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1.How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) (freedom-to-tinker.com)
586 points by ColanR on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 257 comments [ext]
2.Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income (nytimes.com)
610 points by salmonet on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 394 comments [ext]
3.SQL Server on Linux public preview (technet.microsoft.com)
247 points by olalonde on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 159 comments [ext]
4. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
4.Galileo navigation satellite system goes live (dw.com)
411 points by vezycash on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 160 comments [ext]
5.Shopify has paid over $300k in security exploit bounties (hackerone.com)
251 points by mrusschen on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
6.Haiku booting in UEFI mode (haiku-os.org)
226 points by return_0e on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
7. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Germany's New Crowdfunded Train (citylab.com)
233 points by misnamed on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 155 comments [ext]
8.No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait (quantamagazine.org)
148 points by aburan28 on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
9.Intel X86 Encoder Decoder (intelxed.github.io)
146 points by luu on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
10. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
10.Stroustrup's Rule and Layering Over Time in Rust (thefeedbackloop.xyz)
226 points by qznc on Dec 16, 2016 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
11.Hans Rosling doesn’t consider himself an optimist or pessimist but ‘possibilist’ (nature.com)
164 points by devnonymous on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
12.Management theory is becoming a compendium of dead ideas (economist.com)
254 points by fraqed on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 156 comments [ext]
13. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Qualcomm Demos 48-Core Centriq 2400 Server SoC in Action, Begins Sampling (anandtech.com)
119 points by SoapSeller on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
14.Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density (humantransit.org)
217 points by erispoe on Dec 16, 2016 [ext] | 229 comments [ext]
15.Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project? [ext]
266 points by JohnnySpaghetti on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
16. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
16.Amazon drivers pushed to the limit as holiday deliveries reach a frenzy (latimes.com)
132 points by mbgaxyz on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
17.Chinese smiths forge a large flange on the street [video] (youtube.com)
200 points by shawndumas on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
18.Natural Language Corpus Data: Beautiful Data (norvig.com)
110 points by espeed on Dec 16, 2016 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
19. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.American Firms Want to Keep Older Workers a Bit Longer (bloomberg.com)
87 points by petethomas on Dec 16, 2016 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
20.Tsunami warning issued after magnitude 7.9 quake hits east of Papua New Guinea (reuters.com)
71 points by tchalla on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
21.Sxc – An s-expression based language source transpiler for C (github.com/burtonsamograd)
101 points by kruhft on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
22. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
22.ARM extends HPC offering with acquisition of Allinea Software (arm.com)
70 points by drydot on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
23.Llvmcpy – Python bindings for LLVM auto-generated from the LLVM-C API (rev.ng)
60 points by aleclm on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
24.What Hardware startups can learn from Pebble (bolt.io)
93 points by kNawade on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
25. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
25.Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory? (quora.com)
119 points by rfreytag on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
26.Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) (jsoftware.com)
106 points by ehudla on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
27.Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government (newsweek.com)
109 points by em3rgent0rdr on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
28. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
28.Traditional JavaScript benchmarks (benediktmeurer.de)
85 points by ojno on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
29.You Had Them at ‘Jerry Maguire’: This Art Exhibit Stocks Just One Movie (nytimes.com)
59 points by prismatic on Dec 16, 2016 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
30.Venezuela Follows India’s Example and Voids Half of Its Cash (wsj.com)
133 points by ryan_j_naughton on Dec 17, 2016 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
31. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments

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