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1.		Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics (github.com/fogleman)
		441 points by fogleman on Feb 2, 2016 \| 56 comments
2.		LSD: My Life-Saving Drug (gq.com)
		389 points by pmcpinto on Feb 2, 2016 \| 224 comments
3.		Nginx module by Google for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth (ngxpagespeed.com)
		308 points by nikolay on Feb 2, 2016 \| 94 comments
4.		Use Atom to edit in Chrome (github.com/tuvistavie)
		269 points by tuvistavie on Feb 2, 2016 \| 82 comments
5.		Bad USB-C cable destroys laptop (plus.google.com)
		368 points by mrb on Feb 2, 2016 \| 139 comments
6.		Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm That AI Hasn’t yet Crossed (medium.com/backchannel)
		163 points by wslh on Feb 2, 2016 \| 100 comments
7.		Graphene optical lens 200 nm thick breaks the diffraction limit (swinburne.edu.au)
		182 points by srikar on Feb 2, 2016 \| 54 comments
8.		The NASA Rocket Countdown Came from a 1929 Fritz Lang Film (atlasobscura.com)
		114 points by prismatic on Feb 2, 2016 \| 31 comments
9.		Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X (happenapps.com)
		421 points by moonlighter on Feb 1, 2016 \| 254 comments
10.		The Controversial State of JavaScript Tooling (ponyfoo.com)
		156 points by lolptdr on Feb 2, 2016 \| 153 comments
11.		New European, U.S. data transfer pact agreed (reuters.com)
		104 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Feb 2, 2016 \| 41 comments
12.		Tresor – CPU-only AES implementation resistant to RAM cold-boot attacks (2011) (uni-erlangen.de)
		87 points by whitehat2k9 on Feb 2, 2016 \| 14 comments
13.		Don't Panic: Seeking Points of Agreement on the “Going Dark” Debate (law.harvard.edu)
		103 points by finnn on Feb 2, 2016 \| 78 comments
14.		Make journals report clinical trials properly (nature.com)
		109 points by bootload on Feb 2, 2016 \| 19 comments
15.		Sandstorm App update: New open-source self-hostable apps (sandstorm.io)
		152 points by andybak on Feb 2, 2016 \| 60 comments
16.		Tablet shipments decline 10.1% in 2015 (venturebeat.com)
		101 points by lxm on Feb 2, 2016 \| 149 comments
17.		Shared genetics between cognitive functions and physical and mental health (nature.com)
		62 points by gwern on Feb 2, 2016 \| 7 comments
18.		Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate (nytimes.com)
		232 points by timr on Jan 30, 2016 \| 233 comments
19.		Mixed reality outfit Magic Leap nets $793.5M (gamasutra.com)
		112 points by Impossible on Feb 2, 2016 \| 110 comments
20.		Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code (github.com/carols10cents)
		198 points by jupp0r on Feb 2, 2016 \| 36 comments
21.		Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers (iron.io)
		209 points by kiyanwang on Feb 2, 2016 \| 67 comments
22.		Show HN: An algorithm to automatically turn photos of food into faces (aaronrandall.com)
		211 points by aaronrandall on Feb 1, 2016 \| 28 comments
23.		Show HN: Space Shooter in QBasic (github.com/strathausen)
		79 points by Jean-Philipe on Jan 30, 2016 \| 26 comments
24.		What's New in Webpack 2 (gist.github.com)
		147 points by scorchio on Feb 2, 2016 \| 68 comments
25.		Criticism of “Research Parasites” Moves Medical Journal in Wrong Direction (statnews.com)
		94 points by tokenadult on Feb 2, 2016 \| 70 comments
26.		The many ways of handling TCP RST packets (snellman.net)
		99 points by luu on Feb 2, 2016 \| 8 comments
27.		Oil Crash is Kicking Off One of the Largest Wealth Transfers in History (bloomberg.com)
		213 points by walterbell on Feb 2, 2016 \| 221 comments
28.		Turn your PC upside down to boot into Linux (2003) (mini-itx.com)
		176 points by PascLeRasc on Feb 1, 2016 \| 68 comments
29.		Death of a Troll (theguardian.com)
		160 points by lxm on Jan 31, 2016 \| 91 comments
30.		Cheerp 1.2 – C++ to JavaScript: faster than Emscripten with dynamic memory (leaningtech.com)
		110 points by multimillion on Feb 2, 2016 \| 21 comments
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