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1.		A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour (clickclickclick.click)
		560 points by jameswiseman on Nov 18, 2016 \| 165 comments
2.		How to start a company with no free time (medium.com/startup-grind)
		692 points by lxm on Nov 18, 2016 \| 176 comments
3.		Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account (github.com/gaubert)
		503 points by uyoakaoma on Nov 18, 2016 \| 136 comments
4.		The origin story of Google Analytics (urchin.biz)
		397 points by auston on Nov 18, 2016 \| 53 comments
5.		How I stopped the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career (codewithoutrules.com)
		413 points by itamarst on Nov 18, 2016 \| 236 comments
6.		Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers (techcrunch.com)
		346 points by drewg123 on Nov 18, 2016 \| 289 comments
7.		Kaspersky OS (kaspersky.com)
		449 points by itiman on Nov 18, 2016 \| 285 comments
8.		What Test Engineers Do at Google: Building Test Infrastructure (googleblog.com)
		289 points by kungfudoi on Nov 18, 2016 \| 77 comments
9.		The psychology of stress and burnout (bbc.com)
		318 points by pmcpinto on Nov 18, 2016 \| 205 comments
10.		Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build (softpedia.com)
		392 points by ctoth on Nov 18, 2016 \| 342 comments
11.		Constexpr-8cc: Compile-time C Compiler (github.com/kw-udon)
		185 points by santaclaus on Nov 18, 2016 \| 57 comments
12.		WikipediaP2P (wikipediap2p.org)
		247 points by bpierre on Nov 18, 2016 \| 112 comments
13.		GNU Health (health.gnu.org)
		234 points by sndean on Nov 18, 2016 \| 72 comments
14.		Airbnb expands to experiences (airbnb.com)
		174 points by enra on Nov 17, 2016 \| 139 comments
15.		Facebook’s ad metric problem is becoming Zuckerberg’s headache (nypost.com)
		175 points by SQL2219 on Nov 18, 2016 \| 70 comments
16.		Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle (code2flow.com)
		238 points by RushPL on Nov 18, 2016 \| 85 comments
17.		Updating my plane’s very old GPS data in a very modern way (dmitry.gr)
		195 points by dmitrygr on Nov 18, 2016 \| 62 comments
18.		New drug dispenser may turn human beings into weapons against mosquitos (economist.com)
		81 points by johnny313 on Nov 18, 2016 \| 31 comments
19.		Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic with Wireshark (2015) (jimshaver.net)
		159 points by rosstex on Nov 18, 2016 \| 26 comments
20.		Open Sourcing the Microsoft JDBC Driver and Maven Support (msdn.microsoft.com)
		147 points by carey on Nov 18, 2016 \| 47 comments
21.		If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter (2012) (quoteinvestigator.com)
		131 points by curtis on Nov 17, 2016 \| 44 comments
22.		How Quid uses deep learning with small data (quid.com)
		113 points by Nimsical on Nov 18, 2016 \| 47 comments
23.		OpenAI and Microsoft (openai.com)
		162 points by jk4930 on Nov 18, 2016 \| 25 comments
24.		Big Hex Machine (bighexmachine.github.io)
		126 points by 100ideas on Nov 17, 2016 \| 17 comments
25.		Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide (bbc.com)
		109 points by JLK_121416 on Nov 18, 2016 \| 80 comments
26.		Open-RethinkDB meeting notes (docs.google.com)
		158 points by deepanchor on Nov 18, 2016 \| 24 comments
27.		Inside the world of Australian opal miners who live underground (washingtonpost.com)
		127 points by endswapper on Nov 17, 2016 \| 30 comments
28.		A Magnetized Needle and a Steady Hand (nullprogram.com)
		182 points by omnibrain on Nov 18, 2016 \| 62 comments
29.		Signal: Safety number updates (whispersystems.org)
		107 points by thecoffman on Nov 17, 2016 \| 16 comments
30.		Gosubc – An implementation of the SubC language in Go (github.com/qeedquan)
		98 points by vmorgulis on Nov 18, 2016 \| 27 comments
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