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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 | 419 comments
2. 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN (jbkempf.com)
585 points by bpierre on Feb 1, 2016 | 149 comments
3. Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode (betanews.com)
686 points by fgeorgy on Feb 1, 2016 | 213 comments
4. Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units (reuters.com)
351 points by uptown on Feb 1, 2016 | 301 comments
5. Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime” (openwall.com)
321 points by mrb on Feb 1, 2016 | 191 comments
6. How we use Slack in our family (earthpeople.se)
383 points by fjallstrom on Feb 1, 2016 | 115 comments
7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
455 points by whoishiring on Feb 1, 2016 | 788 comments
8. GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3 (github.com/blog)
249 points by richerlariviere on Feb 1, 2016 | 115 comments
9. Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client (shout-irc.com)
222 points by rocky1138 on Feb 1, 2016 | 62 comments
10. Huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf (github.com/cantino)
264 points by metachris on Feb 1, 2016 | 44 comments
11. Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers (addons.mozilla.org)
281 points by throwaway2048 on Feb 1, 2016 | 111 comments
12. How convolutional neural networks see the world (keras.io)
214 points by makmanalp on Jan 31, 2016 | 49 comments
13. Show HN: Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library (kushagragour.in)
253 points by chinchang on Feb 1, 2016 | 62 comments
14. Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center (projectnatick.com)
202 points by Qworg on Feb 1, 2016 | 156 comments
15. Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)
612 points by ipozgaj on Feb 1, 2016 | 380 comments
16. Treasure in a Cornfield (imgur.com)
276 points by aaron695 on Jan 31, 2016 | 55 comments
17. Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe (elms.wordpress.com)
137 points by fforflo on Feb 1, 2016 | 48 comments
18. Deploying a Haskell Web Service with Nix (jezenthomas.com)
120 points by yakshaving_jgt on Feb 1, 2016 | 23 comments
19. Deep Learning Tutorial by Y. LeCun and Y. Bengio (microsoft.com)
189 points by Anon84 on Jan 31, 2016 | 8 comments
20. How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections (support.mozilla.org)
174 points by bsilvereagle on Feb 1, 2016 | 27 comments
21. Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some Professions (wsj.com)
110 points by luu on Feb 1, 2016 | 146 comments
22. The maths of the paper disproving conspiracy theories don't add up (littleatoms.com)
107 points by r0muald on Jan 31, 2016 | 60 comments
23. Super Mario Wallpaper Maker (nintendo.co.jp)
125 points by pdknsk on Feb 1, 2016 | 20 comments
24. Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
349 points by kalzium on Feb 1, 2016 | 535 comments
25. Show HN: Wired Logic – a pixel-based logic simulator (github.com/martinkirsche)
176 points by mkirsche on Jan 31, 2016 | 15 comments
26. The Wreck of Amtrak 188 (nytimes.com)
126 points by danso on Jan 31, 2016 | 106 comments
27. Show HN: GraphvizAnim, a tool to create animated graphs, based on graphviz (github.com/mapio)
70 points by mapio on Feb 1, 2016 | 18 comments
28. How Hamming codes work (datagenetics.com)
145 points by squeakynick on Jan 31, 2016 | 10 comments
29. Currency War: U.S. Hedge Funds Mount New Attacks on China's Yuan (wsj.com)
113 points by yulunli on Feb 1, 2016 | 144 comments
30. In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (custodians.online)
176 points by atondwal on Feb 1, 2016 | 25 comments

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