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1. Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it (github.com/p-e-w)
515 points by colund on Feb 6, 2016 | 94 comments
2. The Rich Are Already Using Robo-Advisers, and That Scares Banks (bloomberg.com)
271 points by frostmatthew on Feb 7, 2016 | 173 comments
3. The Rent-Seeking Is Too Damn High (fivethirtyeight.com)
321 points by luu on Feb 7, 2016 | 243 comments
4. America Is Flint (nytimes.com)
258 points by pavornyoh on Feb 7, 2016 | 143 comments
5. SSH: Best practices (blog.0xbadc0de.be)
284 points by cujanovic on Feb 7, 2016 | 118 comments
6. Records: Python library for making raw SQL queries to Postgres databases (github.com/kennethreitz)
257 points by infinite8s on Feb 7, 2016 | 129 comments
7. CSS Variables landing in Chrome 49 (developers.google.com)
186 points by wanda on Feb 7, 2016 | 63 comments
8. How We Release So Frequently (skybettingandgaming.com)
201 points by TomNomNom on Feb 7, 2016 | 50 comments
9. Visual Turing Test (deepart.io)
152 points by stared on Feb 6, 2016 | 84 comments
10. Amplifying C (2010) (voodoo-slide.blogspot.com)
140 points by jhack on Feb 7, 2016 | 101 comments
11. Rust vs. C++: Fine-grained Performance (cantrip.org)
211 points by beshrkayali on Feb 6, 2016 | 126 comments
12. How a College Student Used Creative Commons to Dominate Political Photography (priceonomics.com)
150 points by gregdoesit on Feb 6, 2016 | 70 comments
13. Disappointed with Europe, Thousands of Iraqi Migrants Return Home (nytimes.com)
189 points by peterkelly on Feb 7, 2016 | 232 comments
14. What Have We Learned from This Open Source Project? (taskwarrior.org)
163 points by oddell on Feb 7, 2016 | 51 comments
15. The Surprisingly Innovative Future of Wood (gizmodo.com)
99 points by curtis on Feb 7, 2016 | 45 comments
16. Polygon Shredder (clicktorelease.com)
85 points by reimertz on Feb 7, 2016 | 29 comments
17. Deep Learning Glossary (wildml.com)
106 points by dennybritz on Feb 7, 2016 | 2 comments
18. Plasma physicist discusses the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (phys.org)
99 points by Anchor on Feb 6, 2016 | 19 comments
19. Writing a compiler in Ruby, bottom up (2008) (hokstad.com)
89 points by rspivak on Feb 7, 2016 | 4 comments
20. I am a puts debuggerer (tenderlovemaking.com)
152 points by pkd on Feb 6, 2016 | 59 comments
21. The Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (openculture.com)
119 points by benbreen on Feb 7, 2016 | 20 comments
22. Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side (mashable.com)
243 points by dnqthao on Feb 6, 2016 | 169 comments
23. Dead Men Write No Code (medium.com/gavanw)
260 points by k__ on Feb 5, 2016 | 88 comments
24. News of Nvidia’s Pascal tapeout and silicon is important (semiaccurate.com)
62 points by nkurz on Feb 7, 2016 | 31 comments
25. Show HN: Tracing You, a website that tries to “see” where its visitors are (bengrosser.com)
65 points by forgetcolor on Feb 7, 2016 | 16 comments
26. Git-blame-someone-else – Blame someone else for your bad code (github.com/jayphelps)
149 points by mablae on Feb 6, 2016 | 65 comments
27. Mediatek MT6261 ROM dumping via the vibration motor (sodnpoo.com)
86 points by sodnpoo on Feb 7, 2016 | 9 comments
28. Mistakes Reviewers Make (umd.edu)
50 points by sjrd on Feb 7, 2016 | 10 comments
29. Dataset: databases for lazy people (github.com/pudo)
111 points by shagunsodhani on Feb 7, 2016 | 38 comments
30. The Montreux Jazz Festival archive is now online (epfl.ch)
113 points by fgeorgy on Feb 5, 2016 | 17 comments

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