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1. ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no verification (zaibatsutel.net)
762 points by Kubuxu on June 5, 2016 | 196 comments
2. GNU Taler 0.0.0 released (lists.gnu.org)
276 points by Prygan on June 5, 2016 | 187 comments
3. Anypixel.js (googlecreativelab.github.io)
287 points by afshinmeh on June 4, 2016 | 35 comments
4. Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal (vice.com)
342 points by aburan28 on June 4, 2016 | 75 comments
5. Fraudulent Advertising on Facebook (medium.com/hunchly)
308 points by bennettfeely on June 5, 2016 | 97 comments
6. Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters (swissinfo.ch)
410 points by marcelsalathe on June 5, 2016 | 568 comments
7. DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (bigmessowires.com)
289 points by zdw on June 5, 2016 | 64 comments
8. Headless Chrome is coming soon (twitter.com/samccone)
293 points by AnbeSivam on June 5, 2016 | 45 comments
9. Judge sends two to prison for 7 years for H-1B fraud (computerworld.com)
222 points by us0r on June 5, 2016 | 191 comments
10. What is the difference between deep learning and usual machine learning? (github.com/rasbt)
228 points by hunglee2 on June 5, 2016 | 124 comments
11. Vvvv – a live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development (vvvv.org)
187 points by talles on June 5, 2016 | 36 comments
12. I Was Wrong About TypeScript (triplet.fi)
283 points by Tx3 on June 5, 2016 | 192 comments
13. Study: To Beat Loneliness, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual (wsj.com)
172 points by petethomas on June 5, 2016 | 78 comments
14. How cancer was created by evolution (bbc.com)
132 points by lookupmobile on June 5, 2016 | 88 comments
15. Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy [video] (youtube.com)
168 points by jahan on June 5, 2016 | 99 comments
16. Kevin Kelly on Soft Singularity and Inevitable Tech Advances (newsweek.com)
43 points by t23 on June 4, 2016 | 7 comments
17. Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident (wikipedia.org)
103 points by marvindanig on June 5, 2016 | 25 comments
18. NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and Driver Kit (1995) (nextop.de)
120 points by pjmlp on June 5, 2016 | 78 comments
19. RCP 11 – Stream data type proposal for Redis (github.com/redis)
125 points by neo2001 on June 5, 2016 | 16 comments
20. Duskers is spooky space exploration with a command console (arstechnica.com)
66 points by daenney on June 4, 2016 | 6 comments
21. Building Problem Solvers (1993) (northwestern.edu)
71 points by callmekit on June 5, 2016 | 4 comments
22. Make your own tagging system from scratch (kequc.com)
77 points by Kequc on June 5, 2016 | 14 comments
23. 8-bit computer from scratch (ciernioo.wordpress.com)
94 points by danielam on June 4, 2016 | 19 comments
24. Spacecraft Multicore Emulator Based on Leon 3 Sparc V8 Architecture Processor (github.com/kmonahopoulos)
30 points by monakons on June 4, 2016 | 1 comment
25. Mean of two floating point numbers can be dangerous (honzabrabec.cz)
79 points by Scea91 on June 5, 2016 | 45 comments
26. TeamViewer users are being hacked in bulk, and we still don’t know how (arstechnica.co.uk)
187 points by edward on June 5, 2016 | 52 comments
27. To approximate 52! by hand, compute 54! and divide by 3000 (solipsys.co.uk)
171 points by ColinWright on June 5, 2016 | 45 comments
28. Exploiting Misuse of Python's “Pickle” (nelhage.com)
61 points by jahan on June 5, 2016 | 34 comments
29. Show HN: Hash Archive helps you verify the hashes of insecure downloads (hash-archive.org)
52 points by btrask on June 5, 2016 | 20 comments
30. Is your smartphone listening to you? (bbc.co.uk)
130 points by CarolineW on June 5, 2016 | 119 comments

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