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1.		Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot (github.com/marcan)
		515 points by tambourine_man on Feb 11, 2017 \| 75 comments
2.		Microsoft Allowed to Sue U.S. Government Over E-mail Surveillance (bloomberg.com)
		348 points by pcs on Feb 11, 2017 \| 37 comments
3.		Double life as a KGB agent (theguardian.com)
		286 points by whitenoice on Feb 11, 2017 \| 75 comments
4.		Four Kinds of Dystopia (expressiveegg.org)
		272 points by penfold on Feb 11, 2017 \| 116 comments
5.		Designing a Business Card in LaTeX (olivierpieters.be)
		363 points by opieters on Feb 11, 2017 \| 219 comments
6.		Postmortem of database outage of January 31 (about.gitlab.com)
		377 points by mbrain on Feb 10, 2017 \| 257 comments
7.		Show HN: Beehive – An open source IFTTT powered by Go's templating engine (github.com/muesli)
		247 points by mueslix on Feb 11, 2017 \| 44 comments
8.		Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle (arstechnica.com)
		281 points by nkurz on Feb 11, 2017 \| 320 comments
9.		Software Engineering at Google (arxiv.org)
		442 points by asnt on Feb 10, 2017 \| 156 comments
10.		Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future (nextplatform.com)
		149 points by Katydid on Feb 11, 2017 \| 52 comments
11.		The Wall Street Journal to Close Google Loophole Entirely (digiday.com)
		263 points by sornars on Feb 11, 2017 \| 324 comments
12.		A glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth (wired.com)
		277 points by varunvkrishnan on Feb 11, 2017 \| 143 comments
13.		Ellie – An Elm Live Editor (humblespark.com)
		224 points by bpierre on Feb 10, 2017 \| 84 comments
14.		ISRO to launch record 104 satellites on Feb 15 (kaumudi.com)
		144 points by option_greek on Feb 11, 2017 \| 38 comments
15.		Posix Has Become Outdated (2016) [pdf] (columbia.edu)
		251 points by pjmlp on Feb 11, 2017 \| 237 comments
16.		List of Quantum Computing Simulators (quantiki.org)
		76 points by mindcrime on Feb 11, 2017 \| 14 comments
17.		Fuzzing PCI express: security in plaintext (googleblog.com)
		161 points by wyldfire on Feb 10, 2017 \| 19 comments
18.		Analysis of Soviet smoke detector plutonium (carlwillis.wordpress.com)
		169 points by cc_ on Feb 10, 2017 \| 34 comments
19.		Basic Security Precautions for Non-Profits and Journalists (techsolidarity.org)
		195 points by idlewords on Feb 11, 2017 \| 174 comments
20.		[dupe] The Essence of Linear Algebra [video] (youtube.com)
		440 points by espeed on Feb 11, 2017 \| 41 comments
21.		Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here (dylanmckay.io)
		178 points by mmastrac on Feb 11, 2017 \| 122 comments
22.		Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe? (wisc.edu)
		204 points by quakeguy on Feb 11, 2017 \| 175 comments
23.		Signal-cli: command-line and dbus interface to Signal (github.com/asamk)
		120 points by ivank on Feb 11, 2017 \| 25 comments
24.		Blockchain data storage startup Storj recieves $100k grant funding (econotimes.com)
		67 points by pcs on Feb 11, 2017 \| 27 comments
25.		Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font (typenetwork.com)
		64 points by davelab6 on Feb 10, 2017 \| 19 comments
26.		Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers (californiasunday.com)
		159 points by edward on Feb 11, 2017 \| 201 comments
27.		Step-by-step development of a Scheme-to-x86 compiler (github.com/namin)
		108 points by akkartik on Feb 11, 2017
28.		Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper (nhregister.com)
		222 points by daegloe on Feb 11, 2017 \| 136 comments
29.		Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse (arstechnica.com)
		164 points by blatherard on Feb 11, 2017 \| 126 comments
30.		Show HN: Easy to understand intro to Python (github.com/thewhitetulip)
		82 points by thewhitetulip on Feb 11, 2017 \| 33 comments
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