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Hacker News

1.		B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 (nytimes.com)
		195 points by aaronbrethorst 3 hours ago \| 30 comments
2.		In 1962, a college student answers an ad: “Mortuary Assistant required” (laphamsquarterly.org)
		155 points by Petiver 6 hours ago \| 52 comments
3.		PostgreSQL Coding Conventions – Error Message Style Guide (postgresql.org)
		20 points by amitlan 1 hour ago \| discuss
4.		Name Age Calculator (rhiever.github.io)
		31 points by oxplot 2 hours ago \| 21 comments
5.		How famous people rate Google Play Store apps (txti.es)
		31 points by angry-hacker 3 hours ago \| 15 comments
6.		Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors (firstlook.org)
		58 points by rl3 5 hours ago \| 2 comments
7.		In Flight (nytimes.com)
		235 points by matsur 14 hours ago \| 66 comments
8.		RFC 7540 – HTTP2 (rfc-editor.org)
		185 points by treve 10 hours ago \| 24 comments
9.		GoPro's CEO honors a costly promise (fortune.com)
		59 points by techaddict009 10 hours ago \| 12 comments
10.		Apple's Collatz Hash Patent Application (2013) (google.com)
		27 points by deckar01 4 hours ago \| 21 comments
11.		The Future of Electric Vehicles Is Golf Carts, Not Tesla (hbr.org)
		14 points by riqbal 2 hours ago \| 13 comments
12.		Dnsdiff (github.com)
		7 points by jgrahamc 1 hour ago \| discuss
13.		Show HN: Shrink, a free menubar app for your GitHub issues (alasdairmonk.com)
		5 points by sgottit 49 minutes ago \| 1 comment
14.		JEP254: proposal to represent Java Strings as ISO-8859-1 (java.net)
		9 points by alblue 4 hours ago \| discuss
15.		Medicine Hat becomes the first city in Canada to eliminate homelessness (cbc.ca)
		7 points by graeham 1 hour ago \| 2 comments
16.		InfluxDB (YC W13) Is Hiring Database Engineers in SF
		1 hour ago
17.		About Public Key Pinning (noncombatant.org)
		19 points by tptacek 7 hours ago \| discuss
18.		Squarepusher virtual reality music video – WASD to look around (youtube.com)
		14 points by anigbrowl 5 hours ago \| 4 comments
19.		The Return of Nature: How Technology Liberates the Environment (thebreakthrough.org)
		7 points by brohee 5 hours ago \| discuss
20.		Visual Rust 0.1 is out (piston.rs)
		152 points by wspeirs 15 hours ago \| 45 comments
21.		How is Javascript used within the Spotify desktop application? (quora.com)
		159 points by gflandre 16 hours ago \| 77 comments
22.		The Robots Are Winning (nybooks.com)
		33 points by Thevet 8 hours ago \| 12 comments
23.		How to Turn a Stadium Full of People into Thousands of Pixels (priceonomics.com)
		11 points by ryan_j_naughton 8 hours ago \| 2 comments
24.		Show HN: API for price notifications for ecommerce products (semantics3.com)
		12 points by abishekk92 3 hours ago \| discuss
25.		Visualizing a Black Hole (unipd.it)
		3 points by dylanrw 2 hours ago \| discuss
26.		Perfect Security (99percentinvisible.org)
		103 points by js2 17 hours ago \| 23 comments
27.		Tiny diamonds wrapped in graphene get rid of friction (arstechnica.com)
		14 points by tambourine_man 5 hours ago \| 3 comments
28.		Scientists have discovered a warm-blooded fish (washingtonpost.com)
		68 points by davidst 13 hours ago \| 6 comments
29.		Show HN: Godray – a simple ray tracer (github.com)
		11 points by ppymou 6 hours ago \| 8 comments
30.		Mathematical Theory of Claude Shannon (2001) [pdf] (mit.edu)
		84 points by sasvari 17 hours ago \| 2 comments
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