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1.
Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts (yahoo.tumblr.com)
1046 points by _vvdf on Dec 14, 2016 | 569 comments
2.
Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps (kickstarter.engineering)
571 points by mecredis on Dec 14, 2016 | 73 comments
3.
New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation (nist.gov)
642 points by aaronharnly on Dec 14, 2016 | 304 comments
4.
CHVote: Open-source e-voting system from Switzerland (republique-et-canton-de-geneve.github.io)
437 points by porker on Dec 14, 2016 | 192 comments
5.
Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? (triplebyte.com)
359 points by runesoerensen on Dec 14, 2016 | 503 comments
6.
I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (snellman.net)
361 points by b3h3moth on Dec 14, 2016 | 167 comments
7.
Visual Studio Code 1.8 (visualstudio.com)
407 points by kentor on Dec 14, 2016 | 190 comments
8.
Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras (wired.com)
320 points by SonicSoul on Dec 14, 2016 | 207 comments
9.
Sharing National Security Letters with the Public (blog.google)
340 points by 0mp on Dec 13, 2016 | 135 comments
10.
Steve Wozniak Was My Computer Teacher in 1995 (vice.com)
317 points by curtis on Dec 14, 2016 | 56 comments
11.
A Git query language (github.com/cloudson)
352 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 14, 2016 | 67 comments
12.
What Kubernetes users should know about the rkt container engine (coreos.com)
153 points by pradeepchhetri on Dec 14, 2016 | 28 comments
13.
Practical Reverse Engineering Part 5 – Digging Through the Firmware (jcjc-dev.com)
174 points by j_s on Dec 14, 2016 | 6 comments
14.
Haskell in the Datacentre (simonmar.github.io)
276 points by dmit on Dec 14, 2016 | 43 comments
15.
RFC 7764 – Guidance on Markdown (ietf.org)
181 points by arthur2e5 on Dec 14, 2016 | 109 comments
16.
AI Programmer’s Bookshelf (media.mit.edu)
310 points by geospeck on Dec 14, 2016 | 26 comments
17.
Metro areas suffering from brain drain or benefiting from brain concentration (bloomberg.com)
131 points by thebent on Dec 14, 2016 | 82 comments
18.
Webpack 2.2 – Release Candidate (medium.com/webpack)
197 points by thelarkinn on Dec 14, 2016 | 86 comments
19.
Containerd – An open and reliable container runtime, by Docker (github.com/docker)
190 points by e-sushi on Dec 14, 2016 | 35 comments
20.
HIP: Convert CUDA to Portable C++ Code (github.com/gpuopen-professionalcompute-t...)
134 points by fla on Dec 13, 2016 | 14 comments
21.
Project Springfield: A Cloud Service Built in F# (msdn.microsoft.com)
94 points by edgyswingset on Dec 14, 2016 | 20 comments
22.
A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American Manufacturing (medium.com/initialized-capital)
96 points by evilsimon on Dec 14, 2016 | 64 comments
23.
How to run a meeting (1976) (hbr.org)
147 points by trendoid on Dec 14, 2016 | 44 comments
24.
LLVM's New Versioning Scheme (llvm.org)
101 points by zmodem on Dec 14, 2016 | 83 comments
25.
Investigating 65c816 Interrupts (6502.org)
56 points by ingve on Dec 14, 2016 | 8 comments
26.
Thomas Schelling has died (washingtonpost.com)
151 points by nabla9 on Dec 14, 2016 | 48 comments
27.
A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks (2007) (wisc.edu)
189 points by vengefulduck on Dec 14, 2016 | 17 comments
28.
Finding surprising moves in chess games (github.com/cyhsm)
135 points by mdp on Dec 14, 2016 | 35 comments
29.
The Public Domain C Library (e43.eu)
140 points by shakna on Dec 14, 2016 | 59 comments
30.
Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco (techcrunch.com)
280 points by orenbarzilai on Dec 14, 2016 | 207 comments

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