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1.Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments (ramiro.org)
1043 points by gkst on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 181 comments [ext]
2.Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab (about.gitlab.com)
924 points by levlaz on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 318 comments [ext]
3.Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (techcrunch.com)
408 points by walterclifford on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 169 comments [ext]
4. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
4.WebTorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC (webtorrent.io)
380 points by Doolwind on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
5.Org-Mode for Writing: Structure and Focus (awarewriter.wordpress.com)
189 points by pmoriarty on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
6.C++11 threads, affinity and hyperthreading (thegreenplace.net)
137 points by nkurz on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
7. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
7.Launching an Apple TV App: What We’ve Learned So Far (serverdensity.com)
159 points by ingve on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
8.Michael Bloomberg on starting a business during tough economic times (1982) (nytimes.com)
106 points by raldi on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
9.Tech faces hour of reckoning as fundraising drops, layoffs rise (usatoday.com)
222 points by apsec112 on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
10. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
10.Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming? [ext]
263 points by maryrosecook on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
11.Autopwn every Android device on your network using BetterCap (evilsocket.net)
106 points by wolframio on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
12.Multiple cameras and motion detection on the Raspberry Pi (pyimagesearch.com)
147 points by zionsrogue on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
13. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Voynich Manuscript: word vectors and t-SNE visualization of some patterns (christianperone.com)
131 points by perone on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
14.SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes on landing after delivering satellite to space (bbc.com)
222 points by FrejNorling on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 211 comments [ext]
15.Word2vec, LDA, and introducing a new hybrid algorithm: lda2vec (slideshare.net)
131 points by juxtaposicion on Jan 17, 2016 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
16. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 19 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
16.Netboot (netboot.xyz)
214 points by p4bl0 on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
17.The Real Problem with Lunch (nytimes.com)
139 points by wallflower on Jan 16, 2016 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
18.What Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique (medium.com/tannerc)
125 points by tannerc on Jan 17, 2016 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
19. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
19.Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work? [ext]
358 points by the_wheel on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
20.Show HN: Python to C++14 transpiler (github.com/lukasmartinelli)
96 points by morgenkaffee on Jan 17, 2016 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
21.‘Locked-in’ people show signs of awareness when faced with sums (newscientist.com)
72 points by mileskjeller on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
22. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
22.Show HN: Git Draw allows you to draw pictures directly into your GitHub heat map (github.com/ben174)
91 points by ben174 on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
23.Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense (github.com/tarsnap)
142 points by dchest on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
24.Recurrent Neural Nets for Speech Synthesis (arxiv.org)
88 points by Katydid on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
25. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
25.Recognizing Speech from Smartphone Gyroscopes (2014) (stanford.edu)
90 points by vladmiller on Jan 16, 2016 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
26.The Tennis Racket (buzzfeed.com)
140 points by jsvine on Jan 17, 2016 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
27.Hot Potato – Windows Privilege Escalation (foxglovesecurity.com)
73 points by mmastrac on Jan 17, 2016 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
28. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
28.Development and Deployment of Massively Multiplayer Games (ithare.com)
67 points by jayfk on Jan 17, 2016 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
29.The slowly fading art of flying and maintaining Cold War fighter jets (arstechnica.com)
49 points by bootload on Jan 17, 2016 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
30.Why you cannot have C++ exceptions with a stack trace (unipi.it)
58 points by ingve on Jan 17, 2016 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
31. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments

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