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1.		San Bernardino County tweets it reset attacker iCloud password at FBI's request (sbsun.com)
		381 points by randomname2 on Feb 20, 2016 \| 170 comments
2.		555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC (righto.com)
		318 points by dezgeg on Feb 20, 2016 \| 59 comments
3.		Umberto Eco has died (bbc.com)
		546 points by kawera on Feb 20, 2016 \| 126 comments
4.		Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case (twitter.com/snowden)
		643 points by Karunamon on Feb 20, 2016 \| 209 comments
5.		Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt (tacticalsecret.com)
		305 points by tdurden on Feb 20, 2016 \| 94 comments
6.		Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online (hyperallergic.com)
		336 points by jetskindo on Feb 20, 2016 \| 84 comments
7.		The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem (zerotier.com)
		323 points by LukeLambert on Feb 19, 2016 \| 196 comments
8.		Google Lowered Taxes by $2.4B Using European Subsidiaries (bloomberg.com)
		146 points by kungfudoi on Feb 20, 2016 \| 249 comments
9.		LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks (librivox.org)
		179 points by pmoriarty on Feb 20, 2016 \| 37 comments
10.		Judge Rules FBI Must Reveal Malware It Used to Hack Over 1,000 Computers (vice.com)
		234 points by 56k on Feb 20, 2016 \| 77 comments
11.		The Joy and Agony of Haskell in Production (stephendiehl.com)
		324 points by stefans on Feb 20, 2016 \| 92 comments
12.		Scala's Option monad versus null-conditional operator in C# (codewithstyle.info)
		87 points by miloszpp on Feb 20, 2016 \| 50 comments
13.		Cheap BlueTooth Buttons and Linux (shkspr.mobi)
		113 points by edent on Feb 20, 2016 \| 29 comments
14.		A bot has successfully appealed $3M worth of parking tickets in the UK (businessinsider.com)
		225 points by dpflan on Feb 20, 2016 \| 97 comments
15.		Unicode in SML (blogful.me)
		50 points by eatonphil on Feb 20, 2016 \| 25 comments
16.		Why I want Concepts, sooner rather than later (isocpp.org)
		61 points by vmorgulis on Feb 20, 2016 \| 30 comments
17.		ARM Mbed IoT Device Platform (mbed.com)
		51 points by fitzwatermellow on Feb 20, 2016 \| 27 comments
18.		Hacking Infix Operators into Python with Decorators (tomerfiliba.com)
		76 points by jez on Feb 20, 2016 \| 12 comments
19.		The forbidden railway: Vienna – Pyongyang (2008) (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com)
		155 points by pantalaimon on Feb 20, 2016 \| 29 comments
20.		A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case (eff.org)
		176 points by blubg on Feb 20, 2016 \| 50 comments
21.		Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong (nautil.us)
		111 points by dnetesn on Feb 20, 2016 \| 26 comments
22.		PlatformIO: Next-generation IDE for IoT (platformio.org)
		83 points by ikravets on Feb 19, 2016 \| 38 comments
23.		Volvo recalls 59,000 cars over software fault (bbc.com)
		64 points by temp on Feb 20, 2016 \| 65 comments
24.		GitHub lock-in? (agateau.com)
		138 points by g1n016399 on Feb 20, 2016 \| 100 comments
25.		How the feds took down FIFA (espn.go.com)
		77 points by wglb on Feb 20, 2016 \| 25 comments
26.		Colma, Calif., Is a Town of 2.2 Square Miles, Most of It 6 Feet Deep (2006) (nytimes.com)
		56 points by apsec112 on Feb 20, 2016 \| 37 comments
27.		WINE 1.9.4 Released (winehq.org)
		172 points by ekianjo on Feb 20, 2016 \| 118 comments
28.		What sparked the Cambrian explosion? (nature.com)
		97 points by japaget on Feb 20, 2016 \| 21 comments
29.		Terrorist’s Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody, Blocking Access (buzzfeed.com)
		156 points by hanapbuhay on Feb 19, 2016 \| 54 comments
30.		A Skeleton Key of Unknown Strength (CVE-2015-7547) (dankaminsky.com)
		115 points by cookiecaper on Feb 20, 2016 \| 37 comments
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