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1.		I would have hired Doug, but... (liveblog.co)
		505 points by nicolethenerd on May 6, 2015 \| 238 comments
2.		Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) (npr.org)
		462 points by anacleto on May 6, 2015 \| 81 comments
3.		PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web (pypyjs.org)
		461 points by doublextremevil on May 6, 2015 \| 134 comments
4.		Racking Mac Pros (imgix.com)
		388 points by zacman85 on May 6, 2015 \| 316 comments
5.		Leaving Stripe (gregbrockman.com)
		297 points by geetarista on May 6, 2015 \| 70 comments
6.		Weave is kinda slow (generictestdomain.net)
		226 points by lclarkmichalek on May 6, 2015 \| 157 comments
7.		Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
		257 points by suprgeek on May 6, 2015 \| 151 comments
8.		Group Currency (groupcurrency.org)
		128 points by raldu on May 6, 2015 \| 69 comments
9.		Tarsnap performance issues in late March, most of April (tarsnap.com)
		172 points by pndmnm on May 6, 2015 \| 113 comments
10.		Lawyers threaten researcher over key-cloning bug in high-security lock (arstechnica.com)
		160 points by wglb on May 6, 2015 \| 85 comments
11.		Neural network chip built using memristors (arstechnica.com)
		149 points by Grognak on May 6, 2015 \| 61 comments
12.		IBM's Watson will be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14 hospitals (bbc.co.uk)
		139 points by Brakenshire on May 6, 2015 \| 70 comments
13.		Look Ma, no OS (slides.com)
		177 points by lelf on May 5, 2015 \| 88 comments
14.		“Information asymmetry” cuts both ways (yosefk.com)
		127 points by luu on May 5, 2015 \| 44 comments
15.		First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016 (oculus.com)
		305 points by z3phyr on May 6, 2015 \| 138 comments
16.		Show HN: kiUi – Lightweight auto-layout stylable UI toolkit (novembermonk.github.io)
		136 points by hugoamnov on May 6, 2015 \| 39 comments
17.		I was an undercover Uber driver (citypaper.net)
		237 points by robdimarco on May 6, 2015 \| 165 comments
18.		Why Do We Play Video Games That Feel Like Work? (vice.com)
		127 points by DiabloD3 on May 5, 2015 \| 98 comments
19.		MIT alumni in their 50s (law.harvard.edu)
		199 points by zootar on May 6, 2015 \| 151 comments
20.		Launching a weather balloon, a camera and a Raspberry Pi to the stratosphere (pinterjann.is)
		86 points by pinjiz on May 6, 2015 \| 35 comments
21.		Orson Welles, one of history's great workaholics (vox.com)
		79 points by dctoedt on May 6, 2015 \| 23 comments
22.		Project Panama: Interconnecting JVM and Native Code (java.net)
		65 points by amatheus on May 6, 2015 \| 3 comments
23.		Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans (recode.net)
		71 points by elvinyung on May 6, 2015 \| 38 comments
24.		What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work (nytimes.com)
		79 points by Chinjut on May 5, 2015 \| 44 comments
25.		Ccat – syntax highlighting cat (github.com/jingweno)
		127 points by jingweno on May 6, 2015 \| 45 comments
26.		Valuation as a Scorecard (avc.com)
		65 points by ghosh on May 6, 2015 \| 13 comments
27.		Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide (fourhourworkweek.com)
		251 points by Killah911 on May 6, 2015 \| 160 comments
28.		World's Oldest Blood Found in Famed “Iceman” Mummy (nationalgeographic.com)
		49 points by Thevet on May 6, 2015 \| 7 comments
29.		Java Mutation Testing (pitest.org)
		88 points by onderkalaci on May 6, 2015 \| 30 comments
30.		Intent to Implement: SIMD.js (groups.google.com)
		57 points by tosh on May 5, 2015 \| 15 comments
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