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1.		Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team (diracdeltas.github.io)
		1009 points by xenophonf on Dec 15, 2016 \| 280 comments
2.		German research institutions boycott Elsevier (uni-goettingen.de)
		764 points by millettjon on Dec 15, 2016 \| 121 comments
3.		Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband (fiercetelecom.com)
		232 points by PaulHoule on Dec 15, 2016 \| 79 comments
4.		GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 (bloomberg.com)
		540 points by mobee on Dec 15, 2016 \| 568 comments
5.		Starting a real business (stripe.com)
		458 points by hepha1979 on Dec 14, 2016 \| 128 comments
6.		Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly (godbolt.org)
		602 points by setra on Dec 15, 2016 \| 151 comments
7.		Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional programming (pyret.org)
		306 points by gknoy on Dec 15, 2016 \| 267 comments
8.		The First Annual Underhanded Rust Contest (underhanded.rs)
		247 points by erickt on Dec 15, 2016 \| 25 comments
9.		A Visual and Interactive Guide to the Basics of Neural Networks (jalammar.github.io)
		234 points by adamnemecek on Dec 15, 2016 \| 5 comments
10.		Amazon Restaurants (amazon.com)
		336 points by chrisan on Dec 15, 2016 \| 210 comments
11.		One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers (matthewsag.com)
		489 points by silverdrake11 on Dec 14, 2016 \| 233 comments
12.		Unscii – A set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts (pelulamu.net)
		178 points by vanni on Dec 15, 2016 \| 28 comments
13.		Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490) (openculture.com)
		274 points by edw519 on Dec 15, 2016 \| 68 comments
14.		Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal (bloomberg.com)
		277 points by thehodge on Dec 15, 2016 \| 176 comments
15.		Advice on learning Python efficiently (simplydjango.com)
		283 points by dwaynecrooks on Dec 15, 2016 \| 73 comments
16.		The Signal protocol for Node and browsers (ischool.berkeley.edu)
		215 points by ifelsehow on Dec 15, 2016 \| 29 comments
17.		Show HN: Godb is a simple Go ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and SQL Server (github.com/samonzeweb)
		205 points by samonzeweb on Dec 15, 2016 \| 88 comments
18.		Thought Experiments to De-Risk Your Startup (codingvc.com)
		215 points by lpolovets on Dec 15, 2016 \| 32 comments
19.		Firefox Hardware Report for Web Developers (hacks.mozilla.org)
		188 points by nachtigall on Dec 15, 2016 \| 140 comments
20.		Running as a Thinking Person’s Sport (nytimes.com)
		148 points by Dowwie on Dec 15, 2016 \| 143 comments
21.		Material Components Preview (material.io)
		127 points by gcoguiec on Dec 15, 2016 \| 55 comments
22.		Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco (techcrunch.com)
		207 points by coloneltcb on Dec 14, 2016 \| 233 comments
23.		Wells Fargo’s ‘Living Will’ Plan Is Rejected Again by Regulators (nytimes.com)
		128 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 15, 2016 \| 89 comments
24.		Letter to a Peer Reviewer Who Stole and Published Our Manuscript as His Own (annals.org)
		176 points by soneca on Dec 15, 2016 \| 104 comments
25.		2017 Solar Eclipse Path of Totality (nasa.gov)
		114 points by rootbear on Dec 15, 2016 \| 24 comments
26.		A neural link between affective understanding and interpersonal attraction [pdf] (pnas.org)
		119 points by lainon on Dec 15, 2016 \| 58 comments
27.		Building web applications on top of encrypted data using Mylar [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
		84 points by espeed on Dec 15, 2016 \| 3 comments
28.		Lucid Motors unveils the Air, a new luxe electric car with a 400-mile range (techcrunch.com)
		103 points by mattiemass on Dec 15, 2016 \| 74 comments
29.		Recent efforts in V8 and DevTools for Node.js (v8project.blogspot.com)
		109 points by tweakz on Dec 15, 2016 \| 24 comments
30.		Amazon Lightsail 1GB Is No Match for $10 VPS from Linode, DO (vpsbenchmarks.com)
		238 points by gmays on Dec 15, 2016 \| 41 comments
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