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1.
Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors (wired.com)
338 points by r721 on Dec 19, 2015 | 117 comments
2.
The best icon is a text label (thomasbyttebier.be)
603 points by ZeljkoS on Dec 18, 2015 | 203 comments
3.
PostgreSQL 9.5 RC1 Released (postgresql.org)
209 points by elchief on Dec 19, 2015 | 36 comments
4.
Juniper: Recording Some Twitter Conversations (imperialviolet.org)
335 points by tptacek on Dec 19, 2015 | 38 comments
5.
Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law (npr.org)
379 points by benevol on Dec 19, 2015 | 221 comments
6.
The long process of creating a Chinese font (qz.com)
153 points by f14ist on Dec 18, 2015 | 54 comments
7.
Detect and disconnect WiFi cameras (julianoliver.com)
311 points by thelostagency on Dec 19, 2015 | 133 comments
8.
Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (2010) (stellman-greene.com)
203 points by sidcool on Dec 19, 2015 | 63 comments
9.
Common Lisp Koans (github.com/google)
100 points by galois198 on Dec 18, 2015 | 22 comments
10.
Why 451? (mnot.net)
245 points by temp on Dec 19, 2015 | 51 comments
11.
Why Are Projects Always Behind Schedule? (priceonomics.com)
178 points by sidcool on Dec 19, 2015 | 108 comments
12.
X-Rays Expose a Hidden Medieval Library (medievalbooks.nl)
86 points by robin_reala on Dec 18, 2015 | 6 comments
13.
Psychology of Clickbait (wired.com)
82 points by cryptoz on Dec 18, 2015 | 26 comments
14.
Fairphone 2: world's first modular phone goes on sale (bbc.co.uk)
154 points by rwmj on Dec 19, 2015 | 105 comments
15.
New York State Agrees to Overhaul Solitary Confinement in Prisons (nytimes.com)
62 points by wormold on Dec 18, 2015 | 9 comments
16.
How Tor Works: Part One (jordan-wright.com)
178 points by billconan on Dec 19, 2015 | 16 comments
17.
Pyrobuf: A Cython Alternative to Google's Python Protobuf Library (github.com/appnexus)
77 points by rileyberton on Dec 17, 2015 | 35 comments
18.
How Art Became Irrelevant (commentarymagazine.com)
120 points by signor_bosco on Dec 18, 2015 | 98 comments
19.
Japan's curious passion for the business novel (bbc.co.uk)
65 points by elemeno on Dec 18, 2015 | 4 comments
20.
Thepiratebay.com domain has been suspended (thepiratebay.com)
100 points by throwaway2048 on Dec 19, 2015 | 105 comments
21.
MongoDB instances publicly exposed on the Internet (shodan.io)
70 points by lladnar on Dec 17, 2015 | 22 comments
22.
Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014) (mnn.com)
59 points by Mz on Dec 18, 2015 | 28 comments
23.
Wine 1.8 is released (winehq.org)
178 points by coldpie on Dec 19, 2015 | 38 comments
24.
Design Patterns in Clojure (mishadoff.com)
155 points by susi22 on Dec 18, 2015 | 61 comments
25.
“Compiler Construction” by Niklaus Wirth (2014) [pdf] (ethz.ch)
127 points by networked on Dec 19, 2015 | 10 comments
26.
Government Succeeds in Stalling Again, but Jewel V. NSA Goes On (eff.org)
108 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 19, 2015 | 8 comments
27.
Chlorine: Dead Simple GPGPU (github.com/polytonic)
104 points by Polytonic on Dec 19, 2015 | 12 comments
28.
Scientific publications should be anonymous (arxiv.org)
128 points by fitzwatermellow on Dec 19, 2015 | 76 comments
29.
Regent: A Language for Implicit Dataflow Parallelism (regent-lang.org)
60 points by eslaught on Dec 19, 2015 | 19 comments
30.
MkLinux: Apple-Funded Port of Linux to the Power Mac / Mach Microkernel (mklinux.org)
69 points by lwf on Dec 19, 2015 | 45 comments

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