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1.		Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work (macuser.co.uk)
		336 points by danso on May 16, 2014 \| 233 comments
2.		“A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines” (emory.edu)
		337 points by slyall on May 16, 2014 \| 138 comments
3.		The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later (wololo.net)
		321 points by dumpsterkid on May 16, 2014 \| 157 comments
4.		Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause (snopes.com)
		246 points by magsafe on May 16, 2014 \| 158 comments
5.		Baidu Hires Andrew Ng (technologyreview.com)
		227 points by chriskanan on May 16, 2014 \| 83 comments
6.		I Don’t Want to Hire Women (clarissasblog.com)
		213 points by jseliger on May 16, 2014 \| 212 comments
7.		Practical Tmux (mutelight.org)
		169 points by weitzj on May 16, 2014 \| 94 comments
8.		Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests (eff.org)
		165 points by weeha on May 16, 2014 \| 94 comments
9.		Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition (wired.com)
		162 points by apu on May 16, 2014 \| 152 comments
10.		India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win (reuters.com)
		154 points by tokenadult on May 16, 2014 \| 141 comments
11.		Claude Shannon demonstrates Theseus, a magnetic maze-solving mouse [video] (att.com)
		138 points by mr_tyzik on May 16, 2014 \| 26 comments
12.		TDD your API (balancedpayments.com)
		147 points by steveklabnik on May 16, 2014 \| 50 comments
13.		The Multiple SQLite Problem (ericsink.com)
		131 points by aaronbrethorst on May 16, 2014 \| 45 comments
14.		Zero to One, by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters (zerotoonebook.com)
		130 points by beniaminmincu on May 16, 2014 \| 62 comments
15.		How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads (vox.com)
		127 points by seferphier on May 16, 2014 \| 123 comments
16.		Word Lens (Quest Visual) is Joining Google (wordlens.com)
		121 points by dannyr on May 16, 2014 \| 42 comments
17.		Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for' (bbc.com)
		115 points by thewarrior on May 16, 2014 \| 146 comments
18.		How libraries decide which books to keep (medium.com/book-excerpts)
		107 points by ASquare on May 16, 2014 \| 48 comments
19.		Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix (netflix.com)
		109 points by rcsorensen on May 16, 2014 \| 18 comments
20.		Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitcoin" (kickstarter.com)
		107 points by patrickaljord on May 16, 2014 \| 44 comments
21.		N2O: Erlang Web Framework (kukuruku.co)
		98 points by andreygrehov on May 16, 2014 \| 20 comments
22.		MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the Bitcoin blockchain (answers.microsoft.com)
		100 points by zorked on May 16, 2014 \| 77 comments
23.		The perfect shape (bannalia.blogspot.com)
		99 points by joaquintides on May 16, 2014 \| 21 comments
24.		Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read recently?
		93 points by diegoloop on May 16, 2014 \| 90 comments
25.		Chain, the Blockchain API for developers (chain.com)
		97 points by jmduke on May 16, 2014 \| 58 comments
26.		Pathfinding Demystified (gabrielgambetta.com)
		77 points by iKlsR on May 16, 2014 \| 20 comments
27.		Kola Superdeep Borehole (atlasobscura.com)
		84 points by gere on May 16, 2014 \| 42 comments
28.		Setting Up a Radio System from Scratch (atomicobject.com)
		80 points by silentbicycle on May 16, 2014 \| 17 comments
29.		(Ab)Using Language Features: The Common Lisp Condition System (dawnofthedata.com)
		81 points by jmdavis on May 16, 2014 \| 24 comments
30.		What web developers thought of in the noughties as being MVC doesn't scale (pastiche.org)
		80 points by ingve on May 16, 2014 \| 77 comments
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