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1.
When the U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (thestar.com)
471 points by hecubus on March 5, 2016 | 103 comments
2.
Bitcoin transaction processing takes up to 10 hours (coindesk.com)
272 points by elorant on March 5, 2016 | 185 comments
3.
SpaceX SES-9 Mission Live Webcast (spacex.com)
152 points by nerdy on March 4, 2016 | 90 comments
4.
The Untold History of Arduino (arduinohistory.github.io)
413 points by toom on March 2, 2016 | 73 comments
5.
Beautiful Racket (beautifulracket.com)
225 points by samth on March 3, 2016 | 53 comments
6.
Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s (bbc.com)
140 points by altstar on March 4, 2016 | 72 comments
7.
Man Convicted Based on Erroneous Evidence Exonerated After 25 Years (innocenceproject.org)
144 points by salmonet on March 5, 2016 | 71 comments
8.
Why I Left Oracle – A Confession (rahmannet.net)
140 points by cronjobber on March 5, 2016 | 152 comments
9.
What's in a Build Tool? (lihaoyi.com)
113 points by lihaoyi on March 4, 2016 | 69 comments
10.
Life and death in the App Store (theverge.com)
137 points by gpresot on March 4, 2016 | 58 comments
11.
Amazon Reverses Course, Encryption Returning for Fire Devices (bloomberg.com)
110 points by adventured on March 5, 2016 | 35 comments
12.
Peanut allergy theory backed up by new research (bbc.com)
99 points by ohjeez on March 5, 2016 | 47 comments
13.
What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable (medium.com/barmstrong)
266 points by pak on March 4, 2016 | 204 comments
14.
The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science (plain-text.co)
67 points by jboynyc on March 4, 2016 | 21 comments
15.
Show HN: Tile38 – A geolocation DB with spatial index and realtime geofencing (github.com/tidwall)
82 points by tidwall on March 4, 2016 | 18 comments
16.
The Notebooks of Anton Chekhov (jacket2.org)
50 points by lermontov on March 4, 2016 | 1 comment
17.
Driverless lorries to be trialled in UK (bbc.co.uk)
81 points by sjcsjc on March 5, 2016 | 93 comments
18.
Some radical thoughts about Sci-Hub (duke.edu)
110 points by chei0aiV on March 5, 2016 | 38 comments
19.
Jim Kimsey Dies at 76; AOL Co-Founder Influenced Generation of Net Providers (nytimes.com)
38 points by jstreebin on March 2, 2016 | 1 comment
20.
Wuppertal Suspension Railway (wikipedia.org)
62 points by yitchelle on March 5, 2016 | 20 comments
21.
An OCaml/Mirage-friendly implementation of the Plan9 filesystem protocol (github.com/mirage)
85 points by luu on March 5, 2016 | 11 comments
22.
Show HN: Start a pair programming session over WebRTC by just sharing a link (codecoachapp.com)
131 points by jsin on March 5, 2016 | 40 comments
23.
What Happened, Miss Simone? (nybooks.com)
88 points by whocansay on March 5, 2016 | 15 comments
24.
The Tatra 603: Wacky Commie Hot Rod (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
74 points by akkartik on March 5, 2016 | 25 comments
25.
Stein's paradox in Statistics (1977) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
69 points by xtacy on March 5, 2016 | 13 comments
26.
Fighting cancer by putting tumor cells on a diet (npr.org)
89 points by ValentineC on March 5, 2016 | 42 comments
27.
Google Posts (google.com)
126 points by axg on March 5, 2016 | 110 comments
28.
A plagiarism scandal is unfolding in the crossword puzzle world (fivethirtyeight.com)
111 points by k4jh on March 5, 2016 | 41 comments
29.
Video Room 1000 – A video uploaded to YouTube 1,000 times (2010) [video] (youtube.com)
67 points by DanBC on March 5, 2016 | 13 comments
30.
Timothy Gowers is bent on proving academic journals can cost nothing (vox.com)
94 points by robertwalsh0 on March 4, 2016 | 11 comments

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