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31.		Operation Easy Chair: How a Company in Holland Helped the CIA Bug the Russians (decorrespondent.nl)
		57 points by NN88 on Dec 25, 2015 \| 3 comments
32.		“Rootless” feature in El Capitan means DTrace no longer works (apple.stackexchange.com)
		88 points by Cieplak on Dec 25, 2015 \| 65 comments
33.		Damn Vulnerable Node Application (github.com/quantumfoam)
		43 points by anaxag0ras on Dec 23, 2015 \| 8 comments
34.		Every move will be recorded: the machinic police utopia in 18th-century Paris (mpg.de)
		27 points by anonymfus on Dec 23, 2015 \| 1 comment
35.		Devstash.io – Hacker News alternative focused on computer science (devstash.io)
		112 points by javinpaul on Dec 25, 2015 \| 28 comments
36.		Steam: Seeing other people's accounts when logged in (neogaf.com)
		173 points by pbz on Dec 25, 2015 \| 105 comments
37.		Human exoskeletons: full metal jacket (economist.com)
		38 points by Futurebot on Dec 24, 2015 \| 7 comments
38.		After 500k Apps Built, Bizness Apps Launches Apex, a White-Label App Builder (techcrunch.com)
		22 points by zerotosixty on Dec 24, 2015 \| 10 comments
39.		Oral history interview with Marvin L. Minsky (1989) [pdf] (umn.edu)
		23 points by gnocchi on Dec 24, 2015 \| 2 comments
40.		Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas (2012) (smithsonianmag.com)
		43 points by coloneltcb on Dec 25, 2015 \| 47 comments
41.		Photography Without a Lens? Future of Images May Lie in Data (nytimes.com)
		56 points by leephillips on Dec 23, 2015 \| 2 comments
42.		Tell HN: Google seems to have changed ncr (no country redirect)
		120 points by dragop on Dec 25, 2015 \| 32 comments
43.		Crows caught on camera making tools in the wild (csmonitor.com)
		54 points by Futurebot on Dec 24, 2015 \| 29 comments
44.		Iron-age Norwegians liked their bling (gemini.no)
		36 points by curtis on Dec 24, 2015
45.		Musk: Model Xmas Show (twitter.com/elonmusk)
		48 points by apaprocki on Dec 25, 2015 \| 9 comments
46.		The Importance of Being Orwell (vanityfair.com)
		19 points by samclemens on Dec 22, 2015 \| 2 comments
47.		Capturing Antarctica (mapillary.com)
		25 points by boise on Dec 23, 2015
48.		I Trained a Deep Q Network Built in TensorFlow to Play Atari Pong (reddit.com)
		39 points by superfx on Dec 25, 2015 \| 5 comments
49.		A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 1: Don’t Copy That Floppy (filfre.net)
		32 points by smacktoward on Dec 25, 2015 \| 9 comments
50.		Firefox OS may live on in a TV stick and Pi-powered keyboard (engadget.com)
		38 points by jonbaer on Dec 24, 2015 \| 16 comments
51.		Workarounds for Opera Mini (wtfoperamini.com)
		76 points by kostas_echarta on Dec 25, 2015 \| 52 comments
52.		Segregated Witness, Part 2: Nitty-Gritty Technical Trick (bitcoinmagazine.com)
		13 points by mrb on Dec 24, 2015 \| 5 comments
53.		Lightning Network Skepticism (chrispacia.wordpress.com)
		55 points by kushti on Dec 24, 2015 \| 77 comments
54.		A notebook of laser-cutting experiments for bootstrapping planar fabrication (github.com/kragen)
		25 points by luu on Dec 24, 2015 \| 2 comments
55.		Botoform – Manage Infrastructure Running on AWS Using YAML Templates (botoform.com)
		27 points by nikolay on Dec 24, 2015 \| 13 comments
56.		Ford and Google Move Forward Together Towards Consumer Self-Driving Cars (stemmatch.net)
		38 points by Oxydepth on Dec 25, 2015 \| 47 comments
57.		UltraViolet FAQ (uvdemystified.com)
		18 points by walterbell on Dec 25, 2015 \| 9 comments
58.		Temel.cr: Extensible Markup DSL for Crystal (github.com/f)
		21 points by fka on Dec 24, 2015 \| 1 comment
59.		M-Kopa sells solar panels to poor Africans and provides them with credit (bloomberg.com)
		26 points by nkurz on Dec 24, 2015 \| 3 comments
60.		How to download the complete genome for an organism (nih.gov)
		32 points by danso on Dec 24, 2015 \| 10 comments
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