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1.		What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money (medium.com/ystrickler)
		669 points by JMiao on Nov 11, 2015 \| 485 comments
2.		Did the FBI Pay a University to Attack Tor Users? (torproject.org)
		482 points by ikeboy on Nov 11, 2015 \| 131 comments
3.		Show HN: Parinfer – a simpler way to write Lisp (shaunlebron.github.io)
		674 points by undershirt on Nov 11, 2015 \| 134 comments
4.		A View of the Entire Netflix Stack (highscalability.com)
		407 points by hepha1979 on Nov 9, 2015 \| 152 comments
5.		IP traffic over ICMP tunneling (github.com/dhavalkapil)
		193 points by vampire_dk on Nov 11, 2015 \| 83 comments
6.		The Impossible Music of Black MIDI (rhizome.org)
		265 points by GotAnyMegadeth on Nov 11, 2015 \| 119 comments
7.		Windows game developer about porting to and using OS X (shiningrocksoftware.com)
		292 points by levifig on Nov 11, 2015 \| 198 comments
8.		FastMail under DDoS Attack (fastmail.com)
		267 points by aroman on Nov 11, 2015 \| 129 comments
9.		F.C.C. Sides with Hot Spots, and Hospitality Industry Feels a Chill (nytimes.com)
		155 points by username223 on Nov 10, 2015 \| 123 comments
10.		On Being Smart (2009) [pdf] (epfl.ch)
		236 points by jonnybgood on Nov 11, 2015 \| 130 comments
11.		Federal judge puts limits on FBI use of “stingray” cell site simulators (plus.google.com)
		114 points by declan on Nov 10, 2015 \| 22 comments
12.		Microsoft unveils German data plan to tackle US internet spying (ft.com)
		123 points by tefo-mohapi on Nov 11, 2015 \| 50 comments
13.		Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-Person Payment Service (wsj.com)
		120 points by jackgavigan on Nov 11, 2015 \| 196 comments
14.		Asm.js Chess Battle (windows.com)
		175 points by fishtoaster on Nov 11, 2015 \| 37 comments
15.		Unreal Engine 4.10 is Released (unrealengine.com)
		145 points by mariuz on Nov 11, 2015 \| 75 comments
16.		San Francisco could lead on open-source voting (sfexaminer.com)
		100 points by willow9886 on Nov 9, 2015 \| 22 comments
17.		DMTK: Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit from Microsoft (dmtk.io)
		138 points by mrry on Nov 10, 2015 \| 20 comments
18.		The sad state of SMTP encryption (filippo.io)
		164 points by FiloSottile on Nov 11, 2015 \| 62 comments
19.		The Opposite of a Bloom Filter (2012) (somethingsimilar.com)
		78 points by espeed on Nov 10, 2015 \| 15 comments
20.		Getting rid of free office snacks doesn't come cheap (bloomberg.com)
		191 points by surement on Nov 11, 2015 \| 190 comments
21.		Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance (politico.com)
		138 points by declan on Nov 10, 2015 \| 103 comments
22.		Gamma rays from the Milky Way's core look ever more like signs of dark matter (economist.com)
		51 points by universe520 on Nov 11, 2015 \| 22 comments
23.		Footage of life in Nazi Austria, thanks to a new video archive (smithsonianmag.com)
		100 points by Oatseller on Nov 11, 2015 \| 63 comments
24.		How does a parasite create zombie-like behavior? (experiment.com)
		117 points by dluan on Nov 11, 2015 \| 29 comments
25.		Court says tracking web histories can violate Wiretap Act (wired.com)
		122 points by Oatseller on Nov 11, 2015 \| 18 comments
26.		Star of “Startup.com” Charged with Accounting Fraud (wsj.com)
		87 points by harold on Nov 11, 2015 \| 48 comments
27.		Unicode: Good, Bad, and Ugly (2011) (azabani.com)
		77 points by Tomte on Nov 11, 2015 \| 27 comments
28.		The impact of Docker containers on the performance of genomic pipelines (peerj.com)
		58 points by michaelhoffman on Nov 10, 2015 \| 10 comments
29.		The Wild West of Finance: Should It Be Tamed or Outlawed? [pdf] (hofstra.edu)
		38 points by jimsojim on Nov 11, 2015 \| 1 comment
30.		TensorFlow Benchmarks (github.com/soumith)
		98 points by sherjilozair on Nov 11, 2015 \| 55 comments
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