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1.
Go best practices, six years in (bourgon.org)
440 points by krat0sprakhar on May 1, 2016 | 202 comments
2.
Why now is the best time to study quantum computing (2014) (arxiv.org)
195 points by Phithagoras on May 1, 2016 | 78 comments
3.
To become a good C programmer (2011) (fabiensanglard.net)
272 points by __john on May 1, 2016 | 103 comments
4.
Humble Book Bundle: Hacking Presented by No Starch Press (humblebundle.com)
208 points by p4bl0 on May 1, 2016 | 25 comments
5.
Automated Testing for League of Legends (riotgames.com)
246 points by jsnell on April 30, 2016 | 74 comments
6.
Rule 41 Proposes to Grant New Hacking Powers to the Government (eff.org)
230 points by DiabloD3 on May 1, 2016 | 80 comments
7.
Inline assembly in Linux (github.com/0xax)
158 points by 0xAX on May 1, 2016 | 33 comments
8.
Introducing the Infinit file system (infinit.one)
212 points by urza on May 1, 2016 | 60 comments
9.
10nm versus 7nm (semiengineering.com)
155 points by jsnell on May 1, 2016 | 132 comments
10.
What Happened to Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com)
464 points by doff on May 1, 2016 | 193 comments
11.
Handcuffed to Uber (techcrunch.com)
174 points by felarof on May 1, 2016 | 206 comments
12.
A cache miss is not a cache miss (larshagencpp.github.io)
126 points by ingve on May 1, 2016 | 39 comments
13.
I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch (medium.com/tendigi-insights)
287 points by coloneltcb on April 29, 2016 | 51 comments
14.
‘Lost’ songs from the Middle Ages are brought back to life (cam.ac.uk)
107 points by tintinnabula on May 1, 2016 | 9 comments
15.
TTIP Documents Revealed (sueddeutsche.de)
256 points by BonsaiDen on May 1, 2016 | 91 comments
16.
McLaren needs Compaq laptops with bespoke CA cards to maintain the remaining F1s (jalopnik.com)
227 points by mstats on May 1, 2016 | 150 comments
17.
RISC instruction sets I have known and disliked (jwhitham.org)
104 points by jsnell on May 1, 2016 | 74 comments
18.
"Payload to Mars" Added to SpaceX Pricelist (spacex.com)
220 points by paulsutter on May 1, 2016 | 107 comments
19.
C++ Has Become More Pythonic (2014) (preshing.com)
126 points by luu on April 29, 2016 | 121 comments
20.
P2P DNS (github.com/mononofu)
69 points by mikemoka on April 29, 2016 | 21 comments
21.
9/14/14: Sold 500 edu copies of Air Display 2. 4/25/16: All 500 refunded (twitter.com/dshowell)
291 points by zdw on May 1, 2016 | 101 comments
22.
Silhouettes of the bomb: what can we learn from the shapes of atomic weapons? (nuclearsecrecy.com)
86 points by rdl on April 30, 2016 | 34 comments
23.
The Professor Has a Daring Past (nytimes.com)
92 points by hvo on April 30, 2016 | 3 comments
24.
The MakerBot Obituary (hackaday.com)
146 points by szczys on April 28, 2016 | 34 comments
25.
Moving Past the Scaling Myth (silvrback.com)
100 points by tmorton on May 1, 2016 | 23 comments
26.
Andrei Tarkovsky – Poetic Harmony [video] (youtube.com)
119 points by based2 on April 30, 2016 | 18 comments
27.
The Increasing Problem with the Misinformed (baekdal.com)
195 points by r721 on May 1, 2016 | 73 comments
28.
Warn HN: stacks made executable on GNU by mere presence of assembly code
149 points by kazinator on April 30, 2016 | 25 comments
29.
Immortality Begins at Forty (ribbonfarm.com)
190 points by samclemens on April 30, 2016 | 137 comments
30.
Practical Reverse Engineering Part 2 – Scouting the Firmware (jcjc-dev.com)
67 points by paulw0 on May 1, 2016 | 3 comments

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