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1. Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right (nytimes.com)
2011 points by intull on Feb 11, 2016 | 483 comments
2. SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses (factmag.com)
620 points by neokya on Feb 11, 2016 | 339 comments
3. Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors (bloomberg.com)
452 points by sremani on Feb 11, 2016 | 314 comments
4. Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform (hisham.hm)
613 points by hisham_hm on Feb 11, 2016 | 153 comments
5. Investigate switching away from GitHub (github.com/eslint)
498 points by kristiandupont on Feb 11, 2016 | 245 comments
6. Kill Your Dependencies (mikeperham.com)
409 points by twampss on Feb 9, 2016 | 226 comments
7. Zenefits Software Helped Brokers Cheat On Licensing Process (buzzfeed.com)
296 points by LukeB_UK on Feb 11, 2016 | 156 comments
8. Princeton Bitcoin textbook is now freely available (freedom-to-tinker.com)
247 points by t3hSpork on Feb 10, 2016 | 19 comments
9. What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jumper cable (facebook.com)
313 points by 2bluesc on Feb 11, 2016 | 153 comments
10. Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer (theconversation.com)
205 points by bootload on Feb 11, 2016 | 170 comments
11. Show HN: HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments (hnreplies.com)
217 points by dangrossman on Feb 11, 2016 | 122 comments
12. The curse of the gifted programmer (2000) (lwn.net)
381 points by nkurz on Feb 11, 2016 | 166 comments
13. What It Feels Like to Freeze on National Television (drbenjaminhabib.wordpress.com)
232 points by cube00 on Feb 11, 2016 | 65 comments
14. A Truck the Russians Make for $50K (jalopnik.com)
300 points by _nh_ on Feb 10, 2016 | 68 comments
15. [dupe] Gravitational waves detected by LIGO (telegraph.co.uk)
454 points by apsec112 on Feb 11, 2016 | 97 comments
16. Open-sourced Parse now supports push notifications (parse.com)
158 points by jamesjyu on Feb 11, 2016 | 28 comments
17. A Day at the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon (popularmechanics.com)
220 points by gribbits on Feb 9, 2016 | 34 comments
18. UCLA has published a powerful new image-detection algorithm (pcworld.com)
102 points by kungfudoi on Feb 11, 2016 | 38 comments
19. How Silicon Valley is dealing with mental illness (cnn.com)
136 points by pshaw on Feb 10, 2016 | 187 comments
20. LLVM Patches Confirm Google Has Its Own In-House Processor (phoronix.com)
165 points by buserror on Feb 10, 2016 | 55 comments
21. Drones learn to search forest trails for lost people (phys.org)
92 points by jonbaer on Feb 10, 2016 | 39 comments
22. A MOS6502 assembler impleme​nted as a Rust macro (rust-lang.org)
111 points by mmastrac on Feb 11, 2016 | 55 comments
23. Scientists have found a way to help learn skills faster (sciencealert.com)
143 points by davidiach on Feb 9, 2016 | 55 comments
24. Let's Make a Voxel Engine (2013) (sites.google.com)
94 points by striking on Feb 11, 2016 | 8 comments
25. VP9 is now available in WebRTC (developers.google.com)
96 points by genediazjr on Feb 11, 2016 | 7 comments
26. A Better Varargs (codeacumen.info)
75 points by Anilm3 on Feb 10, 2016 | 26 comments
27. Pandora Is Said to Have Held Talks About Selling Itself (nytimes.com)
79 points by guiseroom on Feb 11, 2016 | 60 comments
28. Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists (redorbit.com)
73 points by akakievich on Feb 11, 2016 | 27 comments
29. Why do Windows functions begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? (2011) (microsoft.com)
136 points by mau on Feb 9, 2016 | 31 comments
30. Most Radioactive Spot in New York: A Street Corner in Queens (thishiddencity.blogspot.com)
100 points by state_machine on Feb 10, 2016 | 37 comments

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