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1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)
589 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2017 | 1080 comments
2. The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been terminated (fraunhofer.de)
469 points by petercooper on May 1, 2017 | 269 comments
3. Getting Started with Headless Chrome (developers.google.com)
657 points by uptown on May 1, 2017 | 121 comments
4. Y Combinator When No One Cared (foundersatwork.posthaven.com)
388 points by tomhoward on May 1, 2017 | 117 comments
5. Esoteric programming paradigms (ybrikman.com)
397 points by SlyShy on May 1, 2017 | 148 comments
6. Why Walking Helps Us Think (2014) (newyorker.com)
407 points by bootload on May 1, 2017 | 117 comments
7. Moneyball teams (bg-blog.com)
383 points by bdg on May 1, 2017 | 169 comments
8. Escalation of Privilege Advisory (intel.com)
482 points by ctoth on May 1, 2017 | 299 comments
9. Programming as a Way of Thinking (scientificamerican.com)
322 points by pmcpinto on May 1, 2017 | 131 comments
10. How to Read Mathematics (stonehill.edu)
393 points by ColinWright on April 30, 2017 | 31 comments
11. AMD's revenue rises 18%, but margin forecast disappoints (reuters.com)
197 points by artsandsci on May 1, 2017 | 93 comments
12. Asynchronous Programming in Python: Asyncio (djangostars.com)
189 points by submeta on May 1, 2017 | 73 comments
13. Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ emotional states (arstechnica.com)
341 points by reirob on May 1, 2017 | 235 comments
14. “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003) (csail.mit.edu)
289 points by noblethrasher on May 1, 2017 | 227 comments
15. The psychological importance of wasting time (qz.com)
294 points by lxm on April 30, 2017 | 79 comments
16. How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism (nytimes.com)
257 points by lxm on April 30, 2017 | 210 comments
17. The fifty shades of Latin (riowang.blogspot.com)
131 points by drjohnson on May 1, 2017 | 64 comments
18. LuaJIT 2.0.5 and 2.1.0-beta3 released (luajit.org)
145 points by marksamman on May 1, 2017 | 67 comments
19. Intel platforms from 2008 onwards have a remotely exploitable security hole (semiaccurate.com)
506 points by theSoenke on May 1, 2017 | 180 comments
20. Are we underestimating the vulnerability of bridges? (stanford.edu)
92 points by smb06 on May 1, 2017 | 58 comments
21. FuncShell – A Haskell-based alternative to awk (github.com/iostreamer-x)
141 points by _iostreamer_ on May 1, 2017 | 38 comments
22. John Paulson’s Fall from Hedge Fund Stardom (nytimes.com)
78 points by chollida1 on May 1, 2017 | 74 comments
23. Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil (ucsd.edu)
107 points by jameslk on May 1, 2017 | 59 comments
24. Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? (nautil.us)
127 points by pmcpinto on April 30, 2017 | 93 comments
25. Simple Exercises To Help Undo the Damage of Sitting (2014) (artofmanliness.com)
275 points by t23 on May 1, 2017 | 95 comments
26. Homebrew 1.2.0 (brew.sh)
234 points by mikemcquaid on May 1, 2017 | 90 comments
27. VHDL or Verilog? (fpgasite.blogspot.com)
115 points by chclau on May 1, 2017 | 57 comments
28. SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage has landed at LZ-1 [video] (youtube.com)
289 points by romanhotsiy on May 1, 2017 | 108 comments
29. My coffeehouse nightmare (2005) (slate.com)
152 points by wallflower on May 1, 2017 | 113 comments
30. Information Technology and Moral Values (2012) (stanford.edu)
56 points by lainon on April 30, 2017 | 2 comments

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