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1. A Message to Our Customers (apple.com)
5771 points by epaga on Feb 17, 2016 | 967 comments
2. Apple ordered to bypass auto-erase on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone (techdirt.com)
685 points by bgentry on Feb 17, 2016 | 348 comments
3. How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016 (paragonie.com)
479 points by antitamper on Feb 17, 2016 | 301 comments
4. Issue and Pull Request templates (github.com/blog)
520 points by joshmanders on Feb 17, 2016 | 135 comments
5. Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015 (backblaze.com)
412 points by chmars on Feb 16, 2016 | 111 comments
6. Go 1.6 is Released (golang.org)
562 points by geetarista on Feb 17, 2016 | 354 comments
7. How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone (shane.engineer)
419 points by swighton on Feb 17, 2016 | 159 comments
8. We Need a Better PC (dcpos.ch)
659 points by dcposch on Feb 17, 2016 | 686 comments
9. The Rise of Renting in the U.S (citylab.com)
245 points by jseliger on Feb 17, 2016 | 367 comments
10. Patent Owners Can Prevent You from Owning Anything (eff.org)
301 points by pavornyoh on Feb 16, 2016 | 72 comments
11. Jan Koum: “I couldn't agree more with everything [Apple] said” (facebook.com)
255 points by envy2 on Feb 17, 2016 | 73 comments
12. Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox (debian.org)
282 points by leo2urlevan on Feb 17, 2016 | 149 comments
13. China's Subprime Crisis Is Here (bloomberg.com)
258 points by RaSoJo on Feb 17, 2016 | 215 comments
14. Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary (interviewing.io)
260 points by leeny on Feb 17, 2016 | 236 comments
15. Vulkan in 30 minutes (renderdoc.org)
176 points by adamnemecek on Feb 16, 2016 | 25 comments
16. Apple can comply with the FBI court order (trailofbits.com)
328 points by admiralpumpkin on Feb 17, 2016 | 207 comments
17. Revisiting the Google Pixel C – Better, but Not There Yet (anandtech.com)
79 points by netinstructions on Feb 17, 2016 | 52 comments
18. SEC Suspends Deutsche Bank Research Analyst for “Not Meaning What He Said” (sec.gov)
87 points by randomname2 on Feb 17, 2016 | 17 comments
19. Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain? (nytimes.com)
229 points by acdanger on Feb 17, 2016 | 118 comments
20. Living Without Atomic Clocks (cockroachlabs.com)
143 points by tschottdorf on Feb 17, 2016 | 48 comments
21. Intel Xeon D 12 and 16 core parts launched: first benchmarks (servethehome.com)
132 points by rbanffy on Feb 17, 2016 | 107 comments
22. Data Science Challenges at Instacart (instacart.com)
93 points by apoorvamehta on Feb 17, 2016 | 61 comments
23. ReactOS 0.4.0 Released (reactos.org)
211 points by ekianjo on Feb 17, 2016 | 91 comments
24. Running your models in production with TensorFlow Serving (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
170 points by hurrycane on Feb 16, 2016 | 18 comments
25. Apache Arrow: A new open source in-memory columnar data format (apache.org)
170 points by jkestelyn on Feb 17, 2016 | 44 comments
26. Introducing GIF search on Twitter (blog.twitter.com)
134 points by dredge on Feb 17, 2016 | 89 comments
27. Hidden figure in Leonardo da Vinci notebook revealed (britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk)
66 points by pepys on Feb 16, 2016 | 6 comments
28. The many load averages of Unix (utcc.utoronto.ca)
80 points by jsnell on Feb 17, 2016 | 10 comments
29. Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing' (telegraph.co.uk)
257 points by danielam on Feb 17, 2016 | 84 comments
30. Cancer 'vaccine' that remembers and fights disease is developed by scientists (telegraph.co.uk)
130 points by tempestn on Feb 16, 2016 | 47 comments

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