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1.		ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no verification (zaibatsutel.net)
		762 points by Kubuxu on June 5, 2016 \| 196 comments
2.		GNU Taler 0.0.0 released (lists.gnu.org)
		276 points by Prygan on June 5, 2016 \| 187 comments
3.		Anypixel.js (googlecreativelab.github.io)
		287 points by afshinmeh on June 4, 2016 \| 35 comments
4.		Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal (vice.com)
		342 points by aburan28 on June 4, 2016 \| 75 comments
5.		Fraudulent Advertising on Facebook (medium.com/hunchly)
		308 points by bennettfeely on June 5, 2016 \| 97 comments
6.		Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters (swissinfo.ch)
		410 points by marcelsalathe on June 5, 2016 \| 568 comments
7.		DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (bigmessowires.com)
		289 points by zdw on June 5, 2016 \| 64 comments
8.		Headless Chrome is coming soon (twitter.com/samccone)
		293 points by AnbeSivam on June 5, 2016 \| 45 comments
9.		Judge sends two to prison for 7 years for H-1B fraud (computerworld.com)
		222 points by us0r on June 5, 2016 \| 191 comments
10.		What is the difference between deep learning and usual machine learning? (github.com/rasbt)
		228 points by hunglee2 on June 5, 2016 \| 124 comments
11.		Vvvv – a live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development (vvvv.org)
		187 points by talles on June 5, 2016 \| 36 comments
12.		I Was Wrong About TypeScript (triplet.fi)
		283 points by Tx3 on June 5, 2016 \| 192 comments
13.		Study: To Beat Loneliness, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual (wsj.com)
		172 points by petethomas on June 5, 2016 \| 78 comments
14.		How cancer was created by evolution (bbc.com)
		132 points by lookupmobile on June 5, 2016 \| 88 comments
15.		Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy [video] (youtube.com)
		168 points by jahan on June 5, 2016 \| 99 comments
16.		Kevin Kelly on Soft Singularity and Inevitable Tech Advances (newsweek.com)
		43 points by t23 on June 4, 2016 \| 7 comments
17.		Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident (wikipedia.org)
		103 points by marvindanig on June 5, 2016 \| 25 comments
18.		NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and Driver Kit (1995) (nextop.de)
		120 points by pjmlp on June 5, 2016 \| 78 comments
19.		RCP 11 – Stream data type proposal for Redis (github.com/redis)
		125 points by neo2001 on June 5, 2016 \| 16 comments
20.		Duskers is spooky space exploration with a command console (arstechnica.com)
		66 points by daenney on June 4, 2016 \| 6 comments
21.		Building Problem Solvers (1993) (northwestern.edu)
		71 points by callmekit on June 5, 2016 \| 4 comments
22.		Make your own tagging system from scratch (kequc.com)
		77 points by Kequc on June 5, 2016 \| 14 comments
23.		8-bit computer from scratch (ciernioo.wordpress.com)
		94 points by danielam on June 4, 2016 \| 19 comments
24.		Spacecraft Multicore Emulator Based on Leon 3 Sparc V8 Architecture Processor (github.com/kmonahopoulos)
		30 points by monakons on June 4, 2016 \| 1 comment
25.		Mean of two floating point numbers can be dangerous (honzabrabec.cz)
		79 points by Scea91 on June 5, 2016 \| 45 comments
26.		TeamViewer users are being hacked in bulk, and we still don’t know how (arstechnica.co.uk)
		187 points by edward on June 5, 2016 \| 52 comments
27.		To approximate 52! by hand, compute 54! and divide by 3000 (solipsys.co.uk)
		171 points by ColinWright on June 5, 2016 \| 45 comments
28.		Exploiting Misuse of Python's “Pickle” (nelhage.com)
		61 points by jahan on June 5, 2016 \| 34 comments
29.		Show HN: Hash Archive helps you verify the hashes of insecure downloads (hash-archive.org)
		52 points by btrask on June 5, 2016 \| 20 comments
30.		Is your smartphone listening to you? (bbc.co.uk)
		130 points by CarolineW on June 5, 2016 \| 119 comments
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