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1.
Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander? (seclists.org)
364 points by Garbage on Oct 15, 2012 | 189 comments
2.
Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine (rsms.me)
277 points by whalesalad on Oct 15, 2012 | 54 comments
3.
Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech (washingtonpost.com)
279 points by vonmoltke on Oct 15, 2012 | 274 comments
4.
Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM (raspberrypi.org)
272 points by tiernano on Oct 15, 2012 | 112 comments
5.
Syte: Simple but powerful packaged personal site (github.com/rigoneri)
200 points by saym on Oct 15, 2012 | 51 comments
6.
Your Startup Is Spam (metamorphium.com)
193 points by guptaneil on Oct 15, 2012 | 64 comments
7.
Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with a single DMCA notice (techdirt.com)
192 points by machrider on Oct 15, 2012 | 91 comments
8.
R.I.P. Phil Bagwell (typesafe.com)
182 points by SanderMak on Oct 15, 2012 | 17 comments
9.
A science committee that doesn’t get science (arstechnica.com)
184 points by chinmoy on Oct 15, 2012 | 116 comments
10.
Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
176 points by factorialboy on Oct 15, 2012 | 94 comments
11.
Master Keys (schneier.com)
173 points by mikegerwitz on Oct 15, 2012 | 54 comments
12.
Rescue.js (rescuejs.com)
164 points by cheeaun on Oct 15, 2012 | 42 comments
13.
(l)uriel has passed away (9fans.net)
143 points by masklinn on Oct 15, 2012 | 98 comments
14.
Filepicker.io JS V1 - Full filesystem API in Javascript (filepicker.io)
138 points by liyanchang on Oct 15, 2012 | 22 comments
15.
MIT Lectures on Advanced Data Structures (6.851) (csail.mit.edu)
134 points by smanek on Oct 15, 2012 | 10 comments
16.
Rust 0.4 released (mail.mozilla.org)
133 points by kumarshantanu on Oct 15, 2012 | 62 comments
17.
So You Want To Optimize Ruby (headius.com)
126 points by jamesbritt on Oct 15, 2012 | 39 comments
18.
Show HN: create, share, explore database patterns (archive.org)
125 points by fatiherikli on Oct 15, 2012 | 30 comments
19.
Why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT and go all in on Yahoo Pipes (jfornear.co)
121 points by jfornear on Oct 15, 2012 | 63 comments
20.
Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four suns (io9.com)
116 points by boh on Oct 15, 2012 | 37 comments
21.
Git is cheap (coderwall.com)
113 points by beghbali on Oct 15, 2012 | 53 comments
22.
Felix Baumgartner: The best photos and videos from the edge of space (extremetech.com)
110 points by ulrichkautz on Oct 15, 2012 | 51 comments
23.
Show HN: What would Paul Graham do? (wwpgd.com)
109 points by aakil on Oct 15, 2012 | 59 comments
24.
Honour for overlooked Poles who were first to crack Enigma code (smh.com.au)
106 points by wglb on Oct 15, 2012 | 17 comments
25.
The Great Dropbox Space Race (dropbox.com)
99 points by joshma on Oct 15, 2012 | 100 comments
26.
Alexis Ohanian interviewed after talk at Waterloo (communitech.ca)
105 points by michaelrlitt on Oct 15, 2012 | 38 comments
27.
Facebook’s Wonky Privacy Controls Now Outing LGBT Youth Without Their Consent (betabeat.com)
87 points by iProject on Oct 15, 2012 | 102 comments
28.
Building Servers for Fun and Prof... OK, Maybe Just for Fun (codinghorror.com)
86 points by bussetta on Oct 15, 2012 | 83 comments
29.
Can code that is valid in both C and C++ produce different behavior? (stackoverflow.com)
83 points by ivoflipse on Oct 15, 2012 | 9 comments
30.
DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code on your server (deploybutton.com)
79 points by peterkchen on Oct 15, 2012 | 56 comments

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