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1.		How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) (freedom-to-tinker.com)
		586 points by ColanR on Dec 17, 2016 \| 257 comments
2.		Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income (nytimes.com)
		610 points by salmonet on Dec 17, 2016 \| 394 comments
3.		SQL Server on Linux public preview (technet.microsoft.com)
		247 points by olalonde on Dec 17, 2016 \| 159 comments
4.		Galileo navigation satellite system goes live (dw.com)
		411 points by vezycash on Dec 17, 2016 \| 160 comments
5.		Shopify has paid over $300k in security exploit bounties (hackerone.com)
		251 points by mrusschen on Dec 17, 2016 \| 78 comments
6.		Haiku booting in UEFI mode (haiku-os.org)
		226 points by return_0e on Dec 17, 2016 \| 94 comments
7.		Germany's New Crowdfunded Train (citylab.com)
		233 points by misnamed on Dec 17, 2016 \| 155 comments
8.		No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait (quantamagazine.org)
		148 points by aburan28 on Dec 17, 2016 \| 53 comments
9.		Intel X86 Encoder Decoder (intelxed.github.io)
		146 points by luu on Dec 17, 2016 \| 40 comments
10.		Stroustrup's Rule and Layering Over Time in Rust (thefeedbackloop.xyz)
		226 points by qznc on Dec 16, 2016 \| 73 comments
11.		Hans Rosling doesn’t consider himself an optimist or pessimist but ‘possibilist’ (nature.com)
		164 points by devnonymous on Dec 17, 2016 \| 44 comments
12.		Management theory is becoming a compendium of dead ideas (economist.com)
		254 points by fraqed on Dec 17, 2016 \| 156 comments
13.		Qualcomm Demos 48-Core Centriq 2400 Server SoC in Action, Begins Sampling (anandtech.com)
		119 points by SoapSeller on Dec 17, 2016 \| 36 comments
14.		Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density (humantransit.org)
		217 points by erispoe on Dec 16, 2016 \| 229 comments
15.		Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project?
		266 points by JohnnySpaghetti on Dec 17, 2016 \| 108 comments
16.		Amazon drivers pushed to the limit as holiday deliveries reach a frenzy (latimes.com)
		132 points by mbgaxyz on Dec 17, 2016 \| 89 comments
17.		Chinese smiths forge a large flange on the street [video] (youtube.com)
		200 points by shawndumas on Dec 17, 2016 \| 82 comments
18.		Natural Language Corpus Data: Beautiful Data (norvig.com)
		110 points by espeed on Dec 16, 2016 \| 13 comments
19.		American Firms Want to Keep Older Workers a Bit Longer (bloomberg.com)
		87 points by petethomas on Dec 16, 2016 \| 93 comments
20.		Tsunami warning issued after magnitude 7.9 quake hits east of Papua New Guinea (reuters.com)
		71 points by tchalla on Dec 17, 2016 \| 20 comments
21.		Sxc – An s-expression based language source transpiler for C (github.com/burtonsamograd)
		101 points by kruhft on Dec 17, 2016 \| 34 comments
22.		ARM extends HPC offering with acquisition of Allinea Software (arm.com)
		70 points by drydot on Dec 17, 2016 \| 19 comments
23.		Llvmcpy – Python bindings for LLVM auto-generated from the LLVM-C API (rev.ng)
		60 points by aleclm on Dec 17, 2016 \| 16 comments
24.		What Hardware startups can learn from Pebble (bolt.io)
		93 points by kNawade on Dec 17, 2016 \| 46 comments
25.		Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory? (quora.com)
		119 points by rfreytag on Dec 17, 2016 \| 112 comments
26.		Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) (jsoftware.com)
		106 points by ehudla on Dec 17, 2016 \| 25 comments
27.		Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government (newsweek.com)
		109 points by em3rgent0rdr on Dec 17, 2016 \| 62 comments
28.		Traditional JavaScript benchmarks (benediktmeurer.de)
		85 points by ojno on Dec 17, 2016 \| 35 comments
29.		You Had Them at ‘Jerry Maguire’: This Art Exhibit Stocks Just One Movie (nytimes.com)
		59 points by prismatic on Dec 16, 2016 \| 10 comments
30.		Venezuela Follows India’s Example and Voids Half of Its Cash (wsj.com)
		133 points by ryan_j_naughton on Dec 17, 2016 \| 152 comments
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