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1.		Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity (desktopneo.com)
		798 points by ziburski on Jan 19, 2016 \| 314 comments
2.		Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (npr.org)
		493 points by sabya on Jan 19, 2016 \| 83 comments
3.		Riemann – A network monitoring system (riemann.io)
		340 points by jonbaer on Jan 19, 2016 \| 104 comments
4.		The Rails Doctrine (rubyonrails.org)
		497 points by robin_reala on Jan 19, 2016 \| 357 comments
5.		Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine (github.com/nodejs)
		346 points by bpierre on Jan 19, 2016 \| 122 comments
6.		India's telecom regulator cracks down on Facebook for its Free Basics campaign [pdf] (trai.gov.in)
		379 points by spothuga on Jan 19, 2016 \| 102 comments
7.		Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence (togelius.blogspot.com)
		247 points by togelius on Jan 19, 2016 \| 130 comments
8.		Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability (perception-point.io)
		218 points by ddb on Jan 19, 2016 \| 65 comments
9.		OpenFace: Free and open source face recognition with deep neural networks (cmusatyalab.github.io)
		249 points by fitzwatermellow on Jan 19, 2016 \| 45 comments
10.		Did European Court Just Outlaw “Massive Monitoring of Communications” in Europe? (cdt.org)
		262 points by ghosh on Jan 19, 2016 \| 40 comments
11.		Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab (wolfram.com)
		232 points by kwvarga on Jan 19, 2016 \| 140 comments
12.		Breakup, as captured by my fitbit (twitter.com/iamkoby)
		251 points by iamkoby on Jan 19, 2016 \| 132 comments
13.		Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the Open Payments Dataset (troyshu.com)
		157 points by tmshu1 on Jan 18, 2016 \| 54 comments
14.		“Subject: Urgent Warning” (haxx.se)
		407 points by robin_reala on Jan 19, 2016 \| 174 comments
15.		2^74207281-1 is Prime (mersenne.org)
		304 points by ramshanker on Jan 19, 2016 \| 124 comments
16.		Clojure 1.8 (cognitect.com)
		272 points by 147 on Jan 19, 2016 \| 60 comments
17.		All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white working class (theatlantic.com)
		213 points by saadmalik01 on Jan 18, 2016 \| 275 comments
18.		Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform (venturebeat.com)
		178 points by potshot on Jan 19, 2016 \| 95 comments
19.		Time is an illusion – challenges in distributed computing synchronization (acm.org)
		152 points by alanfranz on Jan 19, 2016 \| 42 comments
20.		Visualizing parallel requests in Elixir (codemancers.com)
		133 points by emilsoman on Jan 18, 2016 \| 5 comments
21.		Why Violins Have F-Holes (openculture.com)
		164 points by signa11 on Jan 19, 2016 \| 59 comments
22.		EFF Pries More Information on Zero Days from the Government (eff.org)
		124 points by tghw on Jan 19, 2016 \| 29 comments
23.		VR First by Crytek (cryengine.com)
		118 points by lentil_soup on Jan 19, 2016 \| 59 comments
24.		Tcpdive – A TCP Performance Profiling Tool (github.com/fastos)
		113 points by EvanJS on Jan 19, 2016 \| 15 comments
25.		STOKE – a stochastic optimizer for x86_64 assembly (github.com/stanfordpl)
		129 points by ingve on Jan 18, 2016 \| 22 comments
26.		How to Leverage Technical Debt (medium.com/startup-guide-anti-patterns)
		102 points by mortimerwax on Jan 18, 2016 \| 28 comments
27.		Deep sea frogfish that walks on the ocean floor found in New Zealand (telegraph.co.uk)
		69 points by never-the-bride on Jan 19, 2016 \| 6 comments
28.		Show HN: CMS.js – Fully Client-Side JavaScript Site Generator (cdmedia.github.io)
		117 points by inflam52 on Jan 18, 2016 \| 94 comments
29.		How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across America (nytimes.com)
		111 points by tysone on Jan 19, 2016 \| 135 comments
30.		Being a deaf developer (cruft.io)
		115 points by Nekobai on Jan 18, 2016 \| 25 comments
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