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1. Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines (npr.org)
603 points by smaili on April 20, 2018 | 418 comments
2. Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary (newyorker.com)
423 points by matt4077 on April 20, 2018 | 74 comments
3. Smugmug Acquires Flickr (smugmug.com)
720 points by uptown on April 20, 2018 | 230 comments
4. Towards Scala 3 (scala-lang.org)
490 points by kushti on April 20, 2018 | 376 comments
5. Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber (ubere.ng)
485 points by mkvorwerck on April 20, 2018 | 101 comments
6. Designing very large JavaScript applications (medium.com/cramforce)
434 points by kawera on April 20, 2018 | 154 comments
7. Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video] (washington.edu)
701 points by InclinedPlane on April 20, 2018 | 99 comments
8. FFmpeg 4.0 released (ffmpeg.org)
462 points by frakturfreund on April 20, 2018 | 61 comments
9. Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe (techcrunch.com)
440 points by Ours90 on April 20, 2018 | 187 comments
10. How to build a house alone [video] (youtube.com)
450 points by tomcam on April 20, 2018 | 285 comments
11. In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis (wired.co.uk)
297 points by AnatMl2 on April 20, 2018 | 178 comments
12. Want airline food? Take Amtrak (railwayage.com)
143 points by gok on April 20, 2018 | 220 comments
13. The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (medium.com/mijordan3)
270 points by wei_jok on April 19, 2018 | 161 comments
14. Mathematics I Use (2012) (gajendra.net)
248 points by pmarin on April 20, 2018 | 42 comments
15. The Key to Everything (nybooks.com)
80 points by kwindla on April 19, 2018 | 6 comments
16. The first image on the very first Macintosh (2004) (folklore.org)
124 points by spking on April 20, 2018 | 14 comments
17. Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2017) (nongnu.org)
235 points by pandalicious on April 20, 2018 | 135 comments
18. Show HN: A curated library of free music for content creators (cchound.com)
239 points by aabergkvist on April 20, 2018 | 40 comments
19. Interactive Go programming with Jupyter (medium.com/yunabe)
292 points by kawera on April 20, 2018 | 38 comments
20. Losing the Nobel Prize (columbia.edu)
110 points by chmaynard on April 20, 2018 | 39 comments
21. The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is Coming (bloomberg.com)
230 points by adventured on April 20, 2018 | 247 comments
22. [dupe] A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost (2017) (quantamagazine.org)
116 points by taytus on April 20, 2018 | 11 comments
23. Executing gradient descent on the earth (fosterelli.co)
182 points by gballan on April 20, 2018 | 44 comments
24. Fake ad blockers in Chrome Web Store (palant.de)
156 points by mark_edward on April 19, 2018 | 66 comments
25. Ursa Labs: an innovation lab for open source data science (wesmckinney.com)
170 points by stablemap on April 19, 2018 | 12 comments
26. Iceland Takes Hard Look at Tech Boom Sparked by Its Cheap, Bountiful Power (wsj.com)
96 points by rbanffy on April 20, 2018 | 91 comments
27. Show HN: Faster.js – a micro-optimizing JavaScript compiler (github.com/vzhou842)
89 points by vzhou842 on April 20, 2018 | 32 comments
28. StarCraft Micromanagement with Reinforcement Learning and Curriculum Transfer (arxiv.org)
98 points by mav3r1ck on April 19, 2018 | 53 comments
29. Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kids' homework (economist.com)
142 points by known on April 20, 2018 | 93 comments
30. XS7 – A compact JavaScript engine for embedded applications (moddable.com)
98 points by mpweiher on April 20, 2018 | 49 comments

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