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1.		VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks (videolan.org)
		1368 points by etix on Nov 17, 2015 \| 705 comments
2.		Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack (insidesources.com)
		643 points by ColinWright on Nov 17, 2015 \| 296 comments
3.		Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement (plot.ly)
		515 points by etpinard on Nov 17, 2015 \| 70 comments
4.		Introducing the new Google+ (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		346 points by runesoerensen on Nov 17, 2015 \| 287 comments
5.		Postgres high-availability cluster with auto-failover and cluster recovery (github.com/nanopack)
		215 points by tuyguntn on Nov 17, 2015 \| 54 comments
6.		What happened to Microsoft's Midori operating system project? (zdnet.com)
		164 points by rbanffy on Nov 16, 2015 \| 34 comments
7.		The Trip Planners: The Unusual Couple Behind Erowid (newyorker.com)
		153 points by Hooke on Nov 17, 2015 \| 20 comments
8.		How I Quit My Job and Built My First App (medium.com/life-learning)
		172 points by uptown on Nov 16, 2015 \| 79 comments
9.		Writing an OS in Rust: Allocating Frames (phil-opp.com)
		128 points by ingve on Nov 15, 2015 \| 14 comments
10.		Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.1 and SPIR-V 1.0 Specifications (khr.io)
		67 points by 1ace on Nov 16, 2015 \| 3 comments
11.		Spinnaker: Global Continuous Delivery by Netflix (spinnaker.io)
		104 points by kalehrishi on Nov 17, 2015 \| 36 comments
12.		Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns (technologyreview.com)
		118 points by sprucely on Nov 12, 2015 \| 22 comments
13.		Google Open-Sourcing TensorFlow Shows AI's Future Is Data, Not Code (wired.com)
		124 points by walterbell on Nov 16, 2015 \| 47 comments
14.		The War ISIS Wants (nybooks.com)
		207 points by pmcpinto on Nov 17, 2015 \| 214 comments
15.		Tech entrepreneur, diversity advocate Hank Williams has died (usatoday.com)
		82 points by loso on Nov 16, 2015 \| 10 comments
16.		The new kings of YouTube botting (dailydot.com)
		89 points by nols on Nov 16, 2015 \| 10 comments
17.		U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks (theintercept.com)
		269 points by garrettr_ on Nov 17, 2015 \| 112 comments
18.		The Discovery of Statistical Regression (priceonomics.com)
		110 points by akg_67 on Nov 16, 2015 \| 7 comments
19.		Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips (toddwschneider.com)
		140 points by lil_tee on Nov 17, 2015 \| 24 comments
20.		Golang on ARM (github.com/golang)
		105 points by selvan on Nov 16, 2015 \| 63 comments
21.		Japan's economy falls back into recession (bbc.com)
		93 points by zerotosixty on Nov 16, 2015 \| 104 comments
22.		In 1975, the USSR fired a cannon from an orbiting space station (popularmechanics.com)
		107 points by devNoise on Nov 16, 2015 \| 53 comments
23.		Google Aims a $50M Moonshot at Curing Heart Disease (wired.com)
		75 points by cryptoz on Nov 16, 2015 \| 59 comments
24.		Show HN: Real-Time Collaborative Watercolor Painting Using Twitch (instapainting.com)
		109 points by chrischen on Nov 17, 2015 \| 21 comments
25.		Seemingly impossible functional programs (2007) (andrej.com)
		81 points by espeed on Nov 16, 2015 \| 17 comments
26.		How Ancient Microbes Gave Us Iron (newyorker.com)
		79 points by Amorymeltzer on Nov 17, 2015 \| 15 comments
27.		Google Pagespeed Test Fails Itself on Mobile (developers.google.com)
		118 points by dates on Nov 17, 2015 \| 29 comments
28.		What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans (newyorker.com)
		50 points by samclemens on Nov 16, 2015 \| 16 comments
29.		How Facebook's Safety Check Works (highscalability.com)
		104 points by xasos on Nov 15, 2015 \| 50 comments
30.		Defense Claims Courthouse Was Illegally Bugged (therecorder.com)
		171 points by morninj on Nov 17, 2015 \| 100 comments
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