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1.
Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine (quinndunki.com)
1107 points by mef on Dec 21, 2016 | 289 comments
2.
Practical Deep Learning for Coders (fast.ai)
683 points by jph00 on Dec 20, 2016 | 91 comments
3.
Update on Multi-Process Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
498 points by AndrewDucker on Dec 21, 2016 | 167 comments
4.
Why Are Ultrasound Machines So Expensive? (maori.geek.nz)
322 points by grahar64 on Dec 21, 2016 | 182 comments
5.
Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox (github.com/twbs)
381 points by luisrudge on Dec 21, 2016 | 217 comments
6.
Four years with Rust (steveklabnik.com)
376 points by steveklabnik on Dec 21, 2016 | 188 comments
7.
Linux Container Internals (docker-saigon.github.io)
201 points by deepakkarki on Dec 21, 2016 | 34 comments
8.
UK Government is breaking the law by collecting everyone's internet data (liberty-human-rights.org.uk)
394 points by NiallIain on Dec 21, 2016 | 105 comments
9.
Why are browsers so slow? (ilyabirman.net)
410 points by kojoru on Dec 20, 2016 | 360 comments
10.
Tool AIs want to be agent AIs (gwern.net)
153 points by ogennadi on Dec 21, 2016 | 58 comments
11.
A Git catastrophe cleaned up (plover.com)
274 points by asymmetric on Dec 21, 2016 | 260 comments
12.
GPU folks: we need to talk about control flow (medium.com/afd_icl)
204 points by jsnell on Dec 21, 2016 | 63 comments
13.
2016's most-edited Wikipedia articles (wikimedia.org)
135 points by The_ed17 on Dec 21, 2016 | 56 comments
14.
PostgreSQL anti-patterns: read-modify-write cycles (2014) (2ndquadrant.com)
224 points by kornish on Dec 21, 2016 | 76 comments
15.
Famed poker pro with ‘remarkable’ $9.6M scheme has to pay it back (washingtonpost.com)
260 points by nradov on Dec 21, 2016 | 205 comments
16.
A Fortran Web Framework (fortran.io)
165 points by da02 on Dec 21, 2016 | 112 comments
17.
Doodles, stickers, and censorship circumvention for Signal Android (whispersystems.org)
115 points by stablemap on Dec 21, 2016 | 21 comments
18.
Raymond Chen explains what the Y2K was like at Microsoft [video] (onmsft.com)
137 points by douche on Dec 21, 2016 | 75 comments
19.
Employee sues Google for 'illegal' confidentiality policies (engadget.com)
252 points by betolink on Dec 21, 2016 | 121 comments
20.
Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of Mars (caseyexaustralia.blogspot.com)
101 points by apsec112 on Dec 21, 2016 | 94 comments
21.
StatefulSet: Run and Scale Stateful Applications Easily in Kubernetes (kubernetes.io)
72 points by TheIronYuppie on Dec 20, 2016 | 27 comments
22.
Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush (bloomberg.com)
139 points by sillypuddy on Dec 21, 2016 | 266 comments
23.
Taking a month off from OSS volunteering (snarky.ca)
229 points by liuw on Dec 21, 2016 | 179 comments
24.
Microsoft wins $927M Pentagon contract (defense.gov)
143 points by richardboegli on Dec 21, 2016 | 66 comments
25.
The Music of the Future (futuresymphony.org)
96 points by tintinnabula on Dec 20, 2016 | 90 comments
26.
Garbage collection in a large Lisp system (1984) (psu.edu)
70 points by _19qg on Dec 21, 2016 | 38 comments
27.
Human Cells Eat Nanowires (ieee.org)
96 points by Procrastes on Dec 21, 2016 | 38 comments
28.
CHIP-8 in Common Lisp: Graphics (stevelosh.com)
91 points by stevelosh on Dec 21, 2016 | 12 comments
29.
The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is Decreasing (parsec.tv)
85 points by boxerbk on Dec 21, 2016 | 89 comments
30.
What's wrong with 2006 programming? (2010) (antirez.com)
123 points by baotiao on Dec 21, 2016 | 52 comments

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