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1.		Files Are Hard (danluu.com)
		451 points by pyb on Dec 13, 2015 \| 151 comments
2.		Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy (ankisrs.net)
		398 points by sonabinu on Dec 13, 2015 \| 210 comments
3.		Avast’s man in the middle (thesafemac.com)
		211 points by hwdsl2 on Dec 13, 2015 \| 77 comments
4.		Bullshit Startup Experiences (totalgarb.tumblr.com)
		530 points by supjeff on Dec 13, 2015 \| 288 comments
5.		Little Forms – an open source minimalistic GUI widget library written in plain C (runtimelegend.com)
		125 points by networked on Dec 12, 2015 \| 40 comments
6.		Reality Editor – MIT Media Lab (realityeditor.org)
		201 points by piyushmakhija on Dec 11, 2015 \| 97 comments
7.		In Search of Tomorrow: On the Future of Eve IDE [video] (youtube.com)
		113 points by rwosync on Dec 13, 2015 \| 15 comments
8.		Chris Lattner on Swift and dynamic dispatch (swift.org)
		183 points by _quhg on Dec 13, 2015 \| 81 comments
9.		Twitter Tells Users They May Be Targets of a 'State Sponsored Attack' (vice.com)
		135 points by tdurden on Dec 13, 2015 \| 59 comments
10.		Tips for Screencasting (brettterpstra.com)
		81 points by kawera on Dec 11, 2015 \| 11 comments
11.		Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelevant sensory information (northwestern.edu)
		100 points by nopinsight on Dec 13, 2015 \| 25 comments
12.		90:9:1 – the odd ratio that technology keeps creating (theguardian.com)
		137 points by andyjohnson0 on Dec 12, 2015 \| 51 comments
13.		Elm by Example (elm-by-example.org)
		127 points by brudgers on Dec 13, 2015 \| 37 comments
14.		When the Soviets Banned Rock Music, Teens Used X-rays to Bootleg Records (smithsonianmag.com)
		111 points by markmassie on Dec 12, 2015 \| 26 comments
15.		Open source effort to bring open biomedical data together – anyone interested? (inspiratron.org)
		83 points by nikolamilosevic on Dec 13, 2015 \| 22 comments
16.		Smartphones, Posture, and Mood (nytimes.com)
		72 points by adriand on Dec 13, 2015 \| 30 comments
17.		Microsoft Makes Concessions to Disgruntled OneDrive Fans (thurrott.com)
		63 points by ingve on Dec 11, 2015 \| 18 comments
18.		Duplicate Signature Key Selection Attack in Let's Encrypt (agwa.name)
		71 points by kkl on Dec 12, 2015 \| 4 comments
19.		Common Probability Distributions: The Data Scientist’s Crib Sheet (cloudera.com)
		90 points by ingve on Dec 12, 2015 \| 7 comments
20.		Poor man's VPN via ssh socks proxy (redpill-linpro.com)
		117 points by kvisle on Dec 13, 2015 \| 51 comments
21.		Comparative Study of Caffe, Neon, Theano, and Torch for Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
		73 points by mindcrime on Dec 12, 2015 \| 8 comments
22.		The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Theoretical Physics: Why Gravity Is So Weak (forbes.com/sites/startswithabang)
		90 points by signa11 on Dec 13, 2015 \| 71 comments
23.		Creating the perfect GPG keypair (alexcabal.com)
		95 points by lelf on Dec 12, 2015 \| 38 comments
24.		Graying Thieves Who Nearly Got Away with a Record Heist in London (nytimes.com)
		76 points by pavornyoh on Dec 12, 2015 \| 39 comments
25.		Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us (positech.co.uk)
		344 points by smacktoward on Dec 13, 2015 \| 229 comments
26.		Ask HN: Novelty addiction is ruining my life and career. What should I do?
		174 points by atemerev on Dec 12, 2015 \| 190 comments
27.		Feature flags API in Go (github.com/antoineaugusti)
		68 points by antoineaugusti on Dec 12, 2015 \| 12 comments
28.		Nintendo touchscreen controller patent offers clues about upcoming NX (arstechnica.com)
		34 points by pavornyoh on Dec 11, 2015 \| 17 comments
29.		look(1): lines beginning with given string (die.net)
		47 points by mtdewcmu on Dec 13, 2015 \| 45 comments
30.		Why Coinbase is now hiring remote engineers (medium.com/barmstrong)
		75 points by barmstrong on Dec 12, 2015 \| 39 comments
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