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1.		Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke (propublica.org)
		2088 points by r0h1n on Feb 5, 2015 \| 453 comments
2.		YC for Hardware (blog.ycombinator.com)
		445 points by sama on Feb 5, 2015 \| 128 comments
3.		Introducing node-firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
		287 points by cleverjake on Feb 5, 2015 \| 50 comments
4.		Scala.js no longer experimental (scala-lang.org)
		337 points by densh on Feb 5, 2015 \| 131 comments
5.		“Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber attack” (anthemfacts.com)
		325 points by dev1n on Feb 5, 2015 \| 197 comments
6.		New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers (wired.com)
		281 points by wycx on Feb 5, 2015 \| 164 comments
7.		Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell [pdf] (arxiv.org)
		240 points by lelf on Feb 5, 2015 \| 55 comments
8.		Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving on Copyright Extension (eff.org)
		250 points by CapitalistCartr on Feb 5, 2015 \| 174 comments
9.		The man who brought us the lithium-ion battery has an idea for a new one (qz.com)
		229 points by mocy on Feb 5, 2015 \| 86 comments
10.		CPU Backdoors (danluu.com)
		271 points by 2510c39011c5 on Feb 4, 2015 \| 48 comments
11.		An alloy of iron and aluminium is as good as titanium, at a tenth of the cost (economist.com)
		258 points by RachelF on Feb 5, 2015 \| 94 comments
12.		I Visit Libraries to Sell Bitcoins to Random People from the Internet (vice.com)
		195 points by danso on Feb 4, 2015 \| 83 comments
13.		Metaprogramming Elixir (pragprog.com)
		207 points by kungfooguru on Feb 5, 2015 \| 22 comments
14.		New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more (ibm.com)
		203 points by jsstylos on Feb 5, 2015 \| 106 comments
15.		Cards Against Humanity’s Private Island (cah.tumblr.com)
		224 points by colinprince on Feb 5, 2015 \| 49 comments
16.		Photos Preview (apple.com)
		181 points by antr on Feb 5, 2015 \| 166 comments
17.		Techies Who Are Homeschooling Their Kids (wired.com)
		132 points by tokenadult on Feb 4, 2015 \| 127 comments
18.		Show HN: Pushpin – A new way to build realtime HTTP and WebSocket services (pushpin.org)
		114 points by 650REDHAIR on Feb 5, 2015 \| 29 comments
19.		Straighter Teeth by Mail (nytimes.com)
		106 points by scarmig on Feb 4, 2015 \| 56 comments
20.		How We Bought easypost.com (easypost.com)
		107 points by jstreebin on Feb 4, 2015 \| 34 comments
21.		Why We Remember So Many Things Wrong (newyorker.com)
		137 points by clarkm on Feb 5, 2015 \| 20 comments
22.		Life as a Product Design Intern at Khan Academy (elizabethylin.com)
		105 points by elizabethylin on Feb 5, 2015 \| 18 comments
23.		AT&T previews lawsuit it plans to file against FCC (arstechnica.com)
		99 points by Selfcommit on Feb 5, 2015 \| 70 comments
24.		How programs get run (lwn.net)
		73 points by StylifyYourBlog on Feb 5, 2015 \| 2 comments
25.		Shellcheck: a static analysis tool for shell scripts (shellcheck.net)
		102 points by pyotrgalois on Feb 5, 2015 \| 46 comments
26.		Twitter Reaches Deal to Show Tweets in Google Search Results (bloomberg.com)
		85 points by knes on Feb 5, 2015 \| 31 comments
27.		UTF-9 and UTF-18 (wikipedia.org)
		109 points by wglb on Feb 5, 2015 \| 11 comments
28.		Killing the Golden Goose? The changing nature of corporate research, 1980-2007 [pdf] (duke.edu)
		54 points by cossatot on Feb 5, 2015 \| 14 comments
29.		Bigger data; same laptop (frankmcsherry.org)
		80 points by mrry on Feb 5, 2015 \| 38 comments
30.		Chairman Wheeler Proposes New Rules for Protecting the Open Internet [pdf] (fcc.gov)
		53 points by sinak on Feb 5, 2015 \| 16 comments
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