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1. Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal (thejh.net)
665 points by DAddYE on Nov 12, 2015 | 244 comments
2. Firefox for iOS now available (blog.mozilla.org)
548 points by jlongster on Nov 12, 2015 | 324 comments
3. f.lux for iOS is no longer available (justgetflux.com)
616 points by kilian on Nov 12, 2015 | 400 comments
4. Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections (techcrunch.com)
299 points by lujim on Nov 12, 2015 | 59 comments
5. A Quasipolynomial Time Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism: The Details (jeremykun.com)
238 points by Schiphol on Nov 12, 2015 | 33 comments
6. Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web (qz.com)
263 points by snake117 on Nov 10, 2015 | 175 comments
7. Firefox’s New Memory Tool (hacks.mozilla.org)
251 points by bpierre on Nov 12, 2015 | 26 comments
8. MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water (news.mit.edu)
179 points by matttah on Nov 12, 2015 | 20 comments
9. Parallel Sequential Scan is Committed to PostgreSQL 9.6 (rhaas.blogspot.com)
275 points by turrini on Nov 11, 2015 | 68 comments
10. Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7 (justgetflux.com)
293 points by walterbell on Nov 11, 2015 | 67 comments
11. Waterfox – A fast browser (waterfoxproject.org)
150 points by talles on Nov 12, 2015 | 108 comments
12. The Supreme Court could soon deliver a blow to the Sixth Amendment (washingtonpost.com)
181 points by wcbeard10 on Nov 12, 2015 | 115 comments
13. Teensy weensy crypto (goeswhere.com)
112 points by sadiq on Nov 12, 2015 | 56 comments
14. Udacity Raises $105M Series D, Bringing Valuation to $1B (techcrunch.com)
126 points by doppp on Nov 12, 2015 | 74 comments
15. UN privacy head slams 'worse than scary' UK surveillance bill (theregister.co.uk)
149 points by stevetrewick on Nov 11, 2015 | 65 comments
16. Cutting a Klein Bottle in Half [video] (youtube.com)
150 points by DHJSH on Nov 12, 2015 | 34 comments
17. Finite state machines as data structure for representing ordered sets and maps (burntsushi.net)
213 points by dbaupp on Nov 12, 2015 | 25 comments
18. Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 Minutes (2013) (emacs-doctor.com)
135 points by CodeHustler on Nov 12, 2015 | 14 comments
19. The Western diet has nearly killed our ancestral microbiome (nautil.us)
211 points by sergeant3 on Nov 12, 2015 | 131 comments
20. Not So Securus - Massive Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls (theintercept.com)
145 points by uptown on Nov 11, 2015 | 31 comments
21. Call this phone to become a part of William Binney's social graph at the NSA (hop3.de)
139 points by muhpirat on Nov 11, 2015 | 50 comments
22. Why we need to create careers for research software engineers (scientific-computing.com)
135 points by rkda on Nov 12, 2015 | 73 comments
23. After raising $125M at my last company, I’m bootstrapping this one (medium.com/swlh)
108 points by subbu on Nov 11, 2015 | 46 comments
24. Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview, an Experimental Android App (hacks.mozilla.org)
154 points by thallian on Nov 12, 2015 | 44 comments
25. Single course of antibiotics can mess up the gut microbiome for a year (arstechnica.com)
115 points by ra on Nov 12, 2015 | 66 comments
26. The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library (newyorker.com)
59 points by diodorus on Nov 11, 2015 | 6 comments
27. Things that aren't progress (aaronkharris.com)
143 points by tlb on Nov 12, 2015 | 16 comments
28. Fidelity Devalues Stake in Blue Bottle, Dataminr, Zenefits Following Snapchat (fortune.com)
120 points by coloneltcb on Nov 11, 2015 | 70 comments
29. The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony (cloudflare.com)
88 points by jgrahamc on Nov 11, 2015 | 47 comments
30. Chess Move Compression (triplehappy.wordpress.com)
60 points by nreece on Nov 11, 2015 | 32 comments

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