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1.AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep (brain.fm)
744 points by jasbrainfm on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 301 comments [ext]
2.PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network (github.com/lmatteis)
288 points by sktrdie on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
3.Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory (medium.com/pierreda)
365 points by adamnemecek on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
4. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
4.LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface (engadget.com)
203 points by danielconde on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 171 comments [ext]
5.The Apple letter to customers couldn't happen under proposed UK law (privacyinternational.org)
471 points by J-dawg on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
6.The Ad Blocking Wars (nytimes.com)
185 points by msoad on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 228 comments [ext]
7. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.Uber ruled illegal in Taiwan (thenewslens.com)
174 points by dheera on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 170 comments [ext]
8.The Unsuitability of English (2015) (chronicle.com)
171 points by r721 on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 313 comments [ext]
9.Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge (theverge.com)
136 points by devhxinc on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
10. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
10.Reverse engineering Android from binary to source (dmitry.gr)
121 points by dmitrygr on Feb 20, 2016 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
11.Apple is hiring engineers to bring WebRTC to Safari (jobs.apple.com)
173 points by cpncrunch on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
12.RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes (ietf.org)
143 points by tosh on Feb 20, 2016 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
13. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
13.Lamdu – towards a new programming experience (lamdu.org)
189 points by detaro on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
14.The Legend of Verdun (newstatesman.com)
127 points by wormold on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
15.Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift (github.com/tannernelson)
200 points by elithrar on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
16. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
16.'WarGames' and Cybersecurity's Debt to a Hollywood Hack (nytimes.com)
107 points by thucydides on Feb 20, 2016 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
17.Discover Flask (discoverflask.com)
247 points by rkda on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
18.Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1 (rud.is)
134 points by grej on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
19. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
19.Where did all the HTTP referrers go? (2013) (smerity.com)
97 points by bemmu on Feb 20, 2016 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
20.Swifton: Ruby on Rails-inspired web framework for Swift (github.com/necolt)
98 points by necolt on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
21.Evidence that fish have feelings (bbc.com)
108 points by JohnHammersley on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
22. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
22.‘You Could Look It Up’: The World Before and Since Wikipedia (washingtonpost.com)
88 points by benbreen on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
23.How undefined signed overflow enables optimizations in GCC (kristerw.blogspot.com)
100 points by ot on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
24.Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse (theatlantic.com)
249 points by lxm on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 214 comments [ext]
25. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
25.Complete tree of life visualization using d3 and Catalog of Life (bpodgursky.com)
52 points by bpodgursky on Feb 20, 2016 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
26.Git – the simple guide (rogerdudler.github.io)
125 points by dhruvbhatia on Feb 20, 2016 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
27.Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds (thewinnower.com)
73 points by jmnicholson on Feb 20, 2016 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
28. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
28.Yahoo Said to Start Approaching Possible Bidders Soon As Monday (bloomberg.com)
102 points by bmnews on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
29.Descartes – An experimental library for writing CSS in JavaScript (descartes.io)
70 points by lolptdr on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
30.Fixing the Internet for Real Time Applications, Part II (riotgames.com)
88 points by 0x4542 on Feb 21, 2016 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
31. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments

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