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1. San Bernardino County tweets it reset attacker iCloud password at FBI's request (sbsun.com)
381 points by randomname2 on Feb 20, 2016 | 170 comments
2. 555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC (righto.com)
318 points by dezgeg on Feb 20, 2016 | 59 comments
3. Umberto Eco has died (bbc.com)
546 points by kawera on Feb 20, 2016 | 126 comments
4. Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case (twitter.com/snowden)
643 points by Karunamon on Feb 20, 2016 | 209 comments
5. Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt (tacticalsecret.com)
305 points by tdurden on Feb 20, 2016 | 94 comments
6. Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online (hyperallergic.com)
336 points by jetskindo on Feb 20, 2016 | 84 comments
7. The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem (zerotier.com)
323 points by LukeLambert on Feb 19, 2016 | 196 comments
8. Google Lowered Taxes by $2.4B Using European Subsidiaries (bloomberg.com)
146 points by kungfudoi on Feb 20, 2016 | 249 comments
9. LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks (librivox.org)
179 points by pmoriarty on Feb 20, 2016 | 37 comments
10. Judge Rules FBI Must Reveal Malware It Used to Hack Over 1,000 Computers (vice.com)
234 points by 56k on Feb 20, 2016 | 77 comments
11. The Joy and Agony of Haskell in Production (stephendiehl.com)
324 points by stefans on Feb 20, 2016 | 92 comments
12. Scala's Option monad versus null-conditional operator in C# (codewithstyle.info)
87 points by miloszpp on Feb 20, 2016 | 50 comments
13. Cheap BlueTooth Buttons and Linux (shkspr.mobi)
113 points by edent on Feb 20, 2016 | 29 comments
14. A bot has successfully appealed $3M worth of parking tickets in the UK (businessinsider.com)
225 points by dpflan on Feb 20, 2016 | 97 comments
15. Unicode in SML (blogful.me)
50 points by eatonphil on Feb 20, 2016 | 25 comments
16. Why I want Concepts, sooner rather than later (isocpp.org)
61 points by vmorgulis on Feb 20, 2016 | 30 comments
17. ARM Mbed IoT Device Platform (mbed.com)
51 points by fitzwatermellow on Feb 20, 2016 | 27 comments
18. Hacking Infix Operators into Python with Decorators (tomerfiliba.com)
76 points by jez on Feb 20, 2016 | 12 comments
19. The forbidden railway: Vienna – Pyongyang (2008) (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com)
155 points by pantalaimon on Feb 20, 2016 | 29 comments
20. A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case (eff.org)
176 points by blubg on Feb 20, 2016 | 50 comments
21. Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong (nautil.us)
111 points by dnetesn on Feb 20, 2016 | 26 comments
22. PlatformIO: Next-generation IDE for IoT (platformio.org)
83 points by ikravets on Feb 19, 2016 | 38 comments
23. Volvo recalls 59,000 cars over software fault (bbc.com)
64 points by temp on Feb 20, 2016 | 65 comments
24. GitHub lock-in? (agateau.com)
138 points by g1n016399 on Feb 20, 2016 | 100 comments
25. How the feds took down FIFA (go.com)
77 points by wglb on Feb 20, 2016 | 25 comments
26. Colma, Calif., Is a Town of 2.2 Square Miles, Most of It 6 Feet Deep (2006) (nytimes.com)
56 points by apsec112 on Feb 20, 2016 | 37 comments
27. WINE 1.9.4 Released (winehq.org)
172 points by ekianjo on Feb 20, 2016 | 118 comments
28. What sparked the Cambrian explosion? (nature.com)
97 points by japaget on Feb 20, 2016 | 21 comments
29. Terrorist’s Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody, Blocking Access (buzzfeed.com)
156 points by hanapbuhay on Feb 19, 2016 | 54 comments
30. A Skeleton Key of Unknown Strength (CVE-2015-7547) (dankaminsky.com)
115 points by cookiecaper on Feb 20, 2016 | 37 comments

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