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1.Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid (github.com/atech)
715 points by rendx on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 182 comments [ext]
2.India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste (gatesnotes.com)
687 points by gauMah on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 281 comments [ext]
3.Hanging up my spurs (lowercasecapital.com)
398 points by gfitz on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
4. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
4.Is Every Speed Limit Too Low? (priceonomics.com)
471 points by ryan_j_naughton on April 25, 2017 [ext] | 725 comments [ext]
5.Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation (techcrunch.com)
450 points by jbernardo95 on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 372 comments [ext]
6.Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) (danluu.com)
300 points by colinprince on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 224 comments [ext]
7. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
7.New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought (npr.org)
222 points by el_duderino on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
8.A vigilante trying to improve IoT security (gizmodo.com)
303 points by jgrahamc on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 231 comments [ext]
9.How to Avoid Going to Jail Under 18 U.S.C. For Lying to Government Agents (findlaw.com)
289 points by gist on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 235 comments [ext]
10. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
10.Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobeโ€™s Extensible Metadata Platform (thurrott.com)
321 points by Integer on April 25, 2017 [ext] | 180 comments [ext]
11.The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules (washingtonpost.com)
299 points by sinak on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 193 comments [ext]
12.Show HN: Kobble โ€“ Notes app that saves directly to GitHub (kobble.io)
179 points by kobble on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 159 comments [ext]
13. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
13.Ffffound is shutting down (ffffound.com)
198 points by nikolasavic on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
14.Places to Post Your Startup or Product (breue.com)
216 points by zvanness on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
15.My Hackintosh Hardware Spec (infinitediaries.net)
319 points by morid1n on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 271 comments [ext]
16. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
16.Backdoor in the firmware of Antminer Bitcoin mining hardware (antbleed.com)
263 points by twowo on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
17.The Grim Biology of Being Poor (nautil.us)
302 points by rbanffy on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 237 comments [ext]
18.Fusion reactors: Not what theyโ€™re cracked up to be (thebulletin.org)
219 points by waynenilsen on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 215 comments [ext]
19. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
19.Building Accurate Shipment Timelines โ€“ A Sorted Affair (flexport.engineering)
100 points by rottencupcakes on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
20.Golang SSH Redux (grumpy-troll.org)
213 points by EdiX on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
21.Browserprint: Browser fingerprint tool now can guess client OS even when spoofed (browserprint.info)
163 points by jerheinze on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
22. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
22.Nginx 1.13 released with TLS 1.3 support (nginx.org)
181 points by runesoerensen on April 25, 2017 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
23.Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-free alternative to Disqus (github.com/adtac)
233 points by adtac on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
24.Show HN: Gopher Browser for Windows Client (jaruzel.com)
91 points by Jaruzel on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
25. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
25.JPEG Huffman Coding Tutorial (impulseadventure.com)
172 points by networked on April 25, 2017 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
26.MG4J โ€“ A free full-text search engine for large document collections (unimi.it)
94 points by luu on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
27.Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress (sfchronicle.com)
468 points by BinaryIdiot on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 293 comments [ext]
28. Why you care for your dog better than yourself โ€” and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 601 days ago | hide | 25 comments
28.Understand Go pointers (cheney.net)
189 points by spacey on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
29.Show HN: TARDIS โ€“ Warp a process's perspective of time by hooking syscalls (github.com/davidbuchanan314)
77 points by DavidBuchanan on April 25, 2017 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
30.How the Carolinas Fixed Their Blurred Lines (2014) (nytimes.com)
57 points by Tomte on April 26, 2017 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
31. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments

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