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1.		Waymo: Google's self-driving car company (waymo.com)
		785 points by _khwc on Dec 13, 2016 \| 748 comments
2.		A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X (trustwave.com)
		373 points by finid on Dec 13, 2016 \| 107 comments
3.		Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe (radio.garden)
		527 points by gamma_raj on Dec 13, 2016 \| 110 comments
4.		Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (kakoune.org)
		631 points by petepete on Dec 13, 2016 \| 327 comments
5.		PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL (compose.com)
		339 points by otoolep on Dec 13, 2016 \| 124 comments
6.		Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business (arstechnica.com)
		400 points by Tomte on Dec 13, 2016 \| 182 comments
7.		Slack Calls: Now with video (slackhq.com)
		253 points by tilt on Dec 13, 2016 \| 123 comments
8.		The Rule of Silence (2006) (linfo.org)
		338 points by riansanderson on Dec 13, 2016 \| 310 comments
9.		Show HN: The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way (robinwieruch.de)
		339 points by rwieruch on Dec 13, 2016 \| 22 comments
10.		Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes (businessinsider.com)
		405 points by kevcampb on Dec 13, 2016 \| 236 comments
11.		AMD Gives More Zen Details (anandtech.com)
		290 points by Osiris on Dec 13, 2016 \| 192 comments
12.		AirPods are now available (apple.com)
		244 points by runesoerensen on Dec 13, 2016 \| 566 comments
13.		Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi (troyhunt.com)
		329 points by jimmcslim on Dec 13, 2016 \| 268 comments
14.		The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able to Cut Off Your Internet Access (eff.org)
		280 points by z0a on Dec 12, 2016 \| 56 comments
15.		Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf] (kapor.com)
		158 points by yurisagalov on Dec 13, 2016 \| 75 comments
16.		Neurogenesis Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
		197 points by groar on Dec 13, 2016 \| 97 comments
17.		Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered (nytimes.com)
		125 points by Mz on Dec 12, 2016 \| 26 comments
18.		PR 101 for engineers (medium.com/aneel)
		223 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 13, 2016 \| 28 comments
19.		Opendoor, a startup worth emulating (stratechery.com)
		223 points by mooreds on Dec 13, 2016 \| 142 comments
20.		DynamoDB cannot store empty strings (amazon.com)
		188 points by idbehold on Dec 13, 2016 \| 172 comments
21.		Prolific Engineers Take Small Bites (gitprime.com)
		251 points by tbassetto on Dec 13, 2016 \| 94 comments
22.		Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?
		242 points by changeseeker on Dec 13, 2016 \| 232 comments
23.		Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down (engadget.com)
		128 points by serg_chernata on Dec 13, 2016 \| 121 comments
24.		Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car (techcrunch.com)
		281 points by doener on Dec 13, 2016 \| 223 comments
25.		China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon (bloomberg.com)
		193 points by adventured on Dec 13, 2016 \| 364 comments
26.		First ‘water-wave’ laser created (sciencebulletin.org)
		62 points by devinp on Dec 13, 2016 \| 19 comments
27.		Investors Get Ready for the Coming Electric Car Revolution (wsj.com)
		91 points by jseliger on Dec 13, 2016 \| 57 comments
28.		NBA Highlights – Search for video of NBA plays (3ball.io)
		102 points by Matetricks on Dec 13, 2016 \| 38 comments
29.		The .zip file specification is flawed (github.com/thejoshwolfe)
		214 points by AndyKelley on Dec 12, 2016 \| 118 comments
30.		Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf] (arxiv.org)
		68 points by espeed on Dec 12, 2016 \| 13 comments
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