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1. Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto (caltech.edu)
883 points by cyanbane on Jan 20, 2016 | 150 comments
2. Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup (brave.com)
667 points by Seldaek on Jan 20, 2016 | 549 comments
3. A free shipping mystery (goyet.com)
410 points by Immortalin on Jan 19, 2016 | 195 comments
4. The NICAM Codec replacement project (bbc.co.uk)
519 points by dtf on Jan 20, 2016 | 106 comments
5. It's harder to get into YC if you’ve been through another accelerator (blog.ycombinator.com)
228 points by wasd on Jan 20, 2016 | 151 comments
6. The State of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong (discovermeteor.com)
345 points by JanLaussmann on Jan 20, 2016 | 183 comments
7. Thanks for Trumpet Winsock (thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com)
415 points by wooby on Jan 20, 2016 | 117 comments
8. How do bank payments actually work? (getmondo.co.uk)
290 points by alexbilbie on Jan 20, 2016 | 149 comments
9. TorFlow (uncharted.software)
261 points by bemmu on Jan 20, 2016 | 71 comments
10. Google proposes its Dataflow batch/stream tech to the Apache Incubator (apache.org)
191 points by crb on Jan 20, 2016 | 34 comments
11. Scrapy Tips from the Pros (scrapinghub.com)
269 points by ddebernardy on Jan 20, 2016 | 75 comments
12. Is it still possible to get away with a heist? (telegraph.co.uk)
169 points by sasvari on Jan 19, 2016 | 110 comments
13. Scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age (theatlantic.com)
126 points by curtis on Jan 20, 2016 | 18 comments
14. Show HN: Detect upsampling in images (github.com/0x09)
113 points by 0x09 on Jan 20, 2016 | 15 comments
15. Sort Faster with FPGAs (hackaday.com)
86 points by szczys on Jan 20, 2016 | 38 comments
16. Twitter’s Silence on State-Sponsored Attacks (threatpost.com)
85 points by bootload on Jan 20, 2016 | 17 comments
17. Ejabberd Massive Scalability: 1 Node – 2+ Million Concurrent Users (process-one.net)
90 points by kungfudoi on Jan 20, 2016 | 18 comments
18. Grisly find suggests humans inhabited Arctic 45,000 years ago (sciencemag.org)
90 points by fforflo on Jan 19, 2016 | 79 comments
19. Isaac Asimov: Man of 7,560,000 Words (1969) (nytimes.com)
89 points by jeremynixon on Jan 19, 2016 | 39 comments
20. Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10 (irrlicht3d.org)
386 points by irrlichthn on Jan 20, 2016 | 269 comments
21. The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of monads (mightybyte.github.io)
127 points by mightybyte on Jan 19, 2016 | 48 comments
22. Increased resident participation in planning produces extreme wealth segregation [pdf] (ucla.edu)
63 points by randycupertino on Jan 20, 2016 | 48 comments
23. SSH tunnelling for fun and profit: AutoSSH (everythingcli.org)
141 points by everythingcli on Jan 20, 2016 | 70 comments
24. Why Is Your Team Falling Behind? Ask ‘The Penny Game’ (atomicobject.com)
149 points by ingve on Jan 19, 2016 | 71 comments
25. Show HN: Nativefier – Wrap any web page natively (github.com/jiahaog)
162 points by skewedlines on Jan 19, 2016 | 70 comments
26. Microsoft will donate $1B in cloud services to nonprofits and universities (microsoft.com)
112 points by brozak on Jan 20, 2016 | 74 comments
27. It's time to build your own router (arstechnica.com)
185 points by ghosh on Jan 20, 2016 | 93 comments
28. Twitter Ex-CEO Costolo Plans Fitness Startup, Joins VC Firm (bloomberg.com)
49 points by pavornyoh on Jan 19, 2016 | 20 comments
29. Serving 6.8M requests per second at 9 Gbps from a single Azure VM (ageofascent.com)
127 points by profquail on Jan 19, 2016 | 55 comments
30. Execute BASIC Programs in Minecraft (gamnesia.com)
48 points by SteBu on Jan 20, 2016 | 12 comments

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