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1. How to leak to the press (niemanlab.org)
680 points by anjalik on Jan 27, 2017 | 207 comments
2. Twitter discloses national security letters (blog.twitter.com)
549 points by arkadiyt on Jan 27, 2017 | 149 comments
3. Show HN: Whoishiring.io – all tech jobs mapped out (whoishiring.io)
419 points by xando on Jan 27, 2017 | 76 comments
4. The Founder: A Dystopian Business Simulator (thefounder.biz)
503 points by jmduke on Jan 27, 2017 | 89 comments
5. Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter (bbc.com)
389 points by randomname2 on Jan 27, 2017 | 255 comments
6. Whiteboard sticker for your laptop (sketchcase.com)
423 points by codeinterview on Jan 27, 2017 | 150 comments
7. Comparing Elixir and Go (codeship.com)
489 points by iamd3vil on Jan 27, 2017 | 194 comments
8. Is the Default Mode of the Brain to Suffer? (nymag.com)
174 points by lxm on Jan 27, 2017 | 63 comments
9. Linux Performance (brendangregg.com)
536 points by pablode on Jan 27, 2017 | 64 comments
10. Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick (nytimes.com)
137 points by syadegari on Jan 27, 2017 | 67 comments
11. Political World Embraces Encrypted-Messaging App Signal Amid Fears of Hacking (wsj.com)
173 points by bcaulfield on Jan 27, 2017 | 105 comments
12. Five-month-old babies know what’s funny (aeon.co)
116 points by pepys on Jan 27, 2017 | 41 comments
13. Calling Windows 10 APIs from a WinForms or WPF application (windows.com)
84 points by mcrump on Jan 27, 2017 | 69 comments
14. Things Every Hacker Once Knew (catb.org)
539 points by ingve on Jan 27, 2017 | 321 comments
15. Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Results (abc.xyz)
130 points by maverick_iceman on Jan 26, 2017 | 98 comments
16. Libor: the bankers who fixed the world’s most important number (theguardian.com)
191 points by ghosh on Jan 27, 2017 | 84 comments
17. Facebook Tweaks Its 'Trending Topics' Algorithm to Better Reflect Real News (npr.org)
125 points by lizardFiend on Jan 26, 2017 | 126 comments
18. Microsoft earnings blow past estimates in every category, beats Street (cnbc.com)
258 points by belltaco on Jan 27, 2017 | 158 comments
19. Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness (neurosciencenews.com)
125 points by georgecmu on Jan 27, 2017 | 101 comments
20. Tesla sues ex-Autopilot director for taking proprietary info, poaching employees (techcrunch.com)
134 points by dwynings on Jan 26, 2017 | 135 comments
21. Researchers are beginning to disentangle pain relief from addiction and overdose (smithsonianmag.com)
154 points by mhb on Jan 27, 2017 | 88 comments
22. Ladyada hosts Andrew “bunnie” Huang on Ask an Engineer [video] (youtube.com)
174 points by throwaway000002 on Jan 27, 2017 | 16 comments
23. Time-resolved 2M-year-old supernova activity found in Earth’s microfossil record (pnas.org)
103 points by ghosh on Jan 27, 2017 | 27 comments
24. NASA Studies Cosmic Radiation to Protect High-Altitude Travelers (nasa.gov)
50 points by baalcat on Jan 27, 2017 | 12 comments
25. For this metal, electricity flows, but not the heat (sciencebulletin.org)
123 points by upen on Jan 27, 2017 | 25 comments
26. I cannot continue working on my add-ons (fasezero.com)
235 points by vacri on Jan 27, 2017 | 212 comments
27. Launch HN: Peer5 (YC W17) – Serverless CDN (peer5.com)
108 points by shacharz on Jan 27, 2017 | 117 comments
28. Show HN: Generate SVG parliament charts (JavaScript) (github.com/juliuste)
56 points by juliuste on Jan 27, 2017 | 5 comments
29. Ask HN: How to best teach a group of children how to code?
257 points by jiblyyyy on Jan 27, 2017 | 114 comments
30. Anthropologists Uncover Art by (Really) Old Masters–38,000 Year-Old Engravings (nyu.edu)
39 points by baalcat on Jan 27, 2017 | 6 comments

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