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1. Introducing OpenAI (openai.com)
1107 points by sama on Dec 11, 2015 | 376 comments
2. How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over (medium.com/backchannel)
344 points by sergeant3 on Dec 11, 2015 | 171 comments
3. Dow and DuPont to merge (washingtonpost.com)
200 points by gotchange on Dec 11, 2015 | 120 comments
4. US to ban soaps and other products containing microbeads (theguardian.com)
293 points by benologist on Dec 11, 2015 | 221 comments
5. I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA
313 points by proberts on Dec 11, 2015 | 310 comments
6. Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla (djangoproject.com)
302 points by cdnsteve on Dec 11, 2015 | 101 comments
7. Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team (ieee.org)
232 points by teklaperry on Dec 11, 2015 | 178 comments
8. Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers (1998) (yale.edu)
140 points by jasim on Dec 10, 2015 | 79 comments
9. Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore (eff.org)
262 points by pavornyoh on Dec 10, 2015 | 87 comments
10. Spideroak Kloak: Zero-Knowlege Social Networking (spideroak.com)
156 points by kevinSuttle on Dec 11, 2015 | 66 comments
11. Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme (ponzi.es)
332 points by zachlatta on Dec 11, 2015 | 125 comments
12. Google Wallet: Send money via text message (googlecommerce.blogspot.com)
94 points by howsilly on Dec 11, 2015 | 65 comments
13. How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist (uu.nl)
208 points by tokenadult on Dec 10, 2015 | 75 comments
14. A 1920s millionaire set off a race to have the most babies (fivethirtyeight.com)
108 points by fisherjeff on Dec 11, 2015 | 33 comments
15. Svetlana Alexievich Nobel Lecture: On the Battle Lost (nobelprize.org)
98 points by nkurz on Dec 10, 2015 | 18 comments
16. Go Running on the Rumprun Unikernel (github.com/deferpanic)
78 points by deferpanic on Dec 11, 2015 | 9 comments
17. Lightning talks from Meeting C++ 2015 (meetingcpp.com)
68 points by meetingcpp on Dec 11, 2015 | 11 comments
18. Volkswagen and the Blame the Engineer Game (jacquesmattheij.com)
312 points by jacquesm on Dec 10, 2015 | 293 comments
19. Philosophy of science books every computer scientist should read (tomasp.net)
183 points by nkurz on Dec 11, 2015 | 205 comments
20. Class of 2016: Whose works will enter the public domain (publicdomainreview.org)
129 points by Thevet on Dec 10, 2015 | 72 comments
21. Slightly Less Awful Hiring for Engineering Talent (codeforamerica.org)
93 points by wpietri on Dec 11, 2015 | 43 comments
22. He Blew the Whistle at JPMorgan Chase, Then Came the Blowback (nytimes.com)
173 points by phonon on Dec 11, 2015 | 50 comments
23. A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities (nytimes.com)
157 points by pen2l on Dec 11, 2015 | 67 comments
24. MTProto, the symmetric encryption scheme used in Telegram, is not IND-CCA secure (iacr.org)
181 points by bpierre on Dec 11, 2015 | 62 comments
25. The Pixel C was probably never supposed to run Android (arstechnica.com)
142 points by ingve on Dec 10, 2015 | 48 comments
26. U.S. states pass laws backing Uber's view of drivers as contractors (reuters.com)
95 points by petethomas on Dec 11, 2015 | 168 comments
27. Building the Machine – Organizational Design in Startups (tomtunguz.com)
43 points by lxm on Dec 11, 2015 | 1 comment
28. Faraday Future picks Nevada over California to build a $1B plant (latimes.com)
39 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 11, 2015 | 30 comments
29. Imaging Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (loc.gov)
26 points by Thevet on Dec 11, 2015
30. Capital Is No Longer Scarce (continuations.com)
112 points by sinak on Dec 11, 2015 | 117 comments

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