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1.		LiChess: Learn from your mistakes (lichess.org)
		639 points by akkartik on Dec 23, 2016 \| 113 comments
2.		Offline First – A Better HTML5 User Experience (joelambert.co.uk)
		434 points by openmaze on Dec 23, 2016 \| 144 comments
3.		Show HN: Rocket – Web Framework for Rust (rocket.rs)
		484 points by sbenitez on Dec 23, 2016 \| 114 comments
4.		Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite (wickeditor.com)
		322 points by azamat-bagatov on Dec 23, 2016 \| 63 comments
5.		Hedge Fund Math: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose (nytimes.com)
		248 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 23, 2016 \| 117 comments
6.		Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports (businessinsider.com)
		507 points by temp on Dec 23, 2016 \| 424 comments
7.		A homemade receiver for GPS and GLONASS satellites (hamradio.si)
		215 points by brian-armstrong on Dec 23, 2016 \| 48 comments
8.		Uber lawsuit alleges employees were misled on equity compensation (techcrunch.com)
		201 points by derwiki on Dec 22, 2016 \| 111 comments
9.		The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008) (theamericanscholar.org)
		238 points by jmarbach on Dec 23, 2016 \| 206 comments
10.		Still no violation of Lorentz symmetry, despite strongest test yet (phys.org)
		125 points by dnetesn on Dec 23, 2016 \| 31 comments
11.		The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book (hyperallergic.com)
		174 points by misnamed on Dec 23, 2016 \| 17 comments
12.		High-speed Wi-Fi rolls into 100th railway station in India (blog.google)
		99 points by kungfudoi on Dec 23, 2016 \| 54 comments
13.		IQ is only a minor factor in success (bloomberg.com)
		261 points by tempw on Dec 23, 2016 \| 273 comments
14.		Transfer Learning and Fine-Tuning Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (revolutionanalytics.com)
		88 points by rasmi on Dec 23, 2016 \| 4 comments
15.		Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database (2015) [pdf] (vldb.org)
		125 points by kiril-me on Dec 23, 2016 \| 56 comments
16.		The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man (atlasobscura.com)
		167 points by Petiver on Dec 23, 2016 \| 73 comments
17.		U.S. government begins asking foreign travelers about social media (politico.com)
		203 points by obtino on Dec 23, 2016 \| 181 comments
18.		Building and Linking Libraries in C (swarthmore.edu)
		142 points by vyuh on Dec 23, 2016 \| 96 comments
19.		How to query data.gov json datasets with SQL: a case study (github.com/axibase)
		68 points by rodionos on Dec 22, 2016 \| 1 comment
20.		Show HN: Code.hackmit.org – Software for Hackathons (hackmit.org)
		140 points by anishathalye on Dec 23, 2016 \| 11 comments
21.		Principles (principles.com)
		234 points by ingve on Dec 23, 2016 \| 85 comments
22.		A French Grocery Chain Is Trolling Amazon Go (fastcocreate.com)
		262 points by danm07 on Dec 23, 2016 \| 121 comments
23.		Sure, Earth Could Get Hit by a Deadly Asteroid–But There’s an Upside (smithsonianmag.com)
		51 points by Mz on Dec 23, 2016 \| 41 comments
24.		Re: What is acceptable for -ffast-math? (2001) (gcc.gnu.org)
		86 points by willvarfar on Dec 23, 2016 \| 37 comments
25.		Dramatically Reducing Software Vulnerabilities [pdf] (nist.gov)
		77 points by neiesc on Dec 23, 2016 \| 43 comments
26.		Disassembly Required (hackaday.com)
		48 points by ingve on Dec 23, 2016 \| 7 comments
27.		A flight was late because someone named their Wi-Fi hotspot ‘Galaxy Note 7’ (theverge.com)
		133 points by dvichg on Dec 23, 2016 \| 87 comments
28.		The Anthropic Principle (2000) (sfsu.edu)
		51 points by lainon on Dec 23, 2016 \| 85 comments
29.		Racket Language – New website design (racket-lang.org)
		123 points by Learn2win on Dec 23, 2016 \| 40 comments
30.		Dubai Police now using Crime Prediction software (newatlas.com)
		94 points by futureguy on Dec 23, 2016 \| 84 comments
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