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1.Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World (techcrunch.com)
720 points by pearlsteinj on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 419 comments [ext]
2.15 years of VLC and VideoLAN (jbkempf.com)
585 points by bpierre on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 149 comments [ext]
3.Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode (betanews.com)
686 points by fgeorgy on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 213 comments [ext]
4. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
4.Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units (reuters.com)
351 points by uptown on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 301 comments [ext]
5.Socat: β€œthe hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime” (openwall.com)
321 points by mrb on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 191 comments [ext]
6.How we use Slack in our family (earthpeople.se)
383 points by fjallstrom on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
7. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
7.Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016) [ext]
455 points by whoishiring on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 787 comments [ext]
8.GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3 (github.com/blog)
249 points by richerlariviere on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
9.Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client (shout-irc.com)
222 points by rocky1138 on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
10. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf (github.com/cantino)
264 points by metachris on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
11.Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers (addons.mozilla.org)
281 points by throwaway2048 on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
12.How convolutional neural networks see the world (keras.io)
214 points by makmanalp on Jan 31, 2016 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
13. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 601 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Show HN: Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library (kushagragour.in)
253 points by chinchang on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
14.Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center (projectnatick.com)
202 points by Qworg on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 156 comments [ext]
15.Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)
612 points by ipozgaj on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 380 comments [ext]
16. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
16.Treasure in a Cornfield (imgur.com)
276 points by aaron695 on Jan 31, 2016 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
17.Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe (elms.wordpress.com)
137 points by fforflo on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
18.Deploying a Haskell Web Service with Nix (jezenthomas.com)
120 points by yakshaving_jgt on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
19. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
19.Deep Learning Tutorial by Y. LeCun and Y. Bengio (research.microsoft.com)
189 points by Anon84 on Jan 31, 2016 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
20.How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections (support.mozilla.org)
174 points by bsilvereagle on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
21.Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some Professions (wsj.com)
110 points by luu on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 146 comments [ext]
22. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
22.The maths of the paper disproving conspiracy theories don't add up (littleatoms.com)
107 points by r0muald on Jan 31, 2016 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
23.Super Mario Wallpaper Maker (nintendo.co.jp)
125 points by pdknsk on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
24.Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer? [ext]
349 points by kalzium on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 535 comments [ext]
25. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
25.Show HN: Wired Logic – a pixel-based logic simulator (github.com/martinkirsche)
176 points by mkirsche on Jan 31, 2016 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
26.The Wreck of Amtrak 188 (nytimes.com)
126 points by danso on Jan 31, 2016 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
27.Show HN: GraphvizAnim, a tool to create animated graphs, based on graphviz (github.com/mapio)
70 points by mapio on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
28. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
28.How Hamming codes work (datagenetics.com)
145 points by squeakynick on Jan 31, 2016 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
29.Currency War: U.S. Hedge Funds Mount New Attacks on China's Yuan (wsj.com)
113 points by yulunli on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 144 comments [ext]
30.In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (custodians.online)
176 points by atondwal on Feb 1, 2016 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
31. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments

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