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Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA (fusion.net)
658 points by kmfrk on Oct 16, 2015 | 216 comments
2.
Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project (bloomberg.com)
374 points by ghukill on Oct 16, 2015 | 85 comments
3.
How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH (eff.org)
284 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 16, 2015 | 130 comments
4.
Soviet PCs (rbth.co.uk)
280 points by grhmc on Oct 16, 2015 | 145 comments
5.
From Python to Go and Back Again (docs.google.com)
366 points by azth on Oct 16, 2015 | 165 comments
6.
Ask HN: What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months?
191 points by tophernash on Oct 16, 2015 | 122 comments
7.
Where did the principle of secrecy in correspondence go? (theguardian.com)
105 points by jackgavigan on Oct 16, 2015 | 26 comments
8.
The spreadsheet as a minimum viable CMS (medium.com/jkalven)
122 points by snowwrestler on Oct 16, 2015 | 39 comments
9.
What Do We Really Know About Osama Bin Laden’s Death? (nytimes.com)
135 points by kareemm on Oct 16, 2015 | 111 comments
10.
Document Clustering with Python (brandonrose.org)
125 points by sytelus on Oct 16, 2015 | 3 comments
11.
Chrome DevTools extension for ClojureScript (github.com/binaryage)
113 points by rayshan on Oct 16, 2015 | 11 comments
12.
How to Shuffle and Sample on the Command-Line (jpalardy.com)
82 points by jpalardy on Oct 16, 2015 | 20 comments
13.
Cron in production is a double-edged sword (orchestrate.io)
104 points by neo2001 on Oct 16, 2015 | 57 comments
14.
TPP could thwart computer security research and tinkering (slate.com)
287 points by walterbell on Oct 16, 2015 | 72 comments
15.
Red Hat is buying Ansible (venturebeat.com)
336 points by dlapiduz on Oct 16, 2015 | 182 comments
16.
Show HN: A Platform For Self-Experimentation (doubleblinded.com)
79 points by chrisrxth on Oct 16, 2015 | 43 comments
17.
Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings (fivethirtyeight.com)
248 points by thehoff on Oct 16, 2015 | 201 comments
18.
Why Red Hat Acquired Ansible (redhat.com)
194 points by anacleto on Oct 16, 2015 | 51 comments
19.
Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps (medium.com/ios-os-x-development)
163 points by martin_tipgain on Oct 16, 2015 | 52 comments
20.
Apache 2.4.17 with HTTP/2 support (icing.github.io)
203 points by signaler on Oct 16, 2015 | 26 comments
21.
Stanford, Michael Bloomberg Now Back Every Y Combinator Startup (wsj.com)
123 points by cryptoz on Oct 16, 2015 | 40 comments
22.
To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars (news.mit.edu)
123 points by jimsojim on Oct 16, 2015 | 57 comments
23.
Italy to dig for ancient Roman treasure sought by Nazis (telegraph.co.uk)
40 points by diodorus on Oct 16, 2015 | 3 comments
24.
Braess' paradox: adding a new road to a city can slow down traffic (wikipedia.org)
98 points by Thorondor on Oct 16, 2015 | 61 comments
25.
The Galaxy That Got Too Big (nautil.us)
64 points by DarkContinent on Oct 16, 2015 | 4 comments
26.
UK firm's surveillance kit 'used to crush Uganda opposition' (bbc.co.uk)
108 points by escapologybb on Oct 16, 2015 | 28 comments
27.
Theranos Dials Back Lab Tests at FDA’s Behest (google.com)
103 points by raspasov on Oct 16, 2015 | 85 comments
28.
What is a core dump and how do you parse one? (backtrace.io)
118 points by sbahra on Oct 16, 2015 | 19 comments
29.
The most disruptive technology of the last century was home appliances (washingtonpost.com)
112 points by davidiach on Oct 16, 2015 | 112 comments
30.
Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation (mocko.org.uk)
362 points by mocko on Oct 16, 2015 | 313 comments

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