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1. The Science of Making Friends (wsj.com)
411 points by frostmatthew on April 24, 2016 | 222 comments
2. Personal info of 93M Mexicans exposed on AWS (databreaches.net)
365 points by elorant on April 24, 2016 | 104 comments
3. Telomere lengthening via gene therapy in a human individual (neuroscientistnews.com)
287 points by mkagenius on April 24, 2016 | 102 comments
4. An integer formula for Fibonacci numbers (paulhankin.github.io)
297 points by 0xmohit on April 24, 2016 | 56 comments
5. The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (2010) (brianreiter.org)
228 points by the_why_of_y on April 24, 2016 | 71 comments
6. /dev/random – a new approach (lwn.net)
265 points by Tomte on April 24, 2016 | 126 comments
7. Bots won't replace apps, only better apps will replace apps (dangrover.com)
260 points by rmason on April 23, 2016 | 67 comments
8. Seattle vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners (theguardian.com)
186 points by bootload on April 24, 2016 | 141 comments
9. Apple’s Organizational Crossroads (stratechery.com)
176 points by hullo on April 19, 2016 | 36 comments
10. WISP: Battery-free computer that can be reprogrammed wirelessly (fastcodesign.com)
111 points by Jerry2 on April 24, 2016 | 42 comments
11. Building a Home Lab to Become a Malware Hunter – A Beginner’s Guide (alienvault.com)
210 points by adamnemecek on April 24, 2016 | 7 comments
12. Clang emits memcpy for std::swap, which can introduce undefined behavior (llvm.org)
110 points by luu on April 23, 2016 | 80 comments
13. Why I run my business like an open source project (2013) (stubbornella.org)
129 points by luu on April 24, 2016 | 10 comments
14. William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52 (nytimes.com)
113 points by hvo on April 23, 2016 | 73 comments
15. Show HN: Intro.js Hints (introjs.com)
126 points by afshinmeh on April 24, 2016 | 39 comments
16. The K Language (kparc.com)
161 points by vonnik on April 24, 2016 | 106 comments
17. Verifying Bit-Manipulations of Floating-Point [pdf] (stanford.edu)
60 points by ingve on April 24, 2016 | 2 comments
18. For What It’s Worth: A Review of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” (dancohen.org)
178 points by tintinnabula on April 24, 2016 | 84 comments
19. ChaosKey: a Hardware True Random Number Generator That Attaches via USB (altusmetrum.org)
88 points by pmoriarty on April 24, 2016 | 68 comments
20. Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures (qz.com)
184 points by samsolomon on April 24, 2016 | 49 comments
21. New body armour promises to transform fighting sports (economist.com)
110 points by edward on April 24, 2016 | 55 comments
22. Rethinking Humanity's Roots (discovermagazine.com)
54 points by diodorus on April 23, 2016
23. NASA to begin historic new era of X-Planes (nasa.gov)
152 points by astdb on April 24, 2016 | 51 comments
24. The Unintended Consequences of Trying to Replicate Research (slate.com)
60 points by tokenadult on April 24, 2016 | 13 comments
25. Something Secret This Way Comes (llogiq.github.io)
163 points by llogiq on April 24, 2016 | 34 comments
26. GSL – a Universal Code Generator (github.com/imatix)
102 points by cookrn on April 24, 2016 | 28 comments
27. A recipe for global cooling: put seafloor on dry land near the equator (arstechnica.com)
58 points by shawndumas on April 24, 2016 | 16 comments
28. GNU Make Jobserver Implementation (mad-scientist.net)
59 points by krakensden on April 24, 2016 | 20 comments
29. Can the Ocean Spray CEO Save the Cranberry Business? (bostonmagazine.com)
62 points by samsolomon on April 24, 2016 | 51 comments
30. Powers of 10: Time Scales in User Experience (2009) (nngroup.com)
49 points by _zhqs on April 24, 2016 | 3 comments

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