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1. Open source software for developing world hospitals (hospitalrun.io)
458 points by daleharvey on Dec 4, 2015 | 112 comments
2. The Fall and Rise of SVG (siliconpublishing.com)
324 points by maxdunn1 on Dec 4, 2015 | 92 comments
3. Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why (quantamagazine.org)
403 points by retupmoc01 on Dec 3, 2015 | 132 comments
4. Show HN: Acme-tiny, a tiny 200-line Let's Encrypt client (github.com/diafygi)
280 points by diafygi on Dec 4, 2015 | 51 comments
5. Jury Duty (medium.com/jurornumber5)
378 points by eropple on Dec 2, 2015 | 215 comments
6. Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox (ibm.com)
246 points by julianozen on Dec 4, 2015 | 59 comments
7. French Uber drivers have created their own Uber (theverge.com)
211 points by kawera on Dec 3, 2015 | 186 comments
8. Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
225 points by cpeterso on Dec 4, 2015 | 205 comments
9. A radically simple idea may open the door to a new world of antibiotics (statnews.com)
144 points by obeone on Dec 3, 2015 | 69 comments
10. Holometer rules out first theory of space-time correlations (symmetrymagazine.org)
131 points by jonbaer on Dec 4, 2015 | 47 comments
11. Car turns driver in for hit-and-run (wpbf.com)
241 points by anigbrowl on Dec 4, 2015 | 246 comments
12. The search for a faster CRC32 (fastmail.com)
100 points by alfiedotwtf on Dec 3, 2015 | 51 comments
13. Debugging Node.js in Production (netflix.com)
173 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 3, 2015 | 72 comments
14. Clang with Microsoft CodeGen in VS 2015 Update 1 (msdn.com)
118 points by BudVVeezer on Dec 4, 2015 | 37 comments
15. KiCad 4.0.0 is Out (kicad-pcb.org)
135 points by craigjb on Dec 4, 2015 | 37 comments
16. My Life as a Robot (wired.com)
95 points by ohjeez on Dec 2, 2015 | 34 comments
17. Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy (googleforeducation.blogspot.com)
125 points by bluehex on Dec 4, 2015 | 66 comments
18. Lavoisier died at age 50, on the guillotine (3quarksdaily.com)
95 points by daddy_drank on Dec 4, 2015 | 46 comments
19. Android Audio Latency (androidpolice.com)
102 points by kawera on Dec 3, 2015 | 83 comments
20. Exploring Johannes Kepler's 'Somnium', the first science fiction story (somniumproject.wordpress.com)
53 points by Hooke on Dec 3, 2015 | 4 comments
21. Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014) (pnas.org)
117 points by tomaskazemekas on Dec 4, 2015 | 70 comments
22. Rcon: a lightweight resource virtualization tool for Linux processes (github.com/matsumoto-r)
73 points by matsumotory on Dec 3, 2015 | 8 comments
23. OpenPrescribing: England's medication prescription data (openprescribing.net)
58 points by napoleoncomplex on Dec 3, 2015 | 12 comments
24. Umberto's Echoes (the-tls.co.uk)
46 points by samclemens on Dec 3, 2015 | 5 comments
25. Hadoop creator Doug Cutting on evolving and succeeding in open source (medium.com/s-c-a-l-e)
55 points by vquemener on Dec 2, 2015
26. The 'North Korea ghost boats' washing up on Japan (bbc.co.uk)
50 points by edward on Dec 4, 2015 | 14 comments
27. Ballmer Chides Microsoft Over Cloud Revenue Disclosures (bloomberg.com)
45 points by boulos on Dec 3, 2015 | 53 comments
28. Self hosted C – breakdown (achacompilers.blogspot.com)
105 points by andrewchambers on Dec 3, 2015 | 43 comments
29. Who cleans up after war? (hopesandfears.com)
37 points by snake117 on Dec 2, 2015 | 26 comments
30. Towns want Verizon investigated for abandoning networks through neglect (arstechnica.com)
119 points by pavornyoh on Dec 3, 2015 | 117 comments

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