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1.		Get HTTPS for free (gethttpsforfree.com)
		731 points by somecoder on Jan 30, 2016 \| 159 comments
2.		China Has Released True Color HD Photos of the Moon (techcrunch.com)
		464 points by antouank on Jan 30, 2016 \| 108 comments
3.		Google Open Source Load Balancer in Go (github.com/google)
		323 points by paukiatwee on Jan 30, 2016 \| 69 comments
4.		Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Became the Barbie Doll (messynessychic.com)
		226 points by apo on Jan 30, 2016 \| 65 comments
5.		CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden (wsws.org)
		492 points by kushti on Jan 30, 2016 \| 202 comments
6.		Why Programming is Difficult (2014) (joearms.github.io)
		175 points by merlinsbrain on Jan 30, 2016 \| 111 comments
7.		The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks (linode.com)
		234 points by alexforster on Jan 29, 2016 \| 145 comments
8.		The Secret Feature of EM-DOSBOX on Internet Archive (textfiles.com)
		146 points by josephscott on Jan 27, 2016 \| 36 comments
9.		Making 20% Time Work (begriffs.com)
		214 points by begriffs on Jan 30, 2016 \| 133 comments
10.		NSA Chief Hacker Explains How to Avoid NSA Spying (techlog360.com)
		149 points by awqrre on Jan 30, 2016 \| 50 comments
11.		It's Coming: The Great Swift API Transformation (swift.org)
		163 points by ceeK on Jan 30, 2016 \| 25 comments
12.		Indian Women Seeking Jobs Confront Taboos and Threats (nytimes.com)
		110 points by pavornyoh on Jan 30, 2016 \| 90 comments
13.		Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research?
		316 points by sama on Jan 29, 2016 \| 522 comments
14.		China wants to become a semiconductor superpower, budgeting $100B to achieve it (economist.com)
		185 points by tristanj on Jan 30, 2016 \| 149 comments
15.		Obama Pledges $4B to Computer Science in US Schools (wired.com)
		157 points by zds on Jan 30, 2016 \| 146 comments
16.		Putting Your Data and Code in Order: Optimization and Memory (intel.com)
		57 points by ingve on Jan 30, 2016 \| 9 comments
17.		How to Start a Startup: Lectures (2014) (samaltman.com)
		149 points by MarlonPro on Jan 29, 2016 \| 16 comments
18.		Microsoft FFmpegInterop library for Windows (github.com/microsoft)
		79 points by ingve on Jan 30, 2016 \| 21 comments
19.		First self-assembled superconductor structure created (cornell.edu)
		48 points by jonbaer on Jan 30, 2016 \| 6 comments
20.		‘Technological fraud’ discovered at Zolder cyclocross worlds (competitor.com)
		97 points by tetraodonpuffer on Jan 30, 2016 \| 66 comments
21.		Open-Sourced Logos (logodust.com)
		268 points by JavaScriptrr on Jan 30, 2016 \| 64 comments
22.		Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors (news.mit.edu)
		137 points by jonbaer on Jan 29, 2016 \| 54 comments
23.		Tcl.js: robust, high-performance Tcl in JavaScript (github.com/cyanogilvie)
		107 points by blacksqr on Jan 30, 2016 \| 50 comments
24.		Show HN: Desktop Fruit – A Curated Blog of Mac App Design (desktopfruit.com)
		79 points by BrendonTO on Jan 29, 2016 \| 24 comments
25.		CoreOS Overview, Part One (deis.com)
		98 points by nslater on Jan 29, 2016 \| 36 comments
26.		Sources: Security Firm Norse Corp. Imploding (krebsonsecurity.com)
		79 points by dsr12 on Jan 30, 2016 \| 17 comments
27.		Interlocking Bricks Before Lego [video] (youtube.com)
		93 points by dsr_ on Jan 30, 2016 \| 18 comments
28.		QIRA is a timeless debugger (qira.me)
		65 points by jcr on Jan 30, 2016 \| 24 comments
29.		Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc (lwn.net)
		106 points by jordigh on Jan 30, 2016 \| 51 comments
30.		The Tragic Data Behind Selfie Fatalities (priceonomics.com)
		66 points by ryan_j_naughton on Jan 29, 2016 \| 37 comments
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