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1. LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft (libretaxi.org)
1275 points by bpierre on Jan 31, 2017 | 382 comments
2. Welcome, ACLU (medium.com/ycombinator)
1558 points by katm on Jan 31, 2017 | 1030 comments
3. Open-sourcing Chrome on iOS (chromium.org)
550 points by coloneltcb on Jan 31, 2017 | 284 comments
4. How to start a startup without ruining your life (superhi.com)
511 points by Adamola on Jan 31, 2017 | 111 comments
5. Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign (techcrunch.com)
675 points by sethbannon on Jan 31, 2017 | 530 comments
6. Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy (blog.ycombinator.com)
443 points by craigcannon on Jan 31, 2017 | 391 comments
7. Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results (apple.com)
369 points by ucha on Jan 31, 2017 | 529 comments
8. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 (backblaze.com)
325 points by ingve on Jan 31, 2017 | 132 comments
9. CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square (developers.google.com)
477 points by ghosh on Jan 31, 2017 | 273 comments
10. Guided meditation for beginners (quietkit.com)
393 points by spaceboy on Jan 30, 2017 | 128 comments
11. Deniability and Duress (mit.edu)
382 points by johnhess on Jan 31, 2017 | 120 comments
12. Front-End Developer Handbook 2017 (gitbook.com)
459 points by blueatlas on Jan 31, 2017 | 137 comments
13. Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate (stanford.edu)
224 points by tma-1 on Jan 31, 2017 | 116 comments
14. The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films (atlasobscura.com)
255 points by prismatic on Jan 31, 2017 | 51 comments
15. New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $130K/yr (indiatimes.com)
537 points by mataug on Jan 31, 2017 | 463 comments
16. Secret docs reveal: an FBI with vast hidden powers (theintercept.com)
397 points by cylo on Jan 31, 2017 | 167 comments
17. Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement (dmitryzavyalov.livejournal.com)
412 points by speedy_go on Jan 30, 2017 | 207 comments
18. Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) (hypotheses.org)
211 points by pepys on Jan 31, 2017 | 197 comments
19. Htop Explained Visually (codeahoy.com)
346 points by signa11 on Jan 31, 2017 | 40 comments
20. AI Beats Four Top Poker Players (bbc.co.uk)
243 points by jeremyleach on Jan 31, 2017 | 220 comments
21. Show HN: Céu, Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming (ceu-lang.org)
107 points by fsantanna on Jan 30, 2017 | 46 comments
22. How Etsy Manages HTTPS and SSL Certificates for Custom Domains on Pattern (codeascraft.com)
182 points by detaro on Jan 31, 2017 | 22 comments
23. Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker (bbc.com)
188 points by t23 on Jan 30, 2017 | 206 comments
24. Kalman filters and functional programming (johndcook.com)
215 points by edwintorok on Jan 31, 2017 | 34 comments
25. NASA Twins Study: How stressful will a trip to Mars be on the human body? (nasa.gov)
152 points by happy-go-lucky on Jan 31, 2017 | 30 comments
26. IBM Punched Card Typography (masswerk.at)
146 points by masswerk on Jan 30, 2017 | 10 comments
27. Introducing Topics (github.com/blog)
205 points by shayfrendt on Jan 31, 2017 | 24 comments
28. Unhappy Developers: Bad for Themselves, for Process and Bad for Software Product (arxiv.org)
92 points by ingve on Jan 31, 2017 | 40 comments
29. The Multiverse Is an Ancient Idea (nautil.us)
98 points by dnetesn on Jan 30, 2017 | 30 comments
30. Open Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise (googleblog.com)
205 points by zerotosixty on Jan 31, 2017 | 13 comments

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