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1.		Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL (theregister.co.uk)
		1144 points by janvdberg on Jan 5, 2016 \| 99 comments
2.		Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern (reddit.com)
		666 points by yurisagalov on Jan 5, 2016 \| 145 comments
3.		Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app (ftc.gov)
		601 points by lpsz on Jan 5, 2016 \| 251 comments
4.		Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal? (scientificamerican.com)
		400 points by NN88 on Jan 5, 2016 \| 259 comments
5.		Magic+ (getmagicnow.com)
		687 points by calvin_c on Jan 5, 2016 \| 462 comments
6.		The Disappearance of Self in Japan (huffingtonpost.com)
		186 points by wallflower on Jan 5, 2016 \| 137 comments
7.		The unsung heroes of scientific software (nature.com)
		151 points by bootload on Jan 5, 2016 \| 73 comments
8.		Dell Computers Has Been Hacked (10zenmonkeys.com)
		537 points by MilnerRoute on Jan 5, 2016 \| 209 comments
9.		Kodak resurrects Super 8 (kodak.com)
		278 points by tarp on Jan 5, 2016 \| 198 comments
10.		On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture (tonyarcieri.com)
		195 points by bascule on Jan 5, 2016 \| 63 comments
11.		Facebook and its news feed algorithm (slate.com)
		123 points by piyushmakhija on Jan 4, 2016 \| 86 comments
12.		Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets (recode.net)
		247 points by _kcn8 on Jan 5, 2016 \| 297 comments
13.		Android++, native development and debugging for Visual Studio, now open-source (github.com/webbju)
		124 points by webbju on Jan 5, 2016 \| 37 comments
14.		Monads to Machine Code (Part 1) (stephendiehl.com)
		151 points by primodemus on Jan 5, 2016 \| 12 comments
15.		Feeding data to 1000 CPUs – comparison of S3, Google, Azure storage (zachbjornson.com)
		216 points by ranrub on Jan 5, 2016 \| 72 comments
16.		Working fewer hours would make us more productive (theguardian.com)
		312 points by cpeterso on Jan 5, 2016 \| 242 comments
17.		Dick Smith Is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time (foragerfunds.com)
		371 points by bootload on Jan 5, 2016 \| 151 comments
18.		Angular 2 versus React (medium.com/housecor)
		424 points by ihsw on Jan 4, 2016 \| 243 comments
19.		Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor (gobby.github.io)
		89 points by vmorgulis on Jan 4, 2016 \| 43 comments
20.		BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar (github.com/matryer)
		385 points by trueduke on Jan 4, 2016 \| 64 comments
21.		Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow (wi-fi.org)
		155 points by daegloe on Jan 4, 2016 \| 79 comments
22.		Steam Sales 2015 (medium.com/steam-spy)
		192 points by kelukelugames on Jan 4, 2016 \| 88 comments
23.		GNU Radio Tools for Radio Wrangling and Spectrum Domination [video] (youtube.com)
		97 points by fitzwatermellow on Jan 5, 2016 \| 22 comments
24.		Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Health Insurance (nytimes.com)
		162 points by e15ctr0n on Jan 4, 2016 \| 369 comments
25.		Show HN: CommuteKit: 120+ Digital Tools for a More Positive Commute (commutekit.com)
		53 points by michaelsitver on Jan 5, 2016 \| 20 comments
26.		How to submit an app to Apple’s App Store when it uses encryption (carouselapps.com)
		201 points by pupeno on Jan 4, 2016 \| 116 comments
27.		Bret Victor's Bookshelf (worrydream.com)
		182 points by jarmitage on Jan 5, 2016 \| 81 comments
28.		Procedural cities from the Mandalay fractal (creativeapplications.net)
		155 points by mdlincoln on Jan 5, 2016 \| 16 comments
29.		Aseprite: cross-platform, open source sprite and pixel art tool (aseprite.org)
		188 points by tony on Jan 4, 2016 \| 22 comments
30.		100 Days of Swift (samvlu.com)
		118 points by awaxman11 on Jan 4, 2016 \| 23 comments
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