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1. The lost letters of the English alphabet (omgfacts.com)
526 points by 2dvisio on Jan 16, 2017 | 195 comments
2. Stealing passwords from McDonald's users (finnwea.com)
544 points by chx on Jan 16, 2017 | 164 comments
3. Gene Cernan has died (nasa.gov)
409 points by cletusw on Jan 16, 2017 | 172 comments
4. A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France (lafrenchtech.com)
625 points by tbassetto on Jan 16, 2017 | 712 comments
5. Easy XMPP: What are we doing here? (jabber.org)
378 points by psiconaut on Jan 16, 2017 | 165 comments
6. Dovecot audit complete (wiki.mozilla.org)
303 points by richardboegli on Jan 15, 2017 | 80 comments
7. An Explainer on Unix’s Most Notorious Code Comment (thenewstack.io)
173 points by inopinatus on Jan 15, 2017 | 31 comments
8. Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon (theregister.co.uk)
363 points by chris-at on Jan 16, 2017 | 125 comments
9. Established education providers v new contenders (economist.com)
140 points by dhruvp on Jan 16, 2017 | 53 comments
10. The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed (umontreal.ca)
191 points by baalcat on Jan 16, 2017 | 71 comments
11. Modern Tech inside an Amish Horse-Drawn Buggy (caranddriver.com)
191 points by justanman on Jan 16, 2017 | 107 comments
12. China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network (economist.com)
257 points by sohkamyung on Jan 16, 2017 | 241 comments
13. Exposing Digital Photography (2015) (digitalphotography.exposed)
232 points by itsyogesh on Jan 16, 2017 | 40 comments
14. SrsLTE: Open Source 3GPP LTE Library (github.com/srslte)
146 points by BuuQu9hu on Jan 16, 2017 | 15 comments
15. Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views (astronaut.io)
429 points by KeatonDunsford on Jan 16, 2017 | 136 comments
16. WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy (github.com/jlantunez)
188 points by RealGeek on Jan 16, 2017 | 65 comments
17. 2017 Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography (linkedin.com)
141 points by ergot on Jan 16, 2017 | 30 comments
18. How many animals can one find in a random image? (wolfram.com)
116 points by soofy on Jan 15, 2017 | 27 comments
19. Git-quick-stats – A simple and efficient way to access various statistics (github.com/arzzen)
112 points by arzzen on Jan 16, 2017 | 18 comments
20. AI Pioneer Wants to Build the Renaissance Machine of the Future (bloomberg.com)
105 points by andreshb on Jan 16, 2017 | 28 comments
21. Show HN: JSON Browse – Fetch, filter and manipulate your JSON inside the browser (jsonbrowse.com)
138 points by jorde on Jan 16, 2017 | 26 comments
22. The importance of neutral null for understanding evolution (nih.gov)
95 points by jonathansizz on Jan 16, 2017 | 32 comments
23. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway (blog.csiro.au)
126 points by dgtlmoon on Jan 16, 2017 | 49 comments
24. Re-Frame: a Reagent Framework for Writing SPAs, in ClojureScript (github.com/day8)
146 points by jdnier on Jan 16, 2017 | 30 comments
25. President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016 (arcgis.com)
91 points by espek07 on Jan 16, 2017 | 90 comments
26. We Reverse Engineered 16K Apps (hackernoon.com)
154 points by r721 on Jan 16, 2017 | 45 comments
27. Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 out now (raspberrypi.org)
207 points by rbanffy on Jan 16, 2017 | 100 comments
28. Physicists taking jobs as Silicon Valley software engineers (wired.com)
200 points by electic on Jan 16, 2017 | 173 comments
29. Wide Impact: Highly Effective Gmail Phishing Technique Being Exploited (wordfence.com)
130 points by aburan28 on Jan 16, 2017 | 46 comments
30. Coroutine iters in Common Lisp (vicsydev.blogspot.com)
59 points by codr4life on Jan 15, 2017 | 15 comments

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