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1. WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge (theintercept.com)
972 points by tshtf on May 2, 2016 | 608 comments
2. TTIP Leaks (ttip-leaks.org)
752 points by Hjugo on May 2, 2016 | 251 comments
3. Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto (economist.com)
639 points by shazad on May 2, 2016 | 259 comments
4. Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto (nikcub.com)
584 points by rdl on May 2, 2016 | 248 comments
5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
553 points by whoishiring on May 2, 2016 | 936 comments
6. “Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research right now” (neverworkintheory.org)
355 points by zdw on May 1, 2016 | 189 comments
7. Judge Grants Search Warrant Forcing Woman to Unlock iPhone with Touch ID (macrumors.com)
218 points by outworlder on May 2, 2016 | 206 comments
8. Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security (nytimes.com)
291 points by hvo on May 2, 2016 | 494 comments
9. Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund?
231 points by dang on May 2, 2016 | 276 comments
10. After a year of using Node.js in production (geekforbrains.com)
320 points by 0xmohit on May 2, 2016 | 240 comments
11. RIP Kuro5hin (kuro5hin.org)
298 points by Jerry2 on May 2, 2016 | 270 comments
12. SSH for Fun and Profit (karla.io)
324 points by tetrakai on May 1, 2016 | 55 comments
13. After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight (nytimes.com)
305 points by yanowitz on May 2, 2016 | 364 comments
14. Dolphins have been observed chattering while cooperating to solve a puzzle (newscientist.com)
144 points by Osiris30 on May 2, 2016 | 44 comments
15. Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser (justsecurity.org)
281 points by throwaway2016a on May 2, 2016 | 120 comments
16. Wren: a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language (munificent.github.io)
163 points by bluesilver07 on May 2, 2016 | 39 comments
17. The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press (vanityfair.com)
153 points by forgotmyoldpw on May 2, 2016 | 84 comments
18. New example of rare Etruscan writing found (arstechnica.com)
132 points by Phithagoras on May 2, 2016 | 32 comments
19. Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data (newscientist.com)
124 points by AlexandrB on May 2, 2016 | 77 comments
20. Go bindings to Rust's regex engine (github.com/burntsushi)
127 points by burntsushi on May 2, 2016 | 108 comments
21. The Feed Is Dying (nymag.com)
125 points by jonbaer on May 1, 2016 | 92 comments
22. Non-Lexical Lifetimes in Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
135 points by kibwen on May 2, 2016 | 58 comments
23. LLVM Backend for the VideoCore4, Raspberry Pi 2 VPU (github.com/christinaa)
129 points by DHowett on May 2, 2016 | 53 comments
24. LimeSDR: Flexible, Next-Generation, Open Source Software Defined Radio (crowdsupply.com)
98 points by wolframio on May 2, 2016 | 28 comments
25. The Fallout – The medical aftermath of Hiroshima (australiandoctor.com.au)
82 points by vezycash on May 1, 2016 | 31 comments
26. How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (uic.edu)
116 points by ingve on May 2, 2016 | 59 comments
27. Berlin Is Banning Most Vacation Apartment Rentals (citylab.com)
143 points by haldujai on May 1, 2016 | 178 comments
28. Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discovered ATM Skimmer (trustfoundry.net)
210 points by ProfDreamer on May 2, 2016 | 89 comments
29. Gavin Andresen's commit access to Bitcoin revoked, hacking suspected (twitter.com/petertoddbtc)
297 points by apsec112 on May 2, 2016 | 164 comments
30. Comparing Clustering Algorithms (jupyter.org)
178 points by merusame on May 2, 2016 | 40 comments

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