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1. The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment (medium.com/octskyward)
961 points by tptacek on Jan 14, 2016 | 408 comments
2. Before Growth (samaltman.com)
364 points by firloop on Jan 15, 2016 | 206 comments
3. Etsy stock has lost 76% of its value in 9 months (google.com)
278 points by megafounder on Jan 15, 2016 | 262 comments
4. Wikipedia Turns 15 (wikipedia.org)
441 points by doppp on Jan 15, 2016 | 109 comments
5. There are no secure smartphones (devever.net)
374 points by moehm on Jan 14, 2016 | 118 comments
6. Amazon Has Just Registered to Sell Ocean Freight (flexport.com)
314 points by lxm on Jan 15, 2016 | 98 comments
7. A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning (andreykurenkov.com)
245 points by andreyk on Jan 15, 2016 | 20 comments
8. Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London (vice.com)
255 points by walterbell on Jan 15, 2016 | 98 comments
9. You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs. DRM, Round Two (eff.org)
216 points by cpeterso on Jan 14, 2016 | 107 comments
10. The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Experiment (nytimes.com)
122 points by socalnate1 on Jan 14, 2016 | 129 comments
11. Doomsday planning for less crazy folk (coredump.cx)
213 points by f- on Jan 15, 2016 | 162 comments
12. 36TB FreeNAS Home Server Build (ramsdenj.github.io)
203 points by sengork on Jan 15, 2016 | 181 comments
13. Microsoft Drops Prices for Some Azure Instances by Up to 17% (techcrunch.com)
100 points by boulos on Jan 14, 2016 | 40 comments
14. Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable (medium.com/nayafia)
205 points by panic on Jan 14, 2016 | 106 comments
15. Obama administration ready to put $4B toward self-driving cars (usatoday.com)
138 points by lemiant on Jan 14, 2016 | 138 comments
16. Dr. Memory: A Memory Checker Faster Than Valgrind (drmemory.org)
143 points by vmorgulis on Jan 15, 2016 | 43 comments
17. Farbfeld – A suckless image format (suckless.org)
112 points by frign on Jan 12, 2016 | 88 comments
18. Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Source Software (oswatch.net)
150 points by d99kris on Jan 15, 2016 | 73 comments
19. The Happiness Code: Cold, hard rationality (nytimes.com)
128 points by applecore on Jan 15, 2016 | 61 comments
20. Mental fatigue impairs physical performance in humans (2009) (physiology.org)
110 points by jimsojim on Jan 14, 2016 | 56 comments
21. PayPal and zero-dollar invoice spam (troyhunt.com)
160 points by temp on Jan 15, 2016 | 71 comments
22. Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin (avc.com)
221 points by gist on Jan 15, 2016 | 193 comments
23. Intel Software Guard Extensions – Memory Encryption Engine (drive.google.com)
81 points by mrb on Jan 15, 2016 | 52 comments
24. DiY Fiber Optic Light Using ESP8266 (adityatannu.com)
59 points by adysan on Jan 14, 2016 | 15 comments
25. My Experience With the Great Firewall of China (zorinaq.com)
156 points by mrb on Jan 14, 2016 | 57 comments
26. John Romero has released his first Doom level in over two decades (gamasutra.com)
187 points by Impossible on Jan 15, 2016 | 40 comments
27. Input an image and get back astrometric calibration metadata (astrometry.net)
84 points by davidbarker on Jan 14, 2016 | 3 comments
28. Goldman Sachs Will Pay $5B to Settle Financial-Crisis Claims (npr.org)
114 points by mashgin on Jan 15, 2016 | 113 comments
29. Amid a demand for batteries, companies are scrambling for supplies of lithium (economist.com)
79 points by edward on Jan 14, 2016 | 23 comments
30. An open letter of gratitude to GitHub (github.com/thank-you-github)
248 points by arthurnn on Jan 15, 2016 | 104 comments

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