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1. The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam (npr.org)
581 points by molecule on April 9, 2016 | 209 comments
2. Congratulations You’ve Been Fired (nytimes.com)
679 points by dcschelt on April 9, 2016 | 429 comments
3. Frog and Toad are Cofounders (medium.com/frog-and-toad-are-cofounders)
387 points by alexdean on April 9, 2016 | 34 comments
4. How a Cashless Society Could Embolden Big Brother (theatlantic.com)
286 points by kafkaesq on April 8, 2016 | 130 comments
5. CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA (theintercept.com)
169 points by etiam on April 8, 2016 | 57 comments
6. Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages (gist.github.com)
136 points by protomyth on April 9, 2016 | 52 comments
7. HIV overcomes CRISPR gene-editing attack (nature.com)
152 points by aroch on April 8, 2016 | 30 comments
8. How to Avoid Empathy Burnout (nautil.us)
92 points by dnetesn on April 9, 2016 | 51 comments
9. Declaring Reality: An Introduction to Datalog (zef.me)
60 points by sacheendra on April 9, 2016 | 13 comments
10. Study: Students who take notes by hand outperform students who type (wsj.com)
174 points by walterbell on April 9, 2016 | 105 comments
11. Knuth versus Email (1999) (stanford.edu)
164 points by joshuacc on April 9, 2016 | 128 comments
12. Wire of Death (wikipedia.org)
158 points by curtis on April 9, 2016 | 75 comments
13. Afghanistan’s only PC manufacturer (arstechnica.com)
55 points by shawndumas on April 9, 2016 | 11 comments
14. Mathics: A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica (mathics.github.io)
178 points by Jerry2 on April 9, 2016 | 73 comments
15. Rendering React without browser JavaScript (medium.com/firasd)
67 points by firasd on April 9, 2016 | 55 comments
16. The rotational North Pole is moving east at 14 cm per year (gizmodo.com)
77 points by empressplay on April 9, 2016 | 37 comments
17. The Blue State Model: How the Democrats Created a "Liberalism of the Rich" (tomdispatch.com)
141 points by pron on April 9, 2016 | 211 comments
18. Ask HN: Is it worth paying for a Coursera course?
138 points by eecks on April 9, 2016 | 110 comments
19. Turning a 1920s Switchboard into a Modern-Day Video Game (popularmechanics.com)
44 points by _zhqs on April 9, 2016 | 6 comments
20. Almost complete guide to flexbox (without flexbox) (kyusuf.com)
66 points by _kush on April 9, 2016 | 9 comments
21. Swim. Bike. Cheat? (nytimes.com)
144 points by wallflower on April 9, 2016 | 63 comments
22. How the Commodore Amiga Powered the Prevue Channel (atlasobscura.com)
85 points by doener on April 8, 2016 | 35 comments
23. Subscription Pricing Is for Stagnating Products (jakobegger.at)
99 points by jakobegger on April 6, 2016 | 58 comments
24. The hidden costs of A/B testing (stickermule.com)
57 points by julee04 on April 9, 2016 | 21 comments
25. PostgreSQL Query Optimization (jinchengli.me)
135 points by craigkerstiens on April 9, 2016 | 12 comments
26. Efficient Integer Overflow Checking in LLVM (regehr.org)
78 points by rspivak on April 9, 2016 | 24 comments
27. Bobby Fischer: from prodigy to pariah (2011) (theguardian.com)
72 points by wallflower on April 7, 2016 | 28 comments
28. Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory (phys.org)
117 points by dnetesn on April 8, 2016 | 16 comments
29. When Free Software Depends on Nonfree (gnu.org)
126 points by stargrave on April 9, 2016 | 91 comments
30. Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journey across Europe (theverge.com)
114 points by mattiemass on April 8, 2016 | 69 comments

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