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1.		FFmpeg 3.0 released (ffmpeg.org)
		454 points by vivagn on Feb 15, 2016 \| 91 comments
2.		Too many people have peed in the pool (stephenfry.com)
		694 points by ctz on Feb 15, 2016 \| 511 comments
3.		Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks (infoq.com)
		461 points by talles on Feb 15, 2016 \| 194 comments
4.		What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug (backblaze.com)
		397 points by slyall on Feb 15, 2016 \| 116 comments
5.		Introducing the B3 JIT compiler (webkit.org)
		213 points by basugasubaku on Feb 15, 2016 \| 128 comments
6.		New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors (news.mit.edu)
		258 points by MVBaks on Feb 15, 2016 \| 103 comments
7.		Kotlin 1.0 Released: Pragmatic Language for JVM and Android (jetbrains.com)
		379 points by belovrv on Feb 15, 2016 \| 110 comments
8.		Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf] (wikimediafoundation.org)
		437 points by e15ctr0n on Feb 14, 2016 \| 184 comments
9.		How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew (octavore.com)
		218 points by octavore on Feb 15, 2016 \| 82 comments
10.		Tails installer is now in Debian (debian.org)
		135 points by p4bl0 on Feb 15, 2016 \| 12 comments
11.		A list of PostgreSQL libraries, tools and resources (github.com/dhamaniasad)
		184 points by lauriswtf on Feb 15, 2016 \| 28 comments
12.		Show HN: Laboratory, a Python port of GitHub's Scientist library for refactoring (github.com/joealcorn)
		153 points by buttscicles on Feb 15, 2016 \| 13 comments
13.		Show HN: Sense2vec model trained on all 2015 Reddit comments (spacy.io)
		225 points by syllogism on Feb 15, 2016 \| 79 comments
14.		Too many tools not enough carpenters (ckmadvisors.com)
		152 points by Earlbus on Feb 15, 2016 \| 50 comments
15.		When a Self-Declared Genius Asks You to Read His Masterpiece (lithub.com)
		188 points by DizzyDoo on Feb 15, 2016 \| 110 comments
16.		What I Wish I Had Known Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs (2013) (linkedin.com)
		101 points by marvel_boy on Feb 14, 2016 \| 17 comments
17.		A bit of background for the unified C++ call proposal (isocpp.org)
		124 points by ingve on Feb 15, 2016 \| 41 comments
18.		Understanding the bias-variance tradeoff (fortmann-roe.com)
		74 points by akashtndn on Feb 15, 2016 \| 7 comments
19.		A History of the Windows Start Menu (theverge.com)
		68 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 15, 2016 \| 45 comments
20.		Getting Deep Speech to Work in Mandarin (svail.github.io)
		58 points by kornish on Feb 15, 2016 \| 18 comments
21.		Did the Vikings use crystal ‘sunstones’ to discover America? (theconversation.com)
		66 points by eternalban on Feb 12, 2016 \| 32 comments
22.		The dark side of big data (martinruenz.de)
		115 points by guy-brush on Feb 15, 2016 \| 24 comments
23.		OpenIO: object storage and grid for apps (openio.io)
		53 points by lormayna on Feb 15, 2016 \| 23 comments
24.		Cordless Telephones: Bye Bye Privacy (1991) (readtext.org)
		43 points by tux on Feb 15, 2016 \| 9 comments
25.		We're hearing about troubles at Nest (businessinsider.com)
		369 points by marvel_boy on Feb 15, 2016 \| 252 comments
26.		High Performance Erlang – Finding Bottlenecks in a CouchDB Cluster (kowalski.gd)
		97 points by signa11 on Feb 15, 2016 \| 21 comments
27.		SQLGraph: An Efficient Relational-Based Property Graph Store (2015) [pdf] (research.google.com)
		80 points by espeed on Feb 15, 2016 \| 19 comments
28.		Wrong optimization with aliasing (gcc.gnu.org)
		58 points by luu on Feb 12, 2016 \| 26 comments
29.		The Yahoo Problem (sapan.svbtle.com)
		75 points by supster on Feb 14, 2016 \| 24 comments
30.		Ten years ago they beat MIT. Today, it's complicated (2014) (azcentral.com)
		151 points by luu on Feb 15, 2016 \| 91 comments
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