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1.Stop using tail -f (mostly) (brianstorti.com)
765 points by Pdincau on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 207 comments [ext]
2.Choose Boring Technology (mcfunley.com)
577 points by luu on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 212 comments [ext]
3.1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA (bbc.co.uk)
227 points by charkubi on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
4. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
4.Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? [ext]
349 points by 0xdeadbeefbabe on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 344 comments [ext]
5.NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (cypherspace.org)
281 points by yuhong on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
6.Samuel Colt's “YC app” for the Summer 1851 batch (hscott.net)
277 points by blueintegral on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
7. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
7.“Today we moved into our new Facebook building” (facebook.com)
234 points by somerandomness on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 449 comments [ext]
8.I Just Poured Water on my Scanner (cpushack.com)
230 points by protomyth on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
9.Amazon Home Services (amazon.com)
341 points by theatraine on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 238 comments [ext]
10. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
10.Inventing Favicon.ico (ruthlessray.wordpress.com)
207 points by electrum on March 29, 2015 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
11.The Invention of the Baby Carrot (priceonomics.com)
144 points by ryan_j_naughton on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
12.I’ve Joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service (nacin.com)
153 points by gmays on March 29, 2015 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
13. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
13.Hypothesis 1.0: A property-based testing library for Python (idyll.org)
136 points by doismellburning on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
14.Feds Demand Reddit Identify Users of a Dark-Web Drug Forum (wired.com)
219 points by killnine on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 215 comments [ext]
15.Ask HN: How to move beyond “freelancer”? [ext]
322 points by ryannevius on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
16. 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
16.Why are interest rates so low? (brookings.edu)
158 points by forrest_t on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 232 comments [ext]
17.How Mushrooms Could Hold the Key to Our Long-Term Survival as a Species (vice.com)
103 points by DiabloD3 on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
18.Two Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges (nytimes.com)
287 points by TwoFactor on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 90 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.Why My MOOC Is Not Built on Video (class-central.com)
105 points by colinprince on March 29, 2015 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
20.Thinking about Thinking (2007) (the-programmers-stone.com)
85 points by achompas on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
21.Dunning-Kruger and Other Memes (danluu.com)
193 points by kryptiskt on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
22. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
22.Inception: DMA Attack Against Linux, Windows, and Mac (github.com/carmaa)
79 points by dionyziz on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
23.The Great Green Wall of Africa (atlasobscura.com)
104 points by lukashed on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
24.Web Scraping Indeed for Key Data Science Job Skills (jessesw.com)
75 points by jonbaer on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
25. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
25.Interest in Bitcoin Grows on Wall Street (wsj.com)
111 points by edward on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
26.Improving compression with a preset DEFLATE dictionary (cloudflare.com)
117 points by jgrahamc on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
27.Ask HN: Have you ever regretted taking an investment? [ext]
121 points by maxsavin on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
28. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
28.More Details About Project Spartan (windows.com)
95 points by nozzlegear on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
29.Why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study (vox.com)
83 points by tokenadult on March 30, 2015 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
30.Better Kernel#require profiling information (github.com/ruby-prof)
27 points by wwarneck on March 29, 2015 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
31. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments

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