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1.Data Structure Visualizations (usfca.edu)
514 points by n008 on Dec 18, 2013 | 35 comments
2.Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire (antipope.org)
436 points by jagermo on Dec 18, 2013 | 402 comments
3.Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid (reuters.com)
380 points by joshfraser on Dec 18, 2013 | 131 comments
4.RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis (tau.ac.il)
344 points by longwave on Dec 18, 2013 | 95 comments
5.$200,000 to the first person to break Telegram (telegram.org)
342 points by helgidub on Dec 18, 2013 | 162 comments
6.A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation (disneyanimation.com)
310 points by fekberg on Dec 18, 2013 | 60 comments
7.oDesk to merge with Elance (odesk.com)
309 points by goblin89 on Dec 18, 2013 | 139 comments
8.Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning (washingtonpost.com)
301 points by clint on Dec 18, 2013 | 234 comments
9.Bitcoin Private Key Necromancy (pxdojo.net)
199 points by sillysaurus2 on Dec 18, 2013 | 96 comments
10.Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released (rubyonrails.org)
194 points by chancancode on Dec 18, 2013 | 57 comments

Brian from Coinbase here. Sorry for the delay on that - definitely not the customer experience we are striving for.

We should have things squared away for you by end of day.

Edit: your bitcoin credit has now been processed. It looks like as we were performing server upgrades last week a handful of jobs didn't run as normal. We should have certainly caught it and responded sooner so that was our fault. My deepest apologies for the delay and trouble on that. We've credited $50 worth of bitcoin to your account for the trouble, as a small way of saying thank you for bearing with us.

Edit2: we'll push through the bitcoin credit at today's price instead of the original buy price (which should be in your favor) since the mistake was on our part. Sorry again for the trouble!


Forget the difference in the exchange rates. Are you saying you have no system in place to monitor if transactions execute successfully? I'm not trying to be hyperbolic but that's really shocking for a company that is trying to play a role as a financial institution.
13.Unfolding The Box - CSS 3D Transforms in the Box Model (rupl.github.io)
157 points by wittyphrasehere on Dec 18, 2013 | 30 comments
14.Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology (al3x.net)
152 points by steveklabnik on Dec 18, 2013 | 181 comments
15.Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab (pnnl.gov)
141 points by nreece on Dec 18, 2013 | 126 comments

Cryptography Snake Oil Warning Sign #9: Cracking contests.

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html (1999)

17.Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map (nmap.org)
127 points by unix-junkie on Dec 18, 2013 | 27 comments
18.List of minimalist frameworks (github.com/neiesc)
126 points by neiesc on Dec 18, 2013 | 91 comments
19.Start-up NY: 100% Tax-Free for 10 Years? (startup-ny.com)
131 points by jbarrec on Dec 18, 2013 | 107 comments
20.Coinbase Crosses 650,000 Users (coinbase.com)
121 points by danielpal on Dec 18, 2013 | 118 comments
21.China bans new Bitcoin deposits (ft.com)
121 points by aronvox on Dec 18, 2013 | 121 comments
22.The Right Stuff: Breaking the PageSpeed Barrier with Bootstrap (appneta.com)
118 points by trjordan on Dec 18, 2013 | 33 comments
23.Sublime Text 3 Build 3059 (sublimetext.com)
117 points by dgavrilov on Dec 18, 2013 | 105 comments
24.‘Superbugs’ found breeding in sewage plants (rice.edu)
115 points by bra-ket on Dec 18, 2013 | 33 comments
25.The Birth of Standard Error (spinellis.gr)
105 points by aminkh on Dec 18, 2013 | 20 comments
26.Reverse Engineering a Furby (poppopret.org)
103 points by Moral_ on Dec 18, 2013 | 26 comments
27.Extreme Programming, a Reflection (8thlight.com)
99 points by joseph_cooney on Dec 18, 2013 | 66 comments
28.Why I create for the web (neave.com)
97 points by dgsiegel on Dec 18, 2013 | 29 comments
29.Netiquette (1995) (ietf.org)
96 points by heretoo on Dec 18, 2013 | 64 comments
30.PS4's LLVM-based Developer Toolchain [pdf] (llvm.org)
95 points by adamnemecek on Dec 18, 2013 | 19 comments

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