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1. VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks (videolan.org)
1368 points by etix on Nov 17, 2015 | 705 comments
2. Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack (insidesources.com)
643 points by ColinWright on Nov 17, 2015 | 296 comments
3. Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement (plot.ly)
515 points by etpinard on Nov 17, 2015 | 70 comments
4. Introducing the new Google+ (googleblog.blogspot.com)
346 points by runesoerensen on Nov 17, 2015 | 287 comments
5. Postgres high-availability cluster with auto-failover and cluster recovery (github.com/nanopack)
215 points by tuyguntn on Nov 17, 2015 | 54 comments
6. What happened to Microsoft's Midori operating system project? (zdnet.com)
164 points by rbanffy on Nov 16, 2015 | 34 comments
7. The Trip Planners: The Unusual Couple Behind Erowid (newyorker.com)
153 points by Hooke on Nov 17, 2015 | 20 comments
8. How I Quit My Job and Built My First App (medium.com/life-learning)
172 points by uptown on Nov 16, 2015 | 79 comments
9. Writing an OS in Rust: Allocating Frames (phil-opp.com)
128 points by ingve on Nov 15, 2015 | 14 comments
10. Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.1 and SPIR-V 1.0 Specifications (khr.io)
67 points by 1ace on Nov 16, 2015 | 3 comments
11. Spinnaker: Global Continuous Delivery by Netflix (spinnaker.io)
104 points by kalehrishi on Nov 17, 2015 | 36 comments
12. Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns (technologyreview.com)
118 points by sprucely on Nov 12, 2015 | 22 comments
13. Google Open-Sourcing TensorFlow Shows AI's Future Is Data, Not Code (wired.com)
124 points by walterbell on Nov 16, 2015 | 47 comments
14. The War ISIS Wants (nybooks.com)
207 points by pmcpinto on Nov 17, 2015 | 214 comments
15. Tech entrepreneur, diversity advocate Hank Williams has died (usatoday.com)
82 points by loso on Nov 16, 2015 | 10 comments
16. The new kings of YouTube botting (dailydot.com)
89 points by nols on Nov 16, 2015 | 10 comments
17. U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks (theintercept.com)
269 points by garrettr_ on Nov 17, 2015 | 112 comments
18. The Discovery of Statistical Regression (priceonomics.com)
110 points by akg_67 on Nov 16, 2015 | 7 comments
19. Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips (toddwschneider.com)
140 points by lil_tee on Nov 17, 2015 | 24 comments
20. Golang on ARM (github.com/golang)
105 points by selvan on Nov 16, 2015 | 63 comments
21. Japan's economy falls back into recession (bbc.com)
93 points by zerotosixty on Nov 16, 2015 | 104 comments
22. In 1975, the USSR fired a cannon from an orbiting space station (popularmechanics.com)
107 points by devNoise on Nov 16, 2015 | 53 comments
23. Google Aims a $50M Moonshot at Curing Heart Disease (wired.com)
75 points by cryptoz on Nov 16, 2015 | 59 comments
24. Show HN: Real-Time Collaborative Watercolor Painting Using Twitch (instapainting.com)
109 points by chrischen on Nov 17, 2015 | 21 comments
25. Seemingly impossible functional programs (2007) (andrej.com)
81 points by espeed on Nov 16, 2015 | 17 comments
26. How Ancient Microbes Gave Us Iron (newyorker.com)
79 points by Amorymeltzer on Nov 17, 2015 | 15 comments
27. Google Pagespeed Test Fails Itself on Mobile (developers.google.com)
118 points by dates on Nov 17, 2015 | 29 comments
28. What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans (newyorker.com)
50 points by samclemens on Nov 16, 2015 | 16 comments
29. How Facebook's Safety Check Works (highscalability.com)
104 points by xasos on Nov 15, 2015 | 50 comments
30. Defense Claims Courthouse Was Illegally Bugged (therecorder.com)
171 points by morninj on Nov 17, 2015 | 100 comments

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