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1.		AngelList acquires Product Hunt (techcrunch.com)
		656 points by gjenkin on Dec 1, 2016 \| 265 comments
2.		How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data (data.gov.sg)
		921 points by sohkamyung on Dec 1, 2016 \| 110 comments
3.		Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure (washingtonpost.com)
		478 points by grrrtttt on Dec 1, 2016 \| 170 comments
4.		Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40% (bbc.co.uk)
		455 points by throwaway-hn123 on Dec 1, 2016 \| 359 comments
5.		Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience (rajk.me)
		669 points by quantumtremor on Dec 1, 2016 \| 422 comments
6.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
		458 points by whoishiring on Dec 1, 2016 \| 828 comments
7.		Fitbit is reportedly buying Pebble for around $40M (techcrunch.com)
		419 points by Doubleguitars on Dec 1, 2016 \| 251 comments
8.		Zero Cost Abstractions (ruudvanasseldonk.com)
		366 points by Bognar on Nov 30, 2016 \| 110 comments
9.		15 Years of Concurrency (joeduffyblog.com)
		355 points by runesoerensen on Dec 1, 2016 \| 98 comments
10.		AWS Shield – Managed DDoS Protection (amazon.com)
		233 points by irs on Dec 1, 2016 \| 77 comments
11.		FBI to gain expanded hacking powers as Senate effort to block fails (reuters.com)
		297 points by uptown on Nov 30, 2016 \| 81 comments
12.		Four New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of Elements (nytimes.com)
		205 points by zonotope on Dec 1, 2016 \| 102 comments
13.		AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System (amazon.com)
		238 points by Trisell on Dec 1, 2016 \| 99 comments
14.		What This Here Compound Needs Is Some Hydrogen Peroxide (blogs.sciencemag.org)
		260 points by CarolineW on Dec 1, 2016 \| 122 comments
15.		IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds (amazon.com)
		255 points by _vvdf on Dec 1, 2016 \| 109 comments
16.		Scientists record biggest ever coral die-off on Australia's Great Barrier Reef (reuters.com)
		280 points by af16090 on Dec 1, 2016 \| 169 comments
17.		The Busy Person’s Lies (nytimes.com)
		226 points by dwynings on Dec 1, 2016 \| 191 comments
18.		Announcing OSS-Fuzz: Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software (googleblog.com)
		212 points by tanin on Dec 1, 2016 \| 43 comments
19.		Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online (laptophits.com)
		254 points by plankton_sb on Dec 1, 2016 \| 145 comments
20.		Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship (chessgames.com)
		226 points by CalChris on Nov 30, 2016 \| 82 comments
21.		Why I wrote a book about interpreters (thorstenball.com)
		213 points by deanmen on Dec 1, 2016 \| 69 comments
22.		Blox – Open Source Tools for Amazon ECS (blox.github.io)
		141 points by samsgro on Dec 1, 2016 \| 28 comments
23.		Tank – A very high performance distributed log service (github.com/phaistos-networks)
		136 points by olalonde on Dec 1, 2016 \| 29 comments
24.		Artificial Intelligence Generates Christmas Song from Holiday Image (nvidia.com)
		136 points by kebinappies on Dec 1, 2016 \| 111 comments
25.		German Leaders at Odds with Industry Over Electric Cars (spiegel.de)
		116 points by davidiach on Dec 1, 2016 \| 160 comments
26.		AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 – Pre-Release for the AmigaOne X5000 (hyperion-entertainment.com)
		113 points by doener on Nov 30, 2016 \| 26 comments
27.		Introduction to strace (fbarr.net)
		151 points by aburan28 on Dec 1, 2016 \| 24 comments
28.		Making every (leap) second count with our new public NTP servers (googleblog.com)
		110 points by scommab on Dec 1, 2016 \| 69 comments
29.		OverEncrypt: going beyond LetsEncrypt's HTTPS security defaults (gist.github.com)
		126 points by mapmeld on Nov 30, 2016 \| 15 comments
30.		Zenefits ordered to stop offering free insurance software in Washington state (techcrunch.com)
		102 points by lxm on Dec 1, 2016 \| 76 comments
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