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1.Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline (bloomberg.com)
632 points by kjhughes on Dec 8, 2016 | 441 comments
2.John Glenn has died (dispatch.com)
797 points by oaf357 on Dec 8, 2016 | 152 comments
3.1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856 (rachelbythebay.com)
522 points by TimWolla on Dec 8, 2016 | 100 comments
4.Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (2013) (istacee.wordpress.com)
550 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 8, 2016 | 354 comments
5.Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets (theverge.com)
309 points by Tomte on Dec 8, 2016 | 206 comments
6.Show HN: U.S. Legal Concepts for Founders – Online Handbook (clerky.com)
309 points by swampthing on Dec 8, 2016 | 50 comments
7.U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages (eff.org)
274 points by merrier on Dec 8, 2016 | 193 comments
8.Belarus finally bans Tor (torproject.org)
311 points by BuuQu9hu on Dec 8, 2016 | 123 comments
9.LowRISC – An open-source, Linux-capable System-on-a-Chip (lowrisc.org)
332 points by hkt on Dec 8, 2016 | 92 comments
10.Start building Actions on Google (googleblog.com)
204 points by bajames on Dec 8, 2016 | 62 comments
11.Lego Is the Perfect Toy (nymag.com)
250 points by wallflower on Dec 8, 2016 | 116 comments
12.Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal (nytimes.com)
268 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 8, 2016 | 239 comments
13.The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Major Crash (askthepilot.com)
272 points by maxcan on Dec 8, 2016 | 163 comments
14.It's Not Cold Fusion but It's Something (scientificamerican.com)
236 points by curtis on Dec 7, 2016 | 203 comments
15.Facebook Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest (bloomberg.com)
252 points by applecore on Dec 8, 2016 | 117 comments
16.Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool (robertelder.org)
245 points by robertelder on Dec 8, 2016 | 102 comments
17.The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive (robservatory.com)
190 points by hyperpape on Dec 8, 2016 | 121 comments
18.Introduction to K-means Clustering (datascience.com)
176 points by DataScienceInc on Dec 7, 2016 | 19 comments
19.AWS announces new region in Canada (amazon.com)
220 points by forrestbrazeal on Dec 8, 2016 | 112 comments
20.Talks that changed the way I think about programming (opowell.com)
593 points by greywolve on Dec 8, 2016 | 95 comments
21.Barely Half of 30-Year-Olds in the U.S. Earn More Than Their Parents Did at 30 (wsj.com)
243 points by Vannatter on Dec 8, 2016 | 383 comments
22.'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience (shivankaul.com)
911 points by skaul on Dec 8, 2016 | 510 comments
23.How to Use Clojure for Scripting (asimjalis.github.io)
116 points by asimjalis on Dec 8, 2016 | 28 comments
24.What Former Employees Say ITT Tech Did to Scam Its Students (npr.org)
120 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 8, 2016 | 79 comments
25.Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit (sciencebulletin.org)
217 points by devinp on Dec 8, 2016 | 39 comments
26.OAuth vs. SAML vs. OpenID Connect (gluu.co)
123 points by willow9886 on Dec 7, 2016 | 68 comments
27.When antibiotics failed a severely ill patient, a virus saved him (nautil.us)
134 points by sergeant3 on Dec 8, 2016 | 55 comments
28.A Provably Secure Proof-Of-Stake Blockchain Protocol (github.com/input-output-hk)
93 points by xiamx on Dec 8, 2016 | 30 comments
29.Fogging your Google search history with Python and Reddit (howlroundmusic.org)
128 points by marcosvpj on Dec 8, 2016 | 50 comments
30.Why is there no CR1, and why are control registers such a mess anyway? (2010) (pagetable.com)
99 points by JoshTriplett on Dec 7, 2016 | 15 comments

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