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1. World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com)
785 points by Osiris30 on Dec 15, 2016 | 301 comments
2. Show HN: Hire an Oldster (tryoldster.com)
475 points by adamqureshi on Dec 16, 2016 | 295 comments
3. The Idea of Lisp (dev.to)
488 points by rbanffy on Dec 16, 2016 | 340 comments
4. Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent (nytimes.com)
316 points by mrfusion on Dec 15, 2016 | 197 comments
5. Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC (wired.com)
289 points by espeed on Dec 16, 2016 | 204 comments
6. MacOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval (frizk.net)
274 points by mkesper on Dec 16, 2016 | 83 comments
7. Super Mario Run (supermariorun.com)
269 points by yellow_postit on Dec 16, 2016 | 243 comments
8. Google Web Designer (2013) (google.com)
437 points by chenster on Dec 16, 2016 | 150 comments
9. Rust required to build Gecko (groups.google.com)
246 points by steveklabnik on Dec 16, 2016 | 141 comments
10. Web Fundamentals (developers.google.com)
204 points by olalonde on Dec 16, 2016 | 36 comments
11. Prenda Law “copyright trolls” Steele and Hansmeier arrested (arstechnica.com)
225 points by pktgen on Dec 16, 2016 | 79 comments
12. BigQuery public datasets now include Stack Overflow Q&A (cloud.google.com)
190 points by fhoffa on Dec 15, 2016 | 33 comments
13. French journal Mediapart supports Tails, others should too (boum.org)
183 points by BuuQu9hu on Dec 16, 2016 | 16 comments
14. Watt time is left (tedunangst.com)
181 points by ingve on Dec 16, 2016 | 161 comments
15. NSA Watchdog Removed for Whistleblower Retaliation (pogo.org)
212 points by rosser on Dec 16, 2016 | 46 comments
16. The Great A.I. Awakening (nytimes.com)
166 points by m15i on Dec 16, 2016 | 139 comments
17. How to make Linux more trustworthy (arstechnica.co.uk)
152 points by walterbell on Dec 16, 2016 | 72 comments
18. VR Resources (facebook.design)
116 points by Impossible on Dec 16, 2016 | 31 comments
19. Reversing Go Binaries Like a Pro (rednaga.io)
137 points by FiloSottile on Dec 16, 2016 | 27 comments
20. Google launches developer preview of Android Things (techcrunch.com)
134 points by type0 on Dec 16, 2016 | 68 comments
21. React-MD – React components built with Sass (mlaursen.com)
157 points by lionep on Dec 16, 2016 | 57 comments
22. Why is .NET reflection slow? (mattwarren.org)
144 points by matthewwarren on Dec 16, 2016 | 58 comments
23. ANTLR 4.6 Released (antlr.org)
123 points by carbocation on Dec 16, 2016 | 25 comments
24. 360 Video and Photo Capture in 4K for Three.js (github.com/imgntn)
62 points by jamespollack on Dec 16, 2016 | 6 comments
25. Harassment at Apple: A personal perspective (medium.com/smsowmya)
406 points by smsowmya on Dec 16, 2016 | 604 comments
26. Programming Music: The Applications of Algorithmic Composition [pdf] (getinspired.mit.edu)
81 points by lainon on Dec 15, 2016 | 18 comments
27. Rocket AI: 2016’s Most Notorious AI Launch and the Problem with AI Hype (medium.com/the-mission)
152 points by jjwiseman on Dec 16, 2016 | 48 comments
28. I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road (motel.is)
346 points by JunkDNA on Dec 16, 2016 | 129 comments
29. Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader (wsj.com)
277 points by lxm on Dec 16, 2016 | 286 comments
30. CoreOS Linux Is Now Container Linux by CoreOS (coreos.com)
112 points by philips on Dec 16, 2016 | 59 comments

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