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1.		Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Privacy Activists Wasn't Told About Tor (thestranger.com)
		404 points by nkurz on April 11, 2016 \| 222 comments
2.		Hack-petya mission accomplished – Petya ransomware decryptor (github.com/leo-stone)
		451 points by aw3c2 on April 11, 2016 \| 79 comments
3.		Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness' Couple (priceonomics.com)
		396 points by jseliger on April 11, 2016 \| 405 comments
4.		Panama Papers Leak Signals a Shift in Mainstream Journalism (nytimes.com)
		230 points by tysone on April 11, 2016 \| 96 comments
5.		USB power supply puts 220 Mains power out on USB jack (youtube.com)
		369 points by software_radio on April 11, 2016 \| 156 comments
6.		Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering Book (danluu.com)
		383 points by slantedview on April 11, 2016 \| 93 comments
7.		Top Hacker News Submissions by Year: 2009–2015 (github.com/antontarasenko)
		264 points by anton_tarasenko on April 10, 2016 \| 52 comments
8.		Show HN: The first issue of Compelling Science Fiction (compellingsciencefiction.com)
		311 points by mojoe on April 11, 2016 \| 70 comments
9.		The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy (theguardian.com)
		542 points by dineshp2 on April 11, 2016 \| 338 comments
10.		Paul's Online Math Notes (lamar.edu)
		297 points by rfreytag on April 11, 2016 \| 43 comments
11.		The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System (nextplatform.com)
		136 points by jonbaer on April 10, 2016 \| 85 comments
12.		Email copy from great companies (goodemailcopy.com)
		253 points by ghosh on April 11, 2016 \| 28 comments
13.		Engineering PhD student who died last year will get rare posthumous degree (madison.com)
		145 points by DarkContinent on April 11, 2016 \| 19 comments
14.		OpenBSD hackathons (openbsd.org)
		151 points by jorgecastillo on April 11, 2016 \| 27 comments
15.		Qpm: A package manager for Qt (qpm.io)
		141 points by plumeria on April 11, 2016 \| 102 comments
16.		The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede (theswedishnumber.com)
		273 points by iriche on April 11, 2016 \| 204 comments
17.		Performance Culture (joeduffyblog.com)
		122 points by panic on April 10, 2016 \| 29 comments
18.		GCHQ 'intervened' over Harry Potter leak (bbc.co.uk)
		98 points by jackgavigan on April 10, 2016 \| 70 comments
19.		Blogless – An articles-only publishing system for web writers (datenbrei.de)
		76 points by Tomte on April 10, 2016 \| 27 comments
20.		Intel SPMD: Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming (ispc.github.io)
		101 points by vmorgulis on April 11, 2016 \| 48 comments
21.		Box Art Brut: The no-rules design of early computer games box art (worldwritable.com)
		93 points by cpeterso on April 11, 2016 \| 11 comments
22.		Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power (lihaoyi.com)
		118 points by rspivak on April 10, 2016 \| 64 comments
23.		Meet the bughunters: the hackers in India protecting your data (theguardian.com)
		62 points by cichli on April 10, 2016 \| 16 comments
24.		A Revolutionary Discovery in China (nybooks.com)
		88 points by lermontov on April 11, 2016 \| 33 comments
25.		Economists Adding Up at Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google (investors.com)
		64 points by Futurebot on April 10, 2016 \| 27 comments
26.		Firefox vs. rthreads (tedunangst.com)
		220 points by tbirdz on April 11, 2016 \| 48 comments
27.		Pine64 (64-bit quad core for $15) Quick Start Guide (rayhightower.com)
		145 points by RayHightower on April 11, 2016 \| 54 comments
28.		The Greatest Violin No One’s Ever Heard (lithub.com)
		45 points by pepys on April 10, 2016 \| 24 comments
29.		Inventor Dean Kamen’s Big Ideas (wsj.com)
		81 points by lxm on April 11, 2016 \| 33 comments
30.		How big is the Google Earth database? (gearthblog.com)
		215 points by edward on April 11, 2016 \| 101 comments
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