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1.Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (freedom-to-tinker.com)
495 points by ajdlinux on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 165 comments [ext]
2.A New Map for America (nytimes.com)
354 points by thisjustinm on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 316 comments [ext]
3.The Minecraft Generation (nytimes.com)
237 points by tysone on April 14, 2016 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
4. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
4.The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores [pdf] (ubc.ca)
467 points by tdurden on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 142 comments [ext]
5.Modernizing AbiWord code (figuiere.net)
200 points by ingve on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
6.Google App Engine Silently Stopped Sending Email 5 Weeks Ago (code.google.com)
286 points by markdown on April 14, 2016 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
7. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.8-Bit and '8 Bitish' Graphics [video] (gdcvault.com)
214 points by tbirdz on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
8.New effort to study astronomical ‘wow’ signal after almost 40 years (theguardian.com)
115 points by ohjeez on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
9.Lawyers who won Happy Birthday copyright case sue over “We Shall Overcome” (arstechnica.com)
159 points by walterbell on April 14, 2016 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
10. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality (eff.org)
313 points by finnn on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
11.The Restart Page: rebooting experience from vintage operating systems (therestartpage.com)
104 points by ohjeez on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
12.Jeremy Guillory's Counter-Complaint against Cruise Automation (drive.google.com)
334 points by finkin1 on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 338 comments [ext]
13. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
13.CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic started by UN peacekeepers (slate.com)
300 points by nkurz on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
14.New research shows brain is directly connected to the immune system (virginia.edu)
199 points by Phithagoras on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
15.U.S. government worse than all major industries on cyber security (reuters.com)
143 points by pgoggijr on April 14, 2016 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
16. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
16.The caffeine curse: why coffee shops have always signalled urban change (theguardian.com)
184 points by misnamed on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 175 comments [ext]
17.Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released (jupyter.org)
218 points by ssanderson11235 on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
18.DARPA-Funded Clojure – Probabalistic Modeling and Execution Learning (github.com/dollabs)
99 points by elwell on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
19. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
19.The Doom Movement Bible (doomworld.com)
190 points by rinesh on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
20.The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminaries salute Dave Cutler (news.microsoft.com)
233 points by rozzie on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
21.Backing up 18 years in 8 hours (chromakode.com)
186 points by chaosmachine on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
22. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
22.Introducing Tera, a template engine in Rust (wearewizards.io)
89 points by adamnemecek on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
23.Hey Android, why no love for UTC? (code.google.com)
185 points by mikelabatt on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
24.RoboVM is winding down (robovm.com)
182 points by codeulike on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
25. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 20 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
25.The Air Force Initiative to Replace the A-10 Warthog Is Vaporware (jalopnik.com)
100 points by ourmandave on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 136 comments [ext]
26.Not Smart Is Not Stupid (tedunangst.com)
158 points by tbirdz on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
27.Renderings vs. Reality: The Improbable Rise of Tree-Covered Skyscrapers (99percentinvisible.org)
130 points by misnamed on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
28. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
28.How the law is tracking down high-tech prank callers (theguardian.com)
67 points by nols on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
29.Let's Encrypt: Active Incident, DNS errors causing service disruption (status.io)
97 points by antouank on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
30.Cheap Docker images with Nix (lethalman.blogspot.com)
171 points by Lethalman on April 15, 2016 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
31. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments

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