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1. How I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015) (stanford.edu)
562 points by tjalfi on April 29, 2017 | 133 comments
2. First introduction to LaTeX (sharelatex.com)
461 points by rawland on April 30, 2017 | 170 comments
3. Why Use Postgres? (craigkerstiens.com)
568 points by timf on April 30, 2017 | 225 comments
4. The Invisible War for the Open Internet (freecodecamp.com)
322 points by bootload on April 29, 2017 | 159 comments
5. How Many X86-64 Instructions Are There Anyway? (stefanheule.com)
207 points by rocky1138 on April 30, 2017 | 133 comments
6. Luxury Music Festival Turns Out to Be Half-Built Scene of Chaos (npr.org)
171 points by ljk on April 29, 2017 | 99 comments
7. Building a QNX 7 Desktop (membarrier.wordpress.com)
208 points by desiderantes on April 30, 2017 | 91 comments
8. National Park Maps (npmaps.com)
277 points by hownottowrite on April 30, 2017 | 59 comments
9. Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound effect chip from die photos (righto.com)
207 points by krosaen on April 30, 2017 | 45 comments
10. The end of Academia.edu: How business takes over (diggitmagazine.com)
195 points by merraksh on April 30, 2017 | 114 comments
11. Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection (greenend.org.uk)
204 points by tg180 on April 30, 2017 | 45 comments
12. Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back (techcrunch.com)
190 points by mgh2 on April 30, 2017 | 301 comments
13. As Economy Grows, North Korea's Grip on Society Weakens (nytimes.com)
120 points by wallflower on April 30, 2017 | 88 comments
14. LMDB – First version of Redis written in Tcl (gist.github.com)
149 points by weeber on April 30, 2017 | 25 comments
15. Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons of gold in New York (norberthaering.de)
274 points by akrymski on April 30, 2017 | 228 comments
16. What about cartesian programming? (250bpm.com)
96 points by rumcajz on April 30, 2017 | 40 comments
17. Deep learning with convolutional neural networks for brain mapping from EEG (arxiv.org)
119 points by kensai on April 30, 2017 | 18 comments
18. Archive that can be reconstructed with total loss of file system structure (github.com/marcopon)
122 points by zie on April 30, 2017 | 16 comments
19. China Doesn't Understand the Concept of American Chinese Food (2014) (vice.com)
121 points by lxm on April 29, 2017 | 153 comments
20. x64asm: C++ Library with in-memory assembler, parser, and linker (github.com/stanfordpl)
89 points by tomcam on April 30, 2017 | 20 comments
21. Hacker Leaks Episodes from Netflix Show and Threatens Other Networks (nytimes.com)
116 points by pcl on April 30, 2017 | 68 comments
22. Symmetries: The Beauty in Physics (devdude.me)
56 points by __Joker on April 30, 2017 | 10 comments
23. TypeScript Progressive Web App Quickstart (github.com/insprintorob)
81 points by aussieguy1234 on April 30, 2017 | 15 comments
24. Storyboarding in UX Design (uxplanet.org)
106 points by babich on April 30, 2017 | 11 comments
25. Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text in a photo (github.com/sirvasile)
109 points by rendernos on April 30, 2017 | 25 comments
26. Microsoft phone revenue fell to $5M last quarter, from $1.4B two years ago (neowin.net)
147 points by doener on April 30, 2017 | 127 comments
27. A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: A Review of ‘Hikikomori’ (2009) (nih.gov)
94 points by da02 on April 30, 2017 | 69 comments
28. Show HN: Automatic Speech Recognition in TensorFlow (github.com/zzw922cn)
131 points by zzw922cn on April 30, 2017 | 12 comments
29. The Acid Aesthetic: A Brief History of Psychedelic Design (printmag.com)
61 points by ohjeez on April 30, 2017 | 35 comments
30. Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?
158 points by zabana on April 30, 2017 | 76 comments

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