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1.		India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content (blog.savetheinternet.in)
		684 points by scorpion032 on Feb 8, 2016 \| 216 comments
2.		PayPal CTO Resigns (sec.gov)
		504 points by coloneltcb on Feb 8, 2016 \| 119 comments
3.		Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software (latimes.com)
		641 points by molecule on Feb 8, 2016 \| 585 comments
4.		Flash-Free Video in 2016 (nytimes.com)
		358 points by flavioribeiro on Feb 8, 2016 \| 197 comments
5.		Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew (2013) (imaging-resource.com)
		249 points by arprocter on Feb 8, 2016 \| 77 comments
6.		How to do distributed locking (kleppmann.com)
		277 points by martinkl on Feb 8, 2016 \| 71 comments
7.		The Zen of Erlang (ferd.ca)
		301 points by mononcqc on Feb 8, 2016 \| 37 comments
8.		Department of Homeland Security Devices on SF Streets (sfist.com)
		149 points by vskarine on Feb 8, 2016 \| 77 comments
9.		Love Resembles Addiction (nautil.us)
		177 points by dnetesn on Feb 8, 2016 \| 115 comments
10.		Avast: a Chromium fork with critical security checks removed (code.google.com)
		232 points by andygambles on Feb 8, 2016 \| 118 comments
11.		Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine Reading (gitxiv.com)
		151 points by jonbaer on Feb 8, 2016 \| 6 comments
12.		GitHub-backup: backs up everything GitHub knows about a repository or a user (github.com/joeyh)
		136 points by progval on Feb 7, 2016 \| 27 comments
13.		The Error Model in Midori (joeduffyblog.com)
		146 points by jsnell on Feb 7, 2016 \| 41 comments
14.		UC Berkeley profs lambast new “black box” network monitoring hardware (arstechnica.com)
		113 points by pavornyoh on Feb 5, 2016 \| 56 comments
15.		How a Legal Journalist Got Fired for a Non-Compete (bna.com)
		192 points by weatherlight on Feb 8, 2016 \| 208 comments
16.		Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life (theguardian.com)
		431 points by gargs on Feb 8, 2016 \| 233 comments
17.		Building a business, not just an app (stratechery.com)
		170 points by exolymph on Feb 7, 2016 \| 57 comments
18.		20 Years Since John Perry Barlow Declared Cyberspace Independence (wired.com)
		122 points by sinak2 on Feb 8, 2016 \| 40 comments
19.		The cost of transpiling ES2015 in 2016 (github.com/samccone)
		177 points by AlexMuir on Feb 8, 2016 \| 133 comments
20.		Riddle of cement’s structure is finally solved (news.mit.edu)
		123 points by _isus on Feb 8, 2016 \| 17 comments
21.		Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack [video] (youtube.com)
		96 points by agronaut on Feb 8, 2016 \| 34 comments
22.		Things to Know about Databases that Leverage Partially Homomorphic Encryption (lab41.org)
		94 points by jonbaer on Feb 8, 2016 \| 18 comments
23.		Brain to Brain: The Therapist as Neurobiological Regulator (2010) [pdf] (janinafisher.com)
		61 points by magda_wang on Feb 8, 2016 \| 5 comments
24.		The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (2001) (willamette.edu)
		137 points by teriiehina on Feb 8, 2016 \| 109 comments
25.		Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub (github.com/farjump)
		157 points by Julio-Guerra on Feb 8, 2016 \| 17 comments
26.		One of Paris’s last horse meat butchers discusses the disappearance of his trade (thenewinquiry.com)
		103 points by Vigier on Feb 8, 2016 \| 116 comments
27.		CNI for Docker Containers with Weave and Calico (weave.works)
		57 points by polvi on Feb 8, 2016 \| 19 comments
28.		NY Public Library Releases 670k Images (nypl.org)
		118 points by howon92 on Feb 8, 2016 \| 10 comments
29.		Bare Bones Back end (webkit.org)
		128 points by ingve on Feb 8, 2016 \| 14 comments
30.		Jessica Livingston Talks Female Founders and Her Favorite Event of the Year (techcrunch.com)
		77 points by pavornyoh on Feb 8, 2016 \| 6 comments
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