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1.NGINX open sources TCP load balancing (nginx.org)
500 points by realityking on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
2.Prof. Sussman's Reading List (aurellem.org)
437 points by jonnybgood on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
3.A cross-platform debugger for Go (mailgun.com)
379 points by jschlatter on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
4. Why self-play crushed two-week-old agents 95% of the time (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 611 days ago | hide | 15 comments
4.The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs (curtis.io)
230 points by cgag on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
5.Tor Exit Node Operator Issued Subpoena (torproject.org)
227 points by tshtf on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
6.Show HN: Kubist, a little web app to make cubism-like images (williamngan.github.io)
231 points by metaphorical on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
7. From Wool Sneakers to AI Chips: The Anatomy of a Desperation Pivot (archive.is)
42 points by eum3372 12 hours ago | hide | 186 comments
7.Going “Write-Only” (begriffs.com)
230 points by begriffs on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
8.Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack (aurellem.org)
206 points by hobs on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
9. [dupe] Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking” (eff.org)
442 points by CapitalistCartr on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 217 comments [ext]
10. Slam Your Plan Against Reality Until It Hands You a Better One (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 603 days ago | hide | 97 comments
10.Grafana 2.0 Released (grafana.org)
157 points by eloycoto on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
11.SX – Stack Exchange mode for Emacs (github.com/vermiculus)
115 points by brudgers on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
12.Intel's 14nm technology in detail (2014) (anandtech.com)
116 points by craigjb on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
13. Why Shipping Software Is the Worst Way to Monetize It ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
13.Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (1943) (laphamsquarterly.org)
158 points by Hooke on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
14.A New ‘Wrinkle in Time’ (wsj.com)
165 points by benbreen on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
15.Elm 0.15: Asynchrony with Tasks (elm-lang.org)
121 points by jwmerrill on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
16. What 14 Years at Google Taught Me About Everything Except Code (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 106 days ago | hide | 48 comments
16.The Man Who Broke the Music Business (newyorker.com)
182 points by donohoe on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
17.Please consider the impacts of banning HTTP (github.com/whitehouse)
257 points by v4n4d1s on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 259 comments [ext]
18.The Two Day Manifesto (twodaymanifesto.com)
181 points by sergiotapia on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
19. The $10 Lens That Reshaped Global Blindness Prevention (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 201 days ago | hide | 18 comments
19.Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Deconstructs the Science of Songwriting (medium.com/cuepoint)
93 points by sarahf on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
20.1.5 Million Missing Black Men (nytimes.com)
291 points by kiddz on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 352 comments [ext]
21.New Theory Leads to Gigahertz Antenna on a Chip (ieee.org)
69 points by jonbaer on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
22. 72 Million Trades Reveal a Hidden Wealth Transfer on Kalshi (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 92 days ago | hide | 148 comments
22.A proof of concept MongoDB clone built on Postgres (github.com/jerrysievert)
142 points by pablobaz on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
23.Wagtail (wagtail.io)
91 points by forloop on April 19, 2015 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
24.Lessons Learned in Software Development (henrikwarne.com)
165 points by henrik_w on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
25. Hedge Funds Running 100-To-1 Leverage Meet A Tariff Shock (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 369 days ago | hide | 168 comments
25.Korean Shipbuilder Uses Exosuit to Help Build World's Largest Freighter (dailytech.com)
116 points by okasaki on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
26.Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning (petewarden.com)
63 points by shepardrtc on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
27.Myths of the American Revolution (2010) (smithsonianmag.com)
67 points by diodorus on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
28. Switching Costs Are Falling, But Three Moats Still Hold ()
322 points by oik7062 61 days ago | hide | 65 comments
28.DNNGraph – A deep neural network model generation DSL in Haskell (github.com/ajtulloch)
57 points by psoto on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
29.The Sortix Operating System (sortix.org)
127 points by fabrice_d on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
30.Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013 (bloomberg.com)
191 points by r0h1n on April 20, 2015 [ext] | 186 comments [ext]
31. Why Uber-for-X Failed While Amazon Built an Impenetrable Moat ()
257 points by pen4647 498 days ago | hide | 50 comments

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