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1.
Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) (improvingsoftware.com)
351 points by dsiegel2275 on April 12, 2015 | 289 comments
2.
Sprinklr Acquires GetSatisfaction, Founders Get Nothing (twitter.com/monstro)
311 points by mishmax on April 12, 2015 | 135 comments
3.
The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling (garlikov.com)
253 points by oxplot on April 12, 2015 | 67 comments
4.
John Carmack's First Game (crpgaddict.blogspot.com)
203 points by santaclaus on April 12, 2015 | 19 comments
5.
Spain's hologram protest: Thousands join virtual march against new gag law (independent.co.uk)
148 points by kurren on April 12, 2015 | 25 comments
6.
Memoize – a replacement for make relying on strace (github.com/kgaughan)
81 points by aartur on April 10, 2015 | 22 comments
7.
Solaris adopting OpenBSD's pf (bsdly.blogspot.com)
129 points by mfincham on April 12, 2015 | 62 comments
8.
Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business (techcrunch.com)
141 points by nailer on April 12, 2015 | 132 comments
9.
UW scientists, biotech firm may have cure for colorblindness (seattletimes.com)
125 points by mdturnerphys on April 12, 2015 | 46 comments
10.
Erlang the movie II: The Sequel (gar1t.com)
129 points by jfaucett on April 12, 2015 | 8 comments
11.
How the THX Deep Note Creator Remade His Iconic Sound (createdigitalmusic.com)
84 points by logn on April 11, 2015 | 29 comments
12.
Elementary OS Freya Released (elementary.io)
137 points by aroman on April 12, 2015 | 87 comments
13.
The State of Probabilistic Programming (moalquraishi.wordpress.com)
109 points by superfx on April 12, 2015 | 30 comments
14.
CRT simulation (2014) (piratehearts.com)
86 points by bashtian on April 12, 2015 | 34 comments
15.
The Moral Bucket List (nytimes.com)
130 points by shakes on April 12, 2015 | 41 comments
16.
Black Arrow (wikipedia.org)
54 points by x43b on April 11, 2015 | 14 comments
17.
Best, Brightest – and Saddest? (nytimes.com)
124 points by jacinda on April 12, 2015 | 102 comments
18.
Firefly – Full Text Search Engine for Dropbox (dropbox.com)
113 points by human_afterall on April 12, 2015 | 21 comments
19.
Mushroom Cultivation Revisited (kylegabriel.com)
82 points by wglb on April 12, 2015 | 10 comments
20.
PapyrOS, based on Arch Linux (papyros.io)
144 points by ekianjo on April 12, 2015 | 44 comments
21.
Intel DDIO, LLC cache, buffer alignment, prefetching, and packet rates (adrianchadd.blogspot.com)
78 points by eadler on April 12, 2015 | 10 comments
22.
BrowserHack: NetHack ported to the web (coolwanglu.github.io)
94 points by ivank on April 12, 2015 | 27 comments
23.
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf] (freebsd.org)
102 points by gszr on April 11, 2015 | 15 comments
24.
Varoufakis and Stiglitz [video] (youtube.com)
121 points by MaysonL on April 12, 2015 | 117 comments
25.
On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers (antipope.org)
80 points by cstross on April 12, 2015 | 43 comments
26.
Sophia: A modern embeddable key-value database – v1.2.2 released (sphia.org)
72 points by pmwkaa on April 12, 2015 | 42 comments
27.
Show HN: Black-hole.js – Visualize black hole gravitational lensing in WebGL (github.com/cliffcrosland)
72 points by cliffcrosland on April 12, 2015 | 14 comments
28.
More Efficient TLB shootdowns (zinascii.com)
52 points by profquail on April 12, 2015 | 6 comments
29.
Basscss – Low-level CSS toolkit (basscss.com)
71 points by achairapart on April 12, 2015 | 30 comments
30.
Escher – A language for connecting technologies using pure metaphors (gocircuit.github.io)
62 points by state on April 12, 2015 | 6 comments

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