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1. EFF asks appeals court to “shut down the Eastern District of Texas” (arstechnica.com)
292 points by mmastrac on Oct 30, 2015 | 51 comments
2. A Way to Detect Bias (paulgraham.com)
282 points by bakztfuture on Oct 31, 2015 | 211 comments
3. Apple doesn’t allow Chaos Computer Club tvOS application (pastebin.com)
344 points by squarem on Oct 31, 2015 | 159 comments
4. GNU Hurd 0.7 has been released (gnu.org)
208 points by vezzy-fnord on Oct 31, 2015 | 111 comments
5. After guilty plea, judge confused why prosecutors still want iPhone unlocked (arstechnica.com)
149 points by Deinos on Oct 30, 2015 | 44 comments
6. CPython internals: Codewalk through the Python interpreter source code (2014) (pgbovine.net)
137 points by avinassh on Oct 31, 2015 | 16 comments
7. Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice (nytimes.com)
223 points by dnetesn on Oct 31, 2015 | 133 comments
8. Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings (julesjacobs.github.io)
162 points by striking on Oct 31, 2015 | 26 comments
9. Failed Architecture (failedarchitecture.com)
80 points by ingve on Oct 31, 2015 | 8 comments
10. Protopiper: Physically Sketching Room-Sized Objects at Actual Scale (hpi.de)
172 points by fisherjeff on Oct 31, 2015 | 16 comments
11. Fountain – A markup language for screenwriting (fountain.io)
147 points by ecopoesis on Oct 31, 2015 | 50 comments
12. Remote Mexican village uses solar power to purify water (news.mit.edu)
59 points by Oatseller on Oct 31, 2015 | 24 comments
13. Show HN: Blabr – Scientific Computing for the Web (blabr.io)
106 points by gballan on Oct 31, 2015 | 38 comments
14. Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for Fair Uses (eff.org)
76 points by walterbell on Oct 31, 2015 | 6 comments
15. New APA Policy Banning Psychologists from National Security Interrogations (apa.org)
105 points by mocookie on Oct 31, 2015 | 28 comments
16. Near-record strength El Niño still on track to bring a wet California winter (weatherwest.com)
56 points by apsec112 on Oct 31, 2015 | 16 comments
17. Kim Dotcom reveals more about his blockchain-inspired alternative Internet (mashable.com)
89 points by ascorbic on Oct 31, 2015 | 40 comments
18. Marvin Minsky Reflects on a Life in AI [video] (technologyreview.com)
56 points by adenadel on Oct 31, 2015 | 16 comments
19. Rikers Drove My Innocent Patient to Plead Guilty (politico.com)
170 points by de_Selby on Oct 31, 2015 | 105 comments
20. Microsoft Band 2.0 Review (arstechnica.com)
72 points by bootload on Oct 31, 2015 | 42 comments
21. Transmitting FM, AM, SSB, SSTV and FSQ with Just a Raspberry Pi (rtl-sdr.com)
109 points by irfan on Oct 31, 2015 | 23 comments
22. What I learned hanging out at the vascular surgery conference (2011) (petdance.wordpress.com)
62 points by gliese1337 on Oct 30, 2015 | 8 comments
23. Public XMPP Server Directory (xmpp.net)
48 points by tshtf on Oct 31, 2015 | 24 comments
24. Title II kills investment? Comcast and other ISPs are now spending more (arstechnica.com)
53 points by Deinos on Oct 31, 2015 | 22 comments
25. Lithium-air battery research shows potential paths to next-gen batteries (arstechnica.com)
58 points by superfx on Oct 31, 2015 | 22 comments
26. How many people are in jail based on faked data? (slate.com)
132 points by Amorymeltzer on Oct 31, 2015 | 33 comments
27. Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells (2012) (news.mit.edu)
37 points by espeed on Oct 31, 2015 | 2 comments
28. Matters – single observation-publishing scientific journal (sciencematters.io)
35 points by phreeza on Oct 31, 2015 | 7 comments
29. The Key of Hell: An Enlightenment Sorcery Manual (2014) (theappendix.net)
25 points by benbreen on Oct 30, 2015 | 5 comments
30. Witch Burnings in Papua New Guinea (huffingtonpost.com)
93 points by fahimulhaq on Oct 31, 2015 | 59 comments

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