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1.		Ask HN: Idea Sunday
		369 points by rokhayakebe on April 6, 2014 \| 567 comments
2.		The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid (uncrunched.com)
		347 points by McKittrick on April 6, 2014 \| 288 comments
3.		Flickr: Invitations disclosure (resend feature) (hackerone.com)
		317 points by mathias on April 6, 2014 \| 90 comments
4.		Progress Button Styles (tympanus.net)
		287 points by madisonmay on April 6, 2014 \| 52 comments
5.		Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70?
		221 points by GuiA on April 6, 2014 \| 118 comments
6.		WebM support on 4chan (4chan.org)
		229 points by ivarious on April 6, 2014 \| 98 comments
7.		Mailr: an open-source webmail client with Gmail-like conversations (pusto.org)
		218 points by cocoflunchy on April 6, 2014 \| 51 comments
8.		Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer (startupboy.com)
		214 points by tikhon on April 6, 2014 \| 58 comments
9.		Alan Kay's Reading List (c2.com)
		201 points by lazydon on April 6, 2014 \| 59 comments
10.		This girl in SF stole my MacBook Air (ahryunmoon.com)
		165 points by amartinezfonts on April 6, 2014 \| 205 comments
11.		Man's high-tech paradise lost: bionic eye removed (thewhig.com)
		161 points by edward on April 6, 2014 \| 78 comments
12.		Spaced Repitition (gwern.net)
		160 points by rfreytag on April 6, 2014 \| 67 comments
13.		Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season (wired.com)
		150 points by x43b on April 6, 2014 \| 98 comments
14.		Spiped – symmetric, encrypted, authenticated pipes between sockets (tarsnap.com)
		149 points by malandrew on April 6, 2014 \| 86 comments
15.		Speed memory access by arranging data to take advantage of CPU caching (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
		149 points by jervisfm on April 6, 2014 \| 52 comments
16.		The Fallacy of Android-First (techcrunch.com)
		138 points by schvenk on April 6, 2014 \| 86 comments
17.		Virtual reality affects men and women differently (zephoria.org)
		137 points by killwhitey on April 6, 2014 \| 103 comments
18.		Miracle health device crowdfunds $730k, but might be bullshit (pando.com)
		132 points by Angostura on April 6, 2014 \| 98 comments
19.		Agony of an African programmer (iafrikan.com)
		127 points by ilhackernews on April 6, 2014 \| 132 comments
20.		A Story Of realloc (And Laziness) (httrack.com)
		130 points by janerik on April 6, 2014 \| 63 comments
21.		Google Now for Chrome (google.com)
		127 points by jaseemabid on April 6, 2014 \| 100 comments
22.		Digital Ocean needs to start showing outages on their status page (medium.com/p)
		129 points by jonny_eh on April 6, 2014 \| 108 comments
23.		Show HN: Siri, open the garage (delian.io)
		129 points by MIT_Hacker on April 6, 2014 \| 44 comments
24.		Why 'gallons per mile' is better than 'miles per gallon' (datagenetics.com)
		115 points by squeakynick on April 6, 2014 \| 121 comments
25.		NoSQL Meets Bitcoin and Brings Down Two Exchanges (hackingdistributed.com)
		103 points by silenteh on April 6, 2014 \| 68 comments
26.		Hello JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (2012) (reverberate.org)
		96 points by jeffreyrogers on April 6, 2014 \| 9 comments
27.		Why is 1 GB equal to 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30? (tarsnap.com)
		92 points by ushi on April 6, 2014 \| 76 comments
28.		Anti-Tech Protesters Are Telling Kevin Rose’s Neighbors That He’s A “Parasite” (techcrunch.com)
		88 points by mason240 on April 6, 2014 \| 89 comments
29.		Note the commit hash (github.com/bradfitz)
		86 points by Xlab on April 6, 2014 \| 29 comments
30.		My 7-Year Old Daughter’s First Programming Experience (dancali.io)
		80 points by idancali on April 6, 2014 \| 61 comments
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