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1.		My Biggest Regret as a Programmer (thecodist.com)
		1296 points by doppp on April 6, 2016 \| 618 comments
2.		Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund
		867 points by dang on April 6, 2016 \| 286 comments
3.		Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be (eff.org)
		735 points by DiabloD3 on April 5, 2016 \| 309 comments
4.		The Illegal Map of Swedish Art (googlemapsmania.blogspot.com)
		356 points by chippy on April 6, 2016 \| 95 comments
5.		Classism in America (siderea.livejournal.com)
		307 points by traverseda on April 6, 2016 \| 333 comments
6.		Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English (github.com/mortenjust)
		314 points by henrik_w on April 6, 2016 \| 216 comments
7.		20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012) (stevehanov.ca)
		545 points by _kush on April 6, 2016 \| 157 comments
8.		How Software Gets Bloated: From Telephony to Bitcoin (hackingdistributed.com)
		179 points by bootload on April 6, 2016 \| 54 comments
9.		Now: realtime Node.js deployments (zeit.co)
		288 points by hswolff on April 6, 2016 \| 115 comments
10.		WebTorrent Desktop – Open source streaming torrent client (webtorrent.io)
		337 points by feross on April 6, 2016 \| 80 comments
11.		9-year-old reporter breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics (washingtonpost.com)
		380 points by yurisagalov on April 5, 2016 \| 127 comments
12.		Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU (medium.com/evanwallace)
		223 points by dfield on April 6, 2016 \| 39 comments
13.		RISC-V Offers Simple, Modular ISA (riscv.org)
		211 points by luu on April 6, 2016 \| 157 comments
14.		More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments (wsj.com)
		321 points by lxm on April 6, 2016 \| 423 comments
15.		Show HN: Popper.js, a 3KB library to manage tooltips and popovers (github.com/fezvrasta)
		169 points by AndreaScn on April 6, 2016 \| 59 comments
16.		Sandstorm for Work Beta: LDAP, SAML, Organization Management (sandstorm.io)
		131 points by jgillich on April 6, 2016 \| 17 comments
17.		A Simple Web Developer's Guide to Color (smashingmagazine.com)
		314 points by adamnemecek on April 5, 2016 \| 43 comments
18.		RethinkDB 2.3: user accounts, network encryption, Windows support (rethinkdb.com)
		208 points by coffeemug on April 6, 2016 \| 37 comments
19.		Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps (naytev.com)
		144 points by etr71115 on April 6, 2016 \| 137 comments
20.		Introducing Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Apache Flink (apache.org)
		150 points by stsffap on April 6, 2016 \| 15 comments
21.		VersionPress goes open source (versionpress.net)
		137 points by borekb on April 6, 2016 \| 20 comments
22.		HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions (2011) (vis4.net)
		183 points by laughinghan on April 6, 2016 \| 43 comments
23.		Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history (independent.co.uk)
		178 points by Thevet on April 6, 2016 \| 89 comments
24.		Pfizer to Terminate $160B Merger with Allergan (bloomberg.com)
		132 points by Amorymeltzer on April 6, 2016 \| 83 comments
25.		Wind and solar are attracting the most funding (bloomberg.com)
		93 points by barney54 on April 6, 2016 \| 82 comments
26.		How We Saved $132k a Year With an IT Infrastructure Audit (buffer.com)
		164 points by joshsharp on April 6, 2016 \| 110 comments
27.		Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day (googleblog.com)
		168 points by rey12rey on April 6, 2016 \| 25 comments
28.		How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography prosecution (washingtonpost.com)
		258 points by hackuser on April 6, 2016 \| 169 comments
29.		Segment Sources – Load Salesforce, Zendesk, Stripe into Redshift and Postgres (segment.com)
		178 points by TheHydroImpulse on April 6, 2016 \| 37 comments
30.		OpenPGP best practices (riseup.net)
		142 points by ashitlerferad on April 6, 2016 \| 51 comments
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