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1. Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol (whispersystems.org)
633 points by mayneack on July 8, 2016 | 295 comments
2. Corrode: C to Rust translator written in Haskell (github.com/jameysharp)
387 points by adamnemecek on July 8, 2016 | 122 comments
3. Chasing Cats (frontier.com)
302 points by TheGuyWhoCodes on July 8, 2016 | 89 comments
4. How Trees Calm Us Down (newyorker.com)
345 points by Vigier on July 8, 2016 | 92 comments
5. Symantec's Bad Week (appcanary.com)
182 points by ontoillogical on July 8, 2016 | 67 comments
6. Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America (citylab.com)
232 points by thebent on July 8, 2016 | 141 comments
7. U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years (wsj.com)
418 points by kevinnk on July 8, 2016 | 269 comments
8. Venezuela Refuses to Default, and Few People Seem to Understand Why (bloomberg.com)
194 points by wallflower on July 8, 2016 | 139 comments
9. Securing a travel iPhone (filippo.io)
216 points by jsudhams on July 8, 2016 | 108 comments
10. The History of the URL: Domain, Protocol, and Port (eager.io)
185 points by zackbloom on July 8, 2016 | 35 comments
11. Thrussh: Portable SSH client and server library in Rust (pijul.org)
135 points by 0xmohit on July 8, 2016 | 62 comments
12. Reverse Debugging for Python (morepypy.blogspot.com)
169 points by scribu on July 8, 2016 | 53 comments
13. Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language (tadeuzagallo.com)
164 points by milen on July 8, 2016 | 49 comments
14. Amazon software engineer interview (sobit.me)
241 points by sobit on July 8, 2016 | 180 comments
15. Datastructures for external memory (omega-prime.co.uk)
98 points by nimish on July 8, 2016 | 8 comments
16. Release of IPython 5.0 (jupyter.org)
334 points by trymas on July 8, 2016 | 103 comments
17. MLton with Realtime GC and Threading Features (github.com/ubmltongroup)
127 points by eatonphil on July 8, 2016 | 36 comments
18. Jailbreaking the Microsoft Fitness Band (b0n0n.com)
94 points by moyix on July 8, 2016 | 21 comments
19. Show HN: The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure module (sc4.us)
137 points by lisper on July 8, 2016 | 61 comments
20. In a Remote Part of Utah, Life Alone in a Hangar (2012) (nytimes.com)
133 points by cpncrunch on July 8, 2016 | 39 comments
21. Show HN: Free and open source page builder for WordPress (gettailor.com)
202 points by andrewworsfold on July 8, 2016 | 62 comments
22. Never a Hippie, Always a Freak (nplusonemag.com)
124 points by tintinnabula on July 8, 2016 | 12 comments
23. The Fallacy of Seeing Patterns (clevertap.com)
76 points by techchick85 on July 8, 2016 | 35 comments
24. A Meta-Analysis of Blood Glucose Effects on Human Decision Making (2015) [pdf] (gwern.net)
92 points by gwern on July 8, 2016 | 18 comments
25. Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Swedish Lottery Players (oxfordjournals.org)
66 points by gwern on July 8, 2016 | 40 comments
26. Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards (medium.com/cameronmoll)
296 points by uptown on July 8, 2016 | 251 comments
27. References for “The Future of Programming” (worrydream.com)
99 points by edwintorok on July 7, 2016 | 26 comments
28. CMU 15-721 (Spring 2016) Database Systems (cmu.edu)
125 points by snaga on July 8, 2016 | 28 comments
29. A developer's journey to create 100 games in five years (gamasutra.com)
83 points by Impossible on July 7, 2016 | 30 comments
30. Native reactive spreadsheet in 17 LOC (red-lang.org)
152 points by makmanalp on July 7, 2016 | 61 comments

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