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1.		4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles (lapinozz.github.io)
		703 points by MaxLeiter on Nov 21, 2016 \| 182 comments
2.		Goldman Sachs Drops Out of R3 Blockchain Group (wsj.com)
		232 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 21, 2016 \| 89 comments
3.		Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers (bloomberg.com)
		404 points by james_pm on Nov 21, 2016 \| 584 comments
4.		Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes (markdownsites.com)
		291 points by kristerv on Nov 21, 2016 \| 156 comments
5.		Show HN: StockDroids.com – A curated list of near-stock Android devices (stockdroids.com)
		245 points by oDot on Nov 20, 2016 \| 106 comments
6.		Japan issues tsunami warning after magnitude 7.3 earthquake (bbc.com)
		306 points by v4n4d1s on Nov 21, 2016 \| 103 comments
7.		Microsoft planning to enable x86 on ARM64 emulation in Windows 10 by Fall 2017 (zdnet.com)
		199 points by benologist on Nov 21, 2016 \| 102 comments
8.		U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loan Debt (financeography.com)
		260 points by umedzacharia on Nov 21, 2016 \| 438 comments
9.		CS294: Program Synthesis for Everyone (eecs.berkeley.edu)
		241 points by nickmain on Nov 20, 2016 \| 23 comments
10.		Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown (github.com/googlesamples)
		246 points by chivalrous on Nov 21, 2016 \| 53 comments
11.		Ken's Academy Award: Noise and Turbulence (nyu.edu)
		224 points by mendeza on Nov 21, 2016 \| 41 comments
12.		SVG Line Animation for the Uninitiated (bitmatica.com)
		149 points by evandenn on Nov 21, 2016 \| 20 comments
13.		Show HN: TB-303 Synth, Drum Machine and Sequencer in Web Audio (errozero.co.uk)
		238 points by errozero on Nov 21, 2016 \| 93 comments
14.		DDoS Attacks: Best Practices for Prevention and Response (cmu.edu)
		193 points by kungfudoi on Nov 21, 2016 \| 70 comments
15.		Bringing Down Millions of WordPress Sites (jeremyaboyd.com)
		215 points by jermaustin1 on Nov 21, 2016 \| 63 comments
16.		Inside The Fine Art Factories of Yiwu, China (instapainting.com)
		172 points by chrischen on Nov 21, 2016 \| 77 comments
17.		Intel Declares War on GPUs at Disputed HPC, AI Border (nextplatform.com)
		151 points by jonbaer on Nov 21, 2016 \| 83 comments
18.		Telescope That ‘Ate Astronomy’ Is on Track to Surpass Hubble (nytimes.com)
		133 points by dnetesn on Nov 21, 2016 \| 80 comments
19.		Lua: A Guide for Redis Users (redisgreen.net)
		123 points by ergot on Nov 21, 2016 \| 28 comments
20.		Inspecting C's qsort Through Animation (nullprogram.com)
		120 points by nayuki on Nov 21, 2016 \| 24 comments
21.		What is “:-!!” in C code? (stackoverflow.com)
		242 points by frontfor on Nov 21, 2016 \| 83 comments
22.		Openfood – Open access info about barcoded food products sold in Switzerland (openfood.ch)
		206 points by fgeorgy on Nov 21, 2016 \| 40 comments
23.		Why VCs sometimes push companies to burn too fast (blog.ycombinator.com)
		165 points by craigcannon on Nov 21, 2016 \| 49 comments
24.		Markdown-in-js: inline Markdown for React and JSX (github.com/threepointone)
		84 points by kylemathews on Nov 21, 2016 \| 30 comments
25.		Beyond Nokia: A love story (techcrunch.com)
		110 points by tellarin on Nov 21, 2016 \| 57 comments
26.		Windows 10 Cannot Protect Insecure Applications Like EMET Can (cmu.edu)
		73 points by doener on Nov 21, 2016 \| 30 comments
27.		Yiwu: The Chinese city where Christmas is made and sold (bbc.com)
		99 points by lxm on Nov 20, 2016 \| 19 comments
28.		What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp (freecodecamp.com)
		346 points by quincyla on Nov 21, 2016 \| 389 comments
29.		Symantec to Buy Identity Theft Protection Company LifeLock for $2.3B (wsj.com)
		62 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 21, 2016 \| 38 comments
30.		True Link (YC S13) is launching an investment division (medium.com/kaistinchcombe)
		38 points by howsilly on Nov 21, 2016 \| 14 comments
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