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1.Introducing MIR (rust-lang.org)
736 points by steveklabnik on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 164 comments [ext]
2.Xamarin Open-Sourced (xamarin.com)
581 points by fekberg on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 199 comments [ext]
3.Compiling an application for use in highly radio-active environments (stackoverflow.com)
507 points by ingve on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
4. Slam Your Plan Against Reality Until It Hands You a Better One (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 603 days ago | hide | 97 comments
4.SpaceX plans to debut Red Dragon with 2018 Mars mission (nasaspaceflight.com)
486 points by cpeterso on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 234 comments [ext]
5.Email privacy bill unanimously passes U.S. House (reuters.com)
338 points by enlightenedfool on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
6.Never trust the client (gafferongames.com)
360 points by netinstructions on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
7. Why Selling $1 of Bitcoin for $1.10 Still Beats Most Businesses (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 86 days ago | hide | 14 comments
7.Have Software Developers Given Up? (dantup.com)
460 points by d2p on April 26, 2016 [ext] | 309 comments [ext]
8.Japanese Priests Collected Almost Seven Centuries of Climate Data (smithsonianmag.com)
243 points by miraj on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
9.WebKit is moving away from prefixes (webkit.org)
304 points by om2 on April 26, 2016 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
10. Two grad students bet biology can eat the chemicals industry by 2030 (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 601 days ago | hide | 170 comments
10.The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science (2015) (slate.com)
398 points by mkagenius on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 134 comments [ext]
11.OpenAI Gym: Toolkit for developing, comparing reinforcement learning algorithms (gym.openai.com)
337 points by netinstructions on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
12.Heroku Kafka (heroku.com)
276 points by sixwing on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
13. Why giving advice fails and reflecting back changes minds (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 171 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.Future Screens Are Mostly Blue (99percentinvisible.org)
256 points by mattiemass on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 164 comments [ext]
14.Xi editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust (github.com/google)
274 points by ivank on April 26, 2016 [ext] | 177 comments [ext]
15.Postgraphql: A GraphQL schema created by reflection over a PostgreSQL schema (github.com/calebmer)
217 points by craigkerstiens on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
16. A $3 billion token sale that was actually $110 million (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 334 days ago | hide | 88 comments
16.FBI Makes Official Its Decision to Keep Apple iPhone Hack Secret (bloomberg.com)
158 points by spuiszis on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
17.At Chobani, Now It’s Not Just the Yogurt That’s Rich (nytimes.com)
175 points by ahmad19526 on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
18.Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting (googleblog.com)
120 points by Garbage on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
19. Why the word 'later' has killed more dreams than you can count (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 399 days ago | hide | 146 comments
19.How Erlang does scheduling (2013) (jlouisramblings.blogspot.com)
126 points by weatherlight on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
20.UDP for games – encryption and DDoS protection (ithare.com)
104 points by based2 on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: Hindley-Milner Type Inference Algorithm in OCaml (github.com/prakhar1989)
136 points by krat0sprakhar on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
22. AIbirds - Bloomberg (archive.is)
42 points by eum3372 9 hours ago | hide | 186 comments
22.Kraken: 3x faster decompression than zlib (radgametools.com)
147 points by dahjelle on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
23.Note from Mark Zuckerberg (fb.com)
275 points by eadz on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 272 comments [ext]
24.Sketch Simplification: Fully Convolutional Networks for Rough Sketch Cleanup (creativeai.net)
92 points by goblin89 on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
25. Elon's $140 Billion, Maduro's Capture, and a $30K Polymarket Windfall (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 86 days ago | hide | 122 comments
25.GitHub has 11,995,200 open issues (github.com/issues)
262 points by chris-at on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
26.OCaml 4.03.0 released (including flambda) (inria.fr)
107 points by cm3 on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
27.GCC 6.1 Released (gcc.gnu.org)
285 points by edelsohn on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 169 comments [ext]
28. Stop Slaving Over Slides: A Technical Expert’s Framework for Memorable Presentations (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 231 days ago | hide | 180 comments
28.Shopify Capital (shopify.com)
137 points by peterjancelis on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
29.CMU’s computer science dean on its poaching problem (techcrunch.com)
83 points by doppp on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
30.ThingieQuery: $19 SQL IDE for Excel (thingiequery.com)
221 points by anakic on April 27, 2016 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
31. Outsource your willpower: a protocol for couples who want to ship (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 603 days ago | hide | 25 comments

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