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1. Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads (aphyr.com)
605 points by llambda on April 21, 2015 | 144 comments
2. We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership (wired.com)
578 points by klunger on April 21, 2015 | 394 comments
3. NASA data API (nasa.gov)
351 points by bambax on April 21, 2015 | 40 comments
4. C-51 will undermine Canada’s businesses: Open letter from 60 business leaders (nationalpost.com)
309 points by zawaideh on April 21, 2015 | 63 comments
5. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (automatetheboringstuff.com)
282 points by adamnemecek on April 21, 2015 | 51 comments
6. Keywhiz: Square's system for distributing and managing secrets (square.github.io)
232 points by bascule on April 21, 2015 | 31 comments
7. If 1+x is 1, how much is 1-x? (gus-massa.blogspot.com)
203 points by gus_massa on April 21, 2015 | 51 comments
8. Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop for Dog Sniff Unconstitutional [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
199 points by dmitrygr on April 21, 2015 | 133 comments
9. Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ (wsj.com)
186 points by sssaylin on April 21, 2015 | 180 comments
10. Major Advance in Artificial Photosynthesis Poses Win/Win for the Environment (lbl.gov)
126 points by velodrome on April 20, 2015 | 10 comments
11. To Reduce VR Sickness, Add a Virtual Nose (wired.com)
181 points by dawkins on April 21, 2015 | 99 comments
12. Modern Extreme Programming (benjiweber.co.uk)
166 points by henrik_w on April 21, 2015 | 83 comments
13. GitWikXiv: Toward a successor to the academic paper (jessriedel.com)
112 points by jessriedel on April 21, 2015 | 49 comments
14. Building Better Node.js Applications with RethinkDB (nodecraft.com)
100 points by CherryJimbo on April 20, 2015 | 40 comments
15. The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words (openculture.com)
115 points by tintinnabula on April 21, 2015 | 37 comments
16. Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records Requester Tim Clemans (thestranger.com)
111 points by deegles on April 21, 2015 | 44 comments
17. A Technical Founder’s Notes on Sales Team Management (medium.com/kwindla)
117 points by kwindla on April 21, 2015 | 37 comments
18. Golden hat (wikipedia.org)
87 points by benbreen on April 20, 2015 | 28 comments
19. New York judge grants writ of habeus corpus to two chimpanzees (theguardian.com)
111 points by century19 on April 21, 2015 | 166 comments
20. How Nicaraguan Villagers Built Their Own Electric Grid (ieee.org)
83 points by jonbaer on April 20, 2015 | 17 comments
21. Have you heard 'the hum'? Mystery of Earth's low droning noise solved? (independent.co.uk)
84 points by chippy on April 21, 2015 | 38 comments
22. This man just claimed a new European nation. 160,000 people want to live there (littlerock.com.mt)
287 points by webdisrupt on April 21, 2015 | 150 comments
23. 3,000 floppy disk archive (1982–1994) (vogons.org)
97 points by noso on April 21, 2015 | 43 comments
24. Japan maglev train breaks world speed record again (bbc.co.uk)
187 points by noso on April 21, 2015 | 165 comments
25. Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming (nytimes.com)
105 points by donohoe on April 20, 2015 | 109 comments
26. Magento eCommerce PHP Remote Code Execution (ma.ttias.be)
143 points by Mojah on April 21, 2015 | 78 comments
27. Trapped into Selling Magazines Door-To-Door (theatlantic.com)
71 points by timw6n on April 21, 2015 | 20 comments
28. Internet Archive: What’s new with v2 (archive.org)
117 points by castell on April 21, 2015 | 26 comments
29. Tough, Cheap, and Real: Detroit (nationalgeographic.com)
69 points by samclemens on April 21, 2015 | 55 comments
30. John Nash receives Abel Prize for revered work in mathematics (princeton.edu)
88 points by gszr on April 21, 2015

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