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1.		Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto (caltech.edu)
		883 points by cyanbane on Jan 20, 2016 \| 150 comments
2.		Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup (brave.com)
		667 points by Seldaek on Jan 20, 2016 \| 549 comments
3.		A free shipping mystery (goyet.com)
		410 points by Immortalin on Jan 19, 2016 \| 195 comments
4.		The NICAM Codec replacement project (bbc.co.uk)
		519 points by dtf on Jan 20, 2016 \| 106 comments
5.		It's harder to get into YC if you’ve been through another accelerator (blog.ycombinator.com)
		228 points by wasd on Jan 20, 2016 \| 151 comments
6.		The State of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong (discovermeteor.com)
		345 points by JanLaussmann on Jan 20, 2016 \| 183 comments
7.		Thanks for Trumpet Winsock (thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com)
		415 points by wooby on Jan 20, 2016 \| 117 comments
8.		How do bank payments actually work? (getmondo.co.uk)
		290 points by alexbilbie on Jan 20, 2016 \| 149 comments
9.		TorFlow (uncharted.software)
		261 points by bemmu on Jan 20, 2016 \| 71 comments
10.		Google proposes its Dataflow batch/stream tech to the Apache Incubator (apache.org)
		191 points by crb on Jan 20, 2016 \| 34 comments
11.		Scrapy Tips from the Pros (scrapinghub.com)
		269 points by ddebernardy on Jan 20, 2016 \| 75 comments
12.		Is it still possible to get away with a heist? (telegraph.co.uk)
		169 points by sasvari on Jan 19, 2016 \| 110 comments
13.		Scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age (theatlantic.com)
		126 points by curtis on Jan 20, 2016 \| 18 comments
14.		Show HN: Detect upsampling in images (github.com/0x09)
		113 points by 0x09 on Jan 20, 2016 \| 15 comments
15.		Sort Faster with FPGAs (hackaday.com)
		86 points by szczys on Jan 20, 2016 \| 38 comments
16.		Twitter’s Silence on State-Sponsored Attacks (threatpost.com)
		85 points by bootload on Jan 20, 2016 \| 17 comments
17.		Ejabberd Massive Scalability: 1 Node – 2+ Million Concurrent Users (process-one.net)
		90 points by kungfudoi on Jan 20, 2016 \| 18 comments
18.		Grisly find suggests humans inhabited Arctic 45,000 years ago (sciencemag.org)
		90 points by fforflo on Jan 19, 2016 \| 79 comments
19.		Isaac Asimov: Man of 7,560,000 Words (1969) (nytimes.com)
		89 points by jeremynixon on Jan 19, 2016 \| 39 comments
20.		Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10 (irrlicht3d.org)
		386 points by irrlichthn on Jan 20, 2016 \| 269 comments
21.		The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of monads (mightybyte.github.io)
		127 points by mightybyte on Jan 19, 2016 \| 48 comments
22.		Increased resident participation in planning produces extreme wealth segregation [pdf] (ucla.edu)
		63 points by randycupertino on Jan 20, 2016 \| 48 comments
23.		SSH tunnelling for fun and profit: AutoSSH (everythingcli.org)
		141 points by everythingcli on Jan 20, 2016 \| 70 comments
24.		Why Is Your Team Falling Behind? Ask ‘The Penny Game’ (atomicobject.com)
		149 points by ingve on Jan 19, 2016 \| 71 comments
25.		Show HN: Nativefier – Wrap any web page natively (github.com/jiahaog)
		162 points by skewedlines on Jan 19, 2016 \| 70 comments
26.		Microsoft will donate $1B in cloud services to nonprofits and universities (blogs.microsoft.com)
		112 points by brozak on Jan 20, 2016 \| 74 comments
27.		It's time to build your own router (arstechnica.com)
		185 points by ghosh on Jan 20, 2016 \| 93 comments
28.		Twitter Ex-CEO Costolo Plans Fitness Startup, Joins VC Firm (bloomberg.com)
		49 points by pavornyoh on Jan 19, 2016 \| 20 comments
29.		Serving 6.8M requests per second at 9 Gbps from a single Azure VM (ageofascent.com)
		127 points by profquail on Jan 19, 2016 \| 55 comments
30.		Execute BASIC Programs in Minecraft (gamnesia.com)
		48 points by SteBu on Jan 20, 2016 \| 12 comments
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