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1. An off-grid social network (staltz.com)
1031 points by staltz on April 6, 2017 | 366 comments
2. A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu (dustinkirkland.com)
786 points by dustinkirkland on April 6, 2017 | 227 comments
3. Unsupervised sentiment neuron (blog.openai.com)
603 points by gdb on April 6, 2017 | 126 comments
4. Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving (economist.com)
509 points by petergatsby on April 6, 2017 | 367 comments
5. Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account (reuters.com)
831 points by anigbrowl on April 6, 2017 | 493 comments
6. FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports (23andme.com)
311 points by checkoutmygenes on April 6, 2017 | 189 comments
7. The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast (yehudakatz.com)
292 points by lowonkarma on April 6, 2017 | 89 comments
8. Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups (stripe.com)
251 points by lebek on April 6, 2017 | 120 comments
9. The Minimally-Nice Open Source Software Maintainer (brson.github.io)
224 points by aturon on April 6, 2017 | 58 comments
10. Better Git configuration (scottnonnenberg.com)
388 points by scottnonnenberg on April 5, 2017 | 63 comments
11. Planck.js – JavaScript rewrite of Box2D physics library (github.com/shakiba)
245 points by vivaladav on April 6, 2017 | 67 comments
12. Announcing HTTP/2 support for all Azure CDN customers (microsoft.com)
131 points by okket on April 6, 2017 | 52 comments
13. Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community (libreboot.org)
272 points by jff on April 6, 2017 | 207 comments
14. Startup School 2017 First Lecture (startupschool.org)
191 points by tempw on April 5, 2017 | 60 comments
15. Nvidia Announces Titan Xp Graphics Card (techcrunch.com)
149 points by hoov on April 6, 2017 | 116 comments
16. Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space (nytimes.com)
310 points by sndean on April 6, 2017 | 223 comments
17. Uber said to use “sophisticated” software to defraud drivers, passengers (arstechnica.com)
343 points by dralley on April 6, 2017 | 224 comments
18. How Bank of America Gave Away My Money (soraven.com)
640 points by alienchow on April 6, 2017 | 250 comments
19. Zepton – a Pico-8 voxel shoot'em up [game] (lexaloffle.com)
198 points by chiptune on April 5, 2017 | 36 comments
20. Inspector General criticizes the IRS for seizing money from innocent people (washingtonpost.com)
186 points by jackgavigan on April 6, 2017 | 56 comments
21. New UX for Jenkins: Blue Ocean 1.0 (jenkins.io)
243 points by i386 on April 5, 2017 | 96 comments
22. Fun at the Unix Terminal (regehr.org)
279 points by melqdusy on April 6, 2017 | 55 comments
23. High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials (washingtonpost.com)
237 points by dankohn1 on April 6, 2017 | 167 comments
24. Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?
248 points by benevol on April 6, 2017 | 238 comments
25. Spanner vs. Calvin: distributed consistency at scale (fauna.com)
107 points by evanweaver on April 6, 2017 | 51 comments
26. Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain (capx.co)
128 points by miraj on April 6, 2017 | 156 comments
27. Distributed count(distinct) with HyperLogLog on Postgres (citusdata.com)
80 points by anarazel on April 6, 2017 | 14 comments
28. Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language (ithkuil.net)
84 points by setra on April 6, 2017 | 39 comments
29. Udacity spins out its self-driving car business as Voyage (techcrunch.com)
82 points by FLGMwt on April 5, 2017 | 45 comments
30. Acute Effects of LSD on Amygdala Activity During Processing of Fearful Stimuli (nature.com)
84 points by dpflan on April 5, 2017 | 53 comments

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