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1.		The Best Books I Read in 2015 (gatesnotes.com)
		596 points by uptown on Dec 7, 2015 \| 143 comments
2.		Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox (dropbox.com)
		624 points by _freu on Dec 7, 2015 \| 421 comments
3.		Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tech Could Wreck Wi-Fi (bloomberg.com)
		324 points by walterbell on Dec 7, 2015 \| 175 comments
4.		D3.compose – compose reusable charts and components with D3.js (csnw.github.io)
		288 points by sebg on Dec 7, 2015 \| 39 comments
5.		The Starfighter Low-Level Tech Tree (sockpuppet.org)
		261 points by Cogito on Dec 7, 2015 \| 102 comments
6.		Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, laser-cut Stainless Steel (lasergist.com)
		211 points by jimant on Dec 7, 2015 \| 141 comments
7.		Raspberry Pi Zero vs. Elliott 405 (spinellis.gr)
		204 points by sebkomianos on Dec 7, 2015 \| 98 comments
8.		Australian Geocoded national address data to be made openly available (data.gov.au)
		201 points by zspitzer on Dec 7, 2015 \| 51 comments
9.		Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before European arrival (newscientist.com)
		180 points by soneca on Dec 6, 2015 \| 67 comments
10.		Working with Binary Data in Python (devdungeon.com)
		202 points by signa11 on Dec 7, 2015 \| 32 comments
11.		France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi (arstechnica.co.uk)
		384 points by _gjrn on Dec 7, 2015 \| 263 comments
12.		C.S. Lewis' Greatest Fiction: Convincing Kids That They'd Like Turkish Delight (atlasobscura.com)
		117 points by pepys on Dec 6, 2015 \| 145 comments
13.		A magic getopt (daemonology.net)
		123 points by Hello71 on Dec 7, 2015 \| 45 comments
14.		Donald Knuth's 21st Annual Christmas Lecture: Universal Commafree Codes [video] (youtube.com)
		97 points by cranium on Dec 7, 2015 \| 17 comments
15.		Show HN: Braindump, a simple note platform to organize your life (github.com/levlaz)
		91 points by levlaz on Dec 6, 2015 \| 41 comments
16.		NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving on from low-Earth orbit (arstechnica.com)
		149 points by cryptoz on Dec 7, 2015 \| 92 comments
17.		New Horizons Returns First of the Best Images of Pluto (nasa.gov)
		124 points by darrhiggs on Dec 6, 2015 \| 17 comments
18.		E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be' (wikipedia.org)
		221 points by thameera on Dec 7, 2015 \| 152 comments
19.		Test-Case Reducers are Fuzzers (regehr.org)
		78 points by jsnell on Dec 7, 2015 \| 5 comments
20.		XSA-156: x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery (xen.org)
		75 points by yuhong on Dec 7, 2015 \| 13 comments
21.		Anonymous Divided: Inside the Two Warring Hacktivist Cells Fighting ISIS Online (mic.com)
		86 points by nkurz on Dec 6, 2015 \| 11 comments
22.		Intact, Packed Etruscan Tomb Found (discovery.com)
		75 points by diodorus on Dec 6, 2015 \| 8 comments
23.		Why I'm Excited About Native CSS Variables (philipwalton.com)
		129 points by clessg on Dec 6, 2015 \| 31 comments
24.		AKATSUKI preparing for orbital insertion around Venus (global.jaxa.jp)
		91 points by bane on Dec 7, 2015 \| 22 comments
25.		Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change (facebook.com)
		367 points by herbertlui on Dec 7, 2015 \| 233 comments
26.		How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014) (nautil.us)
		131 points by electic on Dec 7, 2015 \| 69 comments
27.		Deep neural network written from scratch in Julia (github.com/jostmey)
		72 points by jostmey on Dec 7, 2015 \| 21 comments
28.		Why it’s so hard to innovate in the e-mail space (2014) (medium.com/collinmathilde)
		108 points by mathouc on Dec 7, 2015 \| 66 comments
29.		Unicode, Perl 6, and You (perl6advent.wordpress.com)
		91 points by kamaal on Dec 7, 2015 \| 21 comments
30.		Is There a Future for the Professions? (thegoodproject.org)
		72 points by kawera on Dec 6, 2015 \| 58 comments
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