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1.Urbit: a personal cloud computer (urbit.org)
460 points by aberatiu on Nov 8, 2014 | 265 comments
2.Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact (newyorker.com)
375 points by ux-app on Nov 8, 2014 | 160 comments
3.Bat bomb (wikipedia.org)
252 points by The_Fox on Nov 8, 2014 | 40 comments
4.Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
235 points by windowshopping on Nov 8, 2014 | 172 comments
5.Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing (arxiv.org)
215 points by sveme on Nov 8, 2014 | 138 comments
6.The 5K Retina iMac’s screen runs at 60Hz at 5K resolution (arstechnica.com)
193 points by lelf on Nov 8, 2014 | 54 comments
7.Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin (github.com/bmatzelle)
175 points by pmoriarty on Nov 8, 2014 | 113 comments
8.OpenBazaar is a decentralized Dark Net market that's 'untouchable' by police (dailydot.com)
187 points by dil8 on Nov 8, 2014 | 107 comments
9.Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide (tonymacx86.com)
157 points by lelf on Nov 8, 2014 | 97 comments
10.Why I find IEEE 754 frustrating (p5r.org)
140 points by plesner on Nov 8, 2014 | 58 comments
11.The Man Who Disobeyed His Boss and Opened the Berlin Wall (npr.org)
120 points by adamnemecek on Nov 8, 2014 | 42 comments
12.CC500: a tiny self-hosting C compiler (ntlworld.com)
102 points by userbinator on Nov 8, 2014 | 22 comments
13.Interplanetary Transport Network (wikipedia.org)
98 points by ColinWright on Nov 8, 2014 | 18 comments
14.Google Blacklist – Words That Google Instant Doesn't Like (2010) (2600.com)
110 points by christianbryant on Nov 8, 2014 | 36 comments
15.Our Own Private Germany (medium.com/matter)
94 points by zvanness on Nov 8, 2014 | 14 comments

With all due respect, most of the replies here are missing the most important point.

Does the company have a bug bounty policy?

No?

Then keep your mouth shut and get on with your life.

A significant percentage of people in power will react to unsolicited warnings of security vulnerabilities by attacking you as though you were their enemy. Worse, the law is at least not clearly on your side. This is not theoretical: people have come to significant harm in this way. Being a hero is great. Being a martyr? Not so much. You don't want next week's top HN story to be an appeal for donations to the legal defense fund of sah88.

17.The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi (nytimes.com)
87 points by elemeno on Nov 8, 2014 | 45 comments

Young folks today just don't believe how downright surreal (and scary) the cold war was to live through.

Look, just read this wikipedia entry about the British Blue Peacock nuclear device, and boggle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock

Yes. It's a chicken-heated atomic landmine. Not a joke: it was a Real Thing.

And so was this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device...

The M-29 Davy Crockett tactical nuclear recoilless rifle. (Jeep-mounted, no PALs, the rocket's flight range was less than its lethal radius of effect: the crew were supposed to fire it over a hill then dive under their jeep for cover.)

People not only imagined these things, they built them and deployed them in the stone-cold expectation of using them in anger.

19.Big things to expect from Emacs 25 (endlessparentheses.com)
87 points by signa11 on Nov 8, 2014 | 76 comments
20.Texas Man Arrested for $4.5M Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme (forbes.com/sites/jordanmaglich)
85 points by davidst on Nov 8, 2014 | 36 comments
21.ARM64 Open Laptop Concept (vero-apparatus.com)
84 points by edward on Nov 8, 2014 | 46 comments
22.Ask HN: Maybe found huge security problem, unsure what to do
80 points by sah88 on Nov 8, 2014 | 46 comments
23.Good Consultants vs. Bad Consultants (jacquesmattheij.com)
81 points by jacquesm on Nov 8, 2014 | 74 comments
24.Listeners of 'Serial' Turn into Detectives, With Troubling Results (theguardian.com)
77 points by Thevet on Nov 8, 2014 | 25 comments
25.The 2014 Mac Mini reviewed (arstechnica.com)
67 points by bane on Nov 8, 2014 | 68 comments
26.A Bitcoin mine went up in flames, affecting the entire network (qz.com)
67 points by wxs on Nov 8, 2014 | 20 comments
27. [flagged] “I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg” (paulgraham.com)
57 points by gautambay on Nov 8, 2014 | 31 comments
28.Portrait of the Hilbert Curve (2010) (corte.si)
64 points by jgrodziski on Nov 8, 2014 | 3 comments
29.The Rise and Fall of the Full Stack Developer (techcrunch.com)
60 points by funkyy on Nov 8, 2014 | 29 comments

That all those official denials and assurances at the time were BS and lies, serves as a good reminder for how to treat similar assurances in the present.

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