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1.The Government is Silencing Twitter and Yahoo, and It Won't Tell Us Why (aclu.org)
286 points by e1ven on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
2.Greed and the Wright Brothers (nytimes.com)
201 points by kanamekun on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
3.OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser (kickstarter.com)
180 points by turing on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
4. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
4.Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware (cnet.com)
177 points by bane on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
5.Delphi – why won't it die? (2013) (stevepeacocke.blogspot.com)
163 points by wx196 on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
6.Update on Linksys WRT1900AC support for OpenWRT (openwrt.org)
136 points by atriix on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
7. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 20 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
7.The Collison brothers and $1.75B online payments startup Stripe (ft.com)
133 points by fragmented on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
8.The limits of "unlimited" vacation (jacobian.org)
123 points by MrValdez on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
9.Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform (github.com/facebook)
120 points by aram on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
10. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 609 days ago | hide | 15 comments
10.Chrome users oblivious to Heartbleed revocation tsunami (netcraft.com)
116 points by wasd123 on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
11.Bitcoin 2.0: Unleash The Sidechains (techcrunch.com)
105 points by RougeFemme on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
12.All software sucks (cat-v.org)
98 points by danso on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 138 comments [ext]
13. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
13.Levinux – A Tiny Version of Linux for Education (mikelev.in)
91 points by Isofarro on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
14.Screenshot Saturday [ext]
85 points by screenshot on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
15.Obama to hit Y Combinator headquarters in Mountain View on May 8 (sfgate.com)
83 points by kqr2 on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
16. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
16.Printoo: Paper-Thin, Flexible Arduino-Compatible modules (kickstarter.com)
82 points by rahij on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
17.Taking e-mail back, part 4: The finale, with webmail and everything after (arstechnica.com)
77 points by tambourine_man on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
18.Mavericks as an iBeacon (blendedcocoa.com)
76 points by saltcookie on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
19. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
19.'I have lived underwater' (bbc.com)
76 points by coffeecodecouch on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
20.Introduction to MIPS assembly language (2007) (ccsu.edu)
78 points by jwdunne on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
21.Reactive UIs with React and Bacon (joshbassett.info)
75 points by nullobject on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
22. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
22.Intercooler.js – A JavaScript-optional Ajax library (intercoolerjs.org)
72 points by jgj on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
23.Is F# Ready for Production? (dantup.com)
68 points by d2p on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
24.Comparison of different concurrency models: Actors, CSP, Disruptor and Threads (java-is-the-new-c.blogspot.com)
67 points by r4um on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
25. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
25.Don’t Add Features to Make Customers Happy (2011) (zurb.com)
61 points by Mitt on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
26.Show HN: Try Scala in your browser (scalatutorials.com)
61 points by eranation on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.EcoVent: Make every room in your home the right temperature [video] (ecoventsystems.com)
61 points by ph0rque on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
28. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
28.HMRC 'plans to share tax data with private firms' (bbc.co.uk)
60 points by rb2e on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
29.Cloudy Snake Oil (blog.pinboard.in)
54 points by jmduke on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
30.What should a self-taught programmer study? [ext]
50 points by yla92 on April 19, 2014 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
31. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments

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