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1.		SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed (arstechnica.com)
		1111 points by phenylene on Nov 17, 2016 \| 521 comments
2.		Don’t Mess with The Google (dansdeals.com)
		1070 points by mendelk on Nov 16, 2016 \| 496 comments
3.		SpaceX FCC Application for over 4000 Internet Satellites (fcc.gov)
		508 points by paulsutter on Nov 17, 2016 \| 206 comments
4.		Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools (msdn.microsoft.com)
		549 points by nikbackm on Nov 17, 2016 \| 262 comments
5.		Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS (blog.mozilla.org)
		535 points by st3fan on Nov 17, 2016 \| 194 comments
6.		Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions (latimes.com)
		405 points by t23 on Nov 17, 2016 \| 867 comments
7.		Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy” (zdnet.com)
		651 points by eeZah7Ux on Nov 17, 2016 \| 291 comments
8.		Demystifying the i-Device NVMe NAND (ramtin-amin.fr)
		337 points by duked on Nov 17, 2016 \| 52 comments
9.		U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years (washingtonpost.com)
		240 points by endswapper on Nov 17, 2016 \| 151 comments
10.		Site requests bank logins for online purchases (lolware.net)
		282 points by technion on Nov 17, 2016 \| 219 comments
11.		Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family (wsj.com)
		352 points by trimbo on Nov 16, 2016 \| 133 comments
12.		Go fonts (golang.org)
		295 points by stablemap on Nov 17, 2016 \| 170 comments
13.		Keybase chooses Zcash (keybase.io)
		262 points by aston on Nov 17, 2016 \| 159 comments
14.		Shareholders approve Tesla Solarcity acquisition (techcrunch.com)
		253 points by astdb on Nov 17, 2016 \| 33 comments
15.		Pixel Security (googleblog.com)
		198 points by praving5 on Nov 17, 2016 \| 145 comments
16.		The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn (bloomberg.com)
		148 points by arcanus on Nov 16, 2016 \| 70 comments
17.		Enzymes from nine organisms combined to create new pathway to use CO2 (arstechnica.com)
		178 points by jseliger on Nov 17, 2016 \| 76 comments
18.		The mathematics of science’s broken reward system (nature.com)
		187 points by seycombi on Nov 17, 2016 \| 78 comments
19.		What.CD is shutting down (what.cd)
		607 points by Paul_S on Nov 17, 2016 \| 267 comments
20.		LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia (techcrunch.com)
		220 points by DyslexicAtheist on Nov 17, 2016 \| 189 comments
21.		PoisonTap – Exploits locked computers over USB (github.com/samyk)
		235 points by el_duderino on Nov 16, 2016 \| 56 comments
22.		Why Catholics Built Astronomical Features into Churches (atlasobscura.com)
		142 points by Hooke on Nov 17, 2016 \| 87 comments
23.		You Are Not Paid to Write Code (bravenewgeek.com)
		328 points by tylertreat on Nov 17, 2016 \| 167 comments
24.		Boards in Asana (asana.com)
		135 points by The_Fox on Nov 17, 2016 \| 91 comments
25.		The .blog Bait and Switch (chrisschidle.com)
		305 points by cschidle on Nov 17, 2016 \| 178 comments
26.		Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy (candyjapan.com)
		114 points by bemmu on Nov 17, 2016 \| 50 comments
27.		Fundraising isn't predictable (aaronkharris.com)
		77 points by runesoerensen on Nov 16, 2016 \| 14 comments
28.		iPhones send call history to Apple, security firm says (theintercept.com)
		242 points by mcagl on Nov 17, 2016 \| 81 comments
29.		ORCA – An implementation of RISC-V intended to target FPGAs (github.com/vectorblox)
		77 points by vanjoe on Nov 17, 2016 \| 14 comments
30.		Place recognition with WiFi fingerprints using Autoencoders and Neural Networks (github.com/aqibsaeed)
		55 points by floydsoft on Nov 17, 2016 \| 4 comments
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