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1.
Responding to the Explosion of Student Interest in Computer Science [pdf] (washington.edu)
156 points by tchalla on May 24, 2014 | 194 comments
2.
From Gmail to Fastmail (l0cal.com)
145 points by etix on May 24, 2014 | 163 comments
3.
Tehran tracked, captured, studied, copied RQ-170 (medium.com/war-is-boring)
133 points by vinnyglennon on May 24, 2014 | 116 comments
4.
Data mining Reddit posts reveals how to ask for a favor and get it (technologyreview.com)
131 points by Libertatea on May 24, 2014 | 47 comments
5.
A Diamond Market No Longer Controlled By De Beers (kitco.com)
130 points by lelf on May 24, 2014 | 111 comments
6.
How to start and scale a full stack startup (42floors.com)
99 points by malomalo on May 24, 2014 | 27 comments
7.
Trillions of plastic pieces found in Arctic ice (usatoday.com)
100 points by lelf on May 24, 2014 | 51 comments
8.
Tail Calls, Optimization, and ES6 (duartes.org)
95 points by luu on May 24, 2014 | 59 comments
9.
The evolution of chess: Game lengths and outcomes (randalolson.com)
86 points by rhiever on May 24, 2014 | 38 comments
10.
One reason I dread Google doc shares (plus.google.com)
91 points by jmount on May 24, 2014 | 72 comments
11.
When should I not kill -9 a process? (unix.stackexchange.com)
84 points by yiedyie on May 24, 2014 | 83 comments
12.
Chancecoin: a decentralized casino built on top of Bitcoin (chancecoin.com)
82 points by capricoin on May 24, 2014 | 45 comments
13.
Show HN: We brought iOS dictation to Windows (myechoapp.com)
82 points by shanselman on May 24, 2014 | 17 comments
14.
Inequality: A Piketty problem? (economist.com)
80 points by r0h1n on May 24, 2014 | 43 comments
15.
Don’t follow your dreams: A commencement speech for the mediocre (salon.com)
70 points by acqq on May 24, 2014 | 45 comments
16.
Bass Guitar Preamp Design [pdf] (docs.google.com)
66 points by lifeondave on May 24, 2014 | 12 comments
17.
Introducing Nvest (nvest.me)
73 points by harrychenca on May 24, 2014 | 57 comments
18.
CSVjs: Basic CSV parsing and encoding in JavaScript (github.com/knrz)
66 points by knrz on May 24, 2014 | 47 comments
19.
Ask HN: Horror co-founder stories.
66 points by kimcheeme on May 24, 2014 | 35 comments
20.
Hacking the DSP-W215, Again, Again (devttys0.com)
66 points by ehPReth on May 24, 2014 | 17 comments
21.
 [dupe] Racket version 6.0.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
63 points by shawndumas on May 24, 2014 | 3 comments
22.
A wireless network for gadgets set to arrive in San Francisco (computerworld.com)
59 points by 11thEarlOfMar on May 24, 2014 | 20 comments
23.
Dijkstra on Dutch TV (2000) (youtube.com)
57 points by edejong on May 24, 2014 | 20 comments
24.
Starquakes: maybe we can be a little frightened (2009) (discovermagazine.com)
60 points by markmassie on May 24, 2014 | 20 comments
25.
The threat facing online comments (ft.com)
59 points by 1337biz on May 24, 2014 | 55 comments
26.
I'm back. This time without Google (ahmedatia.com)
57 points by ahmedatia on May 24, 2014 | 43 comments
27.
Benford's law (wikipedia.org)
56 points by vhf on May 24, 2014 | 19 comments
28.
Don't learn to code. Learn to think (brikis98.blogspot.com)
60 points by akbarnama on May 24, 2014 | 17 comments
29.
One insider describes how trial lawyers killed patent reform (vox.com)
59 points by ossama on May 24, 2014 | 21 comments
30.
Rails Google Summer of Code students and mentors (rubyonrails.org)
53 points by chancancode on May 24, 2014 | 24 comments

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