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1.
Announcing Rust 1.0 (rust-lang.org)
1363 points by jhund on May 15, 2015 | 306 comments
2.
B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 (nytimes.com)
647 points by aaronbrethorst on May 15, 2015 | 86 comments
3.
JavaScript at 20 (brendaneich.github.io)
427 points by kolodny on May 15, 2015 | 315 comments
4.
8^8 – Find another you (8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8.com)
306 points by justhw on May 15, 2015 | 161 comments
5.
In Flight (nytimes.com)
318 points by matsur on May 14, 2015 | 77 comments
6.
In 1962, a college student answers an ad: “Mortuary Assistant required” (laphamsquarterly.org)
277 points by Petiver on May 15, 2015 | 94 comments
7.
Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors (firstlook.org)
322 points by rl3 on May 15, 2015 | 85 comments
8.
Street View, North Korea (mapillary.com)
152 points by gyllen on May 15, 2015 | 82 comments
9.
MAME is going completely open-source to be a 'learning tool for developers' (gamasutra.com)
193 points by Impossible on May 15, 2015 | 65 comments
10.
Wolfram Language (stephenwolfram.com)
134 points by oneiric on May 15, 2015 | 90 comments
11.
RFC 7540 – HTTP2 (rfc-editor.org)
221 points by treve on May 14, 2015 | 52 comments
12.
Secure yourself, Part 1: Air-gapped computer, GPG and smartcards (viccuad.me)
171 points by viccuad on May 15, 2015 | 58 comments
13.
The Little Prover (mitpress.mit.edu)
135 points by nickmain on May 15, 2015 | 20 comments
14.
Replacing jQuery with D3 (webkid.io)
195 points by chrtze on May 15, 2015 | 61 comments
15.
Breaking Grooveshark's encryption (lgms.nl)
99 points by lucgommans on May 15, 2015 | 33 comments
16.
Remote Code Execution in Elasticsearch – CVE-2015-1427 (jordan-wright.github.io)
90 points by biafra on May 15, 2015 | 16 comments
17.
After 350 years of academic journals it’s time to shake things up (theguardian.com)
91 points by Hooke on May 15, 2015 | 36 comments
18.
Atom's autocomplete just got better (atom.io)
165 points by wisew on May 15, 2015 | 61 comments
19.
Combo Breaker – 3D printed, battery powered lock cracking device (samy.pl)
90 points by iamthepieman on May 15, 2015 | 38 comments
20.
GoPro's CEO honors a costly promise (fortune.com)
146 points by techaddict009 on May 14, 2015 | 54 comments
21.
Artillery Practices by the Major Combatants of WWII (8m.com)
76 points by bluegate010 on May 15, 2015 | 38 comments
22.
Scientists have discovered a warm-blooded fish (washingtonpost.com)
82 points by davidst on May 14, 2015 | 7 comments
23.
Error Message Style Guide (postgresql.org)
122 points by amitlan on May 15, 2015 | 9 comments
24.
New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) Crowdfunds Houses for Homeless Families (techcrunch.com)
65 points by sarahbuhr on May 15, 2015 | 27 comments
25.
Medicine Hat becomes the first city in Canada to eliminate homelessness (cbc.ca)
102 points by graeham on May 15, 2015 | 105 comments
26.
Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin (nytimes.com)
185 points by mdelias on May 15, 2015 | 156 comments
27.
How 500px serves up 500TB of high res photos (stackshare.io)
87 points by ranrub on May 15, 2015 | 34 comments
28.
Name Age Calculator (rhiever.github.io)
99 points by oxplot on May 15, 2015 | 84 comments
29.
Do you really know why you prefer REST over RPC? (apihandyman.io)
111 points by mmastrac on May 14, 2015 | 118 comments
30.
Ask HN: What makes a good hackathon?
69 points by ibdthor on May 15, 2015 | 50 comments

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