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1.
What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people? (theguardian.com)
383 points by nkurz on April 10, 2016 | 441 comments
2.
How a Car Engine Works (animagraffs.com)
404 points by kercker on April 9, 2016 | 123 comments
3.
Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching from Above (buzzfeed.com)
377 points by prawn on April 10, 2016 | 132 comments
4.
Metal foam obliterates bullets (phys.org)
327 points by WellDressed on April 9, 2016 | 87 comments
5.
Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals (2014) (patshaughnessy.net)
302 points by rspivak on April 10, 2016 | 27 comments
6.
Domino's: Pizza and Payments (ifc0nfig.com)
237 points by TheGuyWhoCodes on April 10, 2016 | 56 comments
7.
Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP (composingprograms.com)
300 points by tillulen on April 10, 2016 | 94 comments
8.
Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module (hboeck.de)
175 points by louis-paul on April 10, 2016 | 43 comments
9.
Alphabet X new bipedal robot can climb stairs and overcome obstacles (techtimes.com)
129 points by xzzulz on April 9, 2016 | 34 comments
10.
How Scams Worked in the 1800s (npr.org)
117 points by brahmwg on April 10, 2016 | 37 comments
11.
Algorithmically generated prior art (allpriorart.com)
127 points by dirkk0 on April 10, 2016 | 35 comments
12.
Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012) (theguardian.com)
247 points by simonebrunozzi on April 10, 2016 | 209 comments
13.
Aetna's CEO pays workers up to $500 to sleep (cnbc.com)
80 points by davidf18 on April 9, 2016 | 69 comments
14.
Pelikan: Twitter's unified cache back end (twitter.github.io)
82 points by myautsai on April 10, 2016 | 6 comments
15.
GraphQL-enabled event sourcing engine (eventsourcing.com)
89 points by yrashk on April 10, 2016 | 9 comments
16.
STOMP – The Simple Text Oriented Messaging Protocol (stomp.github.io)
93 points by newtfish on April 9, 2016 | 22 comments
17.
Airbus thinks it has found a way to alleviate jet lag (economist.com)
147 points by edward on April 10, 2016 | 115 comments
18.
Stdio or iostreams? – A Modest Alternative for C++ (steved-imaginaryreal.blogspot.com)
82 points by ingve on April 10, 2016 | 19 comments
19.
Sample workflow for LP digitization (audacityteam.org)
100 points by dirwiz on April 10, 2016 | 52 comments
20.
Reverse engineering the popular 555 timer chip: CMOS version (righto.com)
63 points by dcschelt on April 9, 2016 | 4 comments
21.
Climate-Related Death of Coral Around World Alarms Scientists (nytimes.com)
193 points by hvo on April 10, 2016 | 171 comments
22.
When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves (2014) (arstechnica.com)
47 points by breezest on April 9, 2016 | 9 comments
23.
U.S. Apartment Market Shows Signs of Losing Steam (wsj.com)
51 points by lxm on April 9, 2016 | 35 comments
24.
N-queen puzzle in 4 lines of Scala (gist.github.com)
120 points by pathikrit on April 10, 2016 | 94 comments
25.
Ammonia Is the Everest Base Camp for Clean Energy (thebreakthrough.org)
68 points by martythemaniak on April 10, 2016 | 24 comments
26.
WebUSB API: draft spec to safely expose USB device services to the web (wicg.github.io)
137 points by fitzwatermellow on April 10, 2016 | 198 comments
27.
'Google Hobbies' proof of concept (prototypr.io)
143 points by kunle1 on April 10, 2016 | 29 comments
28.
The 3DS Cryptosystem (yifan.lu)
120 points by yifanlu on April 10, 2016 | 49 comments
29.
Your Life (some1else.github.io)
199 points by some1else on April 10, 2016 | 124 comments
30.
Acetaminophen may hinder the brain's error-correction mechanisms (scienceagogo.com)
85 points by elorant on April 10, 2016 | 56 comments

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