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1. Get HTTPS for free (gethttpsforfree.com)
731 points by somecoder on Jan 30, 2016 | 159 comments
2. China Has Released True Color HD Photos of the Moon (techcrunch.com)
464 points by antouank on Jan 30, 2016 | 108 comments
3. Google Open Source Load Balancer in Go (github.com/google)
323 points by paukiatwee on Jan 30, 2016 | 69 comments
4. Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Became the Barbie Doll (messynessychic.com)
226 points by apo on Jan 30, 2016 | 65 comments
5. CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden (wsws.org)
492 points by kushti on Jan 30, 2016 | 202 comments
6. Why Programming is Difficult (2014) (joearms.github.io)
175 points by merlinsbrain on Jan 30, 2016 | 111 comments
7. The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks (linode.com)
234 points by alexforster on Jan 29, 2016 | 145 comments
8. The Secret Feature of EM-DOSBOX on Internet Archive (textfiles.com)
146 points by josephscott on Jan 27, 2016 | 36 comments
9. Making 20% Time Work (begriffs.com)
214 points by begriffs on Jan 30, 2016 | 133 comments
10. NSA Chief Hacker Explains How to Avoid NSA Spying (techlog360.com)
149 points by awqrre on Jan 30, 2016 | 50 comments
11. It's Coming: The Great Swift API Transformation (swift.org)
163 points by ceeK on Jan 30, 2016 | 25 comments
12. Indian Women Seeking Jobs Confront Taboos and Threats (nytimes.com)
110 points by pavornyoh on Jan 30, 2016 | 90 comments
13. Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research?
316 points by sama on Jan 29, 2016 | 522 comments
14. China wants to become a semiconductor superpower, budgeting $100B to achieve it (economist.com)
185 points by tristanj on Jan 30, 2016 | 149 comments
15. Obama Pledges $4B to Computer Science in US Schools (wired.com)
157 points by zds on Jan 30, 2016 | 146 comments
16. Putting Your Data and Code in Order: Optimization and Memory (intel.com)
57 points by ingve on Jan 30, 2016 | 9 comments
17. How to Start a Startup: Lectures (2014) (samaltman.com)
149 points by MarlonPro on Jan 29, 2016 | 16 comments
18. Microsoft FFmpegInterop library for Windows (github.com/microsoft)
79 points by ingve on Jan 30, 2016 | 21 comments
19. First self-assembled superconductor structure created (cornell.edu)
48 points by jonbaer on Jan 30, 2016 | 6 comments
20. ‘Technological fraud’ discovered at Zolder cyclocross worlds (competitor.com)
97 points by tetraodonpuffer on Jan 30, 2016 | 66 comments
21. Open-Sourced Logos (logodust.com)
268 points by JavaScriptrr on Jan 30, 2016 | 64 comments
22. Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors (news.mit.edu)
137 points by jonbaer on Jan 29, 2016 | 54 comments
23. Tcl.js: robust, high-performance Tcl in JavaScript (github.com/cyanogilvie)
107 points by blacksqr on Jan 30, 2016 | 50 comments
24. Show HN: Desktop Fruit – A Curated Blog of Mac App Design (desktopfruit.com)
79 points by BrendonTO on Jan 29, 2016 | 24 comments
25. CoreOS Overview, Part One (deis.com)
98 points by nslater on Jan 29, 2016 | 36 comments
26. Sources: Security Firm Norse Corp. Imploding (krebsonsecurity.com)
79 points by dsr12 on Jan 30, 2016 | 17 comments
27. Interlocking Bricks Before Lego [video] (youtube.com)
93 points by dsr_ on Jan 30, 2016 | 18 comments
28. QIRA is a timeless debugger (qira.me)
65 points by jcr on Jan 30, 2016 | 24 comments
29. Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc (lwn.net)
106 points by jordigh on Jan 30, 2016 | 51 comments
30. The Tragic Data Behind Selfie Fatalities (priceonomics.com)
66 points by ryan_j_naughton on Jan 29, 2016 | 37 comments

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