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1. Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot (github.com/marcan)
515 points by tambourine_man on Feb 11, 2017 | 75 comments
2. Microsoft Allowed to Sue U.S. Government Over E-mail Surveillance (bloomberg.com)
348 points by pcs on Feb 11, 2017 | 37 comments
3. Double life as a KGB agent (theguardian.com)
286 points by whitenoice on Feb 11, 2017 | 75 comments
4. Four Kinds of Dystopia (expressiveegg.org)
272 points by penfold on Feb 11, 2017 | 116 comments
5. Designing a Business Card in LaTeX (olivierpieters.be)
363 points by opieters on Feb 11, 2017 | 219 comments
6. Postmortem of database outage of January 31 (about.gitlab.com)
377 points by mbrain on Feb 10, 2017 | 257 comments
7. Show HN: Beehive – An open source IFTTT powered by Go's templating engine (github.com/muesli)
247 points by mueslix on Feb 11, 2017 | 44 comments
8. Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle (arstechnica.com)
281 points by nkurz on Feb 11, 2017 | 320 comments
9. Software Engineering at Google (arxiv.org)
442 points by asnt on Feb 10, 2017 | 156 comments
10. Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future (nextplatform.com)
149 points by Katydid on Feb 11, 2017 | 52 comments
11. The Wall Street Journal to Close Google Loophole Entirely (digiday.com)
263 points by sornars on Feb 11, 2017 | 324 comments
12. A glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth (wired.com)
277 points by varunvkrishnan on Feb 11, 2017 | 143 comments
13. Ellie – An Elm Live Editor (humblespark.com)
224 points by bpierre on Feb 10, 2017 | 84 comments
14. ISRO to launch record 104 satellites on Feb 15 (kaumudi.com)
144 points by option_greek on Feb 11, 2017 | 38 comments
15. Posix Has Become Outdated (2016) [pdf] (columbia.edu)
251 points by pjmlp on Feb 11, 2017 | 237 comments
16. List of Quantum Computing Simulators (quantiki.org)
76 points by mindcrime on Feb 11, 2017 | 14 comments
17. Fuzzing PCI express: security in plaintext (googleblog.com)
161 points by wyldfire on Feb 10, 2017 | 19 comments
18. Analysis of Soviet smoke detector plutonium (carlwillis.wordpress.com)
169 points by cc_ on Feb 10, 2017 | 34 comments
19. Basic Security Precautions for Non-Profits and Journalists (techsolidarity.org)
195 points by idlewords on Feb 11, 2017 | 174 comments
20. [dupe] The Essence of Linear Algebra [video] (youtube.com)
440 points by espeed on Feb 11, 2017 | 41 comments
21. Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here (dylanmckay.io)
178 points by mmastrac on Feb 11, 2017 | 122 comments
22. Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe? (wisc.edu)
204 points by quakeguy on Feb 11, 2017 | 175 comments
23. Signal-cli: command-line and dbus interface to Signal (github.com/asamk)
120 points by ivank on Feb 11, 2017 | 25 comments
24. Blockchain data storage startup Storj recieves $100k grant funding (econotimes.com)
67 points by pcs on Feb 11, 2017 | 27 comments
25. Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font (typenetwork.com)
64 points by davelab6 on Feb 10, 2017 | 19 comments
26. Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers (californiasunday.com)
159 points by edward on Feb 11, 2017 | 201 comments
27. Step-by-step development of a Scheme-to-x86 compiler (github.com/namin)
108 points by akkartik on Feb 11, 2017
28. Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper (nhregister.com)
222 points by daegloe on Feb 11, 2017 | 136 comments
29. Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse (arstechnica.com)
164 points by blatherard on Feb 11, 2017 | 126 comments
30. Show HN: Easy to understand intro to Python (github.com/thewhitetulip)
82 points by thewhitetulip on Feb 11, 2017 | 33 comments

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