| 1. | | There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor' (whispersystems.org) |
| 1018 points by stablemap on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 408 comments [ext] |
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| 2. | | VR (blog.ycombinator.com) |
| 1008 points by craigcannon on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 550 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages (theguardian.com) |
| 1332 points by katpas on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 321 comments [ext] |
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Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets () |
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374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
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| 4. | | Affordable Care (samaltman.com) |
| 720 points by mattkrisiloff on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 1014 comments [ext] |
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| 5. | | Feeling safer online with Firefox (astithas.com) |
| 378 points by nachtigall on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 97 comments [ext] |
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| 6. | | The Sound of Silence (foundersatwork.posthaven.com) |
| 344 points by oskarth on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 158 comments [ext] |
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From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com) |
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110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
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| 7. | | How Antarctic bases went from wooden huts to sci-fi chic (bbc.com) |
| 225 points by misotaur on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 67 comments [ext] |
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| 8. | | #define CTO OpenAI (gregbrockman.com) |
| 253 points by sama on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 42 comments [ext] |
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| 9. | | Regaining control of your attention (backchannel.com) |
| 223 points by cmod on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 125 comments [ext] |
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The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com) |
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436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
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| 10. | | Portal for Apple II (deater.net) |
| 229 points by pavel_lishin on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 36 comments [ext] |
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| 11. | | Five big mysteries about CRISPRβs origins (nature.com) |
| 204 points by bcaulfield on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 33 comments [ext] |
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| 12. | | App.net is shutting down (app.net) |
| 339 points by antinanco on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 187 comments [ext] |
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Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe) |
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229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
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| 13. | | Rasa: Extremely modular text editor built in Haskell (github.com/chrispenner) |
| 189 points by poiuz on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 59 comments [ext] |
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| 14. | | Testing LLVM (regehr.org) |
| 87 points by awalGarg on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 34 comments [ext] |
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| 15. | | Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview (cloud.google.com) |
| 317 points by emilburzo on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 52 comments [ext] |
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The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality () |
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491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
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| 16. | | Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba (blogs.microsoft.com) |
| 182 points by damvigilante on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 27 comments [ext] |
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| 17. | | Nintendo Switch (nintendo.co.jp) |
| 375 points by electic on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 416 comments [ext] |
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| 18. | | Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce (techcrunch.com) |
| 160 points by doppp on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 170 comments [ext] |
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How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com) |
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297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
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| 19. | | Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out (eff.org) |
| 589 points by doener on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 294 comments [ext] |
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| 20. | | Buffalo β MVC Web Framework for Go (gobuffalo.io) |
| 167 points by sjellis on Jan 12, 2017 [ext] | 43 comments [ext] |
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| 21. | | Neanderthals were people too (nytimes.com) |
| 155 points by em3rgent0rdr on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 107 comments [ext] |
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Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe) |
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429 points by pex8279 21 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
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| 22. | | Study finds association between eating hot peppers and decreased mortality (sciencebulletin.org) |
| 120 points by upen on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 89 comments [ext] |
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| 23. | | Disassembling Jak and Daxter (codersnotes.com) |
| 180 points by kayamon on Jan 12, 2017 [ext] | 32 comments [ext] |
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| 24. | | How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50β50 Women and Men (medium.com/initialized-capital) |
| 76 points by tzar on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 209 comments [ext] |
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A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu) |
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129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
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| 25. | | Brain activity 'key in stress link to heart disease' (bbc.co.uk) |
| 119 points by robinwarren on Jan 12, 2017 [ext] | 30 comments [ext] |
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| 26. | | Adobe angers Chrome users by bundling browser plugin with security update (arstechnica.com) |
| 224 points by ckrailo on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 40 comments [ext] |
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| 27. | | Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps (justinobeirne.com) |
| 209 points by manuelmagic on Jan 12, 2017 [ext] | 90 comments [ext] |
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The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me) |
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478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
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| 28. | | StumpWM 1.0 Released (stumpwm.github.io) |
| 125 points by ghostDancer on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 83 comments [ext] |
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| 29. | | Lasers activate killer instinct in mice (nature.com) |
| 98 points by stichers on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 39 comments [ext] |
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| 30. | | Compiling a Mac OS 8 Application on MacOS Sierra (cocoawithlove.com) |
| 139 points by ingve on Jan 13, 2017 [ext] | 44 comments [ext] |
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A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com) |
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