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1. Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke (propublica.org)
2088 points by r0h1n on Feb 5, 2015 | 453 comments
2. YC for Hardware (blog.ycombinator.com)
445 points by sama on Feb 5, 2015 | 128 comments
3. Introducing node-firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
287 points by cleverjake on Feb 5, 2015 | 50 comments
4. Scala.js no longer experimental (scala-lang.org)
337 points by densh on Feb 5, 2015 | 131 comments
5. “Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber attack” (anthemfacts.com)
325 points by dev1n on Feb 5, 2015 | 197 comments
6. New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers (wired.com)
281 points by wycx on Feb 5, 2015 | 164 comments
7. Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell [pdf] (arxiv.org)
240 points by lelf on Feb 5, 2015 | 55 comments
8. Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving on Copyright Extension (eff.org)
250 points by CapitalistCartr on Feb 5, 2015 | 174 comments
9. The man who brought us the lithium-ion battery has an idea for a new one (qz.com)
229 points by mocy on Feb 5, 2015 | 86 comments
10. CPU Backdoors (danluu.com)
271 points by 2510c39011c5 on Feb 4, 2015 | 48 comments
11. An alloy of iron and aluminium is as good as titanium, at a tenth of the cost (economist.com)
258 points by RachelF on Feb 5, 2015 | 94 comments
12. I Visit Libraries to Sell Bitcoins to Random People from the Internet (vice.com)
195 points by danso on Feb 4, 2015 | 83 comments
13. Metaprogramming Elixir (pragprog.com)
207 points by kungfooguru on Feb 5, 2015 | 22 comments
14. New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more (ibm.com)
203 points by jsstylos on Feb 5, 2015 | 106 comments
15. Cards Against Humanity’s Private Island (cah.tumblr.com)
224 points by colinprince on Feb 5, 2015 | 49 comments
16. Photos Preview (apple.com)
181 points by antr on Feb 5, 2015 | 166 comments
17. Techies Who Are Homeschooling Their Kids (wired.com)
132 points by tokenadult on Feb 4, 2015 | 127 comments
18. Show HN: Pushpin – A new way to build realtime HTTP and WebSocket services (pushpin.org)
114 points by 650REDHAIR on Feb 5, 2015 | 29 comments
19. Straighter Teeth by Mail (nytimes.com)
106 points by scarmig on Feb 4, 2015 | 56 comments
20. How We Bought easypost.com (easypost.com)
107 points by jstreebin on Feb 4, 2015 | 34 comments
21. Why We Remember So Many Things Wrong (newyorker.com)
137 points by clarkm on Feb 5, 2015 | 20 comments
22. Life as a Product Design Intern at Khan Academy (elizabethylin.com)
105 points by elizabethylin on Feb 5, 2015 | 18 comments
23. AT&T previews lawsuit it plans to file against FCC (arstechnica.com)
99 points by Selfcommit on Feb 5, 2015 | 70 comments
24. How programs get run (lwn.net)
73 points by StylifyYourBlog on Feb 5, 2015 | 2 comments
25. Shellcheck: a static analysis tool for shell scripts (shellcheck.net)
102 points by pyotrgalois on Feb 5, 2015 | 46 comments
26. Twitter Reaches Deal to Show Tweets in Google Search Results (bloomberg.com)
85 points by knes on Feb 5, 2015 | 31 comments
27. UTF-9 and UTF-18 (wikipedia.org)
109 points by wglb on Feb 5, 2015 | 11 comments
28. Killing the Golden Goose? The changing nature of corporate research, 1980-2007 [pdf] (duke.edu)
54 points by cossatot on Feb 5, 2015 | 14 comments
29. Bigger data; same laptop (frankmcsherry.org)
80 points by mrry on Feb 5, 2015 | 38 comments
30. Chairman Wheeler Proposes New Rules for Protecting the Open Internet [pdf] (fcc.gov)
53 points by sinak on Feb 5, 2015 | 16 comments

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