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1.
Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones (techcrunch.com)
529 points by kevining on Dec 8, 2015 | 322 comments
2.
Who Y Combinator Companies Want (triplebyte.com)
667 points by Harj on Dec 8, 2015 | 527 comments
3.
After a ten-year hiatus, NetHack 3.6 (nethack.org)
451 points by Alex3917 on Dec 8, 2015 | 128 comments
4.
Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS (blog.mozilla.org)
446 points by special_guest on Dec 8, 2015 | 255 comments
5.
Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber (techcrunch.com)
325 points by iamlacroix on Dec 8, 2015 | 218 comments
6.
Choosing an HTTP Status Code (racksburg.com)
445 points by wtbob on Dec 8, 2015 | 119 comments
7.
How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street (kotaku.com)
348 points by bufordsharkley on Dec 8, 2015 | 187 comments
8.
We ditched Google Analytics (spideroak.com)
490 points by felipebueno on Dec 8, 2015 | 262 comments
9.
Private key for *.xboxlive.com certificate disclosed (technet.microsoft.com)
215 points by hannob on Dec 8, 2015 | 41 comments
10.
Tell HN: Peter Roberts, immigration lawyer for YC, will do an AMA this Friday
156 points by dang on Dec 8, 2015 | 26 comments
11.
Learn to play chess online (chesscademy.com)
207 points by cmdz0rd on Dec 8, 2015 | 70 comments
12.
American satellite started transmitting again after being abandoned in 1967 (thevintagenews.com)
167 points by csirac2 on Dec 8, 2015 | 33 comments
13.
Attack on DNS root servers (root-servers.org)
182 points by sajal83 on Dec 8, 2015 | 90 comments
14.
Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (redbook.io)
189 points by timf on Dec 8, 2015 | 34 comments
15.
Does Google crawl dynamic content? (centrical.com)
165 points by pstadler on Dec 7, 2015 | 59 comments
16.
Reading the World in 196 Books (2014) (bbc.com)
102 points by tokenadult on Dec 8, 2015 | 1 comment
17.
The "Bush hid the facts" bug (wikipedia.org)
139 points by nateberkopec on Dec 8, 2015 | 28 comments
18.
What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks: Modeling a person from photos (washington.edu)
210 points by dluan on Dec 8, 2015 | 41 comments
19.
The cult of genius? (infoproc.blogspot.com)
62 points by jonnybgood on Dec 7, 2015 | 27 comments
20.
The convergence of compilers, build systems and package managers (ezyang.com)
100 points by vimes656 on Dec 7, 2015 | 40 comments
21.
How Jane Vonnegut Made Kurt Vonnegut a Writer (newyorker.com)
64 points by dnetesn on Dec 7, 2015 | 4 comments
22.
When Undercover Credit Card Buys Go Bad (krebsonsecurity.com)
161 points by kawera on Dec 7, 2015 | 80 comments
23.
The Linguistics of 'YouTube Voice' (theatlantic.com)
83 points by nmcfarl on Dec 7, 2015 | 38 comments
24.
After Silicon Valley, Stockholm produces highest number of “unicorns” per capita (forbes.com/sites/knowledgewharton)
112 points by adventured on Dec 7, 2015 | 55 comments
25.
Siege – HTTP load tester and benchmarking utility (github.com/joedog)
64 points by enesunal on Dec 7, 2015 | 23 comments
26.
The era of distrust and disloyalty (gerrymcgovern.com)
72 points by joeyespo on Dec 7, 2015 | 46 comments
27.
Possible biochemical mechanism underlying long-term memories identified (kurzweilai.net)
34 points by DrScump on Dec 7, 2015 | 2 comments
28.
Astronaut Selection (nasa.gov)
120 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 8, 2015 | 110 comments
29.
Automata Memory Processor Points to Future Systems (nextplatform.com)
40 points by Katydid on Dec 4, 2015 | 11 comments
30.
Todoman: A simple CalDav-based todo manager (python.org)
40 points by leephillips on Dec 7, 2015 | 4 comments

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