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1.
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (idlewords.com)
883 points by pw on Dec 22, 2016 | 580 comments
2.
How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nytimes.com)
395 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 22, 2016 | 228 comments
3.
To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) (nytimes.com)
618 points by jseliger on Dec 22, 2016 | 639 comments
4.
Hedge Fund Is Building an Algorithmic Model From Its Employees’ Brains (wsj.com)
252 points by newscasta on Dec 22, 2016 | 99 comments
5.
Announcing Rust 1.14 (rust-lang.org)
351 points by steveklabnik on Dec 22, 2016 | 171 comments
6.
GitLab 8.15 Released (about.gitlab.com)
246 points by EddieRingle on Dec 22, 2016 | 115 comments
7.
An Introduction to Geometric Algebra (bitworking.org)
230 points by ingve on Dec 22, 2016 | 36 comments
8.
My journey from high school to a feature in Forbes (thanks to you) (mxstbr.blog)
220 points by mxstbr on Dec 22, 2016 | 64 comments
9.
Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree (atlasobscura.com)
327 points by kposehn on Dec 22, 2016 | 130 comments
10.
The Architecture of Evil: Dystopian Megacorps in Speculative Fiction Films (99percentinvisible.org)
184 points by tintinnabula on Dec 22, 2016 | 51 comments
11.
Bram Moolenaar Discusses Developing Vim, How He Uses It, and Version 8 (hostingadvice.com)
234 points by laktak on Dec 22, 2016 | 115 comments
12.
OpenWrt and LEDE to re-merge (infradead.org)
270 points by samcrawford on Dec 22, 2016 | 27 comments
13.
The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring (priceonomics.com)
169 points by sethbannon on Dec 22, 2016 | 81 comments
14.
The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation (nytimes.com)
274 points by petilon on Dec 21, 2016 | 233 comments
15.
Top Python libraries of 2016 (tryolabs.com)
321 points by jonbaer on Dec 22, 2016 | 40 comments
16.
OpenJDK now available for Windows (redhat.com)
198 points by jsiepkes on Dec 22, 2016 | 96 comments
17.
Intel Committee Releases Declassified Snowden Report (house.gov)
144 points by kafkaesq on Dec 22, 2016 | 69 comments
18.
The AI Unemployment Anti-FAQ (2013) (lesswrong.com)
140 points by apsec112 on Dec 22, 2016 | 139 comments
19.
ClusterHQ is shutting down (clusterhq.com)
248 points by henridf on Dec 22, 2016 | 224 comments
20.
The Most Popular Language for Machine Learning (ibm.com)
142 points by jfpuget on Dec 22, 2016 | 103 comments
21.
A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie (feabhas.com)
180 points by ingve on Dec 22, 2016 | 172 comments
22.
Why the Elixir language has great potential (adrian-philipp.com)
349 points by jswny on Dec 22, 2016 | 107 comments
23.
Apple Delays iOS SSL Requirement Indefinitely (developer.apple.com)
160 points by mark-ruwt on Dec 22, 2016 | 76 comments
24.
Windows Server Support Comes to Kubernetes (kubernetes.io)
144 points by TheIronYuppie on Dec 21, 2016 | 12 comments
25.
You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much (nytimes.com)
181 points by LiweiZ on Dec 22, 2016 | 147 comments
26.
Disclosing the Primary Email address for each Facebook user (dawgyg.com)
196 points by dawgyg on Dec 22, 2016 | 60 comments
27.
Percentage of Young Americans Living with Parents Rises to 75-Year High (wsj.com)
195 points by lxm on Dec 22, 2016 | 274 comments
28.
Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?
414 points by rwieruch on Dec 22, 2016 | 321 comments
29.
The State of Linux Security (linux-audit.com)
141 points by kungfudoi on Dec 22, 2016 | 55 comments
30.
HoloJS – A framework for creating UWP applications using JavaScript and WebGL (github.com/microsoft)
105 points by pofukuv on Dec 22, 2016 | 23 comments

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