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1. Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 (techcrunch.com)
371 points by zastrowm on April 2, 2014 | 290 comments
2. Amazon Fire TV (amazon.com)
388 points by ndrake on April 2, 2014 | 381 comments
3. Tarsnap price cut (daemonology.net)
320 points by cperciva on April 2, 2014 | 157 comments
4. -2000 lines of code (folklore.org)
317 points by chanux on April 2, 2014 | 139 comments
5. Zed: The Next Phase (zedapp.org)
304 points by softmodeling on April 2, 2014 | 122 comments
6. Shutting down Ubuntu One file services (canonical.com)
298 points by endijs on April 2, 2014 | 203 comments
7. Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop (bunniestudios.com)
292 points by kevs on April 2, 2014 | 74 comments
8. A group of 3,000 citizens is making better forecasts than CIA analysts (npr.org)
297 points by sizzle on April 2, 2014 | 135 comments
9. Microsoft introduces Universal Windows apps (wmpoweruser.com)
284 points by chris-at on April 2, 2014 | 183 comments
10. WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript (microsoft.com)
279 points by camus2 on April 2, 2014 | 131 comments
11. ipython 2.0.0 (ipython.org)
273 points by kseistrup on April 2, 2014 | 56 comments
12. Announcing TypeScript 1.0 (msdn.com)
265 points by kjbekkelund on April 2, 2014 | 115 comments
13. Haste language (haste-lang.org)
259 points by kruipen on April 2, 2014 | 73 comments
14. Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
239 points by niels_olson on April 2, 2014 | 162 comments
15. My First Year of Coding (jenniferdewalt.com)
239 points by jenniferDewalt on April 2, 2014 | 113 comments
16. What it is like being the only engineer in a meeting [video] (laughingsquid.com)
222 points by nate_martin on April 2, 2014 | 112 comments
17. Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8.1 with personal assistant Cortana (thenextweb.com)
204 points by msoliman on April 2, 2014 | 116 comments
18. How the secret police tracked my childhood (bbc.com)
189 points by ghosh on April 2, 2014 | 56 comments
19. My Surreal UberX Experience (tomtunguz.com)
185 points by ASquare on April 2, 2014 | 42 comments
20. April Fools: migrate Apache Subversion project over to the git repo (apache.org)
170 points by yuvadam on April 2, 2014 | 98 comments
21. Wu-Tang Clan Offered $5M for New Album Only Available as One Copy (pitchfork.com)
167 points by cityzen on April 2, 2014 | 118 comments
22. CryptoCat iOS Application Penetration Test [pdf] (isecpartners.github.io)
168 points by secalex on April 2, 2014 | 131 comments
23. Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk (kickstarter.com)
143 points by basisword on April 2, 2014 | 107 comments
24. [dupe] This is how an engineer feels when he's surrounded by idiots (cnet.com)
134 points by jtoeman on April 2, 2014 | 74 comments
25. Btrees are the new black (me.net.nz)
133 points by jjh42 on April 2, 2014 | 41 comments
26. Working From Home? Here's an Extra Shot of Focus (livingsocial.com)
133 points by tvalent2 on April 2, 2014 | 50 comments
27. There is a pure HTML Gmail, and it still works (plus.google.com)
131 points by amaks on April 2, 2014 | 89 comments
28. Show HN: I built this notifying device – electronics, code, design, marketing (notifon.net)
129 points by clement87 on April 2, 2014 | 57 comments
29. Microsoft Updates Visual Studio (techcrunch.com)
119 points by kanche on April 2, 2014 | 59 comments
30. One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R (togaware.com)
121 points by sytelus on April 2, 2014 | 17 comments

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