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1.
Blockchain Demo [video] (anders.com)
723 points by spaceboy on Feb 4, 2017 | 147 comments
2.
Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
516 points by yellow_viper on Feb 5, 2017 | 424 comments
3.
A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine (willemm.nl)
581 points by joeguilmette on Feb 5, 2017 | 121 comments
4.
Using tmux properly (danielallendeutsch.com)
442 points by cmmn_nighthawk on Feb 4, 2017 | 215 comments
5.
“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” (imdb.com)
425 points by ivank on Feb 5, 2017 | 324 comments
6.
Asking the wrong questions (ben-evans.com)
247 points by kurren on Feb 5, 2017 | 86 comments
7.
Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004) (slate.com)
302 points by diggan on Feb 3, 2017 | 168 comments
8.
The State of Go (golang.org)
466 points by dotmanish on Feb 5, 2017 | 388 comments
9.
How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (2013) (papersplease.org)
187 points by spaceboy on Feb 5, 2017 | 80 comments
10.
Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished [video] (youtube.com)
215 points by mntmn on Feb 5, 2017 | 51 comments
11.
Interactive command line HTTP inspector written in Go (github.com/asciimoo)
279 points by tartpac on Feb 4, 2017 | 32 comments
12.
Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google (planet.com)
181 points by swatkat on Feb 5, 2017 | 60 comments
13.
Building, and Losing, a Career on Facebook (npr.org)
143 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 3, 2017 | 59 comments
14.
His Doctors Were Stumped, Then He Took Over (nytimes.com)
241 points by mhb on Feb 5, 2017 | 86 comments
15.
Gita – autonomous lightweight delivery system (piaggiofastforward.com)
154 points by systemfreund on Feb 5, 2017 | 57 comments
16.
The TTY demystified (2008) (linusakesson.net)
243 points by Ivoah on Feb 5, 2017 | 43 comments
17.
How Unix erases things when you type a backspace while entering text (utcc.utoronto.ca)
184 points by zdw on Feb 5, 2017 | 70 comments
18.
Proposal: Monotonic Elapsed Time Measurements in Go (github.com/golang)
122 points by Zikes on Feb 4, 2017 | 17 comments
19.
Wal-E: Continuous Archiving for Postgres (github.com/wal-e)
110 points by craigkerstiens on Feb 5, 2017 | 25 comments
20.
WireGuard: Next Generation Secure Kernel Network Tunnel (fosdem.org)
118 points by psiconaut on Feb 4, 2017 | 42 comments
21.
CPU emulator in web browser (Arm/Mips/X86/Sparc) (alexaltea.github.io)
138 points by hacking_news on Feb 5, 2017 | 20 comments
22.
Smaller Code, Better Code (sacrideo.us)
137 points by jpt4 on Feb 4, 2017 | 157 comments
23.
New wheat disease threatens Europe’s crops (nature.com)
126 points by HarryHirsch on Feb 5, 2017 | 59 comments
24.
IDPF, EPUB Standardizing Body, Has Combined with W3C (idpf.org)
131 points by rhythmvs on Feb 5, 2017 | 46 comments
25.
From dependency injection to dependency rejection (ploeh.dk)
99 points by dmit on Feb 3, 2017 | 33 comments
26.
 [dupe] The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014) (washingtonpost.com)
348 points by makwarth on Feb 5, 2017 | 226 comments
27.
Minesweeper: Advanced Tactics (2005) (nothings.org)
131 points by leni536 on Feb 4, 2017 | 50 comments
28.
Reed-Solomon error-correcting code decoder (nayuki.io)
62 points by nayuki on Feb 4, 2017 | 21 comments
29.
How travel tech evolved over three decades during my three trips to Russia (recode.net)
60 points by gvb on Feb 3, 2017 | 20 comments
30.
Pyract: a new way of writing Gtk+ applications (sam.today)
152 points by fmoralesc on Feb 5, 2017 | 9 comments

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