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1.
G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft (nytimes.com)
477 points by gk1 on Jan 4, 2016 | 392 comments
2.
Please do not delete this commented-out version (emacshorrors.com)
413 points by jordigh on Jan 4, 2016 | 203 comments
3.
Tor Anonymity: Things Not to Do (whonix.org)
345 points by transpute on Jan 4, 2016 | 99 comments
4.
IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment (arstechnica.com)
310 points by nikbackm on Jan 3, 2016 | 280 comments
5.
Peter Naur – Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] (wisc.edu)
225 points by vog on Jan 4, 2016 | 15 comments
6.
New Adventures for Elm (elm-lang.org)
283 points by shoover on Jan 4, 2016 | 86 comments
7.
Fun with Swift (joearms.github.io)
220 points by Turing_Machine on Jan 4, 2016 | 109 comments
8.
Jepsen: RethinkDB 2.1.5 (aphyr.com)
379 points by akerl_ on Jan 4, 2016 | 27 comments
9.
Spacemacs 0.105.0 released (github.com/syl20bnr)
212 points by psibi on Jan 4, 2016 | 97 comments
10.
Up for Grabs: Projects which have curated tasks for new contributors (up-for-grabs.net)
245 points by tilt on Jan 3, 2016 | 26 comments
11.
Android Full Disk Encryption Cold Boot Attack (2012) (uni-erlangen.de)
107 points by louis-paul on Jan 4, 2016 | 49 comments
12.
Overcoming Intuition in Programming (amasad.me)
113 points by bpierre on Jan 4, 2016 | 78 comments
13.
The Elements of Python Style (github.com/amontalenti)
147 points by pixelmonkey on Jan 3, 2016 | 61 comments
14.
Govtech: The $400B Market Hiding in Plain Sight (govtechfund.com)
162 points by RonnieB on Jan 3, 2016 | 73 comments
15.
What's new in Unicode 9.0 (babelstone.blogspot.com)
101 points by ingve on Jan 2, 2016 | 76 comments
16.
Home is where the cartel is: On the politics and economics of land-use controls (interfluidity.com)
88 points by jseliger on Dec 27, 2015 | 15 comments
17.
Turning the Raspberry Pi into a dedicated retro-gaming console (petrockblock.com)
123 points by doener on Jan 3, 2016 | 22 comments
18.
Show HN: Plain text for the web (saola.in)
151 points by saola-app on Jan 3, 2016 | 47 comments
19.
Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process (davemart.in)
150 points by caiobegotti on Jan 4, 2016 | 84 comments
20.
Flexible working can make you ill, experts say (theguardian.com)
166 points by e15ctr0n on Jan 3, 2016 | 114 comments
21.
Redefining Work (medium.com/eskokilpi)
100 points by ingve on Jan 2, 2016 | 21 comments
22.
How McCartney and Lennon Lost Ownership of the Beatles Catalogue (celebritynetworth.com)
97 points by JacobAldridge on Jan 3, 2016 | 40 comments
23.
T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately (eff.org)
261 points by mortenjorck on Jan 4, 2016 | 113 comments
24.
NSA Patents (silk.co)
87 points by aburan28 on Jan 3, 2016 | 34 comments
25.
Announcing Spark 1.6 (databricks.com)
104 points by rxin on Jan 4, 2016 | 21 comments
26.
A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Finnish Quietude and Japanese Tranquility (academia.edu)
64 points by wslh on Jan 3, 2016 | 12 comments
27.
Earthbound Battle Background JS (gjtorikian.com)
96 points by ingve on Jan 2, 2016 | 18 comments
28.
CPU BattleTanks (pddring.github.io)
57 points by vmorgulis on Jan 3, 2016 | 11 comments
29.
Build your own Jarvis (jasperproject.github.io)
134 points by posharma on Jan 4, 2016 | 30 comments
30.
Is there any point to the 12 times table? (wolfram.com)
185 points by kesselvon on Jan 4, 2016 | 193 comments

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