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1.		Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (freedom-to-tinker.com)
		495 points by ajdlinux on April 15, 2016 \| 165 comments
2.		A New Map for America (nytimes.com)
		354 points by thisjustinm on April 15, 2016 \| 316 comments
3.		The Minecraft Generation (nytimes.com)
		237 points by tysone on April 14, 2016 \| 107 comments
4.		The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores [pdf] (ubc.ca)
		467 points by tdurden on April 15, 2016 \| 142 comments
5.		Modernizing AbiWord code (figuiere.net)
		200 points by ingve on April 15, 2016 \| 61 comments
6.		Google App Engine Silently Stopped Sending Email 5 Weeks Ago (code.google.com)
		286 points by markdown on April 14, 2016 \| 112 comments
7.		8-Bit and '8 Bitish' Graphics [video] (gdcvault.com)
		214 points by tbirdz on April 15, 2016 \| 44 comments
8.		New effort to study astronomical ‘wow’ signal after almost 40 years (theguardian.com)
		115 points by ohjeez on April 15, 2016 \| 73 comments
9.		Lawyers who won Happy Birthday copyright case sue over “We Shall Overcome” (arstechnica.com)
		159 points by walterbell on April 14, 2016 \| 50 comments
10.		House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality (eff.org)
		313 points by finnn on April 15, 2016 \| 77 comments
11.		The Restart Page: rebooting experience from vintage operating systems (therestartpage.com)
		104 points by ohjeez on April 15, 2016 \| 16 comments
12.		Jeremy Guillory's Counter-Complaint against Cruise Automation (drive.google.com)
		334 points by finkin1 on April 15, 2016 \| 338 comments
13.		CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic started by UN peacekeepers (slate.com)
		300 points by nkurz on April 15, 2016 \| 56 comments
14.		New research shows brain is directly connected to the immune system (virginia.edu)
		199 points by Phithagoras on April 15, 2016 \| 35 comments
15.		U.S. government worse than all major industries on cyber security (reuters.com)
		143 points by pgoggijr on April 14, 2016 \| 58 comments
16.		The caffeine curse: why coffee shops have always signalled urban change (theguardian.com)
		184 points by misnamed on April 15, 2016 \| 175 comments
17.		Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released (jupyter.org)
		218 points by ssanderson11235 on April 15, 2016 \| 84 comments
18.		DARPA-Funded Clojure – Probabalistic Modeling and Execution Learning (github.com/dollabs)
		99 points by elwell on April 15, 2016 \| 14 comments
19.		The Doom Movement Bible (doomworld.com)
		190 points by rinesh on April 15, 2016 \| 47 comments
20.		The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminaries salute Dave Cutler (news.microsoft.com)
		233 points by rozzie on April 15, 2016 \| 75 comments
21.		Backing up 18 years in 8 hours (chromakode.com)
		186 points by chaosmachine on April 15, 2016 \| 83 comments
22.		Introducing Tera, a template engine in Rust (wearewizards.io)
		89 points by adamnemecek on April 15, 2016 \| 21 comments
23.		Hey Android, why no love for UTC? (code.google.com)
		185 points by mikelabatt on April 15, 2016 \| 120 comments
24.		RoboVM is winding down (robovm.com)
		182 points by codeulike on April 15, 2016 \| 94 comments
25.		The Air Force Initiative to Replace the A-10 Warthog Is Vaporware (jalopnik.com)
		100 points by ourmandave on April 15, 2016 \| 136 comments
26.		Not Smart Is Not Stupid (tedunangst.com)
		158 points by tbirdz on April 15, 2016 \| 83 comments
27.		Renderings vs. Reality: The Improbable Rise of Tree-Covered Skyscrapers (99percentinvisible.org)
		130 points by misnamed on April 15, 2016 \| 56 comments
28.		How the law is tracking down high-tech prank callers (theguardian.com)
		67 points by nols on April 15, 2016 \| 52 comments
29.		Let's Encrypt: Active Incident, DNS errors causing service disruption (status.io)
		97 points by antouank on April 15, 2016 \| 26 comments
30.		Cheap Docker images with Nix (lethalman.blogspot.com)
		171 points by Lethalman on April 15, 2016 \| 50 comments
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