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1. Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company (nytimes.com)
426 points by bootload on Dec 20, 2016 | 326 comments
2. 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT (512pixels.net)
359 points by galonk on Dec 20, 2016 | 254 comments
3. Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil (robertscribbler.com)
447 points by edgarvm on Dec 20, 2016 | 244 comments
4. Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools (hacks.mozilla.org)
300 points by robin_reala on Dec 20, 2016 | 119 comments
5. Blue Ocean (jenkins.io)
509 points by bauerpl on Dec 20, 2016 | 178 comments
6. Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac (techcrunch.com)
400 points by tambourine_man on Dec 20, 2016 | 607 comments
7. AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse (github.com/dhowe)
281 points by deletia on Dec 20, 2016 | 276 comments
8. Learning from a Year of Security Breaches (medium.com/starting-up-security)
327 points by arice on Dec 20, 2016 | 49 comments
9. How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists (bloomberg.com)
425 points by Lio on Dec 20, 2016 | 570 comments
10. Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code (github.com/goessner)
225 points by fango on Dec 20, 2016 | 61 comments
11. No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep (theatlantic.com)
324 points by BDGC on Dec 20, 2016 | 197 comments
12. Modern garbage collection (medium.com/octskyward)
434 points by junke on Dec 20, 2016 | 243 comments
13. Excessive load on NTP servers (ntppool.org)
354 points by BCM43 on Dec 20, 2016 | 150 comments
14. Stack identical flat objects so they project over an edge as far as possible (quantamagazine.org)
179 points by dtnewman on Dec 20, 2016 | 38 comments
15. Small payments sharply diminish gap in responses to partisan factual questions (nber.org)
221 points by randomname2 on Dec 20, 2016 | 166 comments
16. Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue (bloomberg.com)
271 points by smb06 on Dec 20, 2016 | 407 comments
17. Pregnancy alters woman's brain 'for at least two years' (bbc.com)
212 points by richardboegli on Dec 20, 2016 | 123 comments
18. A World of Surveillance Doesn’t Always Help to Catch a Thief (nytimes.com)
153 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 19, 2016 | 148 comments
19. Rolling Your Own Crypto (loup-vaillant.fr)
192 points by svenfaw on Dec 20, 2016 | 150 comments
20. Careers in security, ethical hacking and advice on where to get started (troyhunt.com)
191 points by jscholes on Dec 20, 2016 | 84 comments
21. U.S. Startups Taking on Debt (bloomberg.com)
137 points by kimsk112 on Dec 20, 2016 | 66 comments
22. Daala: Modern video compression for the internet (github.com/xiph)
146 points by setra on Dec 20, 2016 | 38 comments
23. Choosing Functional Programming for Our Game (mooistudios.com)
161 points by swannodette on Dec 19, 2016 | 76 comments
24. Withdrawal from Antidepressants (madinamerica.com)
126 points by ipunchghosts on Dec 20, 2016 | 127 comments
25. Container Runtime Interface (CRI) in Kubernetes (kubernetes.io)
124 points by philips on Dec 20, 2016 | 20 comments
26. The Secret Life of Time (newyorker.com)
109 points by sergeant3 on Dec 20, 2016 | 20 comments
27. V8: Behind the Scenes (December Edition) (benediktmeurer.de)
101 points by bobajeff on Dec 20, 2016 | 9 comments
28. Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming [pdf] (stroustrup.com)
90 points by matt_d on Dec 20, 2016 | 40 comments
29. Japan’s SoftBank Invests $1B in Satellite Startup OneWeb (wsj.com)
72 points by fmihaila on Dec 20, 2016 | 21 comments
30. Matchmaker, find me a grant (nature.com)
67 points by hoffmannesque on Dec 20, 2016 | 13 comments

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