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1.		Leaving Beta, New Sponsors (letsencrypt.org)
		896 points by dankohn1 on April 12, 2016 \| 170 comments
2.		Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS (postphp.com)
		695 points by whispered on April 12, 2016 \| 408 comments
3.		A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 Light-Years Away (nytimes.com)
		492 points by sravfeyn on April 12, 2016 \| 262 comments
4.		Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks (rollingstone.com)
		412 points by 6stringmerc on April 12, 2016 \| 304 comments
5.		Uber says it gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12M users (reuters.com)
		372 points by t23 on April 12, 2016 \| 95 comments
6.		Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness (nature.com)
		376 points by etiam on April 11, 2016 \| 201 comments
7.		How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub (paulgraham.com)
		332 points by _pius on April 12, 2016 \| 356 comments
8.		Facebook Messenger Platform (messenger.com)
		312 points by hendler on April 12, 2016 \| 233 comments
9.		Goldman Sachs Finally Admits It Defrauded Investors During the Financial Crisis (fortune.com)
		333 points by adamnemecek on April 12, 2016 \| 190 comments
10.		Continuous Deployment at Instagram (engineering.instagram.com)
		239 points by nbm on April 12, 2016 \| 91 comments
11.		Voltron: A hacky debugger UI for hackers (github.com/snare)
		260 points by okanesen on April 12, 2016 \| 73 comments
12.		It's time to dispel the myths about nuclear power (theguardian.com)
		243 points by Osiris30 on April 12, 2016 \| 320 comments
13.		Medium and Twitter founder: ‘We put junk food in front of them and they eat it’ (theguardian.com)
		219 points by ALee on April 11, 2016 \| 157 comments
14.		There’s Plenty of Space for One Trillion More Trees (nautil.us)
		156 points by dnetesn on April 11, 2016 \| 74 comments
15.		GitHub's Content Security Policy journey (githubengineering.com)
		165 points by ptoomey3 on April 12, 2016 \| 23 comments
16.		Google will warn users when sites contain social engineering ads (techcrunch.com)
		151 points by PirateDave on April 12, 2016 \| 90 comments
17.		You Could Do Almost Anything Part 1 (elischiff.com)
		181 points by elischiff on April 12, 2016 \| 36 comments
18.		Apache Storm 1.0 released (apache.org)
		160 points by wener on April 12, 2016 \| 42 comments
19.		Facebook Surround 360: An Open 3D-360 video capture system (facebook.com)
		144 points by runesoerensen on April 12, 2016 \| 53 comments
20.		How to write a Bloom filter in C++ (michaelschmatz.com)
		130 points by schmatz on April 12, 2016 \| 19 comments
21.		An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) (mitadmissions.org)
		163 points by aardvarks on April 12, 2016 \| 61 comments
22.		[flagged] GCE down in all regions (cloud.google.com)
		320 points by vox_mollis on April 12, 2016 \| 175 comments
23.		Statistics for Software (paypal-engineering.com)
		199 points by mhashemi on April 11, 2016 \| 14 comments
24.		Brane Craft (nasa.gov)
		118 points by protomyth on April 12, 2016 \| 54 comments
25.		Impossible I-1: first new Polaroid camera in 20 years (impossible-project.com)
		107 points by peteforde on April 11, 2016 \| 62 comments
26.		Show HN: Wit.ai Bot Engine beta (wit.ai)
		174 points by blandinw on April 12, 2016 \| 47 comments
27.		John Carmack's BAFTA Introduction, Speech and Interview [video] (youtube.com)
		167 points by nailer on April 11, 2016 \| 22 comments
28.		Unknown Neo Geo Fighting Game Discovered and Dumped (neo-geo.com)
		191 points by Karuma on April 12, 2016 \| 25 comments
29.		Deep Space Industries (deepspaceindustries.com)
		72 points by setra on April 11, 2016 \| 25 comments
30.		For life expectancy, money matters (news.harvard.edu)
		174 points by jonbaer on April 12, 2016 \| 164 comments
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