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121.

Zeroing buffers is insufficient (daemonology.net)

299 points by MartinodF on Sep 6, 2014 | 130 comments

122.

Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup (startupclass.samaltman.com)

297 points by bjenik on Sep 30, 2014 | 73 comments

123.

The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked (sourceforge.net)

293 points by jordhy on Sep 8, 2014 | 178 comments

124.

Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (engineering.heroku.com)

292 points by mononcqc on Sep 17, 2014 | 51 comments

125.

Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014 [video] (youtube.com)

291 points by ivank on Sep 20, 2014 | 49 comments

126.

Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court (vox.com)

290 points by mcfunley on Sep 12, 2014 | 98 comments

127.

CLion, the new C/C++ IDE from JetBrains (jetbrains.com)

289 points by broodbucket on Sep 8, 2014 | 146 comments

128.

Why a Dead Alkaline Battery Bounces [video] (youtube.com)

289 points by Walkman on Sep 5, 2014 | 51 comments

129.

Uber Drivers “Strike” and Switch to Lyft Over Fares and Conditions (buzzfeed.com)

287 points by smacktoward on Sep 12, 2014 | 187 comments

130.

My year with a distraction-free iPhone (medium.com)

286 points by wallflower on Sep 1, 2014 | 181 comments

131.

Al-Jazari (en.wikipedia.org)

286 points by kdavis on Sep 7, 2014 | 122 comments

132.

OpenGL in 2014 (tomdalling.com)

284 points by ingve on Sep 21, 2014 | 115 comments

133.

Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups (cloud.google.com)

280 points by fidotron on Sep 12, 2014 | 174 comments

134.

The curious case of the cyclist’s unshaven legs (theglobeandmail.com)

280 points by soundsop on Sep 9, 2014 | 80 comments

135.

Introducing split diffs (github.com)

280 points by dctrwatson on Sep 3, 2014 | 51 comments

136.

Writing a simple operating system from scratch (2010) [pdf] (cs.bham.ac.uk)

280 points by jwdunne on Sep 28, 2014 | 47 comments

137.

Volt: A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client (github.com)

279 points by senorgusto on Sep 15, 2014 | 60 comments

138.

Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests (apple.com)

278 points by declan on Sep 18, 2014 | 204 comments

139.

Clasp – A Common Lisp with LLVM back end and interoperation with C++ (drmeister.wordpress.com)

278 points by drmeister on Sep 25, 2014 | 74 comments

140.

How to zero a buffer (daemonology.net)

277 points by cperciva on Sep 4, 2014 | 208 comments

141.

Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices (hacks.mozilla.org)

277 points by rnyman on Sep 11, 2014 | 25 comments

142.

Cloud images that are recognized as human faces by a face-detection algorithm (ssbkyh.com)

276 points by jsvine on Sep 15, 2014 | 40 comments

143.

Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (2010) (azarask.in)

273 points by gkop on Sep 8, 2014 | 95 comments

144.

Swift Has Reached 1.0 (developer.apple.com)

272 points by mattquiros on Sep 10, 2014 | 169 comments

145.

LIVE NOW: Glenn Greenwald, Assange, and Kim Dot Com in NZ (kim.com)

271 points by vonklaus on Sep 15, 2014 | 146 comments

146.

Peter Thiel's Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I've Read (theatlantic.com)

271 points by markmassie on Sep 28, 2014 | 90 comments

147.

Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO (recode.net)

271 points by jhonovich on Sep 18, 2014 | 89 comments

148.

Modernizing “less” (garrett.damore.org)

271 points by zdw on Sep 7, 2014 | 89 comments

149.

Emacs Lisp's Future (lists.gnu.org)

269 points by rutenspitz on Sep 17, 2014 | 156 comments

150.

AWS issues unavoidable reboot schedules with short notice on many EC2 instances (forums.aws.amazon.com)

269 points by eknkc on Sep 24, 2014 | 152 comments