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1. Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team (diracdeltas.github.io)
1009 points by xenophonf on Dec 15, 2016 | 280 comments
2. German research institutions boycott Elsevier (uni-goettingen.de)
764 points by millettjon on Dec 15, 2016 | 121 comments
3. Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband (fiercetelecom.com)
232 points by PaulHoule on Dec 15, 2016 | 79 comments
4. GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 (bloomberg.com)
540 points by mobee on Dec 15, 2016 | 568 comments
5. Starting a real business (stripe.com)
458 points by hepha1979 on Dec 14, 2016 | 128 comments
6. Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly (godbolt.org)
602 points by setra on Dec 15, 2016 | 151 comments
7. Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional programming (pyret.org)
306 points by gknoy on Dec 15, 2016 | 267 comments
8. The First Annual Underhanded Rust Contest (underhanded.rs)
247 points by erickt on Dec 15, 2016 | 25 comments
9. A Visual and Interactive Guide to the Basics of Neural Networks (jalammar.github.io)
234 points by adamnemecek on Dec 15, 2016 | 5 comments
10. Amazon Restaurants (amazon.com)
336 points by chrisan on Dec 15, 2016 | 210 comments
11. One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers (matthewsag.com)
489 points by silverdrake11 on Dec 14, 2016 | 233 comments
12. Unscii – A set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts (pelulamu.net)
178 points by vanni on Dec 15, 2016 | 28 comments
13. Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490) (openculture.com)
274 points by edw519 on Dec 15, 2016 | 68 comments
14. Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal (bloomberg.com)
277 points by thehodge on Dec 15, 2016 | 176 comments
15. Advice on learning Python efficiently (simplydjango.com)
283 points by dwaynecrooks on Dec 15, 2016 | 73 comments
16. The Signal protocol for Node and browsers (ischool.berkeley.edu)
215 points by ifelsehow on Dec 15, 2016 | 29 comments
17. Show HN: Godb is a simple Go ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and SQL Server (github.com/samonzeweb)
205 points by samonzeweb on Dec 15, 2016 | 88 comments
18. Thought Experiments to De-Risk Your Startup (codingvc.com)
215 points by lpolovets on Dec 15, 2016 | 32 comments
19. Firefox Hardware Report for Web Developers (hacks.mozilla.org)
188 points by nachtigall on Dec 15, 2016 | 140 comments
20. Running as a Thinking Person’s Sport (nytimes.com)
148 points by Dowwie on Dec 15, 2016 | 143 comments
21. Material Components Preview (material.io)
127 points by gcoguiec on Dec 15, 2016 | 55 comments
22. Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco (techcrunch.com)
207 points by coloneltcb on Dec 14, 2016 | 233 comments
23. Wells Fargo’s ‘Living Will’ Plan Is Rejected Again by Regulators (nytimes.com)
128 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 15, 2016 | 89 comments
24. Letter to a Peer Reviewer Who Stole and Published Our Manuscript as His Own (annals.org)
176 points by soneca on Dec 15, 2016 | 104 comments
25. 2017 Solar Eclipse Path of Totality (nasa.gov)
114 points by rootbear on Dec 15, 2016 | 24 comments
26. A neural link between affective understanding and interpersonal attraction [pdf] (pnas.org)
119 points by lainon on Dec 15, 2016 | 58 comments
27. Building web applications on top of encrypted data using Mylar [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
84 points by espeed on Dec 15, 2016 | 3 comments
28. Lucid Motors unveils the Air, a new luxe electric car with a 400-mile range (techcrunch.com)
103 points by mattiemass on Dec 15, 2016 | 74 comments
29. Recent efforts in V8 and DevTools for Node.js (v8project.blogspot.com)
109 points by tweakz on Dec 15, 2016 | 24 comments
30. Amazon Lightsail 1GB Is No Match for $10 VPS from Linode, DO (vpsbenchmarks.com)
238 points by gmays on Dec 15, 2016 | 41 comments

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