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1. YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video (youtube-eng.blogspot.com)
1035 points by derpenxyne on Jan 27, 2015 | 393 comments
2. CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow (openwall.com)
531 points by martius on Jan 27, 2015 | 241 comments
3. Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham (googleblog.blogspot.com)
486 points by twrkit on Jan 27, 2015 | 276 comments
4. U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars (wsj.com)
393 points by dctoedt on Jan 26, 2015 | 250 comments
5. Long term support considered harmful (tedunangst.com)
207 points by luu on Jan 27, 2015 | 148 comments
6. Source Code Similarities Between NSA Malware and 'Regin' Trojan (spiegel.de)
489 points by Libertatea on Jan 27, 2015 | 191 comments
7. Main is usually a function – when is it not? (jroweboy.github.io)
338 points by b0b_d0e on Jan 27, 2015 | 60 comments
8. Advancing the realtime web (rethinkdb.com)
222 points by coffeemug on Jan 27, 2015 | 48 comments
9. Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results (apple.com)
262 points by antr on Jan 27, 2015 | 358 comments
10. Luna – Hack your sleep (lunasleep.com)
347 points by maghis on Jan 27, 2015 | 151 comments
11. Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds (lwn.net)
190 points by meskio on Jan 26, 2015 | 33 comments
12. Chess game in 487 bytes – new record (pouet.net)
177 points by jamesbrownuhh on Jan 27, 2015 | 51 comments
13. Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends (vivaldi.com)
352 points by vetler on Jan 27, 2015 | 250 comments
14. From 0 to $1B – Slack's Founder Shares Their Launch Strategy (firstround.com)
255 points by zt on Jan 27, 2015 | 93 comments
15. Show HN: Ultra, a Leiningen plugin for a superior development environment (github.com/venantius)
144 points by venantius on Jan 27, 2015 | 18 comments
16. Facebook was down (facebook.com)
325 points by sgloutnikov on Jan 27, 2015 | 265 comments
17. Yahoo to Spin Off Its Stake in Alibaba (nytimes.com)
136 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 27, 2015 | 80 comments
18. That Didn’t Need to Take an Hour (feld.com)
176 points by mooreds on Jan 27, 2015 | 52 comments
19. Wake No More – The exhausting world of the hypersomniac (medium.com/matter)
159 points by interkats on Jan 26, 2015 | 29 comments
20. Lodash v3.0.0 (lodash.com)
245 points by gitspirit on Jan 27, 2015 | 79 comments
21. John Carmack's adolescent years (2003) (books.google.com)
144 points by danso on Jan 27, 2015 | 77 comments
22. The Fight to Save Japan’s Young Shut-Ins (wsj.com)
118 points by executive on Jan 26, 2015 | 76 comments
23. Valve Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Finance Minister of Greece (bloomberg.com)
272 points by Jacqued on Jan 27, 2015 | 157 comments
24. Visualizing AWS Storage with Real-Time Latency Spectrograms (sysdigcloud.com)
109 points by degio on Jan 27, 2015 | 16 comments
25. Elite's crazy tokenized string routine (xania.org)
88 points by luu on Jan 26, 2015 | 17 comments
26. COMSEC: Beyond Encryption [pdf] (grugq.github.io)
94 points by grugq on Jan 27, 2015 | 51 comments
27. Inside the Tragic, Obsessive World of Video Game Addicts (vice.com)
112 points by Thevet on Jan 27, 2015 | 73 comments
28. “Another World” Code Review (2011) (fabiensanglard.net)
81 points by StylifyYourBlog on Jan 27, 2015 | 13 comments
29. Immutability Changes Everything [pdf] (cidrdb.org)
90 points by jpmc on Jan 27, 2015 | 25 comments
30. Nvidia GeForce GTX 970: Correcting the Specs and Exploring Memory Allocation (anandtech.com)
88 points by wtallis on Jan 27, 2015 | 43 comments

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