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1.		Show HN: Super Planet Crash (stefanom.org)
		349 points by CarolineW on April 15, 2014 \| 126 comments
2.		Cheap microscopes: Yours to cut out and keep (economist.com)
		340 points by feelthepain on April 15, 2014 \| 56 comments
3.		How 'DevOps' Is Killing The Developer (jeffknupp.com)
		318 points by jknupp on April 15, 2014 \| 209 comments
4.		OpenBSD has started a massive strip-down and cleanup of OpenSSL (lobste.rs)
		304 points by evntdrvn on April 15, 2014 \| 101 comments
5.		Introduction to A* (stanford.edu)
		298 points by ghosh on April 15, 2014 \| 56 comments
6.		Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA (wired.com)
		303 points by Osiris on April 15, 2014 \| 81 comments
7.		Raising a moral child (nytimes.com)
		285 points by sanoli on April 15, 2014 \| 153 comments
8.		How to be an open source gardener (steveklabnik.com)
		280 points by nkurz on April 15, 2014 \| 59 comments
9.		A Haskell Programmer Tries to Learn Racket (artyom.me)
		257 points by jackhammer2022 on April 15, 2014 \| 156 comments
10.		Elm's Time-Traveling Debugger (elm-lang.org)
		235 points by wheatBread on April 15, 2014 \| 56 comments
11.		Vis.js: A Visual Interaction System (visjs.org)
		197 points by BKCandace on April 15, 2014 \| 53 comments
12.		My Ideas, My Boss’s Property (nytimes.com)
		191 points by jcabala on April 15, 2014 \| 176 comments
13.		Cracking Cloudflare's heartbleed challenge (indutny.com)
		198 points by tomkwok on April 15, 2014 \| 30 comments
14.		BitUndo – Double Spending as a service (bitundo.com)
		189 points by daKoder on April 15, 2014 \| 56 comments
15.		Dart: The World's Smallest Laptop Adapter (kickstarter.com)
		188 points by stoev on April 15, 2014 \| 130 comments
16.		Google VP named Dean of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science (cmu.edu)
		185 points by shacker on April 15, 2014 \| 20 comments
17.		The inventor of everything (theverge.com)
		161 points by nkurz on April 15, 2014 \| 44 comments
18.		The Truth About Google X: A Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors (fastcompany.com)
		163 points by cryptoz on April 15, 2014 \| 113 comments
19.		Ask HN: How do you get and stay in the "zone"?
		135 points by impendia on April 15, 2014 \| 103 comments
20.		My Childhood in an Apocalyptic Cult (narrative.ly)
		132 points by wallflower on April 15, 2014 \| 29 comments
21.		Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (1997) (csail.mit.edu)
		120 points by soegaard on April 15, 2014 \| 64 comments
22.		Twitter Acquires Gnip (gnip.com)
		129 points by noinput on April 15, 2014 \| 41 comments
23.		How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession (thedailybeast.com)
		119 points by vwinsyee on April 15, 2014 \| 130 comments
24.		Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: the cloud platform of choice (ubuntu.com)
		112 points by gauravkumar552 on April 15, 2014 \| 100 comments
25.		Heartleech: Automated OpenSSL private key extraction tool using Heartbleed (github.com/robertdavidgraham)
		114 points by FredericJ on April 15, 2014 \| 76 comments
26.		Porting GHC: A Tale of Two Architectures (greenend.org.uk)
		99 points by lelf on April 15, 2014 \| 13 comments
27.		AngelList’s Newest Experiment: a $25M Fund to Invest in Angel Investors (wsj.com)
		93 points by adidash on April 15, 2014 \| 30 comments
28.		C/C++ Fiddle (godbolt.org)
		89 points by United857 on April 15, 2014 \| 40 comments
29.		Show HN: A Customizable SoundCloud Player Built on the Web Audio API and d3 (toneden.io)
		93 points by elsbree on April 15, 2014 \| 62 comments
30.		Why we ditched our free plan (trak.io)
		92 points by PhilipA on April 15, 2014 \| 54 comments
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