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1.WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge (theintercept.com)
972 points by tshtf on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 608 comments [ext]
2.TTIP Leaks (ttip-leaks.org)
752 points by Hjugo on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 251 comments [ext]
3.Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto (economist.com)
639 points by shazad on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 259 comments [ext]
4. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
4.Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto (nikcub.com)
584 points by rdl on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 248 comments [ext]
5.Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016) [ext]
553 points by whoishiring on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 936 comments [ext]
6.“Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research right now” (neverworkintheory.org)
355 points by zdw on May 1, 2016 [ext] | 189 comments [ext]
7. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
7.Judge Grants Search Warrant Forcing Woman to Unlock iPhone with Touch ID (macrumors.com)
218 points by outworlder on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 206 comments [ext]
8.Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security (nytimes.com)
291 points by hvo on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 494 comments [ext]
9.Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund? [ext]
231 points by dang on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 276 comments [ext]
10. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
10.After a year of using Node.js in production (geekforbrains.com)
320 points by 0xmohit on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 240 comments [ext]
11.RIP Kuro5hin (kuro5hin.org)
298 points by Jerry2 on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 270 comments [ext]
12.SSH for Fun and Profit (karla.io)
324 points by tetrakai on May 1, 2016 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
13. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments
13.After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight (nytimes.com)
305 points by yanowitz on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 364 comments [ext]
14.Dolphins have been observed chattering while cooperating to solve a puzzle (newscientist.com)
144 points by Osiris30 on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
15.Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser (justsecurity.org)
281 points by throwaway2016a on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
16. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 202 days ago | hide | 110 comments
16.Wren: a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language (munificent.github.io)
163 points by bluesilver07 on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
17.The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press (vanityfair.com)
153 points by forgotmyoldpw on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
18.New example of rare Etruscan writing found (arstechnica.com)
132 points by Phithagoras on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
19. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
19.Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data (newscientist.com)
124 points by AlexandrB on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
20.Go bindings to Rust's regex engine (github.com/burntsushi)
127 points by burntsushi on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
21.The Feed Is Dying (nymag.com)
125 points by jonbaer on May 1, 2016 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
22. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
22.Non-Lexical Lifetimes in Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
135 points by kibwen on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
23.LLVM Backend for the VideoCore4, Raspberry Pi 2 VPU (github.com/christinaa)
129 points by DHowett on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
24.LimeSDR: Flexible, Next-Generation, Open Source Software Defined Radio (crowdsupply.com)
98 points by wolframio on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
25. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 2 days ago | hide | 120 comments
25.The Fallout – The medical aftermath of Hiroshima (australiandoctor.com.au)
82 points by vezycash on May 1, 2016 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
26.How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (uic.edu)
116 points by ingve on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
27.Berlin Is Banning Most Vacation Apartment Rentals (citylab.com)
143 points by haldujai on May 1, 2016 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
28. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
28.Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discovered ATM Skimmer (trustfoundry.net)
210 points by ProfDreamer on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
29.Gavin Andresen's commit access to Bitcoin revoked, hacking suspected (twitter.com/petertoddbtc)
297 points by apsec112 on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 164 comments [ext]
30.Comparing Clustering Algorithms (jupyter.org)
178 points by merusame on May 2, 2016 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
31. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments

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