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1.
Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser (support.mozilla.org)
757 points by shak77 on Dec 15, 2017 | 511 comments
2.
MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike (wired.com)
429 points by golangnews on Dec 15, 2017 | 247 comments
3.
Overcoming Us vs. Them (nautil.us)
350 points by dnetesn on Dec 15, 2017 | 229 comments
4.
Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us? (fb.com)
197 points by taylorbuley on Dec 15, 2017 | 112 comments
5.
Net Neutrality Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal Was Written by Comcast Attorney (theintercept.com)
359 points by nkurz on Dec 15, 2017 | 82 comments
6.
Metal Gear Solid V – Graphics Study (adriancourreges.com)
244 points by jsheard on Dec 15, 2017 | 62 comments
7.
Ask HN: Writing cover letters for tech jobs
265 points by scabarott on Dec 15, 2017 | 123 comments
8.
Perkeep – Open-source data modeling, storing, search, sharing and synchronizing (perkeep.org)
255 points by noncoml on Dec 15, 2017 | 105 comments
9.
AIM will be discontinued today (aol.com)
374 points by cryptodogemoon on Dec 15, 2017 | 264 comments
10.
Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying government order (cbc.ca)
230 points by rocky1138 on Dec 15, 2017 | 252 comments
11.
Tiny Titan (tinytitan.github.io)
276 points by jonbaer on Dec 14, 2017 | 65 comments
12.
English rivers polluted by neonicotinoids, first tests reveal (theguardian.com)
216 points by Red_Tarsius on Dec 15, 2017 | 128 comments
13.
3D scatterplot of an image (alexander.engineering)
200 points by Overv on Dec 15, 2017 | 73 comments
14.
BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Starting with Bitcoin Cash (bitpay.com)
143 points by bitjson on Dec 15, 2017 | 209 comments
15.
Using loaded dice to cheat at Settlers of Catan, and p-values to avoid suspicion (izbicki.me)
266 points by jackpirate on Dec 14, 2017 | 103 comments
16.
Communicating Advanced Mathematics to Kids (ams.org)
238 points by ColinWright on Dec 14, 2017 | 53 comments
17.
Nike’s Two Hour Marathon Attempt (wired.com)
168 points by wallflower on Dec 15, 2017 | 122 comments
18.
The United States of Toxins (priceonomics.com)
106 points by SimpleLogin on Dec 15, 2017 | 27 comments
19.
New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild (quantamagazine.org)
184 points by sampo on Dec 15, 2017 | 128 comments
20.
Anatomy of a Haskell-Based Application, Revisited (capital-match.com)
135 points by _0uto on Dec 15, 2017 | 9 comments
21.
FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users (foldingtext.com)
153 points by sndean on Dec 15, 2017 | 75 comments
22.
Nuclear Test Films Declassified and Uploaded (gizmodo.com)
160 points by coloneltcb on Dec 14, 2017 | 84 comments
23.
Defect that causes Huntington's disease has been corrected for the first time (bbc.com)
156 points by tuxguy on Dec 15, 2017 | 40 comments
24.
Truffle: Ethereum Dapp Development Framework (truffleframework.com)
145 points by xwvvvvwx on Dec 14, 2017 | 54 comments
25.
The MIME guys: How two Internet gurus changed e-mail (2011) (networkworld.com)
73 points by breck on Dec 14, 2017 | 26 comments
26.
RESTyped: End-To-end Typing for REST APIs with TypeScript (falcross.com)
91 points by rawrmaan on Dec 15, 2017 | 29 comments
27.
Three-Valued Logic (modern-sql.com)
138 points by okket on Dec 14, 2017 | 72 comments
28.
AlphaGo Teach – Find new and creative ways of playing Go (deepmind.com)
99 points by Jach on Dec 15, 2017 | 23 comments
29.
The science that’s never been cited (nature.com)
75 points by hannaysteve on Dec 15, 2017 | 44 comments
30.
Hackers invade safety system, halt plant operations in ‘watershed’ cyberattack (japantimes.co.jp)
97 points by pmoriarty on Dec 15, 2017 | 52 comments

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