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1. ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway (arstechnica.com)
280 points by lisper on Nov 7, 2015 | 219 comments
2. Lost at sea: a man who vanished for 14 months (theguardian.com)
244 points by angadsg on Nov 7, 2015 | 59 comments
3. Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (1994) (nytimes.com)
85 points by sjcsjc on Nov 7, 2015 | 21 comments
4. How to blink a light in 10 different programming languages (mcconn.xyz)
94 points by mcconnma on Nov 7, 2015 | 48 comments
5. Why I Quit Ordering from Uber-For-Food Startups (theatlantic.com)
243 points by lxm on Nov 7, 2015 | 186 comments
6. FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client (eff.org)
142 points by DiabloD3 on Nov 8, 2015 | 57 comments
7. The category design pattern (haskellforall.com)
246 points by _zhqs on Nov 8, 2015 | 156 comments
8. Scm_breeze – enhancing your Git CLI workflow (github.com/ndbroadbent)
78 points by pelim on Nov 8, 2015 | 28 comments
9. The future of the postdoc (nature.com)
69 points by DrScump on Nov 6, 2015 | 62 comments
10. Netpbm format (wikipedia.org)
29 points by networked on Nov 7, 2015 | 23 comments
11. Chronos Will Turn Any Watch into a Smartwatch (bloomberg.com)
183 points by lxm on Nov 8, 2015 | 73 comments
12. Google services set for 'return' to China (bbc.com)
53 points by tellarin on Nov 8, 2015 | 49 comments
13. PostgreSQL Locking Revealed (nordeus.com)
169 points by seaghost on Nov 8, 2015 | 23 comments
14. Operating the Lisp Machine (1981) [pdf] (uni-stuttgart.de)
116 points by vezzy-fnord on Nov 8, 2015 | 41 comments
15. System automatically converts 2-D video to 3-D (csail.mit.edu)
69 points by DanBC on Nov 8, 2015 | 12 comments
16. In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’ (nytimes.com)
119 points by yesplorer on Nov 8, 2015 | 65 comments
17. On the Existential Beauty of Peanuts (vanityfair.com)
72 points by dnetesn on Nov 8, 2015 | 12 comments
18. Mysterious billion-dollar car company is taking on Tesla (nypost.com)
108 points by Jerry2 on Nov 6, 2015 | 85 comments
19. Cello High Level C: A Fat Pointer Library (libcello.org)
97 points by nkurz on Nov 7, 2015 | 39 comments
20. Bayes Theorem and Naive Bayes (alexhwoods.com)
79 points by alexhwoods on Nov 8, 2015 | 19 comments
21. [dupe] What We Owe the MythBusters (nytimes.com)
146 points by mmastrac on Nov 8, 2015 | 46 comments
22. The Java Deserialization Bug (pastiche.org)
80 points by ingve on Nov 8, 2015 | 29 comments
23. Thomas Quick: The serial killer who wasn't (telegraph.co.uk)
95 points by DanBC on Nov 8, 2015 | 55 comments
24. Data Saved in Quartz Glass Might Last 300M Years (scientificamerican.com)
73 points by pmoriarty on Nov 8, 2015 | 32 comments
25. Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode (2013) (parkerhiggins.net)
69 points by mmastrac on Nov 8, 2015 | 17 comments
26. In 5 Minutes, He Lets the Blind See (nytimes.com)
105 points by laex on Nov 8, 2015 | 15 comments
27. Knowing when to finish and knowing where to start (danverbraganza.com)
31 points by nvader on Nov 8, 2015 | 6 comments
28. Made in Japan Ain't What It Was (bloombergview.com)
50 points by akg_67 on Nov 8, 2015 | 37 comments
29. Wax cylinder recordings digitized (ucsb.edu)
47 points by tintinnabula on Nov 8, 2015 | 12 comments
30. Dumb Cuneiform (dumbcuneiform.com)
62 points by tiziano88 on Nov 7, 2015 | 16 comments

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