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1.		Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation (xkcd.com)
		558 points by MattBearman on April 11, 2014 \| 75 comments
2.		Memories of Steve (donmelton.com)
		399 points by zekers on April 11, 2014 \| 152 comments
3.		“In a typical year the OpenSSL project receives about US $2000 in donations” (groups.google.com)
		370 points by blazespin on April 11, 2014 \| 161 comments
4.		Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way (zulko.github.io)
		310 points by gcardone_ on April 11, 2014 \| 35 comments
5.		NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years (bloomberg.com)
		323 points by taylorbuley on April 11, 2014 \| 174 comments
6.		The Heartbleed Challenge (cloudflarechallenge.com)
		284 points by jgrahamc on April 11, 2014 \| 118 comments
7.		3rd Circuit vacates Weev's conviction [pdf] (amlaw.com)
		278 points by rdl on April 11, 2014 \| 130 comments
8.		Amazon Will Pay You $5,000 to Quit Your Job (time.com)
		258 points by scottkduncan on April 11, 2014 \| 139 comments
9.		Bitcoin Falls Below $400 (techcrunch.com)
		193 points by haile on April 11, 2014 \| 178 comments
10.		"Let me know how I can help" – a proposal to HN (tomcritchlow.com)
		193 points by topcat31 on April 11, 2014 \| 74 comments
11.		Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire (economist.com)
		176 points by mblakele on April 11, 2014 \| 46 comments
12.		Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders May Soon Be Allowed to Work in the U.S. (wsj.com)
		189 points by dashausbass on April 11, 2014 \| 141 comments
13.		ExpressJS 4.0 has been released (expressjs.com)
		169 points by tbassetto on April 11, 2014 \| 62 comments
14.		Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding patent troll Intellectual Ventures (gigaom.com)
		163 points by dashausbass on April 11, 2014 \| 84 comments
15.		HMO: Help Me Out
		163 points by _hoa8 on April 11, 2014 \| 183 comments
16.		Testing with Jenkins, Ansible and Docker (mist.io)
		161 points by cpsaltis on April 11, 2014 \| 23 comments
17.		Fake audiophile opamps: OPA627 (AD744?) (zeptobars.ru)
		149 points by atomlib on April 11, 2014 \| 67 comments
18.		Let Me Google That For You Act (loc.gov)
		140 points by cwisecarver on April 11, 2014 \| 35 comments
19.		Heartbleed and Static Analysis (regehr.org)
		134 points by pascal_cuoq on April 11, 2014 \| 36 comments
20.		ChucK: Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Music Programming Language (princeton.edu)
		133 points by mindcrime on April 11, 2014 \| 40 comments
21.		Statement on Bloomberg News story that NSA knew about the “Heartbleed bug” (icontherecord.tumblr.com)
		138 points by rinon on April 11, 2014 \| 114 comments
22.		JQuery Gantt editor. Open source, SVG based. (open-lab.com)
		122 points by robicch on April 11, 2014 \| 16 comments
23.		The great 1980s Dungeons and Dragons panic (bbc.com)
		123 points by Libertatea on April 11, 2014 \| 102 comments
24.		Is There Anything Beyond Quantum Computing? (pbs.org)
		125 points by ca98am79 on April 11, 2014 \| 41 comments
25.		Preventing heartbleed bugs with safe programming languages (bluishcoder.co.nz)
		116 points by cpeterso on April 11, 2014 \| 112 comments
26.		Dudley Buck's Forgotten Cryotron Computer (ieee.org)
		111 points by spectruman on April 11, 2014 \| 10 comments
27.		The race to contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak (wired.co.uk)
		113 points by Vik1ng on April 11, 2014 \| 38 comments
28.		Can You Buy A License to Speed? (priceonomics.com)
		105 points by arnauddri on April 11, 2014 \| 195 comments
29.		Russian government threatens to block CloudFlare (gov.ru)
		97 points by rbanffy on April 11, 2014 \| 108 comments
30.		a16z Programming Test (hackerrank.com)
		92 points by ghosh on April 11, 2014 \| 113 comments
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