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31.How to Write Safe Verilog: Become a PL Troll (danluu.com)
108 points by luu on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
32.Factoring RSA keys from certified smart cards (cr.yp.to)
97 points by pedro84 on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
33.Everything .NET programmers know about Asynchronous Programming is wrong (hanselminutes.com)
95 points by deedee on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
4. How a Polymarket Wallet Outearned Google Predicting Gemini 3's Launch (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 59 days ago | hide | 13 comments
34.Use different DNS servers for specific domains (lexfriedman.com)
82 points by libovness on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
35.World’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange Out $10 Million (wired.com)
76 points by sk2code on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
36.Go Concurrency Patterns ported to Clojure (gist.github.com)
75 points by olenhad on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
7. Assad's fall strands Moscow's warm-water ambitions at sea (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
37.On turning Y Combinator rejection into reddit (theatlantic.com)
72 points by kn0thing on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
38.Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web (github.com/texit)
67 points by zachlatta on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
39.Surreptitiously Tampering with Computer Chips (schneier.com)
68 points by timw6n on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
10. Why Selling $1 of Bitcoin for $1.10 Still Beats Most Businesses (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 86 days ago | hide | 14 comments
40.Ruby Tips Part 2 (globaldev.co.uk)
68 points by Peroni on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
41.Abandoning PHP for Python (stickyworld.com)
67 points by marklit on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
42.Concord, our GPL outliner (scripting.com)
65 points by tjr on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
13. What 14 Years at Google Taught Me About Everything Except Code (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 106 days ago | hide | 48 comments
43.Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection to Address Criticism on Large Scale Deployments (infoq.com)
66 points by DanielRibeiro on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
44.Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013 (thenextweb.com)
65 points by NewsFlash on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
45.Startups That Received Investment from In-Q-Tel (mattermark.com)
69 points by dmor on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
16. Why the word 'later' has killed more dreams than you can count (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 399 days ago | hide | 146 comments
46.Bitcoin Network Speed Breaks 1 Petahash per Second (thegenesisblock.com)
65 points by geektips on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
47.What If All 7.1 Billion People Moved To Tunisia? (waitbutwhy.com)
63 points by louthy on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
48.Essential Tools for Starting a Rails App in 2013 (petekeen.net)
69 points by zrail on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
19. Why self-play crushed two-week-old agents 95% of the time (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
49.Don't Forget to Talk (willdennis.com)
57 points by williamldennis on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
50.Re-Inventing the Hackathon (angelhack.com)
63 points by priley on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
51.Paul Graham Thinks You Should Exercise (sethbannon.com)
61 points by sethbannon on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
22. The Polish Recluse Who Cracked the Forgetting Curve (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
52.At Twitter (thehundreds.com)
55 points by daigoba66 on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
53.Postmates CEO tells customer to 'f--- off' (torontosun.com)
54 points by kevingibbon on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
54. [dupe] Valve CEO: Why Linux is the future of gaming (zdnet.com)
53 points by tanglesome on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
25. Citgo, Gold Mines, and the Long Unwind of Venezuelan Expropriation (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 86 days ago | hide | 177 comments
55.Flush+Reload: a High Resolution, Low Noise, L3 Cache Side-Channel Attack [pdf] (iacr.org)
51 points by pedro84 on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
56.Ask HN: What is the best technology to learn right now? [ext]
53 points by scatter on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
57.The consumer driven economy is for people who don't naturally automate things (obvioustothecasualobserver.blogspot.com)
52 points by DickingAround on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
28. Why Uber-for-X Failed While Amazon Built an Impenetrable Moat ()
257 points by pen4647 498 days ago | hide | 50 comments
58.Bayesian updating of Probability Distributions (databozo.com)
45 points by darkxanthos on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
59.Crypto-Gram Newsletter – September 15, 2013 (schneier.com)
46 points by njharman on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
60.Exploiting Lua 5.1 on 32-bit Windows (gist.github.com)
39 points by tiagobraw on Sept 16, 2013 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
31. How Three Laws Quietly Killed the Programmable Web (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 595 days ago | hide | 76 comments

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