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1.		The user is drunk (2013) [video] (youtube.com)
		297 points by shocks on April 27, 2014 \| 59 comments
2.		Freelancer.com is destroying my life (medium.com/p)
		262 points by davidbarker on April 27, 2014 \| 139 comments
3.		FPV with Oculus Rift and a Quadcopter (github.com/matsemann)
		234 points by arijit91 on April 27, 2014 \| 60 comments
4.		Software of the Apollo guidance computer was hand-woven into rope core memory (youtube.com)
		235 points by raldi on April 27, 2014 \| 32 comments
5.		Go: Best Practices for Production Enviroments (bourgon.org)
		222 points by ConceitedCode on April 27, 2014 \| 44 comments
6.		Ask HN: What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved?
		209 points by pauletienney on April 27, 2014 \| 173 comments
7.		The TeX tuneup of 2014 [pdf] (tug.org)
		178 points by yiransheng on April 27, 2014 \| 69 comments
8.		Some thoughts on Go and Erlang (erlware.org)
		182 points by rubyrescue on April 27, 2014 \| 143 comments
9.		“Mostly functional” programming does not work (acm.org)
		158 points by Bootvis on April 27, 2014 \| 192 comments
10.		Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
		156 points by compass-seeker on April 27, 2014 \| 60 comments
11.		Brazilians welcome genetically-modified mosquito to help fight dengue fever (pri.org)
		139 points by ojosilva on April 27, 2014 \| 86 comments
12.		Classy: Cleaner class-based controllers for AngularJS (davej.github.io)
		139 points by LX-350 on April 27, 2014 \| 57 comments
13.		Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ prototype, a Silk Road the FBI can't seize (wired.com)
		139 points by yiransheng on April 27, 2014 \| 83 comments
14.		Ask HN: Idea Sunday
		122 points by livestyle on April 27, 2014 \| 172 comments
15.		Syntax extensions and regular expressions for Rust (burntsushi.net)
		126 points by dbaupp on April 27, 2014 \| 25 comments
16.		Poll: how many productive hours do you have in a day?
		111 points by caiobegotti on April 27, 2014 \| 82 comments
17.		A new Django content management system (github.com/torchbox)
		115 points by aram on April 27, 2014 \| 39 comments
18.		Software Checklist (solipsys.co.uk)
		112 points by happyscrappy on April 27, 2014 \| 67 comments
19.		GoLearn – Machine Learning in Go (sjwhitworth.com)
		109 points by alixaxel on April 27, 2014 \| 23 comments
20.		Ask HN: Best Firefox phone to get?
		102 points by vijayr on April 27, 2014 \| 47 comments
21.		Exercise during pregnancy gives newborn brain development a head start (umontreal.ca)
		97 points by mkempe on April 27, 2014 \| 17 comments
22.		Identify mystery text, win $1000 (uchicago.edu)
		91 points by winstonsmith on April 27, 2014 \| 32 comments
23.		The Story Behind Upcoming Film “Spacesuit” (2013) (thecredits.org)
		79 points by cromulent on April 27, 2014 \| 22 comments
24.		An Erlang Postgres driver: refurbishing open source (dedasys.com)
		82 points by davidw on April 27, 2014 \| 4 comments
25.		Heartbleed and RSA private keys (lightbluetouchpaper.org)
		83 points by Libertatea on April 27, 2014 \| 3 comments
26.		Amazon's Stressed Out Culture Is Burning Out Employees (minyanville.com)
		73 points by Flopsy on April 27, 2014 \| 41 comments
27.		Getting Started, circa 1983 (simonallardice.com)
		80 points by davidbarker on April 27, 2014 \| 35 comments
28.		Why You Shouldn't Say It's Easy When Teaching (karissamck.com)
		77 points by quasiben on April 27, 2014 \| 60 comments
29.		The Sorry State of Peer-to-Peer iOS-to-Android connectivity (moritzhaarmann.de)
		79 points by derwildemomo on April 27, 2014 \| 25 comments
30.		There’s scant evidence that healthy foods prevent cancer or fatty foods cause it (startribune.com)
		76 points by tokenadult on April 27, 2014 \| 60 comments
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