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1.
Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers (arstechnica.com)
315 points by sinak on July 19, 2014 | 90 comments
2.
Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices (zdziarski.com)
325 points by rjzzleep on July 19, 2014 | 80 comments
3.
The World Health Organization calls for the decriminalisation of drug use (tdpf.org.uk)
287 points by oskarth on July 19, 2014 | 60 comments
4.
Sana'a (idlewords.com)
271 points by dang on July 19, 2014 | 52 comments
5.
Introduction to Coreboot, an open source BIOS (xs4all.nl)
222 points by powerbook5300CS on July 19, 2014 | 49 comments
6.
Conspiracy and an off-by-one error (gist.github.com)
184 points by TazeTSchnitzel on July 19, 2014 | 36 comments
7.
How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito in the Jim Crow Era (npr.org)
183 points by TheBiv on July 19, 2014 | 42 comments
8.
Linus Torvalds gives a tour of his home office (youtube.com)
177 points by pajju on July 19, 2014 | 79 comments
9.
Ignoring the amount customers confirm is no security bug according to PayPal (seclists.org)
173 points by david_b on July 19, 2014 | 36 comments
10.
Escher: A language for programming in metaphors (github.com/gocircuit)
143 points by dantiberian on July 19, 2014 | 69 comments
11.
U.S. Senator blasts Microsoft's H-1B push as it lays off 18,000 workers (computerworld.com)
147 points by Element_ on July 19, 2014 | 120 comments
12.
MiniLock – File encryption software that does more with less (minilock.io)
139 points by poolpool on July 19, 2014 | 82 comments
13.
Executive Order 12333: The Reagan rule that lets the NSA spy on Americans (washingtonpost.com)
123 points by rosser on July 19, 2014 | 11 comments
14.
The Middle East Friendship Chart (slate.com)
119 points by kumarski on July 19, 2014 | 98 comments
15.
Squatter doesn't sit well with Airbnb host (sfgate.com)
98 points by kqr2 on July 19, 2014 | 80 comments
16.
Azure Machine Learning: A Brief Introduction (projectbotticelli.com)
98 points by ntakasaki on July 19, 2014 | 18 comments
17.
Computer memory that can store about 1TB on device the size of a postage stamp (kurzweilai.net)
92 points by rpm4321 on July 19, 2014 | 22 comments
18.
Dungeons and Dragons Saved My Life (newyorker.com)
88 points by sizzle on July 19, 2014 | 31 comments
19.
Interactive real-time raytracing in WebGL (jonathan-olson.com)
90 points by sxp on July 19, 2014 | 42 comments
20.
HOPE X Streaming Live (hope.net)
80 points by stox on July 19, 2014 | 13 comments
21.
Trnio – Turn your iPhone into a 3D scanner (trnio.com)
79 points by showwebgl on July 19, 2014 | 22 comments
22.
HSTS for new TLDs (imperialviolet.org)
85 points by tomkwok on July 19, 2014 | 42 comments
23.
HTML Canvas in the terminal (github.com/madbence)
78 points by lennoff on July 19, 2014 | 12 comments
24.
AnimGIFs need a better codec (pornel.net)
77 points by robin_reala on July 19, 2014 | 39 comments
25.
ECryptfs Security Audit (defuse.ca)
77 points by SaintSal on July 19, 2014 | 61 comments
26.
Don’t Blame Malaysia Airlines (nytimes.com)
71 points by danso on July 19, 2014 | 90 comments
27.
Apple's 1986 Clothing Collection (huhmagazine.co.uk)
61 points by codezero on July 19, 2014 | 14 comments
28.
Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?
68 points by mkr-hn on July 19, 2014 | 32 comments
29.
How Instagram Feeds Work: Celery and RabbitMQ (vmware.com)
56 points by thikonom on July 19, 2014 | 10 comments
30.
Which countries have the youngest populations? (rferl.org)
56 points by dominotw on July 19, 2014 | 15 comments

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