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31. Google Login will be mandatory for Firebase accounts (groups.google.com)
73 points by dinosaurs on Dec 17, 2015 | 40 comments
32. Cancer is not just 'bad luck' but down to environment, study suggests (bbc.com)
92 points by Perados on Dec 17, 2015 | 41 comments
33. Tech and Banking Giants Ditch Bitcoin for Their Own Blockchain (wired.com)
101 points by dankohn1 on Dec 17, 2015 | 103 comments
34. The Insults of Age (themonthly.com.au)
130 points by diodorus on Dec 16, 2015 | 46 comments
35. Too many open files: Tracking down a bug in production (roomkey.com)
65 points by pigs on Dec 16, 2015 | 7 comments
36. DNS Terminology (ietf.org)
60 points by _jomo on Dec 16, 2015 | 3 comments
37. Italian Mafias killing less but infiltrating more businesses (japantimes.co.jp)
74 points by walterbell on Dec 17, 2015 | 66 comments
38. Autotools Mythbuster (autotools.io)
90 points by nbaksalyar on Dec 17, 2015 | 85 comments
39. DataGrip 1.0 (formerly 0xDBE): A New IDE for DBs and SQL (jetbrains.com)
84 points by andrey_cheptsov on Dec 16, 2015 | 39 comments
40. Dolphins Using Sea Sponges as Tools (2014) (theatlantic.com)
57 points by Tomte on Dec 17, 2015 | 7 comments
41. EFF's Panopticlick 2.0 Launches with Tracker Protection Tests (eff.org)
77 points by legind on Dec 17, 2015 | 34 comments
42. EFF Publishes “Pwning Tomorrow,” a Speculative Fiction Anthology (eff.org)
62 points by Garbage on Dec 17, 2015 | 4 comments
43. O(1) Data Lookups with Minimal Perfect Hashing (demofox.org)
83 points by ingve on Dec 16, 2015 | 12 comments
44. A-Frame: open-source WebVR framework from Mozilla (aframe.io)
91 points by chuckharmston on Dec 17, 2015 | 9 comments
45. Correction to article: "First Person to Hack iPhone Built Self-Driving Car" (teslamotors.com)
148 points by jdkanani on Dec 17, 2015 | 47 comments
46. FireEye Exploitation: Project Zero’s Vulnerability of the Beast (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
67 points by officialjunk on Dec 17, 2015 | 9 comments
47. Deep-learning algorithm predicts photos’ memorability at “near-human” levels (news.mit.edu)
53 points by Libertatea on Dec 16, 2015 | 23 comments
48. Optimizing Software in C++ [pdf] (agner.org)
82 points by signa11 on Dec 16, 2015 | 11 comments
49. Firefox Users Can Now Watch Netflix HTML5 Video on Windows (blog.mozilla.org)
96 points by ehPReth on Dec 17, 2015 | 69 comments
50. Google's Move to Software-Defined Networking (acm.org)
51 points by alanfranz on Dec 16, 2015 | 6 comments
51. BBC Digital Media Distribution: How we improved throughput by 4x (bbc.co.uk)
79 points by woolie on Dec 17, 2015 | 23 comments
52. The Security, Usability and Multi-Device-Problem of Messaging Apps (tazj.in)
57 points by tazjin on Dec 17, 2015 | 31 comments
53. [flagged] Lexmark fires Mexico factory workers demanding $0.35 raise (theguardian.com)
142 points by benologist on Dec 15, 2015 | 82 comments
54. Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf] (bloomberglaw.com)
163 points by rayiner on Dec 17, 2015 | 167 comments
55. GPUCC: An Open-Source GPGPU Compiler [video] (nvidia.com)
33 points by singularity2001 on Dec 16, 2015 | 15 comments
56. The Development of the C Language (1993) (bell-labs.com)
57 points by dodders on Dec 17, 2015 | 28 comments
57. RxJS is great. So why have I moved on? (medium.com/puppybits)
82 points by swannodette on Dec 16, 2015 | 37 comments
58. How to Predict Bad Cops in Chicago (fivethirtyeight.com)
63 points by mrjaeger on Dec 15, 2015 | 28 comments
59. Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Genre (nytimes.com)
41 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 17, 2015 | 22 comments
60. Loss aversion is not what we think it is (basilhalperin.com)
60 points by abeinstein on Dec 16, 2015 | 26 comments

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