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1. Stop using tail -f (mostly) (brianstorti.com)
765 points by Pdincau on March 30, 2015 | 207 comments
2. Choose Boring Technology (mcfunley.com)
577 points by luu on March 30, 2015 | 212 comments
3. 1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA (bbc.co.uk)
227 points by charkubi on March 30, 2015 | 99 comments
4. Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
349 points by 0xdeadbeefbabe on March 30, 2015 | 344 comments
5. NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (cypherspace.org)
281 points by yuhong on March 30, 2015 | 51 comments
6. Samuel Colt's “YC app” for the Summer 1851 batch (hscott.net)
277 points by blueintegral on March 30, 2015 | 41 comments
7. “Today we moved into our new Facebook building” (facebook.com)
234 points by somerandomness on March 30, 2015 | 449 comments
8. I Just Poured Water on my Scanner (cpushack.com)
230 points by protomyth on March 30, 2015 | 64 comments
9. Amazon Home Services (amazon.com)
341 points by theatraine on March 30, 2015 | 238 comments
10. Inventing Favicon.ico (ruthlessray.wordpress.com)
207 points by electrum on March 29, 2015 | 69 comments
11. The Invention of the Baby Carrot (priceonomics.com)
144 points by ryan_j_naughton on March 30, 2015 | 37 comments
12. I’ve Joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service (nacin.com)
153 points by gmays on March 29, 2015 | 116 comments
13. Hypothesis 1.0: A property-based testing library for Python (idyll.org)
136 points by doismellburning on March 30, 2015 | 30 comments
14. Feds Demand Reddit Identify Users of a Dark-Web Drug Forum (wired.com)
219 points by killnine on March 30, 2015 | 215 comments
15. Ask HN: How to move beyond “freelancer”?
322 points by ryannevius on March 30, 2015 | 123 comments
16. Why are interest rates so low? (brookings.edu)
158 points by forrest_t on March 30, 2015 | 232 comments
17. How Mushrooms Could Hold the Key to Our Long-Term Survival as a Species (vice.com)
103 points by DiabloD3 on March 30, 2015 | 23 comments
18. Two Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges (nytimes.com)
287 points by TwoFactor on March 30, 2015 | 90 comments
19. Why My MOOC Is Not Built on Video (class-central.com)
105 points by colinprince on March 29, 2015 | 88 comments
20. Thinking about Thinking (2007) (the-programmers-stone.com)
85 points by achompas on March 30, 2015 | 7 comments
21. Dunning-Kruger and Other Memes (danluu.com)
193 points by kryptiskt on March 30, 2015 | 84 comments
22. Inception: DMA Attack Against Linux, Windows, and Mac (github.com/carmaa)
79 points by dionyziz on March 30, 2015 | 25 comments
23. The Great Green Wall of Africa (atlasobscura.com)
104 points by lukashed on March 30, 2015 | 36 comments
24. Web Scraping Indeed for Key Data Science Job Skills (jessesw.com)
75 points by jonbaer on March 30, 2015 | 21 comments
25. Interest in Bitcoin Grows on Wall Street (wsj.com)
111 points by edward on March 30, 2015 | 30 comments
26. Improving compression with a preset DEFLATE dictionary (cloudflare.com)
117 points by jgrahamc on March 30, 2015 | 40 comments
27. Ask HN: Have you ever regretted taking an investment?
121 points by maxsavin on March 30, 2015 | 68 comments
28. More Details About Project Spartan (windows.com)
95 points by nozzlegear on March 30, 2015 | 81 comments
29. Why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study (vox.com)
83 points by tokenadult on March 30, 2015 | 31 comments
30. Better Kernel#require profiling information (github.com/ruby-prof)
27 points by wwarneck on March 29, 2015 | 1 comment

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