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1.		World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com)
		785 points by Osiris30 on Dec 15, 2016 \| 301 comments
2.		Show HN: Hire an Oldster (tryoldster.com)
		475 points by adamqureshi on Dec 16, 2016 \| 295 comments
3.		The Idea of Lisp (dev.to)
		488 points by rbanffy on Dec 16, 2016 \| 340 comments
4.		Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent (nytimes.com)
		316 points by mrfusion on Dec 15, 2016 \| 197 comments
5.		Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC (wired.com)
		289 points by espeed on Dec 16, 2016 \| 204 comments
6.		MacOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval (frizk.net)
		274 points by mkesper on Dec 16, 2016 \| 83 comments
7.		Super Mario Run (supermariorun.com)
		269 points by yellow_postit on Dec 16, 2016 \| 243 comments
8.		Google Web Designer (2013) (google.com)
		437 points by chenster on Dec 16, 2016 \| 150 comments
9.		Rust required to build Gecko (groups.google.com)
		246 points by steveklabnik on Dec 16, 2016 \| 141 comments
10.		Web Fundamentals (developers.google.com)
		204 points by olalonde on Dec 16, 2016 \| 36 comments
11.		Prenda Law “copyright trolls” Steele and Hansmeier arrested (arstechnica.com)
		225 points by pktgen on Dec 16, 2016 \| 79 comments
12.		BigQuery public datasets now include Stack Overflow Q&A (cloud.google.com)
		190 points by fhoffa on Dec 15, 2016 \| 33 comments
13.		French journal Mediapart supports Tails, others should too (boum.org)
		183 points by BuuQu9hu on Dec 16, 2016 \| 16 comments
14.		Watt time is left (tedunangst.com)
		181 points by ingve on Dec 16, 2016 \| 161 comments
15.		NSA Watchdog Removed for Whistleblower Retaliation (pogo.org)
		212 points by rosser on Dec 16, 2016 \| 46 comments
16.		The Great A.I. Awakening (nytimes.com)
		166 points by m15i on Dec 16, 2016 \| 139 comments
17.		How to make Linux more trustworthy (arstechnica.co.uk)
		152 points by walterbell on Dec 16, 2016 \| 72 comments
18.		VR Resources (facebook.design)
		116 points by Impossible on Dec 16, 2016 \| 31 comments
19.		Reversing Go Binaries Like a Pro (rednaga.io)
		137 points by FiloSottile on Dec 16, 2016 \| 27 comments
20.		Google launches developer preview of Android Things (techcrunch.com)
		134 points by type0 on Dec 16, 2016 \| 68 comments
21.		React-MD – React components built with Sass (mlaursen.com)
		157 points by lionep on Dec 16, 2016 \| 57 comments
22.		Why is .NET reflection slow? (mattwarren.org)
		144 points by matthewwarren on Dec 16, 2016 \| 58 comments
23.		ANTLR 4.6 Released (antlr.org)
		123 points by carbocation on Dec 16, 2016 \| 25 comments
24.		360 Video and Photo Capture in 4K for Three.js (github.com/imgntn)
		62 points by jamespollack on Dec 16, 2016 \| 6 comments
25.		Harassment at Apple: A personal perspective (medium.com/smsowmya)
		406 points by smsowmya on Dec 16, 2016 \| 604 comments
26.		Programming Music: The Applications of Algorithmic Composition [pdf] (getinspired.mit.edu)
		81 points by lainon on Dec 15, 2016 \| 18 comments
27.		Rocket AI: 2016’s Most Notorious AI Launch and the Problem with AI Hype (medium.com/the-mission)
		152 points by jjwiseman on Dec 16, 2016 \| 48 comments
28.		I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road (motel.is)
		346 points by JunkDNA on Dec 16, 2016 \| 129 comments
29.		Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader (wsj.com)
		277 points by lxm on Dec 16, 2016 \| 286 comments
30.		CoreOS Linux Is Now Container Linux by CoreOS (coreos.com)
		112 points by philips on Dec 16, 2016 \| 59 comments
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