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1.		OpenAI Universe (universe.openai.com)
		1021 points by sama on Dec 5, 2016 \| 129 comments
2.		Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
		1630 points by dang on Dec 5, 2016 \| 1214 comments
3.		Why does calloc exist? (vorpus.org)
		553 points by wyldfire on Dec 5, 2016 \| 132 comments
4.		Amazon Go (amazon.com)
		1247 points by mangoman on Dec 5, 2016 \| 982 comments
5.		My Favorite Books of 2016 (gatesnotes.com)
		546 points by taylorwc on Dec 5, 2016 \| 138 comments
6.		Best Wifi Mesh Network Kits (thewirecutter.com)
		292 points by caseyf7 on Dec 5, 2016 \| 146 comments
7.		Welcome to the World of Software Defined Radio (robertputt.co.uk)
		300 points by robputt796 on Dec 4, 2016 \| 82 comments
8.		Open-sourcing DeepMind Lab (deepmind.com)
		362 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 5, 2016 \| 29 comments
9.		Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible with News (mondaynote.com)
		369 points by drallison on Dec 5, 2016 \| 229 comments
10.		Azure Jupyter Notebooks (azure.com)
		302 points by douche on Dec 5, 2016 \| 153 comments
11.		Show HN: Staticland – Open source static site hosting with SSL via Let's Encrypt (static.land)
		180 points by sethvincent on Dec 5, 2016 \| 38 comments
12.		Secure ROM extraction on iPhone 6S (ramtin-amin.fr)
		264 points by tomstokes on Dec 5, 2016 \| 46 comments
13.		R vs. Python for Data Science [video] (dominodatalab.com)
		159 points by roseway4 on Dec 5, 2016 \| 62 comments
14.		A fast multi-producer, multi-consumer lock-free concurrent queue for C++11 (github.com/cameron314)
		210 points by setra on Dec 5, 2016 \| 81 comments
15.		Elixir and Ruby can talk to each other using Erlix (fazibear.me)
		169 points by thibaut_barrere on Dec 5, 2016 \| 54 comments
16.		Mux – A lightweight, fast HTTP request router for Go (github.com/donutloop)
		152 points by loppers92 on Dec 5, 2016 \| 76 comments
17.		“Scientific Method for Startups”, and AMA with Michael Seibel (blog.ycombinator.com)
		118 points by craigcannon on Dec 5, 2016 \| 47 comments
18.		Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet [video] (bloomberg.com)
		164 points by bilifuduo on Dec 5, 2016 \| 76 comments
19.		Spurious Splines (inconvergent.net)
		119 points by sebg on Dec 5, 2016 \| 16 comments
20.		The Last Diplomat (wsj.com)
		102 points by specialk on Dec 5, 2016 \| 53 comments
21.		Show HN: Filter the web by Hacker News (hackernewsfilter.com)
		146 points by huan9huan on Dec 5, 2016 \| 23 comments
22.		Show HN: PDD – Probabilistic De-Duplication of Streams with Bloom Filters (github.com/jparkie)
		86 points by jparkie on Dec 5, 2016 \| 12 comments
23.		Show HN: Emoji usage on Reddit (badcode.pro)
		72 points by dylz on Dec 4, 2016 \| 36 comments
24.		What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music (washington.edu)
		122 points by huan9huan on Dec 5, 2016 \| 28 comments
25.		Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer (2014) (cryptographyengineering.com)
		138 points by _qc3o on Dec 5, 2016 \| 44 comments
26.		Measuring GC latencies in Haskell, OCaml, Racket (neu.edu)
		137 points by edwintorok on Dec 5, 2016 \| 57 comments
27.		Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
		247 points by farm_code on Dec 5, 2016 \| 166 comments
28.		Compelling Science Fiction Issue 4 (compellingsciencefiction.com)
		171 points by roymurdock on Dec 5, 2016 \| 23 comments
29.		Dear JavaScript (medium.com/thejameskyle)
		429 points by johnwards on Dec 5, 2016 \| 235 comments
30.		Silicon Valley’s Culture, Not Its Companies, Dominates in China (nytimes.com)
		148 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 5, 2016 \| 101 comments
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