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1. The Best Books I Read in 2015 (gatesnotes.com)
596 points by uptown on Dec 7, 2015 | 143 comments
2. Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox (dropbox.com)
624 points by _freu on Dec 7, 2015 | 421 comments
3. Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tech Could Wreck Wi-Fi (bloomberg.com)
324 points by walterbell on Dec 7, 2015 | 175 comments
4. D3.compose – compose reusable charts and components with D3.js (csnw.github.io)
288 points by sebg on Dec 7, 2015 | 39 comments
5. The Starfighter Low-Level Tech Tree (sockpuppet.org)
261 points by Cogito on Dec 7, 2015 | 102 comments
6. Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, laser-cut Stainless Steel (lasergist.com)
211 points by jimant on Dec 7, 2015 | 141 comments
7. Raspberry Pi Zero vs. Elliott 405 (spinellis.gr)
204 points by sebkomianos on Dec 7, 2015 | 98 comments
8. Australian Geocoded national address data to be made openly available (data.gov.au)
201 points by zspitzer on Dec 7, 2015 | 51 comments
9. Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before European arrival (newscientist.com)
180 points by soneca on Dec 6, 2015 | 67 comments
10. Working with Binary Data in Python (devdungeon.com)
202 points by signa11 on Dec 7, 2015 | 32 comments
11. France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi (arstechnica.co.uk)
384 points by _gjrn on Dec 7, 2015 | 263 comments
12. C.S. Lewis' Greatest Fiction: Convincing Kids That They'd Like Turkish Delight (atlasobscura.com)
117 points by pepys on Dec 6, 2015 | 145 comments
13. A magic getopt (daemonology.net)
123 points by Hello71 on Dec 7, 2015 | 45 comments
14. Donald Knuth's 21st Annual Christmas Lecture: Universal Commafree Codes [video] (youtube.com)
97 points by cranium on Dec 7, 2015 | 17 comments
15. Show HN: Braindump, a simple note platform to organize your life (github.com/levlaz)
91 points by levlaz on Dec 6, 2015 | 41 comments
16. NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving on from low-Earth orbit (arstechnica.com)
149 points by cryptoz on Dec 7, 2015 | 92 comments
17. New Horizons Returns First of the Best Images of Pluto (nasa.gov)
124 points by darrhiggs on Dec 6, 2015 | 17 comments
18. E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be' (wikipedia.org)
221 points by thameera on Dec 7, 2015 | 152 comments
19. Test-Case Reducers are Fuzzers (regehr.org)
78 points by jsnell on Dec 7, 2015 | 5 comments
20. XSA-156: x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery (xen.org)
75 points by yuhong on Dec 7, 2015 | 13 comments
21. Anonymous Divided: Inside the Two Warring Hacktivist Cells Fighting ISIS Online (mic.com)
86 points by nkurz on Dec 6, 2015 | 11 comments
22. Intact, Packed Etruscan Tomb Found (discovery.com)
75 points by diodorus on Dec 6, 2015 | 8 comments
23. Why I'm Excited About Native CSS Variables (philipwalton.com)
129 points by clessg on Dec 6, 2015 | 31 comments
24. AKATSUKI preparing for orbital insertion around Venus (global.jaxa.jp)
91 points by bane on Dec 7, 2015 | 22 comments
25. Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change (facebook.com)
367 points by herbertlui on Dec 7, 2015 | 233 comments
26. How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014) (nautil.us)
131 points by electic on Dec 7, 2015 | 69 comments
27. Deep neural network written from scratch in Julia (github.com/jostmey)
72 points by jostmey on Dec 7, 2015 | 21 comments
28. Why it’s so hard to innovate in the e-mail space (2014) (medium.com/collinmathilde)
108 points by mathouc on Dec 7, 2015 | 66 comments
29. Unicode, Perl 6, and You (perl6advent.wordpress.com)
91 points by kamaal on Dec 7, 2015 | 21 comments
30. Is There a Future for the Professions? (thegoodproject.org)
72 points by kawera on Dec 6, 2015 | 58 comments

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