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1. Marvin Minsky dies at 88 (nytimes.com)
1259 points by joelg on Jan 25, 2016 | 178 comments
2. Amazon's customer service backdoor (medium.com/espringe)
1447 points by grapehut on Jan 24, 2016 | 356 comments
3. CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents (cia.gov)
420 points by XzetaU8 on Jan 25, 2016 | 212 comments
4. Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub (microsoft.com)
546 points by fforflo on Jan 25, 2016 | 56 comments
5. I'm going to slowly move on from Mercurial (mercurial-scm.org)
480 points by jordigh on Jan 25, 2016 | 162 comments
6. Deep Learning with Spark and TensorFlow (databricks.com)
228 points by mateiz on Jan 25, 2016 | 30 comments
7. Simplifying Docker on OS X (andyet.com)
259 points by joeyespo on Jan 25, 2016 | 85 comments
8. Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha (wired.com)
205 points by rdl on Jan 25, 2016 | 143 comments
9. Multiple security vulnerabilities in Rails (groups.google.com)
229 points by alinajaf on Jan 25, 2016 | 62 comments
10. Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation Than Silicon Valley Is (hbr.org)
172 points by adamnemecek on Jan 25, 2016 | 41 comments
11. Things every React.js beginner should know (camjackson.net)
412 points by Scriptor on Jan 24, 2016 | 237 comments
12. World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days (torrentfreak.com)
244 points by yabatopia on Jan 24, 2016 | 107 comments
13. Use JSON files as if they are Python modules (github.com/kragniz)
267 points by bane on Jan 25, 2016 | 65 comments
14. Google Pixel C Review (anandtech.com)
176 points by ingve on Jan 25, 2016 | 149 comments
15. The China GPS shift problem (wikipedia.org)
205 points by ivank on Jan 24, 2016 | 71 comments
16. Reactive GraphQL (info.meteor.com)
158 points by johanbrook on Jan 25, 2016 | 37 comments
17. Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government” (nohats.ca)
266 points by longwave on Jan 25, 2016 | 59 comments
18. Finding iOS Memory Leaks with Xcode's Instruments (atomicobject.com)
96 points by philk10 on Jan 25, 2016 | 15 comments
19. Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers (theguardian.com)
116 points by doener on Jan 25, 2016 | 44 comments
20. Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to minimize floating point error (github.com/uwplse)
117 points by santaclaus on Jan 24, 2016 | 19 comments
21. Soundcloud for the Desktop (soundnodeapp.com)
169 points by somecoder on Jan 25, 2016 | 74 comments
22. That Plane Overhead: Starring Our Friends SDR, ADS-B, I2C and KLGA (jeremybmerrill.com)
100 points by bentaber on Jan 25, 2016 | 16 comments
23. Herzog's wild ride through the web (theguardian.com)
74 points by bloat on Jan 24, 2016 | 21 comments
24. Where Have All the Gophers Gone? Why the Web Beat Gopher for Mindshare (2008) (unc.edu)
70 points by vezzy-fnord on Jan 24, 2016 | 26 comments
25. Japan Must Let Zombie Companies Die (bloombergview.com)
117 points by tmlee on Jan 25, 2016 | 104 comments
26. Deep belief image recognition on Raspberry Pi (github.com/jetpacapp)
80 points by liquidmetal on Jan 25, 2016 | 7 comments
27. How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878) (peirce.org)
47 points by chesterfield on Jan 24, 2016 | 6 comments
28. Atlantis-style myths that turned out to be true (bbc.com)
114 points by Perados on Jan 24, 2016 | 28 comments
29. Reverse-Engineering Google Nest Devices (experimental-platform.tumblr.com)
115 points by jelveh on Jan 25, 2016 | 84 comments
30. A Computer Scientist's guide to cell biology (2007) [pdf] (cmu.edu)
142 points by nafizh on Jan 24, 2016 | 13 comments

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