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1.Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander? (seclists.org)
364 points by Garbage on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 189 comments [ext]
2.Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine (rsms.me)
277 points by whalesalad on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
3.Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech (washingtonpost.com)
279 points by vonmoltke on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 274 comments [ext]
4. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 14 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM (raspberrypi.org)
272 points by tiernano on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
5.Syte: Simple but powerful packaged personal site (github.com/rigoneri)
200 points by saym on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
6.Your Startup Is Spam (metamorphium.com)
193 points by guptaneil on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
7. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
7.Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with a single DMCA notice (techdirt.com)
192 points by machrider on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
8.R.I.P. Phil Bagwell (typesafe.com)
182 points by SanderMak on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
9.A science committee that doesn’t get science (arstechnica.com)
184 points by chinmoy on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
10. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
10.Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs? [ext]
176 points by factorialboy on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
11.Master Keys (schneier.com)
173 points by mikegerwitz on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
12.Rescue.js (rescuejs.com)
164 points by cheeaun on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
13. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
13.(l)uriel has passed away (9fans.net)
143 points by masklinn on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
14.Filepicker.io JS V1 - Full filesystem API in Javascript (filepicker.io)
138 points by liyanchang on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
15.MIT Lectures on Advanced Data Structures (6.851) (csail.mit.edu)
134 points by smanek on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
16. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
16.Rust 0.4 released (mail.mozilla.org)
133 points by kumarshantanu on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
17.So You Want To Optimize Ruby (headius.com)
126 points by jamesbritt on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
18.Show HN: create, share, explore database patterns (archive.org)
125 points by fatiherikli on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
19. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 15 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
19.Why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT and go all in on Yahoo Pipes (jfornear.co)
121 points by jfornear on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
20.Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four suns (io9.com)
116 points by boh on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
21.Git is cheap (coderwall.com)
113 points by beghbali on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
22. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
22.Felix Baumgartner: The best photos and videos from the edge of space (extremetech.com)
110 points by ulrichkautz on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
23.Show HN: What would Paul Graham do? (wwpgd.com)
109 points by aakil on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
24.Honour for overlooked Poles who were first to crack Enigma code (smh.com.au)
106 points by wglb on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
25. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
25.The Great Dropbox Space Race (dropbox.com)
99 points by joshma on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
26.Alexis Ohanian interviewed after talk at Waterloo (communitech.ca)
105 points by michaelrlitt on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
27.Facebook’s Wonky Privacy Controls Now Outing LGBT Youth Without Their Consent (betabeat.com)
87 points by iProject on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
28. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
28.Building Servers for Fun and Prof... OK, Maybe Just for Fun (codinghorror.com)
86 points by bussetta on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
29.Can code that is valid in both C and C++ produce different behavior? (stackoverflow.com)
83 points by ivoflipse on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
30.DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code on your server (deploybutton.com)
79 points by peterkchen on Oct 15, 2012 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
31. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 601 days ago | hide | 25 comments

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