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1.		AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep (brain.fm)
		744 points by jasbrainfm on Feb 21, 2016 \| 301 comments
2.		PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network (github.com/lmatteis)
		288 points by sktrdie on Feb 21, 2016 \| 80 comments
3.		Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory (medium.com/pierreda)
		365 points by adamnemecek on Feb 21, 2016 \| 87 comments
4.		LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface (engadget.com)
		203 points by danielconde on Feb 21, 2016 \| 171 comments
5.		The Apple letter to customers couldn't happen under proposed UK law (privacyinternational.org)
		471 points by J-dawg on Feb 21, 2016 \| 102 comments
6.		The Ad Blocking Wars (nytimes.com)
		185 points by msoad on Feb 21, 2016 \| 228 comments
7.		Uber ruled illegal in Taiwan (thenewslens.com)
		174 points by dheera on Feb 21, 2016 \| 170 comments
8.		The Unsuitability of English (2015) (chronicle.com)
		171 points by r721 on Feb 21, 2016 \| 313 comments
9.		Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge (theverge.com)
		136 points by devhxinc on Feb 21, 2016 \| 157 comments
10.		Reverse engineering Android from binary to source (dmitry.gr)
		121 points by dmitrygr on Feb 20, 2016 \| 21 comments
11.		Apple is hiring engineers to bring WebRTC to Safari (jobs.apple.com)
		173 points by cpncrunch on Feb 21, 2016 \| 104 comments
12.		RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes (ietf.org)
		143 points by tosh on Feb 20, 2016 \| 74 comments
13.		Lamdu – towards a new programming experience (lamdu.org)
		189 points by detaro on Feb 21, 2016 \| 67 comments
14.		The Legend of Verdun (newstatesman.com)
		127 points by wormold on Feb 21, 2016 \| 46 comments
15.		Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift (github.com/tannernelson)
		200 points by elithrar on Feb 21, 2016 \| 70 comments
16.		'WarGames' and Cybersecurity's Debt to a Hollywood Hack (nytimes.com)
		107 points by thucydides on Feb 20, 2016 \| 35 comments
17.		Discover Flask (discoverflask.com)
		247 points by rkda on Feb 21, 2016 \| 75 comments
18.		Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1 (rud.is)
		134 points by grej on Feb 21, 2016 \| 14 comments
19.		Where did all the HTTP referrers go? (2013) (smerity.com)
		97 points by bemmu on Feb 20, 2016 \| 36 comments
20.		Swifton: Ruby on Rails-inspired web framework for Swift (github.com/necolt)
		98 points by necolt on Feb 21, 2016 \| 67 comments
21.		Evidence that fish have feelings (bbc.com)
		108 points by JohnHammersley on Feb 21, 2016 \| 145 comments
22.		‘You Could Look It Up’: The World Before and Since Wikipedia (washingtonpost.com)
		88 points by benbreen on Feb 21, 2016 \| 96 comments
23.		How undefined signed overflow enables optimizations in GCC (kristerw.blogspot.com)
		100 points by ot on Feb 21, 2016 \| 90 comments
24.		Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse (theatlantic.com)
		249 points by lxm on Feb 21, 2016 \| 214 comments
25.		Complete tree of life visualization using d3 and Catalog of Life (bpodgursky.com)
		52 points by bpodgursky on Feb 20, 2016 \| 10 comments
26.		Git – the simple guide (rogerdudler.github.io)
		125 points by dhruvbhatia on Feb 20, 2016 \| 8 comments
27.		Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds (thewinnower.com)
		73 points by jmnicholson on Feb 20, 2016 \| 17 comments
28.		Yahoo Said to Start Approaching Possible Bidders Soon As Monday (bloomberg.com)
		102 points by bmnews on Feb 21, 2016 \| 68 comments
29.		Descartes – An experimental library for writing CSS in JavaScript (descartes.io)
		70 points by lolptdr on Feb 21, 2016 \| 61 comments
30.		Fixing the Internet for Real Time Applications, Part II (riotgames.com)
		88 points by 0x4542 on Feb 21, 2016 \| 20 comments
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