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1.		Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases (bitpay.com)
		542 points by stavros on April 28, 2016 \| 431 comments
2.		Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone (theguardian.com)
		388 points by ingve on April 28, 2016 \| 216 comments
3.		Who Was Ramanujan? (backchannel.com)
		508 points by thepoet on April 28, 2016 \| 121 comments
4.		CV of Failures [pdf] (princeton.edu)
		451 points by irenetrampoline on April 27, 2016 \| 87 comments
5.		ACM 2015 Technical Award Recipients (acm.org)
		237 points by spetschu on April 28, 2016 \| 85 comments
6.		Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks (washingtonpost.com)
		235 points by BinaryIdiot on April 28, 2016 \| 199 comments
7.		Rube Goldberg machine in HTML forms (sebastianlyserena.dk)
		407 points by aethr on April 28, 2016 \| 49 comments
8.		Mark Zuckerberg Gets to Control Facebook a While Longer (bloombergview.com)
		185 points by dsri on April 28, 2016 \| 117 comments
9.		A Deep Learning USB Stick (movidius.com)
		194 points by zzzzFrog on April 28, 2016 \| 53 comments
10.		This year’s Founders' Letter (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		119 points by gordon_freeman on April 28, 2016 \| 50 comments
11.		Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling (galeascience.wordpress.com)
		125 points by micaeloliveira on April 28, 2016 \| 9 comments
12.		On the (Small) Number of Atoms in the Universe (norvig.com)
		298 points by lispython on April 28, 2016 \| 164 comments
13.		Amazon Reports Surge in Profit (wsj.com)
		164 points by gist on April 28, 2016 \| 188 comments
14.		Show HN: Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors (jamapi.xyz)
		300 points by gavino on April 28, 2016 \| 82 comments
15.		CareKit Framework (github.com/carekit-apple)
		131 points by rjzzleep on April 28, 2016 \| 34 comments
16.		Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations (reuters.com)
		260 points by jonbaer on April 27, 2016 \| 140 comments
17.		C++ Stackless Coroutine (github.com/jbandela)
		92 points by adamnemecek on April 28, 2016 \| 27 comments
18.		How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get? (rameznaam.com)
		135 points by Osiris30 on April 28, 2016 \| 189 comments
19.		Comcast's NBCUniversal buys DreamWorks Animation in $3.8B deal (latimes.com)
		120 points by smaili on April 28, 2016 \| 89 comments
20.		Drone unlikely to have hit BA plane near Heathrow, government says (bbc.co.uk)
		107 points by fredley on April 28, 2016 \| 75 comments
21.		How we found a bug in Amazon ELB (sysdig.com)
		151 points by davideschiera on April 28, 2016 \| 42 comments
22.		Multithreading in modern C++ (modernescpp.com)
		115 points by ingve on April 28, 2016 \| 39 comments
23.		Rebol vs. Lisp Macros (hostilefork.com)
		117 points by vanderZwan on April 28, 2016 \| 38 comments
24.		Tell HN: Apply HN applications now closed, let's discuss the next step
		127 points by dang on April 28, 2016 \| 118 comments
25.		An AI First World (avc.com)
		95 points by ghosh on April 28, 2016 \| 62 comments
26.		How to Party Like It’s 1999: Emulation for Everyone (code4lib.org)
		80 points by ohjeez on April 28, 2016 \| 9 comments
27.		A prog by any other name (tedunangst.com)
		64 points by ingve on April 28, 2016 \| 17 comments
28.		A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch – part 4 (thegreenplace.net)
		65 points by ingve on April 28, 2016 \| 25 comments
29.		Proxmox VE 4.2 released (proxmox.com)
		44 points by conductor on April 28, 2016 \| 12 comments
30.		How to read a patent in 60 seconds (2010) (danshapiro.com)
		90 points by Tomte on April 28, 2016 \| 32 comments
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