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1. The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car (bloomberg.com)
949 points by bcg1 on Dec 16, 2015 | 447 comments
2. Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era (bloomberg.com)
427 points by lpage on Dec 16, 2015 | 351 comments
3. Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform (meethue.com)
441 points by alaaf on Dec 16, 2015 | 164 comments
4. Slack Platform Launch (slackhq.com)
366 points by thejosh on Dec 16, 2015 | 219 comments
5. I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite (apple.stackexchange.com)
392 points by gdeglin on Dec 16, 2015 | 144 comments
6. LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365 (infoworld.com)
229 points by Garbage on Dec 16, 2015 | 139 comments
7. Pebble Seizure Detect (github.com/pebbleseizuredetect)
301 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2015 | 46 comments
8. Phoenix 1.1 Released (groups.google.com)
218 points by clessg on Dec 16, 2015 | 62 comments
9. How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia (ibm.com)
200 points by kermatt on Dec 15, 2015 | 125 comments
10. Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories (rejected.us)
232 points by jon_kuperman on Dec 16, 2015 | 201 comments
11. Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review (candyjapan.com)
183 points by Xixi on Dec 16, 2015 | 66 comments
12. IncludeOS roadmap: tiny Node.js-style web services in highly efficient C++ (github.com/hioa-cs)
80 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2015 | 43 comments
13. Let's Create a Better Product Hunt (docs.google.com)
223 points by BetterLaunch on Dec 16, 2015 | 98 comments
14. Yahoo open sources Anthelion web crawler for parsing structured data (github.com/yahoo)
159 points by fangwang on Dec 16, 2015 | 9 comments
15. AMD's Answer to GameWorks: Open Source Tools, Graphics FX, Libraries and SDKs (wccftech.com)
164 points by altern8 on Dec 15, 2015 | 70 comments
16. Government surveillance is as old as the telegraph (timeline.com)
64 points by carissaignacia on Dec 16, 2015 | 18 comments
17. To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy (steveblank.com)
135 points by rmason on Dec 15, 2015 | 40 comments
18. The Reasoned Lisper (chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com)
120 points by chriskohlhepp on Dec 16, 2015 | 7 comments
19. An Artist Who Obsessed the FBI (thedailybeast.com)
75 points by asselinpaul on Dec 15, 2015 | 12 comments
20. Kojima Productions (kojimaproductions.jp)
136 points by minimaxir on Dec 16, 2015 | 48 comments
21. John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence [video] (youtube.com)
71 points by nolantait on Dec 15, 2015 | 59 comments
22. Think Like a Statistician – Without the Math (flowingdata.com)
118 points by ric3rcar on Dec 16, 2015 | 23 comments
23. Craig Federighi talks to John Gruber about Swift (daringfireball.net)
120 points by anderzole on Dec 15, 2015 | 9 comments
24. EC2 Update – T2.Nano Instances Now Available (amazon.com)
180 points by jeffbarr on Dec 16, 2015 | 110 comments
25. “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing (bmj.com)
112 points by mmastrac on Dec 15, 2015 | 48 comments
26. Your Most Valuable Asset Is Yourself (nytimes.com)
81 points by yarapavan on Dec 15, 2015 | 77 comments
27. Florida Court Deliberates Manual Recount Problems with Touchscreen Voting (eff.org)
44 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 16, 2015 | 26 comments
28. A simple explanation of Chinese characters (medium.com/adrieng)
127 points by agrand on Dec 15, 2015 | 76 comments
29. Apollo: Spotify's Java libraries for writing micro-services (spotify.github.io)
110 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2015 | 35 comments
30. Micro VCs Are Coming (mattermark.com)
72 points by zbravo on Dec 15, 2015 | 42 comments

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