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1.		PEP 492 – Coroutines with async and await syntax (python.org)
		234 points by 1st1 on April 17, 2015 \| 126 comments
2.		French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings (techcrunch.com)
		140 points by krisgenre on April 18, 2015 \| 216 comments
3.		Tea with strangers (teawithstrangers.com)
		181 points by j2kun on April 18, 2015 \| 91 comments
4.		How Doomed is NetApp? (storagemojo.com)
		142 points by PaulHoule on April 18, 2015 \| 67 comments
5.		Einstein's Letter to Marie Curie (1911) (princeton.edu)
		174 points by anacleto on April 18, 2015 \| 30 comments
6.		Ask HN: How do I find a mentor?
		121 points by rashoodkhan on April 18, 2015 \| 80 comments
7.		FBI conducts search by disrupting Internet service, posing as repairmen [pdf] (archive.org)
		109 points by benburwell on April 18, 2015 \| 25 comments
8.		PizzaHut still serves its first homepage (pizzahut.com)
		248 points by narfz on April 18, 2015 \| 123 comments
9.		Teespring (YC W13) uses social media to sell more than 7M shirts a year (bloomberg.com)
		44 points by jkw on April 17, 2015 \| 8 comments
10.		Go Challenge 3: write a photo-mosaic generating web application (golang-challenge.com)
		69 points by JoeAcchino on April 18, 2015 \| 18 comments
11.		A 1969 New Wave Sci-Fi Novel That Made Correct Predictions (themillions.com)
		78 points by gasull on April 18, 2015 \| 36 comments
12.		Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment (2013) (nber.org)
		51 points by brownbat on April 17, 2015 \| 38 comments
13.		Double-clicking on the Web (ma.ttias.be)
		106 points by Mojah on April 18, 2015 \| 105 comments
14.		The Nanda Devi mystery – Plutonium lost on India’s second highest mountain (livemint.com)
		61 points by mknits on April 18, 2015 \| 10 comments
15.		Medical Emergencies In Space (1998) (marssociety.org)
		67 points by ColinWright on April 18, 2015 \| 6 comments
16.		Leonardo da Vinci’s resume (cenedella.com)
		83 points by pmcpinto on April 18, 2015 \| 35 comments
17.		Rocket Lab's engine has electric turbos and 3D-printed primary components (rocketlabusa.com)
		52 points by robszumski on April 18, 2015 \| 34 comments
18.		LlamaDB: A simple SQL database written in Rust (github.com/nukep)
		72 points by adamnemecek on April 17, 2015 \| 8 comments
19.		Prediction markets (gwern.net)
		65 points by Moshe_Silnorin on April 18, 2015 \| 10 comments
20.		Last.Backend – Visual Docker Containers Orchestration (lastbackend.com)
		100 points by lastbackend on April 18, 2015 \| 70 comments
21.		Suicide Linux (2011) (qntm.org)
		71 points by josephmx on April 18, 2015 \| 55 comments
22.		Hevea Project – Flat tori finally visualized (univ-lyon1.fr)
		39 points by DiabloD3 on April 18, 2015 \| 12 comments
23.		The photographers who refuse to abandon traditional film cameras (bbc.com)
		55 points by schrofer on April 18, 2015 \| 105 comments
24.		Show HN: Varnishtuner.py (github.com/unixy)
		34 points by jjoe on April 18, 2015 \| 9 comments
25.		The Ghost Parcels of El Paso (makeloveland.com)
		31 points by rmason on April 17, 2015 \| 13 comments
26.		Alpha-rhythm brain stimulation shown to boost creativity (kurzweilai.net)
		32 points by ca98am79 on April 18, 2015 \| 7 comments
27.		Michigan Terminal System Archive (michigan-terminal-system.org)
		24 points by emersonrsantos on April 18, 2015 \| 8 comments
28.		More Older Adults Are Becoming Inventors (nytimes.com)
		51 points by yitchelle on April 18, 2015 \| 17 comments
29.		1958’s One-Of-kind Analog Computer at Vintage Computer Festival East (arstechnica.com)
		29 points by ghosh on April 18, 2015 \| 5 comments
30.		Europe v Google: Nothing to stand on (economist.com)
		68 points by msabalau on April 18, 2015 \| 58 comments
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