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1.Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA (fusion.net)
658 points by kmfrk on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 216 comments [ext]
2.Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project (bloomberg.com)
374 points by ghukill on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
3.How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH (eff.org)
284 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
4. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Soviet PCs (rbth.co.uk)
280 points by grhmc on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
5.From Python to Go and Back Again (docs.google.com)
366 points by azth on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 165 comments [ext]
6.Ask HN: What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months? [ext]
191 points by tophernash on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
7. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
7.Where did the principle of secrecy in correspondence go? (theguardian.com)
105 points by jackgavigan on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
8.The spreadsheet as a minimum viable CMS (medium.com/jkalven)
122 points by snowwrestler on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
9.What Do We Really Know About Osama Bin Laden’s Death? (nytimes.com)
135 points by kareemm on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
10. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
10.Document Clustering with Python (brandonrose.org)
125 points by sytelus on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
11.Chrome DevTools extension for ClojureScript (github.com/binaryage)
113 points by rayshan on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
12.How to Shuffle and Sample on the Command-Line (jpalardy.com)
82 points by jpalardy on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
13. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
13.Cron in production is a double-edged sword (orchestrate.io)
104 points by neo2001 on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
14.TPP could thwart computer security research and tinkering (slate.com)
287 points by walterbell on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
15.Red Hat is buying Ansible (venturebeat.com)
336 points by dlapiduz on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 182 comments [ext]
16. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
16.Show HN: A Platform For Self-Experimentation (doubleblinded.com)
79 points by chrisrxth on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
17.Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings (fivethirtyeight.com)
248 points by thehoff on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 201 comments [ext]
18.Why Red Hat Acquired Ansible (redhat.com)
194 points by anacleto on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
19. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
19.Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps (medium.com/ios-os-x-development)
163 points by martin_tipgain on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
20.Apache 2.4.17 with HTTP/2 support (icing.github.io)
203 points by signaler on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
21.Stanford, Michael Bloomberg Now Back Every Y Combinator Startup (wsj.com)
123 points by cryptoz on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
22. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
22.To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars (news.mit.edu)
123 points by jimsojim on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
23.Italy to dig for ancient Roman treasure sought by Nazis (telegraph.co.uk)
40 points by diodorus on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
24.Braess' paradox: adding a new road to a city can slow down traffic (wikipedia.org)
98 points by Thorondor on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
25. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
25.The Galaxy That Got Too Big (nautil.us)
64 points by DarkContinent on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
26.UK firm's surveillance kit 'used to crush Uganda opposition' (bbc.co.uk)
108 points by escapologybb on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
27.Theranos Dials Back Lab Tests at FDA’s Behest (google.com)
103 points by raspasov on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
28. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
28.What is a core dump and how do you parse one? (backtrace.io)
118 points by sbahra on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
29.The most disruptive technology of the last century was home appliances (washingtonpost.com)
112 points by davidiach on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
30.Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation (mocko.org.uk)
362 points by mocko on Oct 16, 2015 [ext] | 313 comments [ext]
31. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments

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