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1.		Mathematicians find way to put 7 cylinders in contact without using their ends (sciencenews.org)
		265 points by ColinWright on April 5, 2014 \| 84 comments
2.		Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental (youtube.com)
		249 points by corysama on April 5, 2014 \| 83 comments
3.		Why UPS Trucks Rarely Turn Left (priceonomics.com)
		228 points by lelf on April 5, 2014 \| 127 comments
4.		Primer: Shaders (underscorediscovery.com)
		189 points by hughsk on April 5, 2014 \| 35 comments
5.		Recreating the THX Deep Note (earslap.com)
		173 points by nkurz on April 5, 2014 \| 27 comments
6.		Can I delete my Skype account? (skype.com)
		178 points by Splendor on April 5, 2014 \| 78 comments
7.		Low-level is easy (yosefk.com)
		166 points by luu on April 5, 2014 \| 56 comments
8.		Say “no” to import side‐effects in Python (chrismorgan.info)
		148 points by chrismorgan on April 5, 2014 \| 85 comments
9.		[dupe] Ask HN Mods: Can you make submission URLs human-readable?
		137 points by 3rd3 on April 5, 2014 \| 71 comments
10.		Taking Pictures with a DRAM Chip (translate.google.com)
		130 points by sizzle on April 5, 2014 \| 34 comments
11.		2048 implemented in 487 bytes of C (gist.github.com)
		123 points by adamnemecek on April 5, 2014 \| 45 comments
12.		C# 6: First reactions (msmvps.com)
		117 points by yulaow on April 5, 2014 \| 65 comments
13.		RegExr 2.0 (regexr.com)
		106 points by _kushagra on April 5, 2014 \| 43 comments
14.		The SEO Dominance of RetailMeNot (priceonomics.com)
		108 points by zbravo on April 5, 2014 \| 47 comments
15.		Functionally Solving Problems With Haskell (learnyouahaskell.com)
		107 points by hawkharris on April 5, 2014 \| 60 comments
16.		Sony blocks Sintel on YouTube (blendernation.com)
		96 points by Morgawr on April 5, 2014 \| 48 comments
17.		India Launches Its Second Navigation Satellite (space.com)
		91 points by middleclick on April 5, 2014 \| 15 comments
18.		Technology’s Man Problem (nytimes.com)
		87 points by metermaid on April 5, 2014 \| 69 comments
19.		Moving Remy in Harmony: Pixar's Use of Harmonic Functions (ams.org)
		86 points by ot on April 5, 2014 \| 8 comments
20.		Opal: Ruby in Your Browser – the Basics (sitepoint.com)
		81 points by bentanweihao on April 5, 2014 \| 46 comments
21.		Chrome is blocking wired.com (wired.com)
		75 points by hammerbrostime on April 5, 2014 \| 90 comments
22.		Mathematics: Why the brain sees maths as beauty (bbc.com)
		73 points by sytelus on April 5, 2014 \| 45 comments
23.		Functional C (1997) (utwente.nl)
		73 points by X4 on April 5, 2014 \| 10 comments
24.		Ask HN: I am a good developer but have a serious gaming addiction
		69 points by gameraddict on April 5, 2014 \| 61 comments
25.		America's Young Adults at 27: Results From a Longitudinal Survey Summary (bls.gov)
		71 points by wallflower on April 5, 2014 \| 49 comments
26.		China's Search Vessel Picks up Pulse Signal in South Indian Ocean (cri.cn)
		66 points by fla on April 5, 2014 \| 68 comments
27.		How we solved an infamous sliding bug (joostdevblog.blogspot.nl)
		65 points by exch on April 5, 2014 \| 22 comments
28.		The Joys And Ethics Of Insect Eating (npr.org)
		59 points by tellarin on April 5, 2014 \| 69 comments
29.		Pyro from Team Fortress 2 raytraced in your browser (jsfiddle.net)
		55 points by bhouston on April 5, 2014 \| 10 comments
30.		Startup Uses Eggs to Poach Employees from Facebook, Google (freshtechapps.com)
		55 points by kumarrahul on April 5, 2014 \| 49 comments
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