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1. SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed (arstechnica.com)
1111 points by phenylene on Nov 17, 2016 | 521 comments
2. Don’t Mess with The Google (dansdeals.com)
1070 points by mendelk on Nov 16, 2016 | 496 comments
3. SpaceX FCC Application for over 4000 Internet Satellites (fcc.gov)
508 points by paulsutter on Nov 17, 2016 | 206 comments
4. Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools (microsoft.com)
549 points by nikbackm on Nov 17, 2016 | 262 comments
5. Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS (blog.mozilla.org)
535 points by st3fan on Nov 17, 2016 | 194 comments
6. Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions (latimes.com)
405 points by t23 on Nov 17, 2016 | 867 comments
7. Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy” (zdnet.com)
651 points by eeZah7Ux on Nov 17, 2016 | 291 comments
8. Demystifying the i-Device NVMe NAND (ramtin-amin.fr)
337 points by duked on Nov 17, 2016 | 52 comments
9. U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years (washingtonpost.com)
240 points by endswapper on Nov 17, 2016 | 151 comments
10. Site requests bank logins for online purchases (lolware.net)
282 points by technion on Nov 17, 2016 | 219 comments
11. Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family (wsj.com)
352 points by trimbo on Nov 16, 2016 | 133 comments
12. Go fonts (golang.org)
295 points by stablemap on Nov 17, 2016 | 170 comments
13. Keybase chooses Zcash (keybase.io)
262 points by aston on Nov 17, 2016 | 159 comments
14. Shareholders approve Tesla Solarcity acquisition (techcrunch.com)
253 points by astdb on Nov 17, 2016 | 33 comments
15. Pixel Security (googleblog.com)
198 points by praving5 on Nov 17, 2016 | 145 comments
16. The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn (bloomberg.com)
148 points by arcanus on Nov 16, 2016 | 70 comments
17. Enzymes from nine organisms combined to create new pathway to use CO2 (arstechnica.com)
178 points by jseliger on Nov 17, 2016 | 76 comments
18. The mathematics of science’s broken reward system (nature.com)
187 points by seycombi on Nov 17, 2016 | 78 comments
19. What.CD is shutting down (what.cd)
607 points by Paul_S on Nov 17, 2016 | 267 comments
20. LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia (techcrunch.com)
220 points by DyslexicAtheist on Nov 17, 2016 | 189 comments
21. PoisonTap – Exploits locked computers over USB (github.com/samyk)
235 points by el_duderino on Nov 16, 2016 | 56 comments
22. Why Catholics Built Astronomical Features into Churches (atlasobscura.com)
142 points by Hooke on Nov 17, 2016 | 87 comments
23. You Are Not Paid to Write Code (bravenewgeek.com)
328 points by tylertreat on Nov 17, 2016 | 167 comments
24. Boards in Asana (asana.com)
135 points by The_Fox on Nov 17, 2016 | 91 comments
25. The .blog Bait and Switch (chrisschidle.com)
305 points by cschidle on Nov 17, 2016 | 178 comments
26. Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy (candyjapan.com)
114 points by bemmu on Nov 17, 2016 | 50 comments
27. Fundraising isn't predictable (aaronkharris.com)
77 points by runesoerensen on Nov 16, 2016 | 14 comments
28. iPhones send call history to Apple, security firm says (theintercept.com)
242 points by mcagl on Nov 17, 2016 | 81 comments
29. ORCA – An implementation of RISC-V intended to target FPGAs (github.com/vectorblox)
77 points by vanjoe on Nov 17, 2016 | 14 comments
30. Place recognition with WiFi fingerprints using Autoencoders and Neural Networks (github.com/aqibsaeed)
55 points by floydsoft on Nov 17, 2016 | 4 comments

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