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1.Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity (desktopneo.com)
798 points by ziburski on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 314 comments [ext]
2.Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (npr.org)
493 points by sabya on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
3.Riemann – A network monitoring system (riemann.io)
340 points by jonbaer on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
4. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
4.The Rails Doctrine (rubyonrails.org)
497 points by robin_reala on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 357 comments [ext]
5.Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine (github.com/nodejs)
346 points by bpierre on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
6.India's telecom regulator cracks down on Facebook for its Free Basics campaign [pdf] (trai.gov.in)
379 points by spothuga on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
7. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
7.Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence (togelius.blogspot.com)
247 points by togelius on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
8.Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability (perception-point.io)
218 points by ddb on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
9.OpenFace: Free and open source face recognition with deep neural networks (cmusatyalab.github.io)
249 points by fitzwatermellow on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
10. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
10.Did European Court Just Outlaw “Massive Monitoring of Communications” in Europe? (cdt.org)
262 points by ghosh on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
11.Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab (wolfram.com)
232 points by kwvarga on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
12.Breakup, as captured by my fitbit (twitter.com/iamkoby)
251 points by iamkoby on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
13. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
13.Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the Open Payments Dataset (troyshu.com)
157 points by tmshu1 on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
14.“Subject: Urgent Warning” (haxx.se)
407 points by robin_reala on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 174 comments [ext]
15.2^74207281-1 is Prime (mersenne.org)
304 points by ramshanker on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 124 comments [ext]
16. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 253 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Clojure 1.8 (cognitect.com)
272 points by 147 on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
17.All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white working class (theatlantic.com)
213 points by saadmalik01 on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 275 comments [ext]
18.Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform (venturebeat.com)
178 points by potshot on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
19. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Time is an illusion – challenges in distributed computing synchronization (acm.org)
152 points by alanfranz on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
20.Visualizing parallel requests in Elixir (codemancers.com)
133 points by emilsoman on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
21.Why Violins Have F-Holes (openculture.com)
164 points by signa11 on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
22. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
22.EFF Pries More Information on Zero Days from the Government (eff.org)
124 points by tghw on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
23.VR First by Crytek (cryengine.com)
118 points by lentil_soup on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
24.Tcpdive – A TCP Performance Profiling Tool (github.com/fastos)
113 points by EvanJS on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
25. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
25.STOKE – a stochastic optimizer for x86_64 assembly (github.com/stanfordpl)
129 points by ingve on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
26.How to Leverage Technical Debt (medium.com/startup-guide-anti-patterns)
102 points by mortimerwax on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
27.Deep sea frogfish that walks on the ocean floor found in New Zealand (telegraph.co.uk)
69 points by never-the-bride on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 6 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.Show HN: CMS.js – Fully Client-Side JavaScript Site Generator (cdmedia.github.io)
117 points by inflam52 on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
29.How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across America (nytimes.com)
111 points by tysone on Jan 19, 2016 [ext] | 135 comments [ext]
30.Being a deaf developer (cruft.io)
115 points by Nekobai on Jan 18, 2016 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
31. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments

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