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1.		WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities (reuters.com)
		795 points by artsandsci on Dec 19, 2017 \| 408 comments
2.		Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains (janbambas.cz)
		472 points by bzbarsky on Dec 19, 2017 \| 261 comments
3.		iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages (geekbench.com)
		456 points by Deinos on Dec 19, 2017 \| 259 comments
4.		Dynamicland (dynamicland.org)
		446 points by Pulcinella on Dec 19, 2017 \| 117 comments
5.		Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned (andrewchen.co)
		362 points by hispanic on Dec 18, 2017 \| 126 comments
6.		Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units (reneweconomy.com.au)
		267 points by beardicus on Dec 19, 2017 \| 84 comments
7.		New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff (blog.mozilla.org)
		432 points by discreditable on Dec 19, 2017 \| 125 comments
8.		I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
		249 points by proberts on Dec 19, 2017 \| 306 comments
9.		The Google-Facebook Duopoly Threatens Diversity of Thought (wsj.com)
		319 points by yostrovs on Dec 19, 2017 \| 216 comments
10.		Building a Home Aquaponics System: The Basics (thissmarthouse.net)
		254 points by ohjeez on Dec 19, 2017 \| 74 comments
11.		The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code (gamasutra.com)
		291 points by doppp on Dec 19, 2017 \| 198 comments
12.		Tacotron 2: Generating Human-Like Speech from Text (googleblog.com)
		290 points by stablemap on Dec 19, 2017 \| 54 comments
13.		Image text recognition APIs showdown (dataturks.com)
		193 points by mohi13 on Dec 19, 2017 \| 77 comments
14.		How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune (nytimes.com)
		221 points by rafaelc on Dec 19, 2017 \| 295 comments
15.		How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm (konghq.com)
		196 points by pidginbil on Dec 19, 2017 \| 33 comments
16.		Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care? (tomassetti.me)
		296 points by ingve on Dec 19, 2017 \| 248 comments
17.		Improving my productivity using Pomodoro: takeaways after 2 years of practice (cherti.name)
		224 points by mehdidc on Dec 18, 2017 \| 88 comments
18.		A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms (twitter.com/hellchick)
		580 points by emsy on Dec 19, 2017 \| 398 comments
19.		In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006) (nytimes.com)
		255 points by nabla9 on Dec 19, 2017 \| 197 comments
20.		Inside the World's Only Watch Design University (hodinkee.com)
		94 points by wallflower on Dec 19, 2017 \| 4 comments
21.		Philosophy Needs a New Definition (lareviewofbooks.org)
		100 points by jseliger on Dec 19, 2017 \| 66 comments
22.		Estonia is planning to launch Estcoin (medium.com/e-residency-blog)
		341 points by madspindel on Dec 19, 2017 \| 183 comments
23.		What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World (nytimes.com)
		217 points by runesoerensen on Dec 19, 2017 \| 452 comments
24.		Microsoft Moves to End Secrecy in Sexual Harassment Claims (nytimes.com)
		170 points by htiek on Dec 19, 2017 \| 102 comments
25.		A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots (atlasobscura.com)
		196 points by leahculver on Dec 17, 2017 \| 35 comments
26.		Building a Poor Man’s Deep Learning Camera in Python (makeartwithpython.com)
		265 points by burningion on Dec 18, 2017 \| 26 comments
27.		How to not waste time on a side project when trying to get a job (hackcareer.com)
		193 points by djchung23 on Dec 19, 2017 \| 82 comments
28.		Keras and deep learning on the Raspberry Pi (pyimagesearch.com)
		106 points by benn_88 on Dec 18, 2017 \| 3 comments
29.		Toyetic (wikipedia.org)
		74 points by Red_Tarsius on Dec 19, 2017 \| 5 comments
30.		Improving app security and performance on Google Play for years to come (googleblog.com)
		81 points by ingve on Dec 19, 2017 \| 33 comments
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