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1.How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F (nytimes.com)
377 points by basisword on Oct 17, 2014 | 81 comments
2.A Raw Deal in Michigan (teslamotors.com)
347 points by lalwanivikas on Oct 17, 2014 | 194 comments
3.Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?
309 points by valevk on Oct 17, 2014 | 151 comments
4.Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People (tobyrush.com)
255 points by Tomte on Oct 17, 2014 | 120 comments
5.Vitesse Data: Postgres + LLVM (vitessedata.com)
257 points by yangyang on Oct 17, 2014 | 37 comments
6.Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple (fix-macosx.com)
244 points by teacup50 on Oct 17, 2014 | 134 comments
7.Arcadia: Unity 3D Development in Clojure (arcadia-unity.tumblr.com)
229 points by ramseynasser on Oct 17, 2014 | 32 comments
8.The FBI Is Wrong: Apple’s Encryption Is in the Public Interest (wired.com)
218 points by tchalla on Oct 17, 2014 | 101 comments
9.What Is Google Chrome Helper, and Why Is It Hogging My CPU Cycles? (wired.com)
197 points by dsr12 on Oct 17, 2014 | 78 comments
10.Twitpic blocking archive team from backing up pictures (twitter.com/textfiles)
189 points by Argorak on Oct 17, 2014 | 152 comments
11.The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo (correlatedcontents.com)
172 points by mikeleeorg on Oct 17, 2014 | 55 comments
12.Emacs 24.4 RC 1 (lists.gnu.org)
153 points by Xyzodiac on Oct 17, 2014 | 68 comments
13.Show HN: Sublime Text Book (sublimetextbook.com)
163 points by wesbos on Oct 17, 2014 | 100 comments
14.Privacy Router Anonabox Gets $600K in Crowdfunding and Huge Backlash (wired.com)
152 points by ghosh on Oct 17, 2014 | 88 comments
15.How Big is Email? (medium.com/raindrift)
134 points by raindrift on Oct 17, 2014 | 22 comments
16.Coanda Effect: Understanding Why Wings Work (karmak.org)
128 points by razzaj on Oct 17, 2014 | 57 comments
17.Material Design Icons (github.com/google)
127 points by ytzvan on Oct 17, 2014 | 32 comments
18.Some thoughts on asking for a raise (heidiroizen.tumblr.com)
115 points by whbk on Oct 17, 2014 | 90 comments
19.Rental America: Why the poor pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa (washingtonpost.com)
108 points by footpath on Oct 17, 2014 | 203 comments
20.Interview: Thomas Voß of Mir (linuxvoice.com)
105 points by mksaunders on Oct 17, 2014 | 85 comments
21.Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project for Misleading Funders (wired.com)
100 points by byoogle on Oct 17, 2014 | 45 comments

The state of things really does suck, and I'm trying to do something about it.

SSLMate [https://sslmate.com] sells SSL certs from the command line for $15.95/year. The sslmate command line tool takes care of properly generating the key and CSR, and properly assembling the certificate bundle containing the chain certificate. Certificates secure both example.com and www.example.com. No more hard-to-use websites or obscure openssl commands. I'm working on a config file generator too, so you'll be able to specify your server software and it will output a secure config for you.

And since the author mentioned out-of-process SSL termination, I'm also the author of titus [https://www.opsmate.com/titus/], an SSL terminator that is so paranoid it stores the private key in an isolated process (which would have been impervious to Heartbleed). It also solves the original IP address problem by using Linux's transparent proxy support - your web server sees the client's actual IP address even though the connection was proxied through titus.

23.BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list (bbc.com)
100 points by mineshaftgap on Oct 17, 2014 | 121 comments
24.Is This the Future of Robotic Legs? (smithsonianmag.com)
106 points by bane on Oct 17, 2014 | 14 comments
25.About My Yosemite Review (hypercritical.co)
90 points by zdw on Oct 17, 2014 | 32 comments
26.NASA, SpaceX Share Data on Supersonic Retropropulsion (aviationweek.com)
91 points by elektropionir on Oct 17, 2014 | 24 comments
27.Bilingual brains: Variety makes you mentally fit (economist.com)
98 points by anishkothari on Oct 17, 2014 | 52 comments
28.The Search for MH 370 (Inmarsat) (cambridge.org)
86 points by wglb on Oct 17, 2014 | 42 comments
29.My Last Day at PivotDesk (ktinboulder.com)
90 points by paulgerhardt on Oct 17, 2014 | 44 comments

Using a procedure that prevented legislators and the public at large from knowing what was happening or allowing debate, Senator Joe Hune added new language in an attempt to lock Tesla out of the State. Unsurprisingly, Senator Hune counts the Michigan Automobile Dealers Association as one of his top financial contributors, and his wife’s firm lobbies for the dealers.

In the Netherlands, we call this corruption.

(It happens too, but so openly? Don't you guys have rules against this? Or media who like scandals?)


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