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1. YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader (rg3.github.io)
989 points by h43k3r on April 8, 2016 | 321 comments
2. WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites (techcrunch.com)
447 points by jblz on April 8, 2016 | 127 comments
3. SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast (youtube.com)
845 points by cryptoz on April 8, 2016 | 354 comments
4. Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders (sec.gov)
451 points by adamsi on April 8, 2016 | 274 comments
5. Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance' (thehill.com)
389 points by chlodwig on April 8, 2016 | 209 comments
6. If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of Plaintext iMessage Data (bishopfox.com)
282 points by brie22 on April 8, 2016 | 81 comments
7. The Book of Shaders (thebookofshaders.com)
193 points by jashmenn on April 8, 2016 | 15 comments
8. Algebrite, a computer algebra system in JavaScript (algebrite.org)
140 points by davidedc on April 8, 2016 | 30 comments
9. [dupe] Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up Malware 'Ads' (techdirt.com)
606 points by jackgavigan on April 8, 2016 | 271 comments
10. Erlang 19.0 Garbage Collector (erlang-solutions.com)
261 points by bandris on April 8, 2016 | 21 comments
11. WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users (eff.org)
330 points by randomname2 on April 8, 2016 | 226 comments
12. Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt (bbc.com)
127 points by mdturnerphys on April 8, 2016 | 62 comments
13. LogZoom: A fast, lightweight substitute for Logstash/Fluentd in Go (packetzoom.com)
149 points by whost49 on April 8, 2016 | 39 comments
14. How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis (themacro.com)
71 points by hua on April 7, 2016 | 43 comments
15. Tell HN: I'm creating an autonomous racing series (selfracingcars.com)
127 points by joshu on April 8, 2016 | 59 comments
16. Doctors used an ER patient's FitBit data to justify electrical cardioversion (slate.com)
87 points by curtis on April 7, 2016 | 35 comments
17. I’m not a human: Breaking the Google reCAPTCHA [pdf] (blackhat.com)
166 points by louis-paul on April 8, 2016 | 68 comments
18. I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience (phoronix.com)
134 points by iberinger on April 8, 2016 | 32 comments
19. Apply HN: Casepad – Better Databases for Public Defenders and Others
173 points by jedgardyson on April 8, 2016 | 65 comments
20. Scientists store digital images in DNA and retrieve them perfectly (washington.edu)
95 points by victorbojica on April 8, 2016 | 20 comments
21. Hungarian government briefly proposes to criminalize encrypted services (mappingmediafreedom.org)
315 points by randomname2 on April 8, 2016 | 86 comments
22. How we get high availability with Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails (gsa.gov)
69 points by konklone on April 8, 2016 | 29 comments
23. Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude (stephendiehl.com)
96 points by ingve on April 8, 2016 | 44 comments
24. Panama Papers: Email Hackable via WordPress, Docs Hackable via Drupal (wordfence.com)
126 points by mmaunder on April 8, 2016 | 36 comments
25. Flippaper: Draw your own pinball in real time (flippaper.org)
61 points by neo2001 on April 8, 2016 | 10 comments
26. Want to start a small data journalism team in your newsroom? (niemanlab.org)
47 points by danso on April 7, 2016 | 13 comments
27. How good is your French accent? (frenchmeter.com)
153 points by montbonnot on April 8, 2016 | 179 comments
28. 'Devastating' bug pops secure doors at airports, hospitals (theregister.co.uk)
78 points by dcposch on April 5, 2016 | 43 comments
29. Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet on Mobile Voice Search (recode.net)
107 points by shawndumas on April 8, 2016 | 78 comments
30. Ask HN: What to do when a Chinese startup clones your website?
131 points by bflesch on April 8, 2016 | 128 comments

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