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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 (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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