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1.		Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 (techcrunch.com)
		371 points by zastrowm on April 2, 2014 \| 290 comments
2.		Amazon Fire TV (amazon.com)
		388 points by ndrake on April 2, 2014 \| 381 comments
3.		Tarsnap price cut (daemonology.net)
		320 points by cperciva on April 2, 2014 \| 157 comments
4.		-2000 Lines of Code (2004) (folklore.org)
		317 points by chanux on April 2, 2014 \| 139 comments
5.		Zed: The Next Phase (zedapp.org)
		304 points by softmodeling on April 2, 2014 \| 122 comments
6.		Shutting down Ubuntu One file services (canonical.com)
		298 points by endijs on April 2, 2014 \| 203 comments
7.		Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop (bunniestudios.com)
		292 points by kevs on April 2, 2014 \| 74 comments
8.		A group of 3,000 citizens is making better forecasts than CIA analysts (npr.org)
		297 points by sizzle on April 2, 2014 \| 135 comments
9.		Microsoft introduces Universal Windows apps (wmpoweruser.com)
		284 points by chris-at on April 2, 2014 \| 183 comments
10.		WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript (msdn.microsoft.com)
		279 points by camus2 on April 2, 2014 \| 131 comments
11.		ipython 2.0.0 (ipython.org)
		273 points by kseistrup on April 2, 2014 \| 56 comments
12.		Announcing TypeScript 1.0 (msdn.com)
		265 points by kjbekkelund on April 2, 2014 \| 115 comments
13.		Haste language (haste-lang.org)
		259 points by kruipen on April 2, 2014 \| 73 comments
14.		Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
		239 points by niels_olson on April 2, 2014 \| 162 comments
15.		My First Year of Coding (jenniferdewalt.com)
		239 points by jenniferDewalt on April 2, 2014 \| 113 comments
16.		What it is like being the only engineer in a meeting [video] (laughingsquid.com)
		222 points by nate_martin on April 2, 2014 \| 112 comments
17.		Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8.1 with personal assistant Cortana (thenextweb.com)
		204 points by msoliman on April 2, 2014 \| 116 comments
18.		How the secret police tracked my childhood (bbc.com)
		189 points by ghosh on April 2, 2014 \| 56 comments
19.		My Surreal UberX Experience (tomtunguz.com)
		185 points by ASquare on April 2, 2014 \| 42 comments
20.		April Fools: migrate Apache Subversion project over to the git repo (apache.org)
		170 points by yuvadam on April 2, 2014 \| 98 comments
21.		Wu-Tang Clan Offered $5M for New Album Only Available as One Copy (pitchfork.com)
		167 points by cityzen on April 2, 2014 \| 118 comments
22.		CryptoCat iOS Application Penetration Test [pdf] (isecpartners.github.io)
		168 points by secalex on April 2, 2014 \| 131 comments
23.		Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk (kickstarter.com)
		143 points by basisword on April 2, 2014 \| 107 comments
24.		[dupe] This is how an engineer feels when he's surrounded by idiots (cnet.com)
		134 points by jtoeman on April 2, 2014 \| 74 comments
25.		Btrees are the new black (me.net.nz)
		133 points by jjh42 on April 2, 2014 \| 41 comments
26.		Working From Home? Here's an Extra Shot of Focus (livingsocial.com)
		133 points by tvalent2 on April 2, 2014 \| 50 comments
27.		There is a pure HTML Gmail, and it still works (plus.google.com)
		131 points by amaks on April 2, 2014 \| 89 comments
28.		Show HN: I built this notifying device – electronics, code, design, marketing (notifon.net)
		129 points by clement87 on April 2, 2014 \| 57 comments
29.		Microsoft Updates Visual Studio (techcrunch.com)
		119 points by kanche on April 2, 2014 \| 59 comments
30.		One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R (togaware.com)
		121 points by sytelus on April 2, 2014 \| 17 comments
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