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1.		Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing (rockpapershotgun.com)
		451 points by cpeterso on Jan 2, 2016 \| 109 comments
2.		Peter Naur has died (wikipedia.org)
		570 points by cperciva on Jan 3, 2016 \| 96 comments
3.		Bing Goes Full-On Censorship in English Search Results Within China (thenanfang.com)
		222 points by jhonovich on Jan 2, 2016 \| 53 comments
4.		Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone (openage.sft.mx)
		369 points by thejj on Jan 3, 2016 \| 47 comments
5.		The $10 Echo (sammachin.com)
		375 points by espadrine on Jan 3, 2016 \| 123 comments
6.		FreeBSD on the raspberry pi (github.com/freebsd)
		121 points by zyngaro on Jan 2, 2016 \| 40 comments
7.		Google, HP, Oracle Join RISC-V – Open-source processor core gains traction (eetimes.com)
		260 points by mparramon on Jan 3, 2016 \| 136 comments
8.		IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8 (jetbrains.com)
		184 points by ingve on Jan 3, 2016 \| 137 comments
9.		New string formatting in Python (zerokspot.com)
		173 points by eatonphil on Jan 3, 2016 \| 132 comments
10.		Cracking BurgerTime, a 1982 game on a floppy disk (archive.org)
		151 points by pavel_lishin on Jan 3, 2016 \| 57 comments
11.		Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick? (nytimes.com)
		163 points by kornish on Jan 3, 2016 \| 124 comments
12.		How the Survivor Bias Distorts Reality (scientificamerican.com)
		94 points by pandemicsyn on Jan 2, 2016 \| 19 comments
13.		The Magic Schoolbook O.S. Project (magicschoolbook.com)
		49 points by vmorgulis on Jan 2, 2016 \| 6 comments
14.		Adonis.js v2 released – Laravel for Node.js (adonisjs.com)
		70 points by niallobrien on Jan 2, 2016 \| 27 comments
15.		Pymux: a tmux clone in pure Python (github.com/jonathanslenders)
		157 points by amjith on Jan 3, 2016 \| 53 comments
16.		How to Partition a Graph When You Think Like a Vertex [pdf] (kit.edu)
		42 points by Katydid on Jan 2, 2016 \| 3 comments
17.		Tech Startups Face Fresh Pressure on Valuations (wsj.com)
		108 points by lxm on Jan 3, 2016 \| 83 comments
18.		Attention and Memory in Deep Learning and NLP (wildml.com)
		97 points by dennybritz on Jan 3, 2016 \| 7 comments
19.		The man who made Edward Snowden inevitable (economist.com)
		92 points by gyre007 on Jan 3, 2016 \| 7 comments
20.		Google, a ‘school official?’ A regulatory quirk can leave parents in the dark (washingtonpost.com)
		114 points by opheicus on Jan 3, 2016 \| 31 comments
21.		Taco Bell Programming (2010) (archive.org)
		172 points by Jarred on Jan 3, 2016 \| 109 comments
22.		App Makers Reach Out to the Teenager on Mobile (nytimes.com)
		65 points by randycupertino on Jan 3, 2016 \| 45 comments
23.		DHCPwn: A DHCP exhaustion tool (github.com/mschwager)
		83 points by svenfaw on Jan 3, 2016 \| 24 comments
24.		Why a simple spreadsheet spread like wildfire (theguardian.com)
		79 points by ikeboy on Jan 3, 2016 \| 28 comments
25.		Functional, decoupled forum application in Haskell and Om using websockets (github.com/ianthehenry)
		70 points by wanda on Jan 3, 2016 \| 8 comments
26.		How the books we read shape our lives (independent.co.uk)
		64 points by e15ctr0n on Jan 3, 2016
27.		How to Think Visually Using Visual Analogies (anna.vc)
		62 points by gsempe on Jan 3, 2016 \| 4 comments
28.		Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
		104 points by cronjobber on Jan 3, 2016 \| 40 comments
29.		Differentiable Programming (edge.org)
		86 points by efm on Jan 2, 2016 \| 18 comments
30.		Netflix is on Fire (medium.com/diymanik)
		185 points by mcnabj on Jan 3, 2016 \| 159 comments
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