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1.		The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment (medium.com/octskyward)
		961 points by tptacek on Jan 14, 2016 \| 408 comments
2.		Before Growth (samaltman.com)
		364 points by firloop on Jan 15, 2016 \| 206 comments
3.		Etsy stock has lost 76% of its value in 9 months (google.com)
		278 points by megafounder on Jan 15, 2016 \| 262 comments
4.		Wikipedia Turns 15 (wikipedia.org)
		441 points by doppp on Jan 15, 2016 \| 109 comments
5.		There are no secure smartphones (devever.net)
		374 points by moehm on Jan 14, 2016 \| 118 comments
6.		Amazon Has Just Registered to Sell Ocean Freight (flexport.com)
		314 points by lxm on Jan 15, 2016 \| 98 comments
7.		A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning (andreykurenkov.com)
		245 points by andreyk on Jan 15, 2016 \| 20 comments
8.		Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London (vice.com)
		255 points by walterbell on Jan 15, 2016 \| 98 comments
9.		You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs. DRM, Round Two (eff.org)
		216 points by cpeterso on Jan 14, 2016 \| 107 comments
10.		The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Experiment (nytimes.com)
		122 points by socalnate1 on Jan 14, 2016 \| 129 comments
11.		Doomsday planning for less crazy folk (coredump.cx)
		213 points by f- on Jan 15, 2016 \| 162 comments
12.		36TB FreeNAS Home Server Build (ramsdenj.github.io)
		203 points by sengork on Jan 15, 2016 \| 181 comments
13.		Microsoft Drops Prices for Some Azure Instances by Up to 17% (techcrunch.com)
		100 points by boulos on Jan 14, 2016 \| 40 comments
14.		Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable (medium.com/nayafia)
		205 points by panic on Jan 14, 2016 \| 106 comments
15.		Obama administration ready to put $4B toward self-driving cars (usatoday.com)
		138 points by lemiant on Jan 14, 2016 \| 138 comments
16.		Dr. Memory: A Memory Checker Faster Than Valgrind (drmemory.org)
		143 points by vmorgulis on Jan 15, 2016 \| 43 comments
17.		Farbfeld – A suckless image format (suckless.org)
		112 points by frign on Jan 12, 2016 \| 88 comments
18.		Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Source Software (oswatch.net)
		150 points by d99kris on Jan 15, 2016 \| 73 comments
19.		The Happiness Code: Cold, hard rationality (nytimes.com)
		128 points by applecore on Jan 15, 2016 \| 61 comments
20.		Mental fatigue impairs physical performance in humans (2009) (physiology.org)
		110 points by jimsojim on Jan 14, 2016 \| 56 comments
21.		PayPal and zero-dollar invoice spam (troyhunt.com)
		160 points by temp on Jan 15, 2016 \| 71 comments
22.		Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin (avc.com)
		221 points by gist on Jan 15, 2016 \| 193 comments
23.		Intel Software Guard Extensions – Memory Encryption Engine (drive.google.com)
		81 points by mrb on Jan 15, 2016 \| 52 comments
24.		DiY Fiber Optic Light Using ESP8266 (adityatannu.com)
		59 points by adysan on Jan 14, 2016 \| 15 comments
25.		My Experience With the Great Firewall of China (zorinaq.com)
		156 points by mrb on Jan 14, 2016 \| 57 comments
26.		John Romero has released his first Doom level in over two decades (gamasutra.com)
		187 points by Impossible on Jan 15, 2016 \| 40 comments
27.		Input an image and get back astrometric calibration metadata (astrometry.net)
		84 points by davidbarker on Jan 14, 2016 \| 3 comments
28.		Goldman Sachs Will Pay $5B to Settle Financial-Crisis Claims (npr.org)
		114 points by mashgin on Jan 15, 2016 \| 113 comments
29.		Amid a demand for batteries, companies are scrambling for supplies of lithium (economist.com)
		79 points by edward on Jan 14, 2016 \| 23 comments
30.		An open letter of gratitude to GitHub (github.com/thank-you-github)
		248 points by arthurnn on Jan 15, 2016 \| 104 comments
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