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1.		Introducing OpenAI (openai.com)
		1107 points by sama on Dec 11, 2015 \| 376 comments
2.		How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over (medium.com/backchannel)
		344 points by sergeant3 on Dec 11, 2015 \| 171 comments
3.		Dow and DuPont to merge (washingtonpost.com)
		200 points by gotchange on Dec 11, 2015 \| 120 comments
4.		US to ban soaps and other products containing microbeads (theguardian.com)
		293 points by benologist on Dec 11, 2015 \| 221 comments
5.		I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA
		313 points by proberts on Dec 11, 2015 \| 310 comments
6.		Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla (djangoproject.com)
		302 points by cdnsteve on Dec 11, 2015 \| 101 comments
7.		Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team (ieee.org)
		232 points by teklaperry on Dec 11, 2015 \| 178 comments
8.		Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers (1998) (yale.edu)
		140 points by jasim on Dec 10, 2015 \| 79 comments
9.		Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore (eff.org)
		262 points by pavornyoh on Dec 10, 2015 \| 87 comments
10.		Spideroak Kloak: Zero-Knowlege Social Networking (spideroak.com)
		156 points by kevinSuttle on Dec 11, 2015 \| 66 comments
11.		Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme (ponzi.es)
		332 points by zachlatta on Dec 11, 2015 \| 125 comments
12.		Google Wallet: Send money via text message (googlecommerce.blogspot.com)
		94 points by howsilly on Dec 11, 2015 \| 65 comments
13.		How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist (uu.nl)
		208 points by tokenadult on Dec 10, 2015 \| 75 comments
14.		A 1920s millionaire set off a race to have the most babies (fivethirtyeight.com)
		108 points by fisherjeff on Dec 11, 2015 \| 33 comments
15.		Svetlana Alexievich Nobel Lecture: On the Battle Lost (nobelprize.org)
		98 points by nkurz on Dec 10, 2015 \| 18 comments
16.		Go Running on the Rumprun Unikernel (github.com/deferpanic)
		78 points by deferpanic on Dec 11, 2015 \| 9 comments
17.		Lightning talks from Meeting C++ 2015 (meetingcpp.com)
		68 points by meetingcpp on Dec 11, 2015 \| 11 comments
18.		Volkswagen and the Blame the Engineer Game (jacquesmattheij.com)
		312 points by jacquesm on Dec 10, 2015 \| 293 comments
19.		Philosophy of science books every computer scientist should read (tomasp.net)
		183 points by nkurz on Dec 11, 2015 \| 205 comments
20.		Class of 2016: Whose works will enter the public domain (publicdomainreview.org)
		129 points by Thevet on Dec 10, 2015 \| 72 comments
21.		Slightly Less Awful Hiring for Engineering Talent (codeforamerica.org)
		93 points by wpietri on Dec 11, 2015 \| 43 comments
22.		He Blew the Whistle at JPMorgan Chase, Then Came the Blowback (nytimes.com)
		173 points by phonon on Dec 11, 2015 \| 50 comments
23.		A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities (nytimes.com)
		157 points by pen2l on Dec 11, 2015 \| 67 comments
24.		MTProto, the symmetric encryption scheme used in Telegram, is not IND-CCA secure (iacr.org)
		181 points by bpierre on Dec 11, 2015 \| 62 comments
25.		The Pixel C was probably never supposed to run Android (arstechnica.com)
		142 points by ingve on Dec 10, 2015 \| 48 comments
26.		U.S. states pass laws backing Uber's view of drivers as contractors (reuters.com)
		95 points by petethomas on Dec 11, 2015 \| 168 comments
27.		Building the Machine – Organizational Design in Startups (tomtunguz.com)
		43 points by lxm on Dec 11, 2015 \| 1 comment
28.		Faraday Future picks Nevada over California to build a $1B plant (latimes.com)
		39 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 11, 2015 \| 30 comments
29.		Imaging Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (loc.gov)
		26 points by Thevet on Dec 11, 2015
30.		Capital Is No Longer Scarce (continuations.com)
		112 points by sinak on Dec 11, 2015 \| 117 comments
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