutes (observer.com)
		454 points by hullo on Feb 25, 2016 \| 91 comments
7.		GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux (sfconservancy.org)
		252 points by dwc on Feb 25, 2016 \| 261 comments
8.		Making GitLab faster (about.gitlab.com)
		215 points by sytse on Feb 25, 2016 \| 48 comments
9.		“Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal combustion engines work (anl.gov)
		166 points by Oatseller on Feb 25, 2016 \| 138 comments
10.		Scientists track down the source of mysterious radio bursts (washingtonpost.com)
		117 points by wglb on Feb 25, 2016 \| 28 comments
11.		Google launches voice typing in Google Docs (googledocs.blogspot.com)
		331 points by nandaja on Feb 25, 2016 \| 130 comments
12.		Just Landed Is Shutting Down (medium.com/jongrall)
		215 points by vsbuffalo on Feb 25, 2016 \| 133 comments
13.		Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation (wikimedia.org)
		184 points by mattl on Feb 25, 2016 \| 81 comments
14.		KeeWeb: Unofficial KeePass web and desktop client (github.com/antelle)
		265 points by floriangosse on Feb 25, 2016 \| 119 comments
15.		Swift Ported to Android (github.com/apple)
		252 points by adamjernst on Feb 25, 2016 \| 140 comments
16.		Statement from the Tor Project Re: The Court's Feb. 23 Order in U.S. v. Farrell (torproject.org)
		82 points by jakobdabo on Feb 25, 2016 \| 19 comments
17.		The Lisp Curse (2011) (winestockwebdesign.com)
		194 points by jlturner on Feb 25, 2016 \| 303 comments
18.		C-API Support update (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		91 points by wclax04 on Feb 25, 2016 \| 11 comments
19.		Sharp Agrees to $6.2B Bailout from Foxconn, Nikkei Says (bloomberg.com)
		120 points by ytch on Feb 25, 2016 \| 22 comments
20.		Voice Recognition and Text to Speech in Python (ggulati.wordpress.com)
		192 points by ggulati on Feb 25, 2016 \| 50 comments
21.		How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented (theatlantic.com)
		155 points by BWStearns on Feb 23, 2016 \| 54 comments
22.		I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		270 points by compsciphd on Feb 25, 2016 \| 84 comments
23.		PadMapper (YC S10) is Joining Zumper (padmapper.com)
		133 points by ericd on Feb 25, 2016 \| 66 comments
24.		TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Dismantled in Secret (truepublica.org.uk)
		408 points by walterbell on Feb 25, 2016 \| 200 comments
25.		Practical Attacks against Deep Learning Systems using Adversarial Examples (arxiv.org)
		98 points by Houshalter on Feb 23, 2016 \| 32 comments
26.		Detexify: handwritten symbol recognition (kirelabs.org)
		91 points by zrm on Feb 23, 2016 \| 15 comments
27.		Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction (curiositystream.com)
		129 points by MPetitt on Feb 25, 2016 \| 113 comments
28.		Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses (cloudflare.com)
		229 points by jgrahamc on Feb 25, 2016 \| 88 comments
29.		A Brief Guide to CLOS (1998) (ed.ac.uk)
		56 points by rfreytag on Feb 23, 2016 \| 7 comments
30.		How a matchmaking algorithm saved lives (medium.com/uofcalifornia)
		85 points by Oatseller on Feb 24, 2016 \| 18 comments
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