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1.The user is drunk (2013) [video] (youtube.com)
297 points by shocks on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
2.Freelancer.com is destroying my life (medium.com/p)
262 points by davidbarker on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
3.FPV with Oculus Rift and a Quadcopter (github.com/matsemann)
234 points by arijit91 on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
4. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
4.Software of the Apollo guidance computer was hand-woven into rope core memory (youtube.com)
235 points by raldi on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
5.Go: Best Practices for Production Enviroments (bourgon.org)
222 points by ConceitedCode on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
6.Ask HN: What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved? [ext]
209 points by pauletienney on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 173 comments [ext]
7. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments
7.The TeX tuneup of 2014 [pdf] (tug.org)
178 points by yiransheng on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
8.Some thoughts on Go and Erlang (erlware.org)
182 points by rubyrescue on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 143 comments [ext]
9.“Mostly functional” programming does not work (acm.org)
158 points by Bootvis on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 192 comments [ext]
10. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
10.Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups? [ext]
156 points by compass-seeker on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
11.Brazilians welcome genetically-modified mosquito to help fight dengue fever (pri.org)
139 points by ojosilva on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
12.Classy: Cleaner class-based controllers for AngularJS (davej.github.io)
139 points by LX-350 on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
13. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
13.Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ prototype, a Silk Road the FBI can't seize (wired.com)
139 points by yiransheng on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
14.Ask HN: Idea Sunday [ext]
122 points by livestyle on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 172 comments [ext]
15.Syntax extensions and regular expressions for Rust (burntsushi.net)
126 points by dbaupp on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
16. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
16.Poll: how many productive hours do you have in a day? [ext]
111 points by caiobegotti on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
17.A new Django content management system (github.com/torchbox)
115 points by aram on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
18.Software Checklist (solipsys.co.uk)
112 points by happyscrappy on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
19. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
19.GoLearn – Machine Learning in Go (sjwhitworth.com)
109 points by alixaxel on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
20.Ask HN: Best Firefox phone to get? [ext]
102 points by vijayr on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
21.Exercise during pregnancy gives newborn brain development a head start (umontreal.ca)
97 points by mkempe on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
22. 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
22.Identify mystery text, win $1000 (uchicago.edu)
91 points by winstonsmith on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
23.The Story Behind Upcoming Film “Spacesuit” (2013) (thecredits.org)
79 points by cromulent on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
24.An Erlang Postgres driver: refurbishing open source (dedasys.com)
82 points by davidw on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
25. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
25.Heartbleed and RSA private keys (lightbluetouchpaper.org)
83 points by Libertatea on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
26.Amazon's Stressed Out Culture Is Burning Out Employees (minyanville.com)
73 points by Flopsy on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
27.Getting Started, circa 1983 (simonallardice.com)
80 points by davidbarker on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
28. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.Why You Shouldn't Say It's Easy When Teaching (karissamck.com)
77 points by quasiben on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
29.The Sorry State of Peer-to-Peer iOS-to-Android connectivity (moritzhaarmann.de)
79 points by derwildemomo on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
30.There’s scant evidence that healthy foods prevent cancer or fatty foods cause it (startribune.com)
76 points by tokenadult on April 27, 2014 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
31. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments

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