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1. Google’s lawyers are asking to find Oracle’s lawyers in contempt of court (vice.com)
395 points by ivank on Sept 23, 2016 | 138 comments
2. Ripgrep – A new command line search tool (burntsushi.net)
740 points by anp on Sept 23, 2016 | 209 comments
3. Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox (servethehome.com)
477 points by kungfudoi on Sept 23, 2016 | 342 comments
4. Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack (businessinsider.com)
658 points by bishnu on Sept 23, 2016 | 440 comments
5. Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google (cnbc.com)
267 points by kgwgk on Sept 23, 2016 | 344 comments
6. House Passes Employee Stock Options Bill Aimed at Startups (morningconsult.com)
347 points by endswapper on Sept 23, 2016 | 224 comments
7. How to Get a Job in Deep Learning (deepgram.com)
316 points by stephensonsco on Sept 22, 2016 | 86 comments
8. Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance?
446 points by curiousgal on Sept 22, 2016 | 269 comments
9. Confessions of a Necromancer (hintjens.com)
313 points by jwildeboer on Sept 23, 2016 | 65 comments
10. Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years (wsj.com)
283 points by tshtf on Sept 22, 2016 | 150 comments
11. How does Google know where I am? (security.stackexchange.com)
262 points by kumarharsh on Sept 23, 2016 | 148 comments
12. Haiku Project (haiku-os.org)
255 points by gscott on Sept 23, 2016 | 143 comments
13. iOS 10: Security Weakness Discovered, Backup Passwords Much Easier to Break (elcomsoft.com)
220 points by cpach on Sept 23, 2016 | 91 comments
14. Playpen: The Story of the FBI’s Unprecedented and Illegal Hacking Operation (eff.org)
176 points by lelf on Sept 22, 2016 | 55 comments
15. How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City (gizmodo.com)
163 points by jonbaer on Sept 23, 2016 | 106 comments
16. Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed (cmu.edu)
350 points by ZeljkoS on Sept 23, 2016 | 146 comments
17. Cryptpad: Zero Knowledge, Collaborative Real Time Editing (cryptpad.fr)
137 points by zerognowl on Sept 23, 2016 | 52 comments
18. Show HN: How many days until? (days.to)
156 points by uptown on Sept 23, 2016 | 74 comments
19. Gnuplotting – Create scientific plots using gnuplot (gnuplotting.org)
162 points by type0 on Sept 22, 2016 | 50 comments
20. Latacora: Security Programs For Startups (latacora.com)
98 points by MattRogish on Sept 23, 2016 | 52 comments
21. Cruise Automation, GM’s Self-Driving Cars, and the Founders Behind It (fortune.com)
72 points by artfuldodger on Sept 22, 2016 | 48 comments
22. August 2016 Lisp Game Jam Postmortem (stevelosh.com)
109 points by nodivbyzero on Sept 23, 2016 | 17 comments
23. Senate panel authorizes money for Mars mission, shuttle replacement (usatoday.com)
100 points by mcamaj on Sept 23, 2016 | 54 comments
24. Using Gmail with Mutt (smalldata.tech)
145 points by wheresvic1 on Sept 23, 2016 | 53 comments
25. Tesla Software Update 8.0 (tesla.com)
115 points by alfredxing on Sept 23, 2016 | 89 comments
26. A Sunken Bridge the Size of a Continent (hakaimagazine.com)
113 points by jmadsen on Sept 22, 2016 | 33 comments
27. The Moon Illusion, an Unsolved Mystery (lhup.edu)
118 points by bmease on Sept 23, 2016 | 42 comments
28. Y Combinator W17 Blank Application (docs.google.com)
68 points by markocalvocruz on Sept 23, 2016 | 25 comments
29. Poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers (nature.com)
118 points by smb06 on Sept 23, 2016 | 106 comments
30. Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses (theregister.co.uk)
195 points by jazzyb on Sept 23, 2016 | 116 comments

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