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1. Vulkan is Here (khronos.org)
903 points by ekianjo on Feb 16, 2016 | 201 comments
2. Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
502 points by 0x0 on Feb 16, 2016 | 456 comments
3. Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive (heidiroizen.tumblr.com)
432 points by whbk on Feb 16, 2016 | 188 comments
4. Missing Malaysia Jet MH370 Weeks Away from Keeping Secrets Forever (bloomberg.com)
243 points by acdanger on Feb 16, 2016 | 160 comments
5. Building a Startup in 45 Minutes per Day While Deployed in Iraq (mattmazur.com)
508 points by essayoh on Feb 15, 2016 | 120 comments
6. Uber's Design Meltdown (elischiff.com)
465 points by lumpypua on Feb 16, 2016 | 219 comments
7. Morocco to switch on first phase of world's largest solar plant (theguardian.com)
175 points by jaoued on Feb 16, 2016 | 72 comments
8. Show HN: Find the best recipe for any two foods, based on over 600k recipes (foodpairing.ninja)
337 points by qrv3w on Feb 16, 2016 | 105 comments
9. Japanese firm to open world’s first robot-run farm (theguardian.com)
171 points by evo_9 on Feb 16, 2016 | 97 comments
10. I Was the Most Wanted Man in China (lithub.com)
152 points by lermontov on Feb 16, 2016 | 24 comments
11. R, the master troll of statistical languages (2012) (talyarkoni.org)
184 points by Goldenromeo on Feb 16, 2016 | 148 comments
12. Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time (citylab.com)
123 points by infinite8s on Feb 16, 2016 | 32 comments
13. Automatically inferring file syntax with afl-analyze (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
119 points by tobik on Feb 16, 2016 | 3 comments
14. The Work of John Milnor, a giant in modern mathematics [pdf] (abelprize.no)
92 points by Outdoorsman on Feb 16, 2016 | 18 comments
15. Any smooth cubic surface contains 27 lines (ams.org)
80 points by tokenadult on Feb 16, 2016 | 37 comments
16. Dato open sources SFrame – a disk-backed, compressed columnnar data frame (dato.com)
93 points by infinite8s on Feb 15, 2016 | 19 comments
17. Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese company) (pierrekim.github.io)
216 points by kindachris on Feb 16, 2016 | 180 comments
18. Show HN: Go-git – low-level and extensible Git client library in Go (github.com/src-d)
114 points by mcuadros on Feb 16, 2016 | 56 comments
19. Programming computer animation in 1964 [video] (youtube.com)
80 points by Outdoorsman on Feb 16, 2016 | 12 comments
20. The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thousands of innocent people (arstechnica.co.uk)
402 points by mocko on Feb 16, 2016 | 208 comments
21. Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News? (bemmu.com)
171 points by bemmu on Feb 16, 2016 | 115 comments
22. An 'in' operator for Ruby (rubyhacker.com)
88 points by charlieegan3 on Feb 15, 2016 | 62 comments
23. The fall and rise and rise of chat networks (arstechnica.com)
86 points by dineshp2 on Feb 16, 2016 | 76 comments
24. What it looks like to process 3.5M books in Google’s cloud (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
88 points by doppp on Feb 16, 2016 | 11 comments
25. Proposals Toward the End of Writing (believermag.com)
39 points by samclemens on Feb 15, 2016 | 17 comments
26. Neutrinos continue run of odd behavior at Daya Bay (arstechnica.com)
83 points by jonbaer on Feb 16, 2016 | 19 comments
27. Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video] (youtube.com)
112 points by prawn on Feb 16, 2016 | 24 comments
28. Show HN: Urubu – A micro CMS for static websites (jandecaluwe.com)
80 points by jandecaluwe on Feb 16, 2016 | 31 comments
29. Under-35s in the UK face becoming permanent renters, warns thinktank (theguardian.com)
142 points by temp on Feb 16, 2016 | 289 comments
30. Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails (wsj.com)
241 points by frostmatthew on Feb 16, 2016 | 149 comments

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