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1.		The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam (npr.org)
		581 points by molecule on April 9, 2016 \| 209 comments
2.		Congratulations You’ve Been Fired (nytimes.com)
		679 points by dcschelt on April 9, 2016 \| 429 comments
3.		Frog and Toad are Cofounders (medium.com/frog-and-toad-are-cofounders)
		387 points by alexdean on April 9, 2016 \| 34 comments
4.		How a Cashless Society Could Embolden Big Brother (theatlantic.com)
		286 points by kafkaesq on April 8, 2016 \| 130 comments
5.		CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA (theintercept.com)
		169 points by etiam on April 8, 2016 \| 57 comments
6.		Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages (gist.github.com)
		136 points by protomyth on April 9, 2016 \| 52 comments
7.		HIV overcomes CRISPR gene-editing attack (nature.com)
		152 points by aroch on April 8, 2016 \| 30 comments
8.		How to Avoid Empathy Burnout (nautil.us)
		92 points by dnetesn on April 9, 2016 \| 51 comments
9.		Declaring Reality: An Introduction to Datalog (zef.me)
		60 points by sacheendra on April 9, 2016 \| 13 comments
10.		Study: Students who take notes by hand outperform students who type (wsj.com)
		174 points by walterbell on April 9, 2016 \| 105 comments
11.		Knuth versus Email (1999) (stanford.edu)
		164 points by joshuacc on April 9, 2016 \| 128 comments
12.		Wire of Death (wikipedia.org)
		158 points by curtis on April 9, 2016 \| 75 comments
13.		Afghanistan’s only PC manufacturer (arstechnica.com)
		55 points by shawndumas on April 9, 2016 \| 11 comments
14.		Mathics: A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica (mathics.github.io)
		178 points by Jerry2 on April 9, 2016 \| 73 comments
15.		Rendering React without browser JavaScript (medium.com/firasd)
		67 points by firasd on April 9, 2016 \| 55 comments
16.		The rotational North Pole is moving east at 14 cm per year (gizmodo.com)
		77 points by empressplay on April 9, 2016 \| 37 comments
17.		The Blue State Model: How the Democrats Created a "Liberalism of the Rich" (tomdispatch.com)
		141 points by pron on April 9, 2016 \| 211 comments
18.		Ask HN: Is it worth paying for a Coursera course?
		138 points by eecks on April 9, 2016 \| 110 comments
19.		Turning a 1920s Switchboard into a Modern-Day Video Game (popularmechanics.com)
		44 points by _zhqs on April 9, 2016 \| 6 comments
20.		Almost complete guide to flexbox (without flexbox) (kyusuf.com)
		66 points by _kush on April 9, 2016 \| 9 comments
21.		Swim. Bike. Cheat? (nytimes.com)
		144 points by wallflower on April 9, 2016 \| 63 comments
22.		How the Commodore Amiga Powered the Prevue Channel (atlasobscura.com)
		85 points by doener on April 8, 2016 \| 35 comments
23.		Subscription Pricing Is for Stagnating Products (jakobegger.at)
		99 points by jakobegger on April 6, 2016 \| 58 comments
24.		The hidden costs of A/B testing (stickermule.com)
		57 points by julee04 on April 9, 2016 \| 21 comments
25.		PostgreSQL Query Optimization (jinchengli.me)
		135 points by craigkerstiens on April 9, 2016 \| 12 comments
26.		Efficient Integer Overflow Checking in LLVM (regehr.org)
		78 points by rspivak on April 9, 2016 \| 24 comments
27.		Bobby Fischer: from prodigy to pariah (2011) (theguardian.com)
		72 points by wallflower on April 7, 2016 \| 28 comments
28.		Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory (phys.org)
		117 points by dnetesn on April 8, 2016 \| 16 comments
29.		When Free Software Depends on Nonfree (gnu.org)
		126 points by stargrave on April 9, 2016 \| 91 comments
30.		Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journey across Europe (theverge.com)
		114 points by mattiemass on April 8, 2016 \| 69 comments
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