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1. Waymo: Google's self-driving car company (waymo.com)
785 points by _khwc on Dec 13, 2016 | 748 comments
2. A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X (trustwave.com)
373 points by finid on Dec 13, 2016 | 107 comments
3. Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe (radio.garden)
527 points by gamma_raj on Dec 13, 2016 | 110 comments
4. Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (kakoune.org)
631 points by petepete on Dec 13, 2016 | 327 comments
5. PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL (compose.com)
339 points by otoolep on Dec 13, 2016 | 124 comments
6. Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business (arstechnica.com)
400 points by Tomte on Dec 13, 2016 | 182 comments
7. Slack Calls: Now with video (slackhq.com)
253 points by tilt on Dec 13, 2016 | 123 comments
8. The Rule of Silence (2006) (linfo.org)
338 points by riansanderson on Dec 13, 2016 | 310 comments
9. Show HN: The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way (robinwieruch.de)
339 points by rwieruch on Dec 13, 2016 | 22 comments
10. Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes (businessinsider.com)
405 points by kevcampb on Dec 13, 2016 | 236 comments
11. AMD Gives More Zen Details (anandtech.com)
290 points by Osiris on Dec 13, 2016 | 192 comments
12. AirPods are now available (apple.com)
244 points by runesoerensen on Dec 13, 2016 | 566 comments
13. Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi (troyhunt.com)
329 points by jimmcslim on Dec 13, 2016 | 268 comments
14. The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able to Cut Off Your Internet Access (eff.org)
280 points by z0a on Dec 12, 2016 | 56 comments
15. Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf] (kapor.com)
158 points by yurisagalov on Dec 13, 2016 | 75 comments
16. Neurogenesis Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
197 points by groar on Dec 13, 2016 | 97 comments
17. Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered (nytimes.com)
125 points by Mz on Dec 12, 2016 | 26 comments
18. PR 101 for engineers (medium.com/aneel)
223 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 13, 2016 | 28 comments
19. Opendoor, a startup worth emulating (stratechery.com)
223 points by mooreds on Dec 13, 2016 | 142 comments
20. DynamoDB cannot store empty strings (amazon.com)
188 points by idbehold on Dec 13, 2016 | 172 comments
21. Prolific Engineers Take Small Bites (gitprime.com)
251 points by tbassetto on Dec 13, 2016 | 94 comments
22. Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?
242 points by changeseeker on Dec 13, 2016 | 232 comments
23. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down (engadget.com)
128 points by serg_chernata on Dec 13, 2016 | 121 comments
24. Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car (techcrunch.com)
281 points by doener on Dec 13, 2016 | 223 comments
25. China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon (bloomberg.com)
193 points by adventured on Dec 13, 2016 | 364 comments
26. First ‘water-wave’ laser created (sciencebulletin.org)
62 points by devinp on Dec 13, 2016 | 19 comments
27. Investors Get Ready for the Coming Electric Car Revolution (wsj.com)
91 points by jseliger on Dec 13, 2016 | 57 comments
28. NBA Highlights – Search for video of NBA plays (3ball.io)
102 points by Matetricks on Dec 13, 2016 | 38 comments
29. The .zip file specification is flawed (github.com/thejoshwolfe)
214 points by AndyKelley on Dec 12, 2016 | 118 comments
30. Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf] (arxiv.org)
68 points by espeed on Dec 12, 2016 | 13 comments

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