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1.		Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X (truesecdev.wordpress.com)
		920 points by mortenlarsen on April 9, 2015 \| 356 comments
2.		Amazon Elastic File System (amazon.com)
		471 points by suprgeek on April 9, 2015 \| 213 comments
3.		Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring? (whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me)
		493 points by manlio on April 9, 2015 \| 117 comments
4.		Remotely send Chrome and Node.js into infinite loops via OS X kernel bug (sandstorm.io)
		334 points by kentonv on April 9, 2015 \| 74 comments
5.		LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B (techcrunch.com)
		320 points by qnk on April 9, 2015 \| 147 comments
6.		Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand (mobilejazz.com)
		308 points by znq on April 9, 2015 \| 187 comments
7.		Boltons: over 100 Python utilities (github.com/mahmoud)
		282 points by mhashemi on April 9, 2015 \| 53 comments
8.		Michigan Micro Mote – World's Smallest Computer (umich.edu)
		290 points by saticmotion on April 9, 2015 \| 53 comments
9.		Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale (amazon.com)
		251 points by leef on April 9, 2015 \| 51 comments
10.		U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade (time.com)
		325 points by adamnemecek on April 9, 2015 \| 229 comments
11.		Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because “Hacking” Is Illegal (eff.org)
		282 points by thisisparker on April 8, 2015 \| 152 comments
12.		“The GNU Make Book”: probably more than you ever wanted to know about make (jgc.org)
		214 points by jgrahamc on April 9, 2015 \| 66 comments
13.		Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways (scientificamerican.com)
		204 points by danielam on April 9, 2015 \| 153 comments
14.		Show HN: Bot accepts every pull request for its own code (github.com/botwillacceptanything)
		155 points by mappum on April 9, 2015 \| 93 comments
15.		A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer (comcast.net)
		102 points by guru_meditation on April 9, 2015 \| 33 comments
16.		MIT Announces New Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (newsoffice.mit.edu)
		95 points by tchalla on April 9, 2015 \| 6 comments
17.		Amphetamines Are Hiding in Your Supplements (thedailybeast.com)
		99 points by Hooke on April 9, 2015 \| 72 comments
18.		Readability, hackability, and abstraction (benkuhn.net)
		92 points by jeremynixon on April 9, 2015 \| 18 comments
19.		The evolution of dog breeds (priceonomics.com)
		79 points by igonvalue on April 9, 2015 \| 32 comments
20.		Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields (nytimes.com)
		79 points by aaronbrethorst on April 9, 2015 \| 6 comments
21.		Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
		211 points by pmcpinto on April 9, 2015 \| 388 comments
22.		On software popularity (soveran.com)
		140 points by djanowski on April 9, 2015 \| 71 comments
23.		Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11) (cloudflare.com)
		120 points by jgrahamc on April 9, 2015 \| 11 comments
24.		Gradual type checking for Ruby (github.com/gogotanaka)
		60 points by eduardordm on April 9, 2015 \| 42 comments
25.		Golang custom transports and timeouts (biasedbit.com)
		77 points by ovokinder on April 9, 2015 \| 6 comments
26.		SSLMate – Buy SSL certs from the command line (sslmate.com)
		118 points by sleepyhead on April 9, 2015 \| 67 comments
27.		CSS Framework for Dummies (github.com/yegor256)
		77 points by yegor256a on April 9, 2015 \| 27 comments
28.		Sell in May, and go away? (agoraopus.com)
		61 points by theocs on April 9, 2015 \| 35 comments
29.		How InnoDB lost its advantage (dom.as)
		69 points by jaytaylor on April 9, 2015 \| 15 comments
30.		'Silicon Valley Is Coming' Warns JP Morgan CEO (usatoday.com)
		180 points by pyabo on April 9, 2015 \| 158 comments
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