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1. AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep (brain.fm)
744 points by jasbrainfm on Feb 21, 2016 | 301 comments
2. PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network (github.com/lmatteis)
288 points by sktrdie on Feb 21, 2016 | 80 comments
3. Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory (medium.com/pierreda)
365 points by adamnemecek on Feb 21, 2016 | 87 comments
4. LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface (engadget.com)
203 points by danielconde on Feb 21, 2016 | 171 comments
5. The Apple letter to customers couldn't happen under proposed UK law (privacyinternational.org)
471 points by J-dawg on Feb 21, 2016 | 102 comments
6. The Ad Blocking Wars (nytimes.com)
185 points by msoad on Feb 21, 2016 | 228 comments
7. Uber ruled illegal in Taiwan (thenewslens.com)
174 points by dheera on Feb 21, 2016 | 170 comments
8. The Unsuitability of English (2015) (chronicle.com)
171 points by r721 on Feb 21, 2016 | 313 comments
9. Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge (theverge.com)
136 points by devhxinc on Feb 21, 2016 | 157 comments
10. Reverse engineering Android from binary to source (dmitry.gr)
121 points by dmitrygr on Feb 20, 2016 | 21 comments
11. Apple is hiring engineers to bring WebRTC to Safari (jobs.apple.com)
173 points by cpncrunch on Feb 21, 2016 | 104 comments
12. RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes (ietf.org)
143 points by tosh on Feb 20, 2016 | 74 comments
13. Lamdu – towards a new programming experience (lamdu.org)
189 points by detaro on Feb 21, 2016 | 67 comments
14. The Legend of Verdun (newstatesman.com)
127 points by wormold on Feb 21, 2016 | 46 comments
15. Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift (github.com/tannernelson)
200 points by elithrar on Feb 21, 2016 | 70 comments
16. 'WarGames' and Cybersecurity's Debt to a Hollywood Hack (nytimes.com)
107 points by thucydides on Feb 20, 2016 | 35 comments
17. Discover Flask (discoverflask.com)
247 points by rkda on Feb 21, 2016 | 75 comments
18. Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1 (rud.is)
134 points by grej on Feb 21, 2016 | 14 comments
19. Where did all the HTTP referrers go? (2013) (smerity.com)
97 points by bemmu on Feb 20, 2016 | 36 comments
20. Swifton: Ruby on Rails-inspired web framework for Swift (github.com/necolt)
98 points by necolt on Feb 21, 2016 | 67 comments
21. Evidence that fish have feelings (bbc.com)
108 points by JohnHammersley on Feb 21, 2016 | 145 comments
22. ‘You Could Look It Up’: The World Before and Since Wikipedia (washingtonpost.com)
88 points by benbreen on Feb 21, 2016 | 96 comments
23. How undefined signed overflow enables optimizations in GCC (kristerw.blogspot.com)
100 points by ot on Feb 21, 2016 | 90 comments
24. Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse (theatlantic.com)
249 points by lxm on Feb 21, 2016 | 214 comments
25. Complete tree of life visualization using d3 and Catalog of Life (bpodgursky.com)
52 points by bpodgursky on Feb 20, 2016 | 10 comments
26. Git – the simple guide (rogerdudler.github.io)
125 points by dhruvbhatia on Feb 20, 2016 | 8 comments
27. Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds (thewinnower.com)
73 points by jmnicholson on Feb 20, 2016 | 17 comments
28. Yahoo Said to Start Approaching Possible Bidders Soon As Monday (bloomberg.com)
102 points by bmnews on Feb 21, 2016 | 68 comments
29. Descartes – An experimental library for writing CSS in JavaScript (descartes.io)
70 points by lolptdr on Feb 21, 2016 | 61 comments
30. Fixing the Internet for Real Time Applications, Part II (riotgames.com)
88 points by 0x4542 on Feb 21, 2016 | 20 comments

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