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1. Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True (vice.com)
655 points by TiredOfLife on April 20, 2016 | 202 comments
2. Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational cannabis (theguardian.com)
458 points by sasvari on April 20, 2016 | 210 comments
3. Arduino in the size of a AA battery (techcrunch.com)
528 points by asimuvPR on April 20, 2016 | 170 comments
4. Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes (slate.com)
491 points by wwilson on April 20, 2016 | 425 comments
5. Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster (technologyreview.com)
435 points by scrumper on April 20, 2016 | 239 comments
6. Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe (nature.com)
269 points by etiam on April 20, 2016 | 170 comments
7. Git Tips (alexkras.com)
487 points by akras14 on April 20, 2016 | 98 comments
8. Curing Our Slack Addiction (agilebits.com)
358 points by ingve on April 19, 2016 | 182 comments
9. Got a Hot Seller on Amazon? Prepare for Amazon to Make One Too (bloomberg.com)
290 points by petethomas on April 20, 2016 | 226 comments
10. Off the Grid (stephenfry.com)
313 points by decasteve on April 20, 2016 | 167 comments
11. Detecting the use of “curl – bash” server side (idontplaydarts.com)
352 points by ingve on April 20, 2016 | 120 comments
12. VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report (reuters.com)
200 points by oinkgrr on April 20, 2016 | 166 comments
13. Show HN: Test your JavaScript modules simultaneously in 32 different versions of Node.js (victorbjelkholm.github.io)
142 points by diggan on April 20, 2016 | 61 comments
14. NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails (medium.com/sandimac)
164 points by badboyboyce on April 20, 2016 | 159 comments
15. Angel Problem (wikipedia.org)
128 points by lukas on April 20, 2016 | 32 comments
16. US Ranks 41st in Press Freedom Index Thanks to 'War on Whistleblowers' (npr.org)
232 points by raddad on April 20, 2016 | 49 comments
17. Three teen sisters who win medals in coding competitions (hackerrank.com)
222 points by rvivek on April 20, 2016 | 140 comments
18. FreeCAD 0.16 release notes (freecadweb.org)
214 points by buovjaga on April 20, 2016 | 75 comments
19. The Hedonic Treadmill (happierhuman.com)
154 points by shubhamjain on April 20, 2016 | 131 comments
20. Row Level Security with PostgreSQL 9.5 (compose.io)
129 points by thomcrowe on April 20, 2016 | 47 comments
21. Wangle – an asynchronous C++ networking and RPC library (facebook.com)
164 points by doppp on April 20, 2016 | 74 comments
22. Introducing Citus Cloud (citusdata.com)
138 points by craigkerstiens on April 20, 2016 | 45 comments
23. Building a Regex Search Engine for DNA (benchling.engineering)
109 points by joshma on April 20, 2016 | 35 comments
24. The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary (2014) (bbc.com)
100 points by vezycash on April 20, 2016 | 41 comments
25. Microsoft is ending Xbox 360 production more than 10 years after its debut (venturebeat.com)
114 points by doppp on April 20, 2016 | 103 comments
26. Bringing Pyside back to Qt Project (groups.google.com)
94 points by kissgyorgy on April 19, 2016 | 10 comments
27. AP: South Korea covered up mass abuse, killings of 'vagrants' (ap.org)
283 points by coloneltcb on April 19, 2016 | 106 comments
28. Offshore in central London: the curious case of 29 Harley Street (theguardian.com)
94 points by sergeant3 on April 19, 2016 | 29 comments
29. Scientific Regress (firstthings.com)
111 points by eastbayjake on April 20, 2016 | 55 comments
30. Pyston Python JIT Talk (slideshare.net)
74 points by luu on April 19, 2016 | 11 comments

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