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1. Pain we forgot (lighttable.com)
364 points by Morgawr on May 17, 2014 | 153 comments
2. Dual-touch smartphone design concept (assaflavie.com)
217 points by assaflavie on May 17, 2014 | 57 comments
3. Hello from 1978 (nycresistor.com)
210 points by rbanffy on May 17, 2014 | 38 comments
4. LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement (openbsd.org)
199 points by claudius on May 17, 2014 | 40 comments
5. Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (1999) (gamasutra.com)
152 points by danso on May 17, 2014 | 25 comments
6. A Critique of “Don’t Fuck Up The Culture” (scottberkun.com)
151 points by jmacd on May 17, 2014 | 72 comments
7. Are coders worth it? (2013) (aeon.co)
146 points by lingz on May 17, 2014 | 114 comments
8. Free Data Mining Books (christonard.com)
136 points by tchalla on May 17, 2014 | 4 comments
9. [dupe] New algorithm shakes up cryptography (sciencedaily.com)
138 points by jonbaer on May 17, 2014 | 32 comments
10. Ask HN: I feel like an 'expert beginner' and I don't know how to get better
119 points by aoeuaue on May 17, 2014 | 52 comments
11. Cheap smartphones are about to change everything (wired.com)
124 points by x43b on May 17, 2014 | 91 comments
12. Learn AngularJS with free interactive lessons (learn-angular.org)
120 points by Garbage on May 17, 2014 | 26 comments
13. 'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered (bbc.com)
112 points by namzo on May 17, 2014 | 42 comments
14. Font Awesome 4.1 released (fortawesome.github.io)
105 points by Eduard on May 17, 2014 | 45 comments
15. Why I push for Python (lorenabarba.com)
91 points by kissgyorgy on May 17, 2014 | 122 comments
16. LibreSSL at BSDCan (michaelwlucas.com)
88 points by kryptiskt on May 17, 2014 | 29 comments
17. Tell HN (dang, kogir, et al): Thanks for all your hard work
85 points by jcr on May 17, 2014 | 36 comments
18. Richard Stallman – "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Beijing, China) (fsf.org)
84 points by drydot on May 17, 2014 | 49 comments
19. New planet-hunting camera produces best-ever image of an exoplanet (stanford.edu)
80 points by bane on May 17, 2014 | 21 comments
20. Why Nerds are Unpopular (2003) (paulgraham.com)
78 points by danso on May 17, 2014 | 115 comments
21. Kicksat burned up, including Sprites (kickstarter.com)
83 points by jmpe on May 17, 2014 | 31 comments
22. Swiss to vote on $25 an hour minimum wage (usatoday.com)
78 points by jamesbritt on May 17, 2014 | 112 comments
23. Programming Language Popularity on GitHub and Stack Overflow (corger.nl)
79 points by stesch on May 17, 2014 | 49 comments
24. Cells: Lightweight Virtual Smartphones (columbia.edu)
75 points by jcr on May 17, 2014 | 6 comments
25. GoCircuit: Simple language-agnostic cluster programming (github.com/gocircuit)
74 points by whatupdave on May 17, 2014 | 4 comments
26. Hadoop's Uncomfortable Fit in HPC (glennklockwood.blogspot.com)
66 points by drjohnson on May 17, 2014 | 28 comments
27. Auto-expiring TODO notes in Ruby (github.com/andyw8)
60 points by andywaite on May 17, 2014 | 40 comments
28. Sonic.Net Offering 1 Gbps, Unlimited Phone for $40 in California (dslreports.com)
58 points by nkurz on May 17, 2014 | 20 comments
29. Algorithm appointed board director (bbc.com)
56 points by ColinWright on May 17, 2014 | 26 comments
30. Lighthouse: Decentralized Kickstarter (vinumeris.com)
55 points by tikhon on May 17, 2014 | 7 comments

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