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1.		The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car (bloomberg.com)
		949 points by bcg1 on Dec 16, 2015 \| 447 comments
2.		Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era (bloomberg.com)
		427 points by lpage on Dec 16, 2015 \| 351 comments
3.		Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform (meethue.com)
		441 points by alaaf on Dec 16, 2015 \| 164 comments
4.		Slack Platform Launch (slackhq.com)
		366 points by thejosh on Dec 16, 2015 \| 219 comments
5.		I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite (apple.stackexchange.com)
		392 points by gdeglin on Dec 16, 2015 \| 144 comments
6.		LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365 (infoworld.com)
		229 points by Garbage on Dec 16, 2015 \| 139 comments
7.		Pebble Seizure Detect (github.com/pebbleseizuredetect)
		301 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2015 \| 46 comments
8.		Phoenix 1.1 Released (groups.google.com)
		218 points by clessg on Dec 16, 2015 \| 62 comments
9.		How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia (ibm.com)
		200 points by kermatt on Dec 15, 2015 \| 125 comments
10.		Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories (rejected.us)
		232 points by jon_kuperman on Dec 16, 2015 \| 201 comments
11.		Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review (candyjapan.com)
		183 points by Xixi on Dec 16, 2015 \| 66 comments
12.		IncludeOS roadmap: tiny Node.js-style web services in highly efficient C++ (github.com/hioa-cs)
		80 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2015 \| 43 comments
13.		Let's Create a Better Product Hunt (docs.google.com)
		223 points by BetterLaunch on Dec 16, 2015 \| 98 comments
14.		Yahoo open sources Anthelion web crawler for parsing structured data (github.com/yahoo)
		159 points by fangwang on Dec 16, 2015 \| 9 comments
15.		AMD's Answer to GameWorks: Open Source Tools, Graphics FX, Libraries and SDKs (wccftech.com)
		164 points by altern8 on Dec 15, 2015 \| 70 comments
16.		Government surveillance is as old as the telegraph (timeline.com)
		64 points by carissaignacia on Dec 16, 2015 \| 18 comments
17.		To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy (steveblank.com)
		135 points by rmason on Dec 15, 2015 \| 40 comments
18.		The Reasoned Lisper (chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com)
		120 points by chriskohlhepp on Dec 16, 2015 \| 7 comments
19.		An Artist Who Obsessed the FBI (thedailybeast.com)
		75 points by asselinpaul on Dec 15, 2015 \| 12 comments
20.		Kojima Productions (kojimaproductions.jp)
		136 points by minimaxir on Dec 16, 2015 \| 48 comments
21.		John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence [video] (youtube.com)
		71 points by nolantait on Dec 15, 2015 \| 59 comments
22.		Think Like a Statistician – Without the Math (flowingdata.com)
		118 points by ric3rcar on Dec 16, 2015 \| 23 comments
23.		Craig Federighi talks to John Gruber about Swift (daringfireball.net)
		120 points by anderzole on Dec 15, 2015 \| 9 comments
24.		EC2 Update – T2.Nano Instances Now Available (amazon.com)
		180 points by jeffbarr on Dec 16, 2015 \| 110 comments
25.		“Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing (bmj.com)
		112 points by mmastrac on Dec 15, 2015 \| 48 comments
26.		Your Most Valuable Asset Is Yourself (nytimes.com)
		81 points by yarapavan on Dec 15, 2015 \| 77 comments
27.		Florida Court Deliberates Manual Recount Problems with Touchscreen Voting (eff.org)
		44 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 16, 2015 \| 26 comments
28.		A simple explanation of Chinese characters (medium.com/adrieng)
		127 points by agrand on Dec 15, 2015 \| 76 comments
29.		Apollo: Spotify's Java libraries for writing micro-services (spotify.github.io)
		110 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2015 \| 35 comments
30.		Micro VCs Are Coming (mattermark.com)
		72 points by zbravo on Dec 15, 2015 \| 42 comments
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