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1.
How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016) (nytimes.com)
517 points by bensummers on April 16, 2017 | 253 comments
2.
Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive (blog.archive.org)
273 points by jf on April 16, 2017 | 57 comments
3.
Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap (dw.com)
341 points by gscott on April 16, 2017 | 231 comments
4.
World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117 (bbc.com)
149 points by uyoakaoma on April 15, 2017 | 121 comments
5.
Sylpheed – a simple, lightweight but featureful e-mail client (sylpheed.sraoss.jp)
172 points by generic_user on April 16, 2017 | 132 comments
6.
Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System (wired.com)
206 points by tchalla on April 14, 2017 | 149 comments
7.
Explain mathematically a video from a space station (2011) (mathoverflow.net)
186 points by bootload on April 16, 2017 | 32 comments
8.
Pixels Don’t Care (2013) (warpspire.com)
287 points by jw2013 on April 16, 2017 | 99 comments
9.
Why the University of California Is Appealing the CRISPR Patent Decision (theatlantic.com)
133 points by azuajef on April 16, 2017 | 65 comments
10.
Building a simple e-ink display from scratch (hackaday.com)
145 points by userbinator on April 16, 2017 | 51 comments
11.
Show HN: 'Hack' the user cursor (javier.xyz)
267 points by javierbyte on April 16, 2017 | 58 comments
12.
Solid – Re-decentralizing the web (github.com/solid)
224 points by Everhusk on April 16, 2017 | 97 comments
13.
Preventing AMI’s BiOS from interfering with coreboot flashing on the Librem 13 (puri.sm)
105 points by turblety on April 15, 2017 | 10 comments
14.
Arturo Di Modica has a point (gregfallis.com)
421 points by mpweiher on April 16, 2017 | 213 comments
15.
Building a r/place in a weekend (josephg.com)
401 points by mxstbr on April 16, 2017 | 80 comments
16.
Big publishers are fleeing from Facebook's Instant Articles (theverge.com)
131 points by PleaseHelpMe on April 16, 2017 | 104 comments
17.
2017 Camera News (tbray.org)
148 points by Tomte on April 16, 2017 | 163 comments
18.
LandHere (galois.com)
94 points by colinprince on April 16, 2017 | 17 comments
19.
How to write a simple operating system (sourceforge.net)
246 points by ingve on April 16, 2017 | 59 comments
20.
Show HN: Record and share police/fire radio systems (openmhz.com)
102 points by robotastic on April 16, 2017 | 46 comments
21.
HP Labs developed a new rewritable printing technology (hp.com)
92 points by walterbell on April 16, 2017 | 34 comments
22.
Designing 100G optical connections (facebook.com)
95 points by ot on April 16, 2017 | 46 comments
23.
Should we move to a system where every scientist gives grant money away? (johnhawks.net)
108 points by benbreen on April 16, 2017 | 46 comments
24.
How not to monetise a popular blog (greig.cc)
129 points by 3stripe on April 16, 2017 | 64 comments
25.
The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis (bloomberg.com)
115 points by vezycash on April 15, 2017 | 151 comments
26.
The Experimental Layout Lab of Jen Simmons (jensimmons.com)
75 points by sharmi on April 16, 2017 | 6 comments
27.
Brain in a Jar (stephaniehurlburt.com)
96 points by deafcalculus on April 16, 2017 | 34 comments
28.
Chrome 55-57 showed “download” button for all HTML5 media (chromium.org)
118 points by sriku on April 16, 2017 | 159 comments
29.
A monoid is a category, a category is a monad, a monad is a monoid (graphicallinearalgebra.net)
156 points by graphlinalg on April 16, 2017 | 77 comments
30.
Older Workers Challenge Firms’ Aggressive Pursuit of the Young (wsj.com)
92 points by petethomas on April 16, 2017 | 87 comments

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