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1.		Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads (aphyr.com)
		605 points by llambda on April 21, 2015 \| 144 comments
2.		We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership (wired.com)
		578 points by klunger on April 21, 2015 \| 394 comments
3.		NASA data API (nasa.gov)
		351 points by bambax on April 21, 2015 \| 40 comments
4.		C-51 will undermine Canada’s businesses: Open letter from 60 business leaders (nationalpost.com)
		309 points by zawaideh on April 21, 2015 \| 63 comments
5.		Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (automatetheboringstuff.com)
		282 points by adamnemecek on April 21, 2015 \| 51 comments
6.		Keywhiz: Square's system for distributing and managing secrets (square.github.io)
		232 points by bascule on April 21, 2015 \| 31 comments
7.		If 1+x is 1, how much is 1-x? (gus-massa.blogspot.com)
		203 points by gus_massa on April 21, 2015 \| 51 comments
8.		Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop for Dog Sniff Unconstitutional [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
		199 points by dmitrygr on April 21, 2015 \| 133 comments
9.		Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ (wsj.com)
		186 points by sssaylin on April 21, 2015 \| 180 comments
10.		Major Advance in Artificial Photosynthesis Poses Win/Win for the Environment (lbl.gov)
		126 points by velodrome on April 20, 2015 \| 10 comments
11.		To Reduce VR Sickness, Add a Virtual Nose (wired.com)
		181 points by dawkins on April 21, 2015 \| 99 comments
12.		Modern Extreme Programming (benjiweber.co.uk)
		166 points by henrik_w on April 21, 2015 \| 83 comments
13.		GitWikXiv: Toward a successor to the academic paper (jessriedel.com)
		112 points by jessriedel on April 21, 2015 \| 49 comments
14.		Building Better Node.js Applications with RethinkDB (nodecraft.com)
		100 points by CherryJimbo on April 20, 2015 \| 40 comments
15.		The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words (openculture.com)
		115 points by tintinnabula on April 21, 2015 \| 37 comments
16.		Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records Requester Tim Clemans (thestranger.com)
		111 points by deegles on April 21, 2015 \| 44 comments
17.		A Technical Founder’s Notes on Sales Team Management (medium.com/kwindla)
		117 points by kwindla on April 21, 2015 \| 37 comments
18.		Golden hat (wikipedia.org)
		87 points by benbreen on April 20, 2015 \| 28 comments
19.		New York judge grants writ of habeus corpus to two chimpanzees (theguardian.com)
		111 points by century19 on April 21, 2015 \| 166 comments
20.		How Nicaraguan Villagers Built Their Own Electric Grid (ieee.org)
		83 points by jonbaer on April 20, 2015 \| 17 comments
21.		Have you heard 'the hum'? Mystery of Earth's low droning noise solved? (independent.co.uk)
		84 points by chippy on April 21, 2015 \| 38 comments
22.		This man just claimed a new European nation. 160,000 people want to live there (littlerock.com.mt)
		287 points by webdisrupt on April 21, 2015 \| 150 comments
23.		3,000 floppy disk archive (1982–1994) (vogons.org)
		97 points by noso on April 21, 2015 \| 43 comments
24.		Japan maglev train breaks world speed record again (bbc.co.uk)
		187 points by noso on April 21, 2015 \| 165 comments
25.		Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming (nytimes.com)
		105 points by donohoe on April 20, 2015 \| 109 comments
26.		Magento eCommerce PHP Remote Code Execution (ma.ttias.be)
		143 points by Mojah on April 21, 2015 \| 78 comments
27.		Trapped into Selling Magazines Door-To-Door (theatlantic.com)
		71 points by timw6n on April 21, 2015 \| 20 comments
28.		Internet Archive: What’s new with v2 (archive.org)
		117 points by castell on April 21, 2015 \| 26 comments
29.		Tough, Cheap, and Real: Detroit (nationalgeographic.com)
		69 points by samclemens on April 21, 2015 \| 55 comments
30.		John Nash receives Abel Prize for revered work in mathematics (princeton.edu)
		88 points by gszr on April 21, 2015
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