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1.		Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (sciencemag.org)
		1085 points by nkurz on April 29, 2016 \| 381 comments
2.		DeepMind moves to TensorFlow (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
		420 points by hektik on April 29, 2016 \| 79 comments
3.		Google rolls out “If This Then That” support for its $200 OnHub router (arstechnica.com)
		193 points by shawndumas on April 29, 2016 \| 189 comments
4.		Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot (hackingdistributed.com)
		299 points by cynthiar on April 29, 2016 \| 150 comments
5.		Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider (npr.org)
		166 points by dctoedt on April 29, 2016 \| 98 comments
6.		ES6, ES7, and beyond (v8project.blogspot.com)
		243 points by gsathya_hn on April 29, 2016 \| 73 comments
7.		Infosec's Jerk Problem (2013) (adversari.es)
		210 points by rfreytag on April 29, 2016 \| 130 comments
8.		SpaceX undercut ULA rocket launch pricing by 40 percent: U.S. Air Force (reuters.com)
		318 points by not_that_noob on April 28, 2016 \| 150 comments
9.		Research into the reasons for procrastination and how to stop (washingtonpost.com)
		198 points by DiabloD3 on April 29, 2016 \| 97 comments
10.		Infinit announces Project Dropboxe (infinit.one)
		830 points by winta on April 29, 2016 \| 134 comments
11.		GNU LibreJS (gnu.org)
		213 points by sciurus on April 29, 2016 \| 159 comments
12.		Myths about Integer Overflow in Rust (huonw.github.io)
		187 points by dbaupp on April 29, 2016 \| 100 comments
13.		Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight (vox.com)
		280 points by DiabloD3 on April 29, 2016 \| 279 comments
14.		The Battle Over the Sea Monkey Fortune (nytimes.com)
		120 points by amk_ on April 29, 2016 \| 39 comments
15.		Challenges of Deployment to ECS (convox.com)
		80 points by mwarkentin on April 29, 2016 \| 37 comments
16.		Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman: Post-Quantum Curves [pdf] (iacr.org)
		91 points by tptacek on April 29, 2016 \| 25 comments
17.		Unmasking the Men Behind Zero Hedge (bloomberg.com)
		227 points by minimax on April 29, 2016 \| 167 comments
18.		Hello Lua (haxe.org)
		226 points by ponticellif on April 29, 2016 \| 70 comments
19.		Why is Amazon all of a sudden not re-investing all its profits? (earlymoves.com)
		159 points by marcelweiss on April 29, 2016 \| 114 comments
20.		GitLab Major Security Update for CVE-2016-4340 (about.gitlab.com)
		91 points by stenius on April 28, 2016 \| 42 comments
21.		Geolocation API removed from unsecured origins in Chrome 50 (developers.google.com)
		122 points by laacz on April 29, 2016 \| 73 comments
22.		Can a single car break a traffic jam? (bbc.com)
		110 points by chiachun on April 29, 2016 \| 107 comments
23.		Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps (fb.com)
		78 points by asp2insp on April 29, 2016 \| 44 comments
24.		Front-End Performance: The Dark Side (opera.com)
		110 points by obi1kenobi on April 28, 2016 \| 13 comments
25.		Show HN: LuxBase – Open-Source Smart Lighting Control System (github.com/kienankb)
		38 points by kienankb on April 29, 2016 \| 13 comments
26.		Why Is Productivity So Weak? Three Theories (nytimes.com)
		138 points by Osiris30 on April 29, 2016 \| 115 comments
27.		Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite (zco.com)
		78 points by rafa2000 on April 29, 2016 \| 75 comments
28.		The Secrets of Medieval Fonts (medievalbooks.nl)
		102 points by robin_reala on April 29, 2016 \| 12 comments
29.		The Crime of Speech (eff.org)
		126 points by DiabloD3 on April 29, 2016 \| 18 comments
30.		U.S. high court approves rule change to expand FBI hacking power (reuters.com)
		155 points by lucasjans on April 29, 2016 \| 62 comments
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