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1. Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL (theregister.co.uk)
1144 points by janvdberg on Jan 5, 2016 | 99 comments
2. Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern (reddit.com)
666 points by yurisagalov on Jan 5, 2016 | 145 comments
3. Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app (ftc.gov)
601 points by lpsz on Jan 5, 2016 | 251 comments
4. Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal? (scientificamerican.com)
400 points by NN88 on Jan 5, 2016 | 259 comments
5. Magic+ (getmagicnow.com)
687 points by calvin_c on Jan 5, 2016 | 462 comments
6. The Disappearance of Self in Japan (huffingtonpost.com)
186 points by wallflower on Jan 5, 2016 | 137 comments
7. The unsung heroes of scientific software (nature.com)
151 points by bootload on Jan 5, 2016 | 73 comments
8. Dell Computers Has Been Hacked (10zenmonkeys.com)
537 points by MilnerRoute on Jan 5, 2016 | 209 comments
9. Kodak resurrects Super 8 (kodak.com)
278 points by tarp on Jan 5, 2016 | 198 comments
10. On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture (tonyarcieri.com)
195 points by bascule on Jan 5, 2016 | 63 comments
11. Facebook and its news feed algorithm (slate.com)
123 points by piyushmakhija on Jan 4, 2016 | 86 comments
12. Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets (recode.net)
247 points by _kcn8 on Jan 5, 2016 | 297 comments
13. Android++, native development and debugging for Visual Studio, now open-source (github.com/webbju)
124 points by webbju on Jan 5, 2016 | 37 comments
14. Monads to Machine Code (Part 1) (stephendiehl.com)
151 points by primodemus on Jan 5, 2016 | 12 comments
15. Feeding data to 1000 CPUs – comparison of S3, Google, Azure storage (zachbjornson.com)
216 points by ranrub on Jan 5, 2016 | 72 comments
16. Working fewer hours would make us more productive (theguardian.com)
312 points by cpeterso on Jan 5, 2016 | 242 comments
17. Dick Smith Is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time (foragerfunds.com)
371 points by bootload on Jan 5, 2016 | 151 comments
18. Angular 2 versus React (medium.com/housecor)
424 points by ihsw on Jan 4, 2016 | 243 comments
19. Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor (gobby.github.io)
89 points by vmorgulis on Jan 4, 2016 | 43 comments
20. BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar (github.com/matryer)
385 points by trueduke on Jan 4, 2016 | 64 comments
21. Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow (wi-fi.org)
155 points by daegloe on Jan 4, 2016 | 79 comments
22. Steam Sales 2015 (medium.com/steam-spy)
192 points by kelukelugames on Jan 4, 2016 | 88 comments
23. GNU Radio Tools for Radio Wrangling and Spectrum Domination [video] (youtube.com)
97 points by fitzwatermellow on Jan 5, 2016 | 22 comments
24. Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Health Insurance (nytimes.com)
162 points by e15ctr0n on Jan 4, 2016 | 369 comments
25. Show HN: CommuteKit: 120+ Digital Tools for a More Positive Commute (commutekit.com)
53 points by michaelsitver on Jan 5, 2016 | 20 comments
26. How to submit an app to Apple’s App Store when it uses encryption (carouselapps.com)
201 points by pupeno on Jan 4, 2016 | 116 comments
27. Bret Victor's Bookshelf (worrydream.com)
182 points by jarmitage on Jan 5, 2016 | 81 comments
28. Procedural cities from the Mandalay fractal (creativeapplications.net)
155 points by mdlincoln on Jan 5, 2016 | 16 comments
29. Aseprite: cross-platform, open source sprite and pixel art tool (aseprite.org)
188 points by tony on Jan 4, 2016 | 22 comments
30. 100 Days of Swift (samvlu.com)
118 points by awaxman11 on Jan 4, 2016 | 23 comments

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