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1. PayPal 2FA Bypass (henryhoggard.co.uk)
525 points by dm on Oct 23, 2016 | 137 comments
2. IPFS is the Distributed Web (ipfs.io)
404 points by jasikpark on Oct 23, 2016 | 280 comments
3. Hack the Kernel – Learn about operating systems online (ops-class.org)
611 points by krat0sprakhar on Oct 23, 2016 | 55 comments
4. Exposing high-end poker cheating devices (elie.net)
637 points by revicon on Oct 22, 2016 | 140 comments
5. HN comments are underrated (danluu.com)
733 points by ingve on Oct 23, 2016 | 359 comments
6. Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets (bloomberg.com)
392 points by perseusprime11 on Oct 23, 2016 | 268 comments
7. Probabilistic Programming (probabilistic-programming.org)
254 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Oct 23, 2016 | 51 comments
8. Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned (medium.com/baqend-blog)
271 points by DivineTraube on Oct 23, 2016 | 96 comments
9. The Best Way to Not Get Tenure (buffalo.edu)
349 points by panic on Oct 23, 2016 | 201 comments
10. The Clockwise/Spiral Rule of C declarations (c-faq.com)
225 points by xvirk on Oct 23, 2016 | 68 comments
11. Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Languages (dippl.org)
116 points by adamnemecek on Oct 23, 2016 | 4 comments
12. Hackers say Friday's massive DDoS attacks were just a dry run (cbc.ca)
201 points by cpncrunch on Oct 22, 2016 | 199 comments
13. How we built a Smart Office system based on Raspberry Pi (monterail.com)
200 points by dragonbonheur on Oct 23, 2016 | 63 comments
14. Cooperative Domain Name System (cornell.edu)
100 points by bowyakka on Oct 22, 2016 | 10 comments
15. How BitTorrent Works (alexkyte.me)
165 points by LForLambda on Oct 22, 2016 | 8 comments
16. Elon Musk SpaceX AMA (reddit.com)
299 points by baq on Oct 23, 2016 | 92 comments
17. Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again (blog.levit.be)
172 points by kodisha on Oct 23, 2016 | 42 comments
18. Why you should never use Upwork (medium.com/adshadlabs)
1175 points by shadlovesgrowth on Oct 23, 2016 | 264 comments
19. China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’ to rate everyone (washingtonpost.com)
204 points by walterbell on Oct 23, 2016 | 163 comments
20. The Open Steno Project (openstenoproject.org)
149 points by jonbaer on Oct 23, 2016 | 36 comments
21. Congressman calls for probe into Valeant’s pricing of lead poisoning drug (statnews.com)
69 points by rgejman on Oct 23, 2016 | 51 comments
22. The Sad State of HTML Email Input Fields and IDNs (grepular.com)
106 points by mike-cardwell on Oct 23, 2016 | 59 comments
23. Salisbury cathedral clock (wikipedia.org)
57 points by Vigier on Oct 21, 2016 | 22 comments
24. SIMD vs. SIMT vs. SMT: parallelism in NVIDIA GPUs (2011) (yosefk.com)
91 points by deafcalculus on Oct 23, 2016 | 7 comments
25. What would have happened if the Normans had lost the Battle of Hastings? (newstatesman.com)
82 points by benbreen on Oct 20, 2016 | 64 comments
26. Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips (newyorker.com)
36 points by tintinnabula on Oct 22, 2016 | 5 comments
27. Coding like Shakespeare: practical function naming conventions (rainsoft.io)
87 points by panzerdp on Oct 23, 2016 | 29 comments
28. Symmetric multi-processing, multi-threading and synchronisation explained (techtake.info)
74 points by kiyanwang on Oct 23, 2016 | 3 comments
29. Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in US (washingtonpost.com)
152 points by DanBC on Oct 23, 2016 | 87 comments
30. FPGA Acceleration by Dynamically-Loaded Hardware Libraries [pdf] (dtu.dk)
65 points by Katydid on Oct 23, 2016 | 20 comments

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