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1. YC's Winter Reading List (blog.ycombinator.com)
494 points by yurisagalov on Dec 12, 2016 | 214 comments
2. Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier (talyarkoni.org)
525 points by geospeck on Dec 12, 2016 | 140 comments
3. Things You Notice When You Quit the News (raptitude.com)
891 points by ysarbabi on Dec 11, 2016 | 487 comments
4. VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim (vimwiki.github.io)
515 points by type0 on Dec 12, 2016 | 120 comments
5. How Discord handles over a million requests per minute with Elixir’s GenStage (discord.engineering)
382 points by Sikul on Dec 12, 2016 | 161 comments
6. What Makes a Senior Software Developer? (professorbeekums.com)
536 points by beekums on Dec 12, 2016 | 238 comments
7. Radeon Instinct – Optimized Machine and Deep Learning (radeon.com)
230 points by hatsunearu on Dec 12, 2016 | 82 comments
8. Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z (glek.net)
484 points by tapper on Dec 12, 2016 | 197 comments
9. To Build a Better Ballot (ncase.me)
307 points by bpierre on Dec 12, 2016 | 168 comments
10. Function multi-versioning in GCC 6 (lwn.net)
210 points by arthur2e5 on Dec 11, 2016 | 15 comments
11. Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit (backchannel.com)
264 points by steven on Dec 12, 2016 | 200 comments
12. Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?
402 points by fapi1974 on Dec 12, 2016 | 273 comments
13. Ask HN: Where is AI/ML actually adding value at your company?
385 points by mkrecny on Dec 12, 2016 | 195 comments
14. Bill Gates et. al. launch massive clean-energy fund to fight climate change (qz.com)
305 points by jseliger on Dec 12, 2016 | 139 comments
15. Hyper 1.0.0 (github.com/zeit)
333 points by montogeek on Dec 12, 2016 | 210 comments
16. Resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub (github.com/blog)
228 points by moby on Dec 12, 2016 | 67 comments
17. Linux on the Mac – state of the union (lwn.net)
208 points by ah- on Dec 12, 2016 | 138 comments
18. Latin America is set to become a leader in alternative energy (economist.com)
141 points by oska on Dec 12, 2016 | 92 comments
19. Telomeres – Too much of a good thing? (scienceblog.com)
177 points by discombobulate on Dec 12, 2016 | 68 comments
20. Register-based VMs have a higher performance than stack-based VMs (arxiv.org)
119 points by frjalex on Dec 11, 2016 | 70 comments
21. Verifying Software with Timers and Clocks (cmu.edu)
66 points by heidibrayer on Dec 12, 2016 | 6 comments
22. Distributed Named Pipes (dnpip.es)
148 points by mhausenblas on Dec 11, 2016 | 30 comments
23. Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf] (microsoft.com)
97 points by tosh on Dec 11, 2016 | 24 comments
24. Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships (ieee.org)
74 points by blackwingbear1 on Dec 12, 2016 | 38 comments
25. Google’s self-driving car team prepares to spin out from Alphabet’s X (recode.net)
148 points by lxm on Dec 12, 2016 | 145 comments
26. What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service (nextplatform.com)
95 points by binaryanomaly on Dec 11, 2016 | 30 comments
27. Some Tools for Go Lang That You Might Not Know Yet (gopheracademy.com)
129 points by type0 on Dec 11, 2016 | 26 comments
28. Hotel Stays, Especially in Inclement Weather (whathelpsthehomeless.blogspot.com)
77 points by Mz on Dec 12, 2016 | 69 comments
29. Passage to America, 1750 (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
71 points by walterbell on Dec 11, 2016 | 29 comments
30. Why a Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like “Mad Max” (nautil.us)
204 points by dnetesn on Dec 12, 2016 | 251 comments

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