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1. Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X (truesecdev.wordpress.com)
920 points by mortenlarsen on April 9, 2015 | 356 comments
2. Amazon Elastic File System (amazon.com)
471 points by suprgeek on April 9, 2015 | 213 comments
3. Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring? (whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me)
493 points by manlio on April 9, 2015 | 117 comments
4. Remotely send Chrome and Node.js into infinite loops via OS X kernel bug (sandstorm.io)
334 points by kentonv on April 9, 2015 | 74 comments
5. LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B (techcrunch.com)
320 points by qnk on April 9, 2015 | 147 comments
6. Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand (mobilejazz.com)
308 points by znq on April 9, 2015 | 187 comments
7. Boltons: over 100 Python utilities (github.com/mahmoud)
282 points by mhashemi on April 9, 2015 | 53 comments
8. Michigan Micro Mote – World's Smallest Computer (umich.edu)
290 points by saticmotion on April 9, 2015 | 53 comments
9. Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale (amazon.com)
251 points by leef on April 9, 2015 | 51 comments
10. U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade (time.com)
325 points by adamnemecek on April 9, 2015 | 229 comments
11. Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because “Hacking” Is Illegal (eff.org)
282 points by thisisparker on April 8, 2015 | 152 comments
12. “The GNU Make Book”: probably more than you ever wanted to know about make (jgc.org)
214 points by jgrahamc on April 9, 2015 | 66 comments
13. Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways (scientificamerican.com)
204 points by danielam on April 9, 2015 | 153 comments
14. Show HN: Bot accepts every pull request for its own code (github.com/botwillacceptanything)
155 points by mappum on April 9, 2015 | 93 comments
15. A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer (comcast.net)
102 points by guru_meditation on April 9, 2015 | 33 comments
16. MIT Announces New Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (newsoffice.mit.edu)
95 points by tchalla on April 9, 2015 | 6 comments
17. Amphetamines Are Hiding in Your Supplements (thedailybeast.com)
99 points by Hooke on April 9, 2015 | 72 comments
18. Readability, hackability, and abstraction (benkuhn.net)
92 points by jeremynixon on April 9, 2015 | 18 comments
19. The evolution of dog breeds (priceonomics.com)
79 points by igonvalue on April 9, 2015 | 32 comments
20. Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields (nytimes.com)
79 points by aaronbrethorst on April 9, 2015 | 6 comments
21. Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
211 points by pmcpinto on April 9, 2015 | 388 comments
22. On software popularity (soveran.com)
140 points by djanowski on April 9, 2015 | 71 comments
23. Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11) (cloudflare.com)
120 points by jgrahamc on April 9, 2015 | 11 comments
24. Gradual type checking for Ruby (github.com/gogotanaka)
60 points by eduardordm on April 9, 2015 | 42 comments
25. Golang custom transports and timeouts (biasedbit.com)
77 points by ovokinder on April 9, 2015 | 6 comments
26. SSLMate – Buy SSL certs from the command line (sslmate.com)
118 points by sleepyhead on April 9, 2015 | 67 comments
27. CSS Framework for Dummies (github.com/yegor256)
77 points by yegor256a on April 9, 2015 | 27 comments
28. Sell in May, and go away? (agoraopus.com)
61 points by theocs on April 9, 2015 | 35 comments
29. How InnoDB lost its advantage (dom.as)
69 points by jaytaylor on April 9, 2015 | 15 comments
30. 'Silicon Valley Is Coming' Warns JP Morgan CEO (usatoday.com)
180 points by pyabo on April 9, 2015 | 158 comments

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