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1.		To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014) (hbr.org)
		543 points by edward on April 13, 2015 \| 225 comments
2.		The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy (vox.com)
		461 points by prawn on April 13, 2015 \| 214 comments
3.		Linux 4.0 (kernel.org)
		390 points by joewalnes on April 13, 2015 \| 79 comments
4.		Voyage to Nowhere: The Amazon Kindle Story (cgpgrey.com)
		316 points by lelf on April 12, 2015 \| 188 comments
5.		Socket.IO C++ (socket.io)
		253 points by Rauchg on April 13, 2015 \| 78 comments
6.		The Code Is Just the Symptom (medium.com/rubyghetto)
		263 points by gvb on April 13, 2015 \| 65 comments
7.		Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system (frite-camembert.net)
		224 points by bru on April 13, 2015 \| 275 comments
8.		Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels? (aeon.co)
		173 points by Hooke on April 13, 2015 \| 178 comments
9.		Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands (newsoffice.mit.edu)
		164 points by ub on April 13, 2015 \| 78 comments
10.		Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites (techcrunch.com)
		171 points by ebildsten on April 13, 2015 \| 44 comments
11.		Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear waste (2010) (csicop.org)
		207 points by gus_massa on April 13, 2015 \| 171 comments
12.		CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner (cloudflare.com)
		158 points by jgrahamc on April 13, 2015 \| 83 comments
13.		The J1 Forth CPU (excamera.com)
		150 points by carapace on April 13, 2015 \| 22 comments
14.		Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP (groups.google.com)
		180 points by dochtman on April 13, 2015 \| 293 comments
15.		Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (lg.io)
		201 points by arcticbull on April 12, 2015 \| 71 comments
16.		Why Open Source Startups Fail (techcrunch.com)
		167 points by simas on April 13, 2015 \| 86 comments
17.		True Zero-Downtime HAProxy Reloads (yelp.com)
		128 points by meatmanek on April 13, 2015 \| 49 comments
18.		German author Guenter Grass dies (bbc.com)
		197 points by signa11 on April 13, 2015 \| 58 comments
19.		Distraction is a kind of obesity of the mind (theguardian.com)
		167 points by bootload on April 13, 2015 \| 42 comments
20.		Man Says He Can Make 20-Year-Old Rum in 6 Days (wired.com)
		119 points by rockdiesel on April 13, 2015 \| 94 comments
21.		Show HN: TypeSlab – simple, shareable typographic posters (typeslab.com)
		138 points by geelen on April 13, 2015 \| 37 comments
22.		Why Self-Organizing Is So Hard (medium.com/nobl-collective)
		91 points by based2 on April 12, 2015 \| 23 comments
23.		JIT compiler for 6502 machine code, built on lib6502 and LLVM (github.com/zornslemma)
		59 points by luu on April 13, 2015 \| 7 comments
24.		The Golden Ratio: Design's Biggest Myth (fastcodesign.com)
		107 points by techaddict009 on April 13, 2015 \| 37 comments
25.		Presidential candidate website tech, compared (paulschreiber.com)
		95 points by leahculver on April 13, 2015 \| 53 comments
26.		Typos in search queries at Khan Academy (johncs.com)
		70 points by johncs on April 13, 2015 \| 9 comments
27.		HFT in my backyard – VI (sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com)
		114 points by omnibrain on April 13, 2015 \| 13 comments
28.		First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves (nealstephenson.com)
		122 points by Uhhrrr on April 13, 2015 \| 96 comments
29.		Graphene oxide soaks up radioactive waste (rice.edu)
		53 points by DiabloD3 on April 13, 2015 \| 3 comments
30.		Watching and Re-Watching “The Mother of All Demos” (arstechnica.com)
		70 points by shawndumas on April 13, 2015 \| 24 comments
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