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1.		Vulkan is Here (khronos.org)
		903 points by ekianjo on Feb 16, 2016 \| 201 comments
2.		Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
		502 points by 0x0 on Feb 16, 2016 \| 456 comments
3.		Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive (heidiroizen.tumblr.com)
		432 points by whbk on Feb 16, 2016 \| 188 comments
4.		Missing Malaysia Jet MH370 Weeks Away from Keeping Secrets Forever (bloomberg.com)
		243 points by acdanger on Feb 16, 2016 \| 160 comments
5.		Building a Startup in 45 Minutes per Day While Deployed in Iraq (mattmazur.com)
		508 points by essayoh on Feb 15, 2016 \| 120 comments
6.		Uber's Design Meltdown (elischiff.com)
		465 points by lumpypua on Feb 16, 2016 \| 219 comments
7.		Morocco to switch on first phase of world's largest solar plant (theguardian.com)
		175 points by jaoued on Feb 16, 2016 \| 72 comments
8.		Show HN: Find the best recipe for any two foods, based on over 600k recipes (foodpairing.ninja)
		337 points by qrv3w on Feb 16, 2016 \| 105 comments
9.		Japanese firm to open world’s first robot-run farm (theguardian.com)
		171 points by evo_9 on Feb 16, 2016 \| 97 comments
10.		I Was the Most Wanted Man in China (lithub.com)
		152 points by lermontov on Feb 16, 2016 \| 24 comments
11.		R, the master troll of statistical languages (2012) (talyarkoni.org)
		184 points by Goldenromeo on Feb 16, 2016 \| 148 comments
12.		Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time (citylab.com)
		123 points by infinite8s on Feb 16, 2016 \| 32 comments
13.		Automatically inferring file syntax with afl-analyze (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
		119 points by tobik on Feb 16, 2016 \| 3 comments
14.		The Work of John Milnor, a giant in modern mathematics [pdf] (abelprize.no)
		92 points by Outdoorsman on Feb 16, 2016 \| 18 comments
15.		Any smooth cubic surface contains 27 lines (ams.org)
		80 points by tokenadult on Feb 16, 2016 \| 37 comments
16.		Dato open sources SFrame – a disk-backed, compressed columnnar data frame (dato.com)
		93 points by infinite8s on Feb 15, 2016 \| 19 comments
17.		Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese company) (pierrekim.github.io)
		216 points by kindachris on Feb 16, 2016 \| 180 comments
18.		Show HN: Go-git – low-level and extensible Git client library in Go (github.com/src-d)
		114 points by mcuadros on Feb 16, 2016 \| 56 comments
19.		Programming computer animation in 1964 [video] (youtube.com)
		80 points by Outdoorsman on Feb 16, 2016 \| 12 comments
20.		The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thousands of innocent people (arstechnica.co.uk)
		402 points by mocko on Feb 16, 2016 \| 208 comments
21.		Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News? (bemmu.com)
		171 points by bemmu on Feb 16, 2016 \| 115 comments
22.		An 'in' operator for Ruby (rubyhacker.com)
		88 points by charlieegan3 on Feb 15, 2016 \| 62 comments
23.		The fall and rise and rise of chat networks (arstechnica.com)
		86 points by dineshp2 on Feb 16, 2016 \| 76 comments
24.		What it looks like to process 3.5M books in Google’s cloud (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
		88 points by doppp on Feb 16, 2016 \| 11 comments
25.		Proposals Toward the End of Writing (believermag.com)
		39 points by samclemens on Feb 15, 2016 \| 17 comments
26.		Neutrinos continue run of odd behavior at Daya Bay (arstechnica.com)
		83 points by jonbaer on Feb 16, 2016 \| 19 comments
27.		Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video] (youtube.com)
		112 points by prawn on Feb 16, 2016 \| 24 comments
28.		Show HN: Urubu – A micro CMS for static websites (jandecaluwe.com)
		80 points by jandecaluwe on Feb 16, 2016 \| 31 comments
29.		Under-35s in the UK face becoming permanent renters, warns thinktank (theguardian.com)
		142 points by temp on Feb 16, 2016 \| 289 comments
30.		Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails (wsj.com)
		241 points by frostmatthew on Feb 16, 2016 \| 149 comments
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