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1.		Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments (ramiro.org)
		1043 points by gkst on Jan 18, 2016 \| 181 comments
2.		Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab (about.gitlab.com)
		924 points by levlaz on Jan 18, 2016 \| 318 comments
3.		Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (techcrunch.com)
		408 points by walterclifford on Jan 18, 2016 \| 169 comments
4.		WebTorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC (webtorrent.io)
		380 points by Doolwind on Jan 18, 2016 \| 94 comments
5.		Org-Mode for Writing: Structure and Focus (awarewriter.wordpress.com)
		189 points by pmoriarty on Jan 18, 2016 \| 74 comments
6.		C++11 threads, affinity and hyperthreading (thegreenplace.net)
		137 points by nkurz on Jan 18, 2016 \| 12 comments
7.		Launching an Apple TV App: What We’ve Learned So Far (serverdensity.com)
		159 points by ingve on Jan 18, 2016 \| 107 comments
8.		Michael Bloomberg on starting a business during tough economic times (1982) (nytimes.com)
		106 points by raldi on Jan 18, 2016 \| 40 comments
9.		Tech faces hour of reckoning as fundraising drops, layoffs rise (usatoday.com)
		222 points by apsec112 on Jan 18, 2016 \| 157 comments
10.		Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?
		263 points by maryrosecook on Jan 18, 2016 \| 121 comments
11.		Autopwn every Android device on your network using BetterCap (evilsocket.net)
		106 points by wolframio on Jan 18, 2016 \| 55 comments
12.		Multiple cameras and motion detection on the Raspberry Pi (pyimagesearch.com)
		147 points by zionsrogue on Jan 18, 2016 \| 28 comments
13.		Voynich Manuscript: word vectors and t-SNE visualization of some patterns (christianperone.com)
		131 points by perone on Jan 18, 2016 \| 29 comments
14.		SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes on landing after delivering satellite to space (bbc.com)
		222 points by FrejNorling on Jan 18, 2016 \| 211 comments
15.		Word2vec, LDA, and introducing a new hybrid algorithm: lda2vec (slideshare.net)
		131 points by juxtaposicion on Jan 17, 2016 \| 11 comments
16.		Netboot (netboot.xyz)
		214 points by p4bl0 on Jan 18, 2016 \| 44 comments
17.		The Real Problem with Lunch (nytimes.com)
		139 points by wallflower on Jan 16, 2016 \| 115 comments
18.		What Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique (medium.com/tannerc)
		125 points by tannerc on Jan 17, 2016 \| 65 comments
19.		Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
		358 points by the_wheel on Jan 18, 2016 \| 162 comments
20.		Show HN: Python to C++14 transpiler (github.com/lukasmartinelli)
		96 points by morgenkaffee on Jan 17, 2016 \| 44 comments
21.		‘Locked-in’ people show signs of awareness when faced with sums (newscientist.com)
		72 points by mileskjeller on Jan 18, 2016 \| 6 comments
22.		Show HN: Git Draw allows you to draw pictures directly into your GitHub heat map (github.com/ben174)
		91 points by ben174 on Jan 18, 2016 \| 19 comments
23.		Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense (github.com/tarsnap)
		142 points by dchest on Jan 18, 2016 \| 117 comments
24.		Recurrent Neural Nets for Speech Synthesis (arxiv.org)
		88 points by Katydid on Jan 18, 2016 \| 11 comments
25.		Recognizing Speech from Smartphone Gyroscopes (2014) (stanford.edu)
		90 points by vladmiller on Jan 16, 2016 \| 13 comments
26.		The Tennis Racket (buzzfeed.com)
		140 points by jsvine on Jan 17, 2016 \| 72 comments
27.		Hot Potato – Windows Privilege Escalation (foxglovesecurity.com)
		73 points by mmastrac on Jan 17, 2016 \| 33 comments
28.		Development and Deployment of Massively Multiplayer Games (ithare.com)
		67 points by jayfk on Jan 17, 2016 \| 18 comments
29.		The slowly fading art of flying and maintaining Cold War fighter jets (arstechnica.com)
		49 points by bootload on Jan 17, 2016 \| 18 comments
30.		Why you cannot have C++ exceptions with a stack trace (unipi.it)
		58 points by ingve on Jan 17, 2016 \| 24 comments
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