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1.		YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader (rg3.github.io)
		989 points by h43k3r on April 8, 2016 \| 321 comments
2.		WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites (techcrunch.com)
		447 points by jblz on April 8, 2016 \| 127 comments
3.		SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast (youtube.com)
		845 points by cryptoz on April 8, 2016 \| 354 comments
4.		Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders (sec.gov)
		451 points by adamsi on April 8, 2016 \| 274 comments
5.		Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance' (thehill.com)
		389 points by chlodwig on April 8, 2016 \| 209 comments
6.		If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of Plaintext iMessage Data (bishopfox.com)
		282 points by brie22 on April 8, 2016 \| 81 comments
7.		The Book of Shaders (thebookofshaders.com)
		193 points by jashmenn on April 8, 2016 \| 15 comments
8.		Algebrite, a computer algebra system in JavaScript (algebrite.org)
		140 points by davidedc on April 8, 2016 \| 30 comments
9.		[dupe] Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up Malware 'Ads' (techdirt.com)
		606 points by jackgavigan on April 8, 2016 \| 271 comments
10.		Erlang 19.0 Garbage Collector (erlang-solutions.com)
		261 points by bandris on April 8, 2016 \| 21 comments
11.		WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users (eff.org)
		330 points by randomname2 on April 8, 2016 \| 226 comments
12.		Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt (bbc.com)
		127 points by mdturnerphys on April 8, 2016 \| 62 comments
13.		LogZoom: A fast, lightweight substitute for Logstash/Fluentd in Go (packetzoom.com)
		149 points by whost49 on April 8, 2016 \| 39 comments
14.		How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis (themacro.com)
		71 points by hua on April 7, 2016 \| 43 comments
15.		Tell HN: I'm creating an autonomous racing series (selfracingcars.com)
		127 points by joshu on April 8, 2016 \| 59 comments
16.		Doctors used an ER patient's FitBit data to justify electrical cardioversion (slate.com)
		87 points by curtis on April 7, 2016 \| 35 comments
17.		I’m not a human: Breaking the Google reCAPTCHA [pdf] (blackhat.com)
		166 points by louis-paul on April 8, 2016 \| 68 comments
18.		I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience (phoronix.com)
		134 points by iberinger on April 8, 2016 \| 32 comments
19.		Apply HN: Casepad – Better Databases for Public Defenders and Others
		173 points by botacode on April 8, 2016 \| 65 comments
20.		Scientists store digital images in DNA and retrieve them perfectly (washington.edu)
		95 points by victorbojica on April 8, 2016 \| 20 comments
21.		Hungarian government briefly proposes to criminalize encrypted services (mappingmediafreedom.org)
		315 points by randomname2 on April 8, 2016 \| 86 comments
22.		How we get high availability with Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails (gsa.gov)
		69 points by konklone on April 8, 2016 \| 29 comments
23.		Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude (stephendiehl.com)
		96 points by ingve on April 8, 2016 \| 44 comments
24.		Panama Papers: Email Hackable via WordPress, Docs Hackable via Drupal (wordfence.com)
		126 points by mmaunder on April 8, 2016 \| 36 comments
25.		Flippaper: Draw your own pinball in real time (flippaper.org)
		61 points by neo2001 on April 8, 2016 \| 10 comments
26.		Want to start a small data journalism team in your newsroom? (niemanlab.org)
		47 points by danso on April 7, 2016 \| 13 comments
27.		How good is your French accent? (frenchmeter.com)
		153 points by montbonnot on April 8, 2016 \| 179 comments
28.		'Devastating' bug pops secure doors at airports, hospitals (theregister.co.uk)
		78 points by dcposch on April 5, 2016 \| 43 comments
29.		Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet on Mobile Voice Search (recode.net)
		107 points by shawndumas on April 8, 2016 \| 78 comments
30.		Ask HN: What to do when a Chinese startup clones your website?
		131 points by bflesch on April 8, 2016 \| 128 comments
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