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1.Better bash in 15 minutes (robertmuth.blogspot.com)
475 points by wsxiaoys on April 16, 2014 | 151 comments
2.TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns (techcrunch.com)
473 points by acjohnson55 on April 16, 2014 | 182 comments
3.They say “nothing will change” (medium.com/p)
423 points by jonsuh on April 16, 2014 | 116 comments
4.The Worst Part of YC (samaltman.com)
354 points by dmnd on April 16, 2014 | 107 comments
5.Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
347 points by apawloski on April 16, 2014 | 148 comments
6.GoDaddy Released My Personal Information to a Spammer Troll (skepchick.org)
342 points by kmfrk on April 16, 2014 | 141 comments
7.Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help (eff.org)
334 points by frostmatthew on April 16, 2014 | 54 comments
8.Tptacek's Review of "Practical Cryptography With Go" (githubusercontent.com)
284 points by babawere on April 16, 2014 | 250 comments
9.Those Who Say Code Does Not Matter (acm.org)
266 points by swannodette on April 16, 2014 | 265 comments
10.First Atomic Clock Wristwatch (leapsecond.com)
219 points by Tomte on April 16, 2014 | 60 comments
11.Canadian bill to crack down on illegal downloads has privacy experts worried (nationalpost.com)
188 points by coffeecodecouch on April 16, 2014 | 23 comments
12.Successful private key extraction from OpenVPN using Heartbleed
181 points by kfreds on April 16, 2014 | 21 comments
13.Create JavaScript, CSS Interactions With Zero Lines of Code (webflow.com)
167 points by callmevlad on April 16, 2014 | 59 comments
14.Project Ara – Google's modular phone project (wired.com)
164 points by JS1984 on April 16, 2014 | 152 comments
15.Improve developer habits by showing time cost of DB queries (danbirken.com)
156 points by birken on April 16, 2014 | 69 comments
AngularJS
132 points | parent

I wonder if she could claim the @InstagramHelp twitter account. It seems dormant to me...
18.Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader (reinterpretcast.com)
133 points by joesavage on April 16, 2014 | 11 comments
19.SigmaVPN: Stateless OpenVPN Replacement Using NaCl Encryption Library (frozenriver.net)
128 points by zx2c4 on April 16, 2014 | 66 comments
20.Coding the Angular Tutorial App in Backbone (42floors.com)
125 points by bernardjhuang on April 16, 2014 | 70 comments
21.Chrome Remote Desktop goes mobile (chrome.blogspot.com)
118 points by deanmoriarty on April 16, 2014 | 54 comments
22.Windows Phone 8.1 review (anandtech.com)
114 points by yread on April 16, 2014 | 106 comments
23.Confessions of a Full Stack DevOp (ansible.com)
115 points by brianshumate on April 16, 2014 | 49 comments
Ember
98 points | parent
25.The Gut Microbes of African Hunter-Gatherers (wired.com)
103 points by rosser on April 16, 2014 | 38 comments

I happen to know the author of this. This was a really tough thing for him to read, but he's taking it as constructive criticism.

I would add to the people commentating here on HN: tptacek's review is tough; you do not need to lay into the author of this book any more.

27.Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation (2007) (norvig.com)
93 points by SatvikBeri on April 16, 2014 | 21 comments
28.How to Avoid Sleep Debt (med.harvard.edu)
95 points by ramchip on April 16, 2014 | 53 comments
29.Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Streaming for $20/Month (lifehacker.com)
102 points by tluthra on April 16, 2014 | 74 comments
30.Lavabit appeal confirms original ruling [pdf] (amlaw.com)
95 points by poulson on April 16, 2014 | 53 comments

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