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1. GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter (github.com/dear-github)
763 points by joshmanders on Feb 12, 2016 | 332 comments
2. Do you really need 10,000 steps a day? (cardiogr.am)
403 points by brandonb on Feb 12, 2016 | 171 comments
3. Without affordable housing, Vancouver risks becoming an economic ghost town (financialpost.com)
279 points by eigenvector on Feb 12, 2016 | 608 comments
4. Internet Access Is Finally Permanently Tax Free in the U.S. (medium.com/ronwyden)
266 points by sethbannon on Feb 11, 2016 | 134 comments
5. Moving on from Picasa (googlephotos.blogspot.com)
209 points by mvgoogler on Feb 12, 2016 | 234 comments
6. Download.com and Others Bundle Superfish-Style HTTPS Breaking Adware (howtogeek.com)
451 points by jacquesm on Feb 12, 2016 | 223 comments
7. Parity – Next Generation Ethereum Client, written in Rust (ethcore.io)
160 points by neverminder on Feb 10, 2016 | 18 comments
8. Pee-wee’s Big Comeback (nytimes.com)
117 points by aaronbrethorst on Feb 12, 2016 | 36 comments
9. Is it time to rethink recycling? (ensia.com)
117 points by nkurz on Feb 11, 2016 | 147 comments
10. Teaching Mathematics – Graph Theory (2011) (jeremykun.com)
95 points by rfreytag on Feb 10, 2016 | 3 comments
11. A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook (pitt.edu)
131 points by jonnybgood on Feb 11, 2016 | 2 comments
12. MJML – Responsive Email Framework (mjml.io)
210 points by HorizonXP on Feb 12, 2016 | 50 comments
13. A safe, comprehensible and efficient PID 1/init replacement written in OCaml (github.com/rein)
131 points by pjmlp on Feb 12, 2016 | 45 comments
14. Subuser turns Docker containers into normal Linux programs, limiting privileges (subuser.org)
224 points by bpierre on Feb 11, 2016 | 72 comments
15. How Artsy Did a Company Re-Org (artsy.net)
71 points by sethbannon on Feb 12, 2016 | 6 comments
16. A Gentle Introduction to Secure Computation (alexirpan.com)
59 points by alexirpan on Feb 12, 2016 | 6 comments
17. Adblock via /etc/hosts (github.com/stevenblack)
273 points by lpsz on Feb 12, 2016 | 139 comments
18. Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data (medium.com/vijay-pandurangan)
221 points by twakefield on Feb 11, 2016 | 57 comments
19. Magic and the rise of science (the-tls.co.uk)
63 points by benbreen on Feb 12, 2016 | 11 comments
20. What do you mean ‘we need more time’? Project schedule estimation in software (dropbox.com)
238 points by hepha1979 on Feb 11, 2016 | 147 comments
21. Unicorn: C++ Unicode string library (github.com/captaincrowbar)
66 points by captaincrowbar on Feb 12, 2016 | 30 comments
22. Link Between Neanderthal DNA and Depression Risk (theatlantic.com)
45 points by diodorus on Feb 12, 2016 | 16 comments
23. Airbnb purged 1,000 "entire home" listings days before preparing data snapshot (insideairbnb.com)
245 points by w1ntermute on Feb 12, 2016 | 65 comments
24. Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions (nytimes.com)
171 points by hvo on Feb 12, 2016 | 157 comments
25. Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates? (linkedin.com)
139 points by kelukelugames on Feb 12, 2016 | 152 comments
26. LIGO's vibration isolation system (caltech.edu)
159 points by lisper on Feb 11, 2016 | 20 comments
27. Vanguard's Low Blow (bloombergview.com)
235 points by tptacek on Feb 11, 2016 | 166 comments
28. Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure (datacenterknowledge.com)
156 points by lxm on Feb 12, 2016 | 72 comments
29. Open-sourcing Teletraan, a code deployment system (pinterest.com)
79 points by kevining on Feb 12, 2016 | 16 comments
30. Amazon Building Global Delivery Business to Take on Alibaba (bloomberg.com)
114 points by lxm on Feb 12, 2016 | 54 comments

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