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1.		The Science of Making Friends (wsj.com)
		411 points by frostmatthew on April 24, 2016 \| 222 comments
2.		Personal info of 93M Mexicans exposed on AWS (databreaches.net)
		365 points by elorant on April 24, 2016 \| 104 comments
3.		Telomere lengthening via gene therapy in a human individual (neuroscientistnews.com)
		287 points by mkagenius on April 24, 2016 \| 102 comments
4.		An integer formula for Fibonacci numbers (paulhankin.github.io)
		297 points by 0xmohit on April 24, 2016 \| 56 comments
5.		The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (2010) (brianreiter.org)
		228 points by the_why_of_y on April 24, 2016 \| 71 comments
6.		/dev/random – a new approach (lwn.net)
		265 points by Tomte on April 24, 2016 \| 126 comments
7.		Bots won't replace apps, only better apps will replace apps (dangrover.com)
		260 points by rmason on April 23, 2016 \| 67 comments
8.		Seattle vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners (theguardian.com)
		186 points by bootload on April 24, 2016 \| 141 comments
9.		Apple’s Organizational Crossroads (stratechery.com)
		176 points by hullo on April 19, 2016 \| 36 comments
10.		WISP: Battery-free computer that can be reprogrammed wirelessly (fastcodesign.com)
		111 points by Jerry2 on April 24, 2016 \| 42 comments
11.		Building a Home Lab to Become a Malware Hunter – A Beginner’s Guide (alienvault.com)
		210 points by adamnemecek on April 24, 2016 \| 7 comments
12.		Clang emits memcpy for std::swap, which can introduce undefined behavior (llvm.org)
		110 points by luu on April 23, 2016 \| 80 comments
13.		Why I run my business like an open source project (2013) (stubbornella.org)
		129 points by luu on April 24, 2016 \| 10 comments
14.		William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52 (nytimes.com)
		113 points by hvo on April 23, 2016 \| 73 comments
15.		Show HN: Intro.js Hints (introjs.com)
		126 points by afshinmeh on April 24, 2016 \| 39 comments
16.		The K Language (kparc.com)
		161 points by vonnik on April 24, 2016 \| 106 comments
17.		Verifying Bit-Manipulations of Floating-Point [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		60 points by ingve on April 24, 2016 \| 2 comments
18.		For What It’s Worth: A Review of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” (dancohen.org)
		178 points by tintinnabula on April 24, 2016 \| 84 comments
19.		ChaosKey: a Hardware True Random Number Generator That Attaches via USB (altusmetrum.org)
		88 points by pmoriarty on April 24, 2016 \| 68 comments
20.		Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures (qz.com)
		184 points by samsolomon on April 24, 2016 \| 49 comments
21.		New body armour promises to transform fighting sports (economist.com)
		110 points by edward on April 24, 2016 \| 55 comments
22.		Rethinking Humanity's Roots (discovermagazine.com)
		54 points by diodorus on April 23, 2016
23.		NASA to begin historic new era of X-Planes (nasa.gov)
		152 points by astdb on April 24, 2016 \| 51 comments
24.		The Unintended Consequences of Trying to Replicate Research (slate.com)
		60 points by tokenadult on April 24, 2016 \| 13 comments
25.		Something Secret This Way Comes (llogiq.github.io)
		163 points by llogiq on April 24, 2016 \| 34 comments
26.		GSL – a Universal Code Generator (github.com/imatix)
		102 points by cookrn on April 24, 2016 \| 28 comments
27.		A recipe for global cooling: put seafloor on dry land near the equator (arstechnica.com)
		58 points by shawndumas on April 24, 2016 \| 16 comments
28.		GNU Make Jobserver Implementation (mad-scientist.net)
		59 points by krakensden on April 24, 2016 \| 20 comments
29.		Can the Ocean Spray CEO Save the Cranberry Business? (bostonmagazine.com)
		62 points by samsolomon on April 24, 2016 \| 51 comments
30.		Powers of 10: Time Scales in User Experience (2009) (nngroup.com)
		49 points by _zhqs on April 24, 2016 \| 3 comments
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