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1.		Dear Architects: Sound Matters (nytimes.com)
		363 points by tysone on Dec 29, 2015 \| 138 comments
2.		Best things and stuff of 2015 (fogus.me)
		451 points by platz on Dec 29, 2015 \| 85 comments
3.		Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties (billboard.com)
		161 points by sageabilly on Dec 29, 2015 \| 103 comments
4.		Postgres features and tips (craigkerstiens.com)
		190 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 29, 2015 \| 37 comments
5.		Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider (eff.org)
		320 points by sinak on Dec 28, 2015 \| 212 comments
6.		When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries (freedom-to-tinker.com)
		218 points by randomwalker on Dec 29, 2015 \| 67 comments
7.		SQL Tabs – Rich SQL Console for Postgresql (sqltabs.com)
		207 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 28, 2015 \| 50 comments
8.		Mysterious Android codebase commit (googlesource.com)
		236 points by rogerthis on Dec 28, 2015 \| 158 comments
9.		Dolphin Smalltalk Goes Open-Source (object-arts.com)
		106 points by mpweiher on Dec 29, 2015 \| 14 comments
10.		AWS Shell – An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI (github.com/awslabs)
		153 points by vasco on Dec 28, 2015 \| 21 comments
11.		Intel Completes $16.7B Altera Deal (eweek.com)
		162 points by spacelizard on Dec 29, 2015 \| 73 comments
12.		Conceptual Debt Is Worse Than Technical Debt (medium.com/nicolaerusan)
		191 points by nicoslepicos on Dec 29, 2015 \| 104 comments
13.		Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money (telegraph.co.uk)
		186 points by walterbell on Dec 29, 2015 \| 198 comments
14.		Why Engineers Can’t Stop Los Angeles' Enormous Methane Leak (laweekly.com)
		199 points by timr on Dec 28, 2015 \| 87 comments
15.		Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 7 (ruslanspivak.com)
		79 points by rspivak on Dec 28, 2015 \| 1 comment
16.		ParparVM – Open Source JVM for iOS (github.com/codenameone)
		74 points by danr4 on Dec 28, 2015 \| 12 comments
17.		Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development (nytimes.com)
		83 points by kungfudoi on Dec 28, 2015 \| 58 comments
18.		Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index (2014) (astrosociety.org)
		82 points by hownottowrite on Dec 28, 2015 \| 25 comments
19.		OpenCorporates – Open Database Of The Corporate World (opencorporates.com)
		68 points by nikolay on Dec 29, 2015 \| 12 comments
20.		Meteor meets GraphQL (kadira.io)
		112 points by peterhunt on Dec 29, 2015 \| 11 comments
21.		Interview with Michael Burry, Real-Life Market Genius From The Big Short (nymag.com)
		86 points by lxm on Dec 29, 2015 \| 53 comments
22.		How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops (economist.com)
		145 points by RachelF on Dec 28, 2015 \| 128 comments
23.		MIT Mathlets: Interactive mathematics visualizations (mathlets.org)
		129 points by skeuomorf on Dec 28, 2015 \| 10 comments
24.		Google confirms next Android won’t implement Oracle's proprietary Java APIs (venturebeat.com)
		256 points by ingve on Dec 29, 2015 \| 184 comments
25.		What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside (nautil.us)
		115 points by dnetesn on Dec 29, 2015 \| 32 comments
26.		Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node (github.com/marak)
		138 points by tilt on Dec 29, 2015 \| 28 comments
27.		Basic infrastructure patterns (scriptcrafty.com)
		97 points by _qc3o on Dec 29, 2015 \| 10 comments
28.		Getting Docker running on a high-end 64-bit ARM gaming console (hypriot.com)
		58 points by beagile on Dec 28, 2015 \| 13 comments
29.		Amazon Invades India (fortune.com)
		104 points by tokenadult on Dec 28, 2015 \| 52 comments
30.		A Short History of the BTree (2011) (perforce.com)
		60 points by fizwhiz on Dec 29, 2015 \| 3 comments
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