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1.		Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People (bloomberg.com)
		1720 points by coloneltcb on Nov 21, 2017 \| 572 comments
2.		FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see (washingtonpost.com)
		1330 points by rbanffy on Nov 21, 2017 \| 646 comments
3.		I'm Testifying to Congress about Data Breaches – What Should I Say? (troyhunt.com)
		637 points by Ajedi32 on Nov 21, 2017 \| 230 comments
4.		Desktop compositing latency is real (lofibucket.com)
		538 points by dezgeg on Nov 21, 2017 \| 291 comments
5.		Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go (lwn.net)
		498 points by dankohn1 on Nov 21, 2017 \| 127 comments
6.		Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled (qz.com)
		953 points by kshatrea on Nov 21, 2017 \| 401 comments
7.		A Man Who Has Lived Alone on an Island for 28 Years (nationalgeographic.com)
		461 points by fern12 on Nov 21, 2017 \| 78 comments
8.		Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market (nettrack.info)
		659 points by tarellel on Nov 20, 2017 \| 247 comments
9.		Regression in Linux 4.14 – using bcache can destroy the file system (gentoo.org)
		201 points by panny on Nov 21, 2017 \| 123 comments
10.		Tether Critical Announcement (tether.to)
		532 points by benpink on Nov 21, 2017 \| 310 comments
11.		What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) (popularmechanics.com)
		225 points by skellertor on Nov 21, 2017 \| 147 comments
12.		Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO (wsj.com)
		184 points by praneshp on Nov 21, 2017 \| 146 comments
13.		Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last? (economist.com)
		261 points by artsandsci on Nov 21, 2017 \| 579 comments
14.		AWS Amplify: JavaScript Open Source Library with React, React Native Extensions (amazon.com)
		178 points by nslog on Nov 21, 2017 \| 26 comments
15.		Skype Vanishes from App Stores in China, Including Apple’s (nytimes.com)
		232 points by votepaunchy on Nov 21, 2017 \| 177 comments
16.		The first known object to enter our solar system from deep space (cbc.ca)
		377 points by thrusong on Nov 21, 2017 \| 107 comments
17.		John Lasseter taking a leave of absence amid reports of inappropriate behavior (techcrunch.com)
		205 points by rmason on Nov 21, 2017 \| 244 comments
18.		Justice Department suing AT&T to block $85B bid for Time Warner (washingtonpost.com)
		183 points by wybiral on Nov 20, 2017 \| 77 comments
19.		The Last of the Iron Lungs (gizmodo.com)
		194 points by ohjeez on Nov 20, 2017 \| 65 comments
20.		A Nuclear Jet at Chernobyl Around 21:23:45 UTC on April 25, 1986 (tandfonline.com)
		167 points by quakeguy on Nov 21, 2017 \| 59 comments
21.		Cross-Head, Cross-Point, Cruciform, Square Drive Screws and Drivers (instructables.com)
		98 points by nkurz on Nov 21, 2017 \| 28 comments
22.		John Raines, 84, Who Evaded Capture in an FBI Break-In, Dies (nytimes.com)
		180 points by dsr12 on Nov 21, 2017 \| 66 comments
23.		JIT compiling a subset of Python to x86-64 (csl.name)
		128 points by ksaua on Nov 21, 2017 \| 18 comments
24.		Joan Feynman Found Her Place in the Sun (hackaday.com)
		176 points by LarryManchoney on Nov 21, 2017 \| 26 comments
25.		Cost Effectiveness of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (acesounderglass.com)
		134 points by luu on Nov 20, 2017 \| 61 comments
26.		The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus (lareviewofbooks.org)
		136 points by fern12 on Nov 21, 2017 \| 75 comments
27.		Of SVG, Minification and Gzip (medium.com/subzey)
		217 points by mmastrac on Nov 21, 2017 \| 48 comments
28.		Germany's FlixBus to Take on Greyhound in the United States (reuters.com)
		158 points by dakna on Nov 21, 2017 \| 94 comments
29.		Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (unix.stackexchange.com)
		560 points by isp on Nov 21, 2017 \| 159 comments
30.		The Secret Lives of Urban Crows (seattlemet.com)
		106 points by robteix on Nov 21, 2017 \| 23 comments
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