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1.		Marvin Minsky dies at 88 (nytimes.com)
		1259 points by joelg on Jan 25, 2016 \| 178 comments
2.		Amazon's customer service backdoor (medium.com/espringe)
		1447 points by grapehut on Jan 24, 2016 \| 356 comments
3.		CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents (cia.gov)
		420 points by XzetaU8 on Jan 25, 2016 \| 212 comments
4.		Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub (blogs.microsoft.com)
		546 points by fforflo on Jan 25, 2016 \| 56 comments
5.		I'm going to slowly move on from Mercurial (mercurial-scm.org)
		480 points by jordigh on Jan 25, 2016 \| 162 comments
6.		Deep Learning with Spark and TensorFlow (databricks.com)
		228 points by mateiz on Jan 25, 2016 \| 30 comments
7.		Simplifying Docker on OS X (andyet.com)
		259 points by joeyespo on Jan 25, 2016 \| 85 comments
8.		Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha (wired.com)
		205 points by rdl on Jan 25, 2016 \| 143 comments
9.		Multiple security vulnerabilities in Rails (groups.google.com)
		229 points by alinajaf on Jan 25, 2016 \| 62 comments
10.		Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation Than Silicon Valley Is (hbr.org)
		172 points by adamnemecek on Jan 25, 2016 \| 41 comments
11.		Things every React.js beginner should know (camjackson.net)
		412 points by Scriptor on Jan 24, 2016 \| 237 comments
12.		World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days (torrentfreak.com)
		244 points by yabatopia on Jan 24, 2016 \| 107 comments
13.		Use JSON files as if they are Python modules (github.com/kragniz)
		267 points by bane on Jan 25, 2016 \| 65 comments
14.		Google Pixel C Review (anandtech.com)
		176 points by ingve on Jan 25, 2016 \| 149 comments
15.		The China GPS shift problem (wikipedia.org)
		205 points by ivank on Jan 24, 2016 \| 71 comments
16.		Reactive GraphQL (info.meteor.com)
		158 points by johanbrook on Jan 25, 2016 \| 37 comments
17.		Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government” (nohats.ca)
		266 points by longwave on Jan 25, 2016 \| 59 comments
18.		Finding iOS Memory Leaks with Xcode's Instruments (atomicobject.com)
		96 points by philk10 on Jan 25, 2016 \| 15 comments
19.		Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers (theguardian.com)
		116 points by doener on Jan 25, 2016 \| 44 comments
20.		Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to minimize floating point error (github.com/uwplse)
		117 points by santaclaus on Jan 24, 2016 \| 19 comments
21.		Soundcloud for the Desktop (soundnodeapp.com)
		169 points by somecoder on Jan 25, 2016 \| 73 comments
22.		That Plane Overhead: Starring Our Friends SDR, ADS-B, I2C and KLGA (jeremybmerrill.com)
		100 points by bentaber on Jan 25, 2016 \| 16 comments
23.		Herzog's wild ride through the web (theguardian.com)
		74 points by bloat on Jan 24, 2016 \| 21 comments
24.		Where Have All the Gophers Gone? Why the Web Beat Gopher for Mindshare (2008) (unc.edu)
		70 points by vezzy-fnord on Jan 24, 2016 \| 26 comments
25.		Japan Must Let Zombie Companies Die (bloombergview.com)
		117 points by tmlee on Jan 25, 2016 \| 104 comments
26.		Deep belief image recognition on Raspberry Pi (github.com/jetpacapp)
		80 points by liquidmetal on Jan 25, 2016 \| 7 comments
27.		How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878) (peirce.org)
		47 points by chesterfield on Jan 24, 2016 \| 6 comments
28.		Atlantis-style myths that turned out to be true (bbc.com)
		114 points by Perados on Jan 24, 2016 \| 28 comments
29.		Reverse-Engineering Google Nest Devices (experimental-platform.tumblr.com)
		115 points by jelveh on Jan 25, 2016 \| 84 comments
30.		A Computer Scientist's guide to cell biology (2007) [pdf] (cmu.edu)
		142 points by nafizh on Jan 24, 2016 \| 13 comments
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