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1.		GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter (github.com/dear-github)
		763 points by joshmanders on Feb 12, 2016 \| 332 comments
2.		Do you really need 10,000 steps a day? (cardiogr.am)
		403 points by brandonb on Feb 12, 2016 \| 171 comments
3.		Without affordable housing, Vancouver risks becoming an economic ghost town (financialpost.com)
		279 points by eigenvector on Feb 12, 2016 \| 608 comments
4.		Internet Access Is Finally Permanently Tax Free in the U.S. (medium.com/ronwyden)
		266 points by sethbannon on Feb 11, 2016 \| 134 comments
5.		Moving on from Picasa (googlephotos.blogspot.com)
		209 points by mvgoogler on Feb 12, 2016 \| 234 comments
6.		Download.com and Others Bundle Superfish-Style HTTPS Breaking Adware (howtogeek.com)
		451 points by jacquesm on Feb 12, 2016 \| 223 comments
7.		Parity – Next Generation Ethereum Client, written in Rust (ethcore.io)
		160 points by neverminder on Feb 10, 2016 \| 18 comments
8.		Pee-wee’s Big Comeback (nytimes.com)
		117 points by aaronbrethorst on Feb 12, 2016 \| 36 comments
9.		Is it time to rethink recycling? (ensia.com)
		117 points by nkurz on Feb 11, 2016 \| 147 comments
10.		Teaching Mathematics – Graph Theory (2011) (jeremykun.com)
		95 points by rfreytag on Feb 10, 2016 \| 3 comments
11.		A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook (pitt.edu)
		131 points by jonnybgood on Feb 11, 2016 \| 2 comments
12.		MJML – Responsive Email Framework (mjml.io)
		210 points by HorizonXP on Feb 12, 2016 \| 50 comments
13.		A safe, comprehensible and efficient PID 1/init replacement written in OCaml (github.com/rein)
		131 points by pjmlp on Feb 12, 2016 \| 45 comments
14.		Subuser turns Docker containers into normal Linux programs, limiting privileges (subuser.org)
		224 points by bpierre on Feb 11, 2016 \| 72 comments
15.		How Artsy Did a Company Re-Org (artsy.net)
		71 points by sethbannon on Feb 12, 2016 \| 6 comments
16.		A Gentle Introduction to Secure Computation (alexirpan.com)
		59 points by alexirpan on Feb 12, 2016 \| 6 comments
17.		Adblock via /etc/hosts (github.com/stevenblack)
		273 points by lpsz on Feb 12, 2016 \| 139 comments
18.		Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data (medium.com/vijay-pandurangan)
		221 points by twakefield on Feb 11, 2016 \| 57 comments
19.		Magic and the rise of science (the-tls.co.uk)
		63 points by benbreen on Feb 12, 2016 \| 11 comments
20.		What do you mean ‘we need more time’? Project schedule estimation in software (dropbox.com)
		238 points by hepha1979 on Feb 11, 2016 \| 147 comments
21.		Unicorn: C++ Unicode string library (github.com/captaincrowbar)
		66 points by captaincrowbar on Feb 12, 2016 \| 30 comments
22.		Link Between Neanderthal DNA and Depression Risk (theatlantic.com)
		45 points by diodorus on Feb 12, 2016 \| 16 comments
23.		Airbnb purged 1,000 "entire home" listings days before preparing data snapshot (insideairbnb.com)
		245 points by w1ntermute on Feb 12, 2016 \| 65 comments
24.		Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions (nytimes.com)
		171 points by hvo on Feb 12, 2016 \| 157 comments
25.		Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates? (linkedin.com)
		139 points by kelukelugames on Feb 12, 2016 \| 152 comments
26.		LIGO's vibration isolation system (caltech.edu)
		159 points by lisper on Feb 11, 2016 \| 20 comments
27.		Vanguard's Low Blow (bloombergview.com)
		235 points by tptacek on Feb 11, 2016 \| 166 comments
28.		Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure (datacenterknowledge.com)
		156 points by lxm on Feb 12, 2016 \| 72 comments
29.		Open-sourcing Teletraan, a code deployment system (pinterest.com)
		79 points by kevining on Feb 12, 2016 \| 16 comments
30.		Amazon Building Global Delivery Business to Take on Alibaba (bloomberg.com)
		114 points by lxm on Feb 12, 2016 \| 54 comments
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