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1. Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are (filippo.io)
836 points by FiloSottile on Aug 4, 2015 | 245 comments
2. Twitter Contest Winning as a Service (hscott.net)
578 points by zeckalpha on Aug 4, 2015 | 97 comments
3. A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers (firstround.com)
388 points by prawn on Aug 4, 2015 | 191 comments
4. Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack (github.com/servant-app)
375 points by ac360 on Aug 4, 2015 | 124 comments
5. My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers (firstlook.org)
309 points by aarkay on Aug 3, 2015 | 106 comments
6. How to get gmail.com banned (2011) (mailinator.blogspot.com)
327 points by makmanalp on Aug 4, 2015 | 60 comments
7. Federal Judge Strikes Down Idaho ‘Ag-Gag Law’ (shadowproof.com)
281 points by chesterfield on Aug 4, 2015 | 152 comments
8. German prosecutor sacked over Netzpolitik treason probe (bbc.com)
146 points by t23 on Aug 4, 2015 | 36 comments
9. Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
135 points by sonabinu on Aug 4, 2015 | 26 comments
10. Linus Torvalds did not commit this (github.com/amoffat)
301 points by daenz on Aug 4, 2015 | 184 comments
11. The Most Dangerous Code in the Web Browser (stefanheule.com)
138 points by ingve on Aug 3, 2015 | 64 comments
12. An Ex-Cop's War on Lie Detectors (bloomberg.com)
144 points by new1234567 on Aug 4, 2015 | 64 comments
13. The Internet Archive Wants to Digitize 40,000 VHS and Betamax Tapes (2014) (fastcompany.com)
99 points by edward on Aug 3, 2015 | 20 comments
14. A Eulogy for Objective-C (realm.io)
125 points by AlexeyBrin on Aug 4, 2015 | 75 comments
15. Inside the Goth Chicken: Black Bones, Black Muscle and a Black Heart (nautil.us)
102 points by dnetesn on Aug 4, 2015 | 38 comments
16. Cljs2go – A ClojureScript to Go compiler (github.com/hraberg)
98 points by networked on Aug 3, 2015 | 13 comments
17. How the Witcher 3’s economy was saved by polynomial least squares (arstechnica.com)
99 points by theandrewbailey on Aug 4, 2015 | 45 comments
18. Bertrand's Paradox (web.mit.edu)
82 points by jcr on Aug 4, 2015 | 61 comments
19. Physicists announce graphene’s latest cousin: stanene (nature.com)
93 points by rottyguy on Aug 4, 2015 | 26 comments
20. I am shutting down my bookstore in New Delhi (dailyo.in)
166 points by devnonymous on Aug 4, 2015 | 123 comments
21. Io.js v3.0.0 (github.com/nodejs)
159 points by antouank on Aug 4, 2015 | 49 comments
22. Matchstick to refund everyone's money (kickstarter.com)
105 points by ChuckMcM on Aug 3, 2015 | 99 comments
23. Organizing Files (2005) (onlamp.com)
69 points by ingve on Aug 3, 2015 | 16 comments
24. Announcing Apple IIgs System 6.0.2 (callapple.org)
71 points by rottyguy on Aug 4, 2015 | 34 comments
25. Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video] (youtube.com)
93 points by e12e on Aug 4, 2015 | 52 comments
26. EFF Tells Federal Appeals Court: Google Subpoena Threatens Online Speech (eff.org)
71 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 4, 2015 | 19 comments
27. Is Extended Random a Malicious NSA Plot? (sockpuppet.org)
157 points by pmh on Aug 4, 2015 | 51 comments
28. Dotfiles are your Digital Backpack (madewithtea.com)
77 points by jpzk on Aug 4, 2015 | 37 comments
29. Developing V8 with Guix (wingolog.org)
73 points by apaprocki on Aug 4, 2015 | 46 comments
30. Don't test with SQLite when you use Postgres in Production (robellard.com)
105 points by edofic on Aug 4, 2015 | 105 comments

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