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1.		An off-grid social network (staltz.com)
		1031 points by staltz on April 6, 2017 \| 366 comments
2.		A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu (dustinkirkland.com)
		786 points by dustinkirkland on April 6, 2017 \| 227 comments
3.		Unsupervised sentiment neuron (blog.openai.com)
		603 points by gdb on April 6, 2017 \| 126 comments
4.		Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving (economist.com)
		509 points by petergatsby on April 6, 2017 \| 367 comments
5.		Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account (reuters.com)
		831 points by anigbrowl on April 6, 2017 \| 493 comments
6.		FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports (23andme.com)
		311 points by checkoutmygenes on April 6, 2017 \| 189 comments
7.		The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast (yehudakatz.com)
		292 points by lowonkarma on April 6, 2017 \| 89 comments
8.		Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups (stripe.com)
		251 points by lebek on April 6, 2017 \| 120 comments
9.		The Minimally-Nice Open Source Software Maintainer (brson.github.io)
		224 points by aturon on April 6, 2017 \| 58 comments
10.		Better Git configuration (scottnonnenberg.com)
		388 points by scottnonnenberg on April 5, 2017 \| 63 comments
11.		Planck.js – JavaScript rewrite of Box2D physics library (github.com/shakiba)
		245 points by vivaladav on April 6, 2017 \| 67 comments
12.		Announcing HTTP/2 support for all Azure CDN customers (azure.microsoft.com)
		131 points by okket on April 6, 2017 \| 52 comments
13.		Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community (libreboot.org)
		272 points by jff on April 6, 2017 \| 207 comments
14.		Startup School 2017 First Lecture (startupschool.org)
		191 points by tempw on April 5, 2017 \| 60 comments
15.		Nvidia Announces Titan Xp Graphics Card (techcrunch.com)
		149 points by hoov on April 6, 2017 \| 116 comments
16.		Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space (nytimes.com)
		310 points by sndean on April 6, 2017 \| 223 comments
17.		Uber said to use “sophisticated” software to defraud drivers, passengers (arstechnica.com)
		343 points by dralley on April 6, 2017 \| 224 comments
18.		How Bank of America Gave Away My Money (soraven.com)
		640 points by alienchow on April 6, 2017 \| 250 comments
19.		Zepton – a Pico-8 voxel shoot'em up [game] (lexaloffle.com)
		198 points by chiptune on April 5, 2017 \| 36 comments
20.		Inspector General criticizes the IRS for seizing money from innocent people (washingtonpost.com)
		186 points by jackgavigan on April 6, 2017 \| 56 comments
21.		New UX for Jenkins: Blue Ocean 1.0 (jenkins.io)
		243 points by i386 on April 5, 2017 \| 96 comments
22.		Fun at the Unix Terminal (regehr.org)
		279 points by melqdusy on April 6, 2017 \| 55 comments
23.		High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials (washingtonpost.com)
		237 points by dankohn1 on April 6, 2017 \| 167 comments
24.		Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?
		248 points by benevol on April 6, 2017 \| 238 comments
25.		Spanner vs. Calvin: distributed consistency at scale (fauna.com)
		107 points by evanweaver on April 6, 2017 \| 51 comments
26.		Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain (capx.co)
		128 points by miraj on April 6, 2017 \| 156 comments
27.		Distributed count(distinct) with HyperLogLog on Postgres (citusdata.com)
		80 points by anarazel on April 6, 2017 \| 14 comments
28.		Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language (ithkuil.net)
		84 points by setra on April 6, 2017 \| 39 comments
29.		Udacity spins out its self-driving car business as Voyage (techcrunch.com)
		82 points by FLGMwt on April 5, 2017 \| 45 comments
30.		Acute Effects of LSD on Amygdala Activity During Processing of Fearful Stimuli (nature.com)
		84 points by dpflan on April 5, 2017 \| 53 comments
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