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1.Vulkan is Here (khronos.org)
903 points by ekianjo on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 201 comments [ext]
2.Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
502 points by 0x0 on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 456 comments [ext]
3.Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive (heidiroizen.tumblr.com)
432 points by whbk on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 188 comments [ext]
4. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
4.Missing Malaysia Jet MH370 Weeks Away from Keeping Secrets Forever (bloomberg.com)
243 points by acdanger on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 160 comments [ext]
5.Building a Startup in 45 Minutes per Day While Deployed in Iraq (mattmazur.com)
508 points by essayoh on Feb 15, 2016 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
6.Uber's Design Meltdown (elischiff.com)
465 points by lumpypua on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 219 comments [ext]
7. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
7.Morocco to switch on first phase of world's largest solar plant (theguardian.com)
175 points by jaoued on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
8.Show HN: Find the best recipe for any two foods, based on over 600k recipes (foodpairing.ninja)
337 points by qrv3w on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
9.Japanese firm to open world’s first robot-run farm (theguardian.com)
171 points by evo_9 on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
10. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
10.I Was the Most Wanted Man in China (lithub.com)
152 points by lermontov on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
11.R, the master troll of statistical languages (2012) (talyarkoni.org)
184 points by Goldenromeo on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
12.Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time (citylab.com)
123 points by infinite8s on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
13. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
13.Automatically inferring file syntax with afl-analyze (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
119 points by tobik on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
14.The Work of John Milnor, a giant in modern mathematics [pdf] (abelprize.no)
92 points by Outdoorsman on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
15.Any smooth cubic surface contains 27 lines (ams.org)
80 points by tokenadult on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
16. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
16.Dato open sources SFrame – a disk-backed, compressed columnnar data frame (dato.com)
93 points by infinite8s on Feb 15, 2016 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
17.Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese company) (pierrekim.github.io)
216 points by kindachris on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 180 comments [ext]
18.Show HN: Go-git – low-level and extensible Git client library in Go (github.com/src-d)
114 points by mcuadros on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
19. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
19.Programming computer animation in 1964 [video] (youtube.com)
80 points by Outdoorsman on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
20.The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thousands of innocent people (arstechnica.co.uk)
402 points by mocko on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 208 comments [ext]
21.Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News? (bemmu.com)
171 points by bemmu on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
22. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
22.An 'in' operator for Ruby (rubyhacker.com)
88 points by charlieegan3 on Feb 15, 2016 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
23.The fall and rise and rise of chat networks (arstechnica.com)
86 points by dineshp2 on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
24.What it looks like to process 3.5M books in Google’s cloud (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
88 points by doppp on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
25. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
25.Proposals Toward the End of Writing (believermag.com)
39 points by samclemens on Feb 15, 2016 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
26.Neutrinos continue run of odd behavior at Daya Bay (arstechnica.com)
83 points by jonbaer on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
27.Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video] (youtube.com)
112 points by prawn on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
28. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
28.Show HN: Urubu – A micro CMS for static websites (jandecaluwe.com)
80 points by jandecaluwe on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
29.Under-35s in the UK face becoming permanent renters, warns thinktank (theguardian.com)
142 points by temp on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 289 comments [ext]
30.Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails (wsj.com)
241 points by frostmatthew on Feb 16, 2016 [ext] | 149 comments [ext]
31. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments

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