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1.		Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline (bloomberg.com)
		632 points by kjhughes on Dec 8, 2016 \| 441 comments
2.		John Glenn has died (dispatch.com)
		797 points by oaf357 on Dec 8, 2016 \| 152 comments
3.		1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856 (rachelbythebay.com)
		522 points by TimWolla on Dec 8, 2016 \| 100 comments
4.		Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (2013) (istacee.wordpress.com)
		550 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 8, 2016 \| 354 comments
5.		Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets (theverge.com)
		309 points by Tomte on Dec 8, 2016 \| 206 comments
6.		Show HN: U.S. Legal Concepts for Founders – Online Handbook (clerky.com)
		309 points by swampthing on Dec 8, 2016 \| 50 comments
7.		U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages (eff.org)
		274 points by merrier on Dec 8, 2016 \| 193 comments
8.		Belarus finally bans Tor (torproject.org)
		311 points by BuuQu9hu on Dec 8, 2016 \| 123 comments
9.		LowRISC – An open-source, Linux-capable System-on-a-Chip (lowrisc.org)
		332 points by hkt on Dec 8, 2016 \| 92 comments
10.		Start building Actions on Google (googleblog.com)
		204 points by bajames on Dec 8, 2016 \| 62 comments
11.		Lego Is the Perfect Toy (nymag.com)
		250 points by wallflower on Dec 8, 2016 \| 116 comments
12.		Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal (nytimes.com)
		268 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 8, 2016 \| 239 comments
13.		The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Major Crash (askthepilot.com)
		272 points by maxcan on Dec 8, 2016 \| 163 comments
14.		It's Not Cold Fusion but It's Something (scientificamerican.com)
		236 points by curtis on Dec 7, 2016 \| 203 comments
15.		Facebook Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest (bloomberg.com)
		252 points by applecore on Dec 8, 2016 \| 117 comments
16.		Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool (robertelder.org)
		245 points by robertelder on Dec 8, 2016 \| 102 comments
17.		The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive (robservatory.com)
		190 points by hyperpape on Dec 8, 2016 \| 121 comments
18.		Introduction to K-means Clustering (datascience.com)
		176 points by DataScienceInc on Dec 7, 2016 \| 19 comments
19.		AWS announces new region in Canada (amazon.com)
		220 points by forrestbrazeal on Dec 8, 2016 \| 112 comments
20.		Talks that changed the way I think about programming (opowell.com)
		593 points by greywolve on Dec 8, 2016 \| 95 comments
21.		Barely Half of 30-Year-Olds in the U.S. Earn More Than Their Parents Did at 30 (wsj.com)
		243 points by Vannatter on Dec 8, 2016 \| 383 comments
22.		'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience (shivankaul.com)
		911 points by skaul on Dec 8, 2016 \| 510 comments
23.		How to Use Clojure for Scripting (asimjalis.github.io)
		116 points by asimjalis on Dec 8, 2016 \| 28 comments
24.		What Former Employees Say ITT Tech Did to Scam Its Students (npr.org)
		120 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 8, 2016 \| 79 comments
25.		Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit (sciencebulletin.org)
		217 points by devinp on Dec 8, 2016 \| 39 comments
26.		OAuth vs. SAML vs. OpenID Connect (gluu.co)
		123 points by willow9886 on Dec 7, 2016 \| 68 comments
27.		When antibiotics failed a severely ill patient, a virus saved him (nautil.us)
		134 points by sergeant3 on Dec 8, 2016 \| 55 comments
28.		A Provably Secure Proof-Of-Stake Blockchain Protocol (github.com/input-output-hk)
		93 points by xiamx on Dec 8, 2016 \| 30 comments
29.		Fogging your Google search history with Python and Reddit (howlroundmusic.org)
		128 points by marcosvpj on Dec 8, 2016 \| 50 comments
30.		Why is there no CR1, and why are control registers such a mess anyway? (2010) (pagetable.com)
		99 points by JoshTriplett on Dec 7, 2016 \| 15 comments
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