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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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