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1. I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 (porta.codes)
965 points by jonathanporta on July 30, 2015 | 574 comments
2. Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control (blog.mozilla.org)
497 points by ndesaulniers on July 30, 2015 | 290 comments
3. Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Francisco (42floors.com)
310 points by jtbed on July 30, 2015 | 290 comments
4. Preferred number (wikipedia.org)
272 points by twic on July 30, 2015 | 40 comments
5. The story of .io (citizen-ex.com)
296 points by ingve on July 30, 2015 | 75 comments
6. Tor Exit Nodes in Libraries – Pilot (torproject.org)
215 points by briansmith on July 30, 2015 | 58 comments
7. Face swapping with Python, dlib, and OpenCV (matthewearl.github.io)
296 points by bemmu on July 30, 2015 | 95 comments
8. Encryptr – Free, open-source password manager and e-wallet (encryptr.org)
145 points by escapologybb on July 30, 2015 | 75 comments
9. Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest computer (bbc.co.uk)
163 points by m-i-l on July 30, 2015 | 174 comments
10. Decentralization for the web (lwn.net)
177 points by psiconaut on July 30, 2015 | 41 comments
11. MIRI's Approach – Machine Intelligence Research Institute (intelligence.org)
113 points by deegles on July 29, 2015 | 75 comments
12. Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't change (paul.reviews)
191 points by walterbell on July 30, 2015 | 96 comments
13. DynaFlash: High-speed 8-bit image projector at 1,000fps with 3ms delay [video] (youtube.com)
176 points by dhotson on July 30, 2015 | 11 comments
14. Nasty Truths About U.S. Fintech (venturebeat.com)
131 points by rumayor on July 30, 2015 | 87 comments
15. RobotJS – Node.js Desktop Automation (github.com/octalmage)
198 points by octalmage on July 30, 2015 | 59 comments
16. Facebook completes construction of first full-scale aircraft, Aquila [video] (facebook.com)
176 points by rasmi on July 30, 2015 | 108 comments
17. Let’s learn Erlang and fix a bug on a CouchDB Cluster (robert-kowalski.de)
105 points by signa11 on July 30, 2015 | 18 comments
18. Why the fear over ubiquitous data encryption is overblown (washingtonpost.com)
106 points by ryanmonroe on July 30, 2015 | 43 comments
19. A Brief Introduction to Ice-Penetrating Radar (lindzey.github.io)
79 points by DalekBaldwin on July 30, 2015 | 16 comments
20. World's first white laser (asu.edu)
116 points by ChuckMcM on July 30, 2015 | 37 comments
21. TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library (taucharts.com)
104 points by infinite8s on July 30, 2015 | 39 comments
22. My Life as an Autistic Wikipedian (guillaumepaumier.com)
190 points by edward on July 30, 2015 | 148 comments
23. Visualizing GoogLeNet Classes (auduno.com)
68 points by mmastrac on July 29, 2015 | 9 comments
24. Listen to Wikipedia (hatnote.com)
140 points by jmduke on July 30, 2015 | 63 comments
25. Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Google’s Datacenter Network [pdf] (sigcomm.org)
97 points by packetslave on July 30, 2015 | 17 comments
26. The adblocking revolution is months away (theoverspill.wordpress.com)
253 points by r0h1n on July 30, 2015 | 350 comments
27. Theo de Raadt on Plan 9 licensing (2003) (groups.google.com)
78 points by vezzy-fnord on July 30, 2015 | 49 comments
28. Ironclad (YC S15) Is an Automated Legal Assistant for Companies (techcrunch.com)
95 points by kevin on July 30, 2015 | 53 comments
29. Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox on OS X (getbatterybox.com)
156 points by timsher on July 30, 2015 | 108 comments
30. Show HN: Cloudron – Get Your Own Cloud (cloudron.io)
64 points by nebulon on July 30, 2015 | 39 comments

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