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1. Box Breathing (quietkit.com)
625 points by mkempe on Jan 28, 2017 | 127 comments
2. Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order (thehill.com)
664 points by anarazel on Jan 29, 2017 | 358 comments
3. Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled (chromium.org)
446 points by ivank on Jan 29, 2017 | 285 comments
4. New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code (sciencealert.com)
275 points by walterbell on Jan 29, 2017 | 145 comments
5. Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO (theverge.com)
685 points by _pius on Jan 29, 2017 | 348 comments
6. Houdini was an inventor, but didn't want anybody to know (smithsonianmag.com)
231 points by whatami on Jan 29, 2017 | 29 comments
7. Typing Practice for Programmers (speedcoder.net)
346 points by kryptos1 on Jan 29, 2017 | 166 comments
8. Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running computer (cpushack.com)
219 points by protomyth on Jan 29, 2017 | 123 comments
9. Ruby terminal apps toolkit (piotrmurach.github.io)
285 points by pmurach on Jan 28, 2017 | 50 comments
10. Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US (twitter.com/bchesky)
359 points by peapod91 on Jan 29, 2017 | 135 comments
11. The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity (newyorker.com)
250 points by mathgenius on Jan 29, 2017 | 114 comments
12. Comcast uses MITM JavaScript injection to serve account related information (privateinternetaccess.com)
219 points by Deinos on Jan 29, 2017 | 56 comments
13. Trunk-Based Development (trunkbaseddevelopment.com)
199 points by solarengineer on Jan 29, 2017 | 205 comments
14. Godot Game Engine – Tutorial Series (gamefromscratch.com)
193 points by generic_user on Jan 29, 2017 | 27 comments
15. How to Unlock Netflix Hidden Categories (thebrotalk.com)
213 points by joker87 on Jan 29, 2017 | 39 comments
16. SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition (slashdot.org)
211 points by MilnerRoute on Jan 29, 2017 | 72 comments
17. Does Not Work (importblogkit.com)
121 points by jjuhl on Jan 28, 2017 | 62 comments
18. Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms (thelocal.at)
288 points by lando2319 on Jan 29, 2017 | 108 comments
19. Free Range VHDL – VHDL programming book available for free (freerangefactory.org)
101 points by EvgeniyZh on Jan 29, 2017 | 52 comments
20. The Post-Snowden Cyber Arms Hustle (bloomberg.com)
125 points by pier0 on Jan 29, 2017 | 6 comments
21. Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change (oracle-base.com)
194 points by phonon on Jan 29, 2017 | 234 comments
22. Mcasm – A Microcode Assembler (bedroomlan.org)
84 points by jsnell on Jan 29, 2017 | 15 comments
23. How companies should treat their most enthusiastic customers (economist.com)
99 points by ad on Jan 29, 2017 | 16 comments
24. Microplastics found in supermarket fish, shellfish (cbc.ca)
183 points by rhschan on Jan 28, 2017 | 61 comments
25. PDP-10/its: Incompatible Timesharing System (github.com/pdp-10)
121 points by protomyth on Jan 29, 2017 | 50 comments
26. Speak IPA – Text to Speech for International Phonetic Alphabet (bearbin.net)
102 points by bearbin on Jan 29, 2017 | 40 comments
27. ClojureScript 1.9.456, Externs Inference and Comprehensive JavaScript Modules (groups.google.com)
166 points by tosh on Jan 29, 2017 | 16 comments
28. What Is the Oldest Computer Program Still in Use? (technologyreview.com)
138 points by amalantony06 on Jan 29, 2017 | 84 comments
29. Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing (numerical.recipes)
119 points by brudgers on Jan 29, 2017 | 50 comments
30. Designing for failure (lwn.net)
97 points by jsnell on Jan 29, 2017 | 7 comments

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