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1.		Juniper screenOS authentication backdoor - master ssh password posted (rapid7.com)
		407 points by ghshephard on Dec 20, 2015 \| 170 comments
2.		About those lava lamps (gist.github.com)
		360 points by ColinWright on Dec 20, 2015 \| 66 comments
3.		Deep Learning: An MIT Press Book in Preparation (goodfeli.github.io)
		245 points by ingve on Dec 20, 2015 \| 22 comments
4.		Rails 5.0.0.beta1: Action Cable, API Mode, Rails Command (rubyonrails.org)
		395 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 21, 2015 \| 132 comments
5.		Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses Choose Walkable Areas (streetsblog.org)
		217 points by jseliger on Dec 21, 2015 \| 184 comments
6.		Android NDK: GCC is now deprecated, everyone should be switching to Clang (googlesource.com)
		260 points by ingve on Dec 21, 2015 \| 250 comments
7.		Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python (pocoo.org)
		290 points by jilljennV on Dec 21, 2015 \| 91 comments
8.		Let's build coolest web components purely in CSS, NO JavaScript (nailfashionsweden.se)
		164 points by ramsich on Dec 20, 2015 \| 29 comments
9.		NES Graphics – Part 3 (dustmop.io)
		197 points by dustmop on Dec 21, 2015 \| 22 comments
10.		Boringcc: Proposal for a C compiler for secure software (groups.google.com)
		274 points by DCKing on Dec 21, 2015 \| 241 comments
11.		India to make CBSE textbooks available online for free (economictimes.com)
		194 points by 3dfan on Dec 20, 2015 \| 19 comments
12.		Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong, and What Can Fix That? (alumni.berkeley.edu)
		109 points by tokenadult on Dec 20, 2015 \| 51 comments
13.		Fuck the Cloud (2009) (textfiles.com)
		325 points by colinprince on Dec 21, 2015 \| 219 comments
14.		U.S. Probes Theranos Complaints (wsj.com)
		102 points by jerryhuang100 on Dec 21, 2015 \| 42 comments
15.		How Theranos Misled Me (fortune.com)
		148 points by apsec112 on Dec 21, 2015 \| 83 comments
16.		Open Source FPGA Toolchain Builds CPU (hackaday.com)
		109 points by jamesbowman on Dec 21, 2015 \| 29 comments
17.		Disney is safeguarding its future by buying childhood, piece by piece (economist.com)
		148 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 21, 2015 \| 166 comments
18.		F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment (github.com/f-secure)
		138 points by tilt on Dec 21, 2015 \| 21 comments
19.		SuperMalloc: A Super Fast Multithreaded Malloc for 64-bit Machines (researchr.org)
		147 points by ingve on Dec 21, 2015 \| 32 comments
20.		Uber-Style Flight-Sharing Service Shot Down by U.S. Court (bloomberg.com)
		93 points by philip1209 on Dec 21, 2015 \| 89 comments
21.		Making a Three-Stone Hearth as Efficient as an Improved Cookstove (thesolutionsjournal.com)
		84 points by nkurz on Dec 20, 2015 \| 34 comments
22.		Ispy: A python script for monitoring the output of other terminals and processes (github.com/dellis23)
		97 points by d23 on Dec 21, 2015 \| 15 comments
23.		A difference between Haskell and Common Lisp (chrisdone.com)
		179 points by psibi on Dec 21, 2015 \| 196 comments
24.		Why Dole owns container ships (flexport.com)
		104 points by mhb on Dec 20, 2015 \| 29 comments
25.		Windows Kernel Architecture Internals (2010) [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)
		105 points by doener on Dec 20, 2015 \| 16 comments
26.		The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers (wolfram.com)
		80 points by nkurz on Dec 20, 2015 \| 46 comments
27.		A Docker-inspired Heroku clone in 100 lines of PHP (gist.github.com)
		60 points by igorw on Dec 21, 2015 \| 32 comments
28.		The $10,000-a-year college education has arrived (1981) (nytimes.com)
		98 points by Futurebot on Dec 20, 2015 \| 145 comments
29.		Mind-wandering: the rise of a new anti-mindfulness movement (thelongandshort.org)
		81 points by ohjeez on Dec 20, 2015 \| 38 comments
30.		Taking Let's Encrypt for a Spin (timkadlec.com)
		94 points by ColinWright on Dec 20, 2015 \| 49 comments
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