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1.		The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields (troyhunt.com)
		911 points by TheAuditor on June 26, 2016 \| 442 comments
2.		An audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (current.org)
		392 points by adamnemecek on June 26, 2016 \| 237 comments
3.		A ZFS developer’s analysis of Apple’s new APFS file system (arstechnica.com)
		384 points by rayiner on June 26, 2016 \| 187 comments
4.		Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook (stallman.org)
		670 points by phantom_oracle on June 26, 2016 \| 353 comments
5.		What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
		379 points by kermatt on June 26, 2016 \| 295 comments
6.		Why Fruits and Veggies Are So Cheap in Chinatown (wsj.com)
		230 points by yincrash on June 26, 2016 \| 237 comments
7.		Crash Course – Educational course videos on YouTube (thecrashcourse.com)
		233 points by reachtarunhere on June 25, 2016 \| 42 comments
8.		NASA Open Source Software (nasa.gov)
		186 points by selmat on June 26, 2016 \| 48 comments
9.		The Bears Who Came to Town and Would Not Go Away (outsideonline.com)
		95 points by Thevet on June 26, 2016 \| 38 comments
10.		Passive TCP/IP Geo-Location (geoloc.foremski.pl)
		184 points by blaskov on June 26, 2016 \| 86 comments
11.		Gag Order on Lavabit’s Levison Lifted (facebook.com)
		284 points by nullspace on June 25, 2016 \| 56 comments
12.		Creative Computing Magazine (archive.org)
		174 points by yitchelle on June 26, 2016 \| 53 comments
13.		Custom Processor Speeds Up Robot Motion Planning (ieee.org)
		76 points by douglasfshearer on June 26, 2016 \| 21 comments
14.		Newton Papers: Newton's Waste Book (cam.ac.uk)
		84 points by poindontcare on June 25, 2016 \| 11 comments
15.		Spry: a programming language inspired by Smalltalk/Rebol and written in Nim (sprylang.org)
		134 points by vmorgulis on June 26, 2016 \| 63 comments
16.		Detecting Money Laundering (startup.ml)
		89 points by arshakn on June 26, 2016 \| 89 comments
17.		Using Multi-Byte Characters to Nullify SQL Injection Sanitizing (hackallthethings.com)
		56 points by wlrm on June 26, 2016 \| 36 comments
18.		Casanova: Man of the World (the-tls.co.uk)
		61 points by hoffmannesque on June 26, 2016 \| 8 comments
19.		A Pacific Culture Among Wild Baboons: Its Emergence and Transmission (2004) (plos.org)
		38 points by mstats on June 26, 2016 \| 4 comments
20.		Spoiled Rotten (2012) (newyorker.com)
		51 points by Rolpa on June 26, 2016 \| 30 comments
21.		Unesco lists Exeter Book among 'world's principal cultural artefacts' (theguardian.com)
		53 points by diodorus on June 23, 2016
22.		I was tricked on Facebook into downloading an obfuscated script (security.stackexchange.com)
		115 points by yammesicka on June 26, 2016 \| 73 comments
23.		HumanOps – Focusing on the human aspects of running infrastructure (humanops.com)
		105 points by hunvreus on June 26, 2016 \| 22 comments
24.		I Hear That Asteroids Machine Calling My Name (insentricity.com)
		56 points by erickhill on June 25, 2016 \| 16 comments
25.		BooXtream EPub Watermark Remover (github.com/grayleonard)
		68 points by kfrwzwq on June 26, 2016 \| 24 comments
26.		My Most Important C++ Aha Moments (2006) (artima.com)
		100 points by adamnemecek on June 26, 2016 \| 81 comments
27.		Charles – Web Debugging Proxy Application (charlesproxy.com)
		116 points by punnerud on June 26, 2016 \| 65 comments
28.		The Strange History of Microfilm (atlasobscura.com)
		41 points by benbreen on June 24, 2016 \| 7 comments
29.		(W)here Lies Constance Wilde? (thesmartset.com)
		12 points by samclemens on June 26, 2016
30.		DNA: ‘The Power of the Beautiful Experiment’ (nybooks.com)
		24 points by Hooke on June 24, 2016 \| 2 comments
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