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1.		Netflix Is Now Available Around the World (netflix.com)
		1015 points by devhxinc on Jan 6, 2016 \| 497 comments
2.		Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant (robindoherty.com)
		697 points by synesso on Jan 6, 2016 \| 316 comments
3.		Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in India (economist.com)
		394 points by rachellaw on Jan 6, 2016 \| 237 comments
4.		Non-volatile Storage: CPUs no longer more performant than I/O devices (acm.org)
		424 points by matt_d on Jan 6, 2016 \| 116 comments
5.		Neal Stephenson: Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015) (nealstephenson.com)
		379 points by sasvari on Jan 6, 2016 \| 201 comments
6.		EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and R3 Instances) (amazon.com)
		174 points by jeffbarr on Jan 5, 2016 \| 97 comments
7.		What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016? (duke.edu)
		231 points by pwg on Jan 6, 2016 \| 77 comments
8.		North Korea announces successful hydrogen bomb test (bbc.com)
		229 points by forgingahead on Jan 6, 2016 \| 168 comments
9.		North Korea Announces That It Has Detonated First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com)
		157 points by mcgwiz on Jan 6, 2016 \| 118 comments
10.		Show HN: Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework (nodaljs.com)
		288 points by keithwhor on Jan 6, 2016 \| 168 comments
11.		Sun, Oracle, Android, Google, Mozilla and JDK Copyleft FUD (ebb.org)
		161 points by g1n016399 on Jan 6, 2016 \| 155 comments
12.		How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans into Suckers (nytimes.com)
		178 points by scottfr on Jan 6, 2016 \| 147 comments
13.		This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday (thenextweb.com)
		277 points by kostas_echarta on Jan 6, 2016 \| 175 comments
14.		Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007) (dilbertblog.typepad.com)
		172 points by fmavituna on Jan 6, 2016 \| 89 comments
15.		Robigalia: seL4 and Rust (robigalia.org)
		129 points by xj9 on Jan 6, 2016 \| 63 comments
16.		A new Japanese magazine about construction workers (ignition.co)
		68 points by ngym on Jan 6, 2016 \| 13 comments
17.		Abandoned Colony in Greenland: Archaeologists Find Clues to Viking Mystery (spiegel.de)
		73 points by rmason on Jan 5, 2016 \| 2 comments
18.		How to Protect Your Infrastructure Against the Basic Attacker (mailgun.com)
		180 points by benarent on Jan 6, 2016 \| 39 comments
19.		Introducing dumb-init, an init system for Docker containers (yelp.com)
		161 points by ckuehl on Jan 6, 2016 \| 37 comments
20.		Swiss in CSS – Homage to the International Typographic Style (swissincss.com)
		107 points by RaSoJo on Jan 6, 2016 \| 16 comments
21.		A modern alchemical hoax exposed (alchemywebsite.com)
		75 points by benbreen on Jan 5, 2016 \| 18 comments
22.		SF Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy (sfexaminer.com)
		204 points by coloneltcb on Jan 6, 2016 \| 224 comments
23.		Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order (oculus.com)
		286 points by domas on Jan 6, 2016 \| 376 comments
24.		How did people sleep in the Middle Ages? (medievalists.net)
		110 points by pepys on Jan 5, 2016 \| 42 comments
25.		Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK (techcrunch.com)
		78 points by rachellaw on Jan 6, 2016 \| 72 comments
26.		David Chaum Has a Plan to End the Crypto War (wired.com)
		99 points by rdl on Jan 6, 2016 \| 61 comments
27.		Show HN: Tufte's discrete sparklines using D3.js (dataviztalk.blogspot.com)
		70 points by rooviz on Jan 6, 2016 \| 8 comments
28.		SLOTH – Security Losses from Obsolete and Truncated Transcript Hashes (mitls.org)
		112 points by mukyu on Jan 6, 2016 \| 20 comments
29.		Reverse Engineering a Real Candle (cpldcpu.wordpress.com)
		172 points by liyanage on Jan 6, 2016 \| 37 comments
30.		Ditching Scrum for Kanban - The best decision we’ve made as a team (medium.com/cto-school)
		173 points by fearenales on Jan 6, 2016 \| 116 comments
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