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1.		Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada (twitter.com/a_h_a)
		902 points by jwildeboer on Dec 20, 2018 \| 608 comments
2.		John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team (apple.com)
		196 points by Nuance on Dec 20, 2018 \| 235 comments
3.		We should replace Facebook with personal websites (vice.com)
		614 points by jbegley on Dec 20, 2018 \| 307 comments
4.		Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL (spacesafetymagazine.com)
		168 points by JetSpiegel on Dec 19, 2018 \| 63 comments
5.		Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person (threatpost.com)
		498 points by 0xmohit on Dec 20, 2018 \| 412 comments
6.		FBI kicks some of the worst ‘DDoS for hire’ sites off the internet (techcrunch.com)
		201 points by tareqak on Dec 20, 2018 \| 90 comments
7.		China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients (reuters.com)
		370 points by petethomas on Dec 20, 2018 \| 176 comments
8.		Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts (letstalkalgorithms.com)
		301 points by vthallam on Dec 20, 2018 \| 186 comments
9.		The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini (nytimes.com)
		225 points by danso on Dec 20, 2018 \| 111 comments
10.		Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany as Qualcomm extends global wins (reuters.com)
		165 points by wyldfire on Dec 20, 2018 \| 78 comments
11.		Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization (fb.com)
		134 points by jimarcey on Dec 20, 2018 \| 26 comments
12.		Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh (konghq.com)
		150 points by hisham_hm on Dec 20, 2018 \| 49 comments
13.		Facts about smell (2014) (alicebartlett.co.uk)
		141 points by Tomte on Dec 20, 2018 \| 42 comments
14.		Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to store power in molten salt (bloomberg.com)
		244 points by lawrenceyan on Dec 20, 2018 \| 130 comments
15.		MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer (ephtracy.github.io)
		293 points by Tideflat on Dec 20, 2018 \| 64 comments
16.		3D airplane visualization (mdbootstrap.com)
		103 points by filipkappa on Dec 19, 2018 \| 22 comments
17.		Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (bloomberg.com)
		211 points by koops on Dec 20, 2018 \| 176 comments
18.		NHS.UK frontend (github.com/nhsuk)
		244 points by DanBC on Dec 20, 2018 \| 109 comments
19.		The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD (freebsd.org)
		258 points by vermaden on Dec 19, 2018 \| 101 comments
20.		Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017) (arxiv.org)
		235 points by Dowwie on Dec 19, 2018 \| 116 comments
21.		Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners (fb.com)
		167 points by pg_bot on Dec 19, 2018 \| 145 comments
22.		MiSTer: Run Amiga, SNES, NES and Genesis on an FPGA (github.com/mister-devel)
		161 points by alexyoung on Dec 20, 2018 \| 30 comments
23.		WireGuard for iOS (zx2c4.com)
		338 points by bonyt on Dec 20, 2018 \| 89 comments
24.		VirtualBox 6.0 released (virtualbox.org)
		364 points by johanhammar on Dec 20, 2018 \| 243 comments
25.		Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels (techcrunch.com)
		170 points by ljoshua on Dec 20, 2018 \| 148 comments
26.		What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA (eff.org)
		195 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 20, 2018 \| 39 comments
27.		Nihon Noir (tomblachford.com)
		236 points by curtis on Dec 20, 2018 \| 46 comments
28.		Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Network Coverage (ieee.org)
		125 points by Varcht on Dec 19, 2018 \| 53 comments
29.		Grab is messing up OpenStreetMap data in Southeast Asia (techcrunch.com)
		188 points by danso on Dec 20, 2018 \| 38 comments
30.		On VBScript (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
		124 points by wglb on Dec 20, 2018 \| 88 comments
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