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1.We’re dropping Google Ads (groundup.org.za)
1477 points by alex_hirner on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 584 comments [ext]
2.Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support (chromestatus.com)
834 points by vvoyer on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
3.Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA (blender.org)
402 points by nedsma on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
4. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 16 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Security Certifications Are Causing More Harm Than Good (tacnetsol.com)
290 points by ginasilvertree on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 215 comments [ext]
5.How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding (twilio.com)
425 points by SteveMorin on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 220 comments [ext]
6.An Alternative Approach to Rate Limiting (medium.com/figma-design)
226 points by dfield on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
7. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.WebVR Experiments (blog.google)
185 points by forlorn on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
8.On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat (blog.ycombinator.com)
200 points by anuh on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
9.How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] (youtube.com)
397 points by nostrademons on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
10. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
10.Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (msdn.microsoft.com)
200 points by jackhammons on April 11, 2017 [ext] | 135 comments [ext]
11.What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console (msdn.microsoft.com)
332 points by yomritoyj on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 238 comments [ext]
12.Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands (bbc.com)
243 points by sohkamyung on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 222 comments [ext]
13. 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
13.In Search of Zoroastrian Manuscripts in Iran (blogs.bl.uk)
187 points by benbreen on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
14.The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains visceral and urgent (theparisreview.org)
216 points by lermontov on April 11, 2017 [ext] | 200 comments [ext]
15.Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling (newschannel9.com)
223 points by marvinpinto on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 188 comments [ext]
16. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.HTTP/2 is not the future, it’s the present (eleven-labs.com)
185 points by Eleven_Wilson on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
17.Programming in the Point-Free Style (eiriktsarpalis.wordpress.com)
180 points by douche on April 10, 2017 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
18.Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production (dpdhl.com)
169 points by wibr on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
19. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
19.A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (1999) (arxiv.org)
202 points by mayava on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
20.Show HN: Kim – A Python serialization and marshaling framework (kim.readthedocs.io)
136 points by mikeywaites on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
21.Mapping Strings in C++ (cdacamar.github.io)
104 points by iKlsR on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
22. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
22.Programmers are most likely to work from home (qz.com)
427 points by staringmonkey on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 363 comments [ext]
23.Sandboxing Landscape (popcount.org)
69 points by jbyers on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
24.Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released (sublimetext.com)
301 points by coldtea on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 231 comments [ext]
25. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
25.A Cuban man trying to build the world's tallest bike (bbc.com)
85 points by hwayern on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
26.Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer (nytimes.com)
181 points by Futurebot on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 180 comments [ext]
27.MySQL InnoDB Cluster GA (mysqlserverteam.com)
92 points by tpetry on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
28. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
28.The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) (idlewords.com)
197 points by juliangoldsmith on April 11, 2017 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
29.Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node [ext]
305 points by choojoy on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
30.YouTube Advertiser Meltdown: An Opportunity for Startups (righteousruminations.blogspot.com)
122 points by renegadesensei on April 12, 2017 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
31. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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