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1.		Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right (nytimes.com)
		2011 points by intull on Feb 11, 2016 \| 483 comments
2.		SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses (factmag.com)
		620 points by neokya on Feb 11, 2016 \| 339 comments
3.		Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors (bloomberg.com)
		452 points by sremani on Feb 11, 2016 \| 314 comments
4.		Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform (hisham.hm)
		613 points by hisham_hm on Feb 11, 2016 \| 153 comments
5.		Investigate switching away from GitHub (github.com/eslint)
		498 points by cachehit on Feb 11, 2016 \| 245 comments
6.		Kill Your Dependencies (mikeperham.com)
		409 points by twampss on Feb 9, 2016 \| 226 comments
7.		Zenefits Software Helped Brokers Cheat On Licensing Process (buzzfeed.com)
		296 points by LukeB_UK on Feb 11, 2016 \| 156 comments
8.		Princeton Bitcoin textbook is now freely available (freedom-to-tinker.com)
		247 points by t3hSpork on Feb 10, 2016 \| 19 comments
9.		What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jumper cable (facebook.com)
		313 points by 2bluesc on Feb 11, 2016 \| 153 comments
10.		Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer (theconversation.com)
		205 points by bootload on Feb 11, 2016 \| 170 comments
11.		Show HN: HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments (hnreplies.com)
		217 points by dangrossman on Feb 11, 2016 \| 122 comments
12.		The curse of the gifted programmer (2000) (lwn.net)
		381 points by nkurz on Feb 11, 2016 \| 166 comments
13.		What It Feels Like to Freeze on National Television (drbenjaminhabib.wordpress.com)
		232 points by cube00 on Feb 11, 2016 \| 65 comments
14.		A Truck the Russians Make for $50K (jalopnik.com)
		300 points by _nh_ on Feb 10, 2016 \| 68 comments
15.		[dupe] Gravitational waves detected by LIGO (telegraph.co.uk)
		454 points by apsec112 on Feb 11, 2016 \| 97 comments
16.		Open-sourced Parse now supports push notifications (parse.com)
		158 points by jamesjyu on Feb 11, 2016 \| 28 comments
17.		A Day at the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon (popularmechanics.com)
		220 points by gribbits on Feb 9, 2016 \| 34 comments
18.		UCLA has published a powerful new image-detection algorithm (pcworld.com)
		102 points by kungfudoi on Feb 11, 2016 \| 38 comments
19.		How Silicon Valley is dealing with mental illness (cnn.com)
		136 points by pshaw on Feb 10, 2016 \| 187 comments
20.		LLVM Patches Confirm Google Has Its Own In-House Processor (phoronix.com)
		165 points by buserror on Feb 10, 2016 \| 55 comments
21.		Drones learn to search forest trails for lost people (phys.org)
		92 points by jonbaer on Feb 10, 2016 \| 39 comments
22.		A MOS6502 assembler implemented as a Rust macro (rust-lang.org)
		111 points by mmastrac on Feb 11, 2016 \| 55 comments
23.		Scientists have found a way to help learn skills faster (sciencealert.com)
		143 points by davidiach on Feb 9, 2016 \| 55 comments
24.		Let's Make a Voxel Engine (2013) (sites.google.com)
		94 points by striking on Feb 11, 2016 \| 8 comments
25.		VP9 is now available in WebRTC (developers.google.com)
		96 points by genediazjr on Feb 11, 2016 \| 7 comments
26.		A Better Varargs (codeacumen.info)
		75 points by Anilm3 on Feb 10, 2016 \| 26 comments
27.		Pandora Is Said to Have Held Talks About Selling Itself (nytimes.com)
		79 points by guiseroom on Feb 11, 2016 \| 60 comments
28.		Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists (redorbit.com)
		73 points by akakievich on Feb 11, 2016 \| 27 comments
29.		Why do Windows functions begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? (2011) (msdn.microsoft.com)
		136 points by mau on Feb 9, 2016 \| 31 comments
30.		Most Radioactive Spot in New York: A Street Corner in Queens (thishiddencity.blogspot.com)
		100 points by state_machine on Feb 10, 2016 \| 37 comments
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