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1.
The Fuck – Correct your previous console command (github.com/nvbn)
438 points by nvbn on April 17, 2015 | 165 comments
2.
RethinkDB 2.0 is amazing (conery.io)
348 points by TheMissingPiece on April 17, 2015 | 203 comments
3.
Chord progressions of 25,000 songs (amitkohli.com)
282 points by _zhqs on April 17, 2015 | 108 comments
4.
A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport (chromium.org)
231 points by jplevine on April 17, 2015 | 123 comments
5.
Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text (rice.edu)
228 points by diodorus on April 17, 2015 | 133 comments
6.
The death of optimizing compilers [pdf] (cr.yp.to)
217 points by fcambus on April 17, 2015 | 216 comments
7.
Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed?
325 points by superpi on April 17, 2015 | 173 comments
8.
Female Chimps Seen Making, Wielding Spears (discovery.com)
205 points by curtis on April 17, 2015 | 99 comments
9.
Advanced R by Hadley Wickham (had.co.nz)
116 points by sonabinu on April 17, 2015 | 24 comments
10.
Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil (github.com/syl20bnr)
227 points by weavie on April 17, 2015 | 102 comments
11.
Scientists Perturbed by Loss of Stat Tool to Sift Research Fudge from Fact (scientificamerican.com)
79 points by jonbaer on April 17, 2015 | 39 comments
12.
Google Container Registry (cloud.google.com)
106 points by fbueno on April 17, 2015 | 30 comments
13.
Ask HN: What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?
325 points by J-dawg on April 17, 2015 | 67 comments
14.
WikiLeaks publishes 30,000 leaked Sony documents (wikileaks.org)
320 points by ryan_j_naughton on April 17, 2015 | 278 comments
15.
Code Inflation [pdf] (computer.org)
80 points by chilgart on April 17, 2015 | 29 comments
16.
Circuit: A Minimal Distributed Programmatic OS written in Go (gocircuit.github.io)
86 points by jaytaylor on April 17, 2015 | 22 comments
17.
How ZenPayroll processes billions of dollars in annual payroll (stackshare.io)
79 points by sergiotapia on April 17, 2015 | 17 comments
18.
Bloomberg Terminals Suffer Widespread Failures (nytimes.com)
132 points by svtrent on April 17, 2015 | 66 comments
19.
Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch (sourceforge.net)
80 points by tomkwok on April 17, 2015 | 16 comments
20.
x*sin(y) (google.com)
329 points by callum85 on April 17, 2015 | 87 comments
21.
DocStore: Document Database for MySQL at Facebook [pdf] (percona.com)
60 points by ngrilly on April 17, 2015 | 17 comments
22.
US Navy develops cannon-launched 'swarming' drones (bbc.com)
97 points by jackgavigan on April 17, 2015 | 63 comments
23.
I found Einstein's Brain (medium.com/backchannel)
66 points by steven on April 17, 2015 | 13 comments
24.
Thumbnail track pad (newsoffice.mit.edu)
64 points by ub on April 17, 2015 | 23 comments
25.
RFC 7569 – Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP (ietf.org)
49 points by ch0wn on April 17, 2015 | 9 comments
26.
AMD Exits Dense Microserver Business, Ends SeaMicro Brand (anandtech.com)
90 points by boyter on April 16, 2015 | 37 comments
27.
Why Young Men Go to War (medium.com/war-is-boring)
152 points by 67726e on April 16, 2015 | 214 comments
28.
A Million Lines of Bad Code (varianceexplained.org)
175 points by var_explained on April 17, 2015 | 121 comments
29.
Towards improved C++ support for games, graphics, real-time, embedded systems [pdf] (open-std.org)
70 points by JSnake on April 16, 2015 | 38 comments
30.
At Marathon in North Korea, Curiosity Goes a Long Way (nytimes.com)
74 points by pmcpinto on April 16, 2015 | 13 comments

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