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1.		Improve your touch typing (keybr.com)
		413 points by r2b2 on May 20, 2015 \| 195 comments
2.		PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices (bbc.com)
		380 points by uladzislau on May 20, 2015 \| 217 comments
3.		“I'm wiping this repository away” (github.com/venomous0x)
		485 points by vishaltelangre on May 20, 2015 \| 187 comments
4.		Ta'izz (idlewords.com)
		277 points by ingve on May 20, 2015 \| 52 comments
5.		Logjam TLS attack (weakdh.org)
		334 points by noondip on May 20, 2015 \| 99 comments
6.		WCF is Open Source (dotnetfoundation.org)
		290 points by Vitallium on May 20, 2015 \| 142 comments
7.		Using Waifu2x to Upscale Japanese Prints (ejohn.org)
		245 points by mxfh on May 20, 2015 \| 64 comments
8.		Why do buses bunch? (setosa.io)
		216 points by lewis500 on May 20, 2015 \| 154 comments
9.		Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers (harvardlawreview.org)
		374 points by philrea on May 20, 2015 \| 315 comments
10.		Reasons for Python async/await (lwn.net)
		135 points by hittaruki on May 20, 2015 \| 51 comments
11.		Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (damninteresting.com)
		217 points by choult on May 19, 2015 \| 114 comments
12.		Voxel Quest Fluid Dynamics and New Rendering Method (voxelquest.com)
		194 points by akavel on May 20, 2015 \| 65 comments
13.		The trickiest bug I've encountered (mokafive.tumblr.com)
		183 points by kenjackson on May 20, 2015 \| 65 comments
14.		Show HN: Hydrogen Brings Light Table to Atom (atom.io)
		190 points by willwhitney on May 20, 2015 \| 70 comments
15.		MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition (memsql.com)
		198 points by ericfrenkiel on May 20, 2015 \| 54 comments
16.		Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars (vice.com)
		179 points by Errorcod3 on May 19, 2015 \| 130 comments
17.		Understanding C by learning assembly (recurse.com)
		147 points by luu on May 20, 2015 \| 52 comments
18.		A wave of experiments is probing the root of quantum weirdness (nature.com)
		98 points by jonbaer on May 20, 2015 \| 49 comments
19.		Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? (quantamagazine.org)
		110 points by jonbaer on May 19, 2015 \| 50 comments
20.		Processing Billion-Node Graphs on an Array of Commodity SSDs (highscalability.com)
		89 points by gk1 on May 19, 2015 \| 6 comments
21.		Algolia (YC W14) raises a $18.3M Series A (techcrunch.com)
		123 points by redox_ on May 20, 2015 \| 47 comments
22.		Ada 2012: A New Language for Safe and Secure Software (2012) (cotsjournalonline.com)
		77 points by shepardrtc on May 19, 2015 \| 42 comments
23.		NYSE launches a Bitcoin index (usatoday.com)
		149 points by ghosh on May 20, 2015 \| 47 comments
24.		Norwegian butter crisis (2011) (wikipedia.org)
		176 points by monort on May 20, 2015 \| 111 comments
25.		Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video] (senate.gov)
		321 points by sinak on May 20, 2015 \| 136 comments
26.		Ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents (mail-archive.com)
		89 points by alrs on May 20, 2015 \| 54 comments
27.		Downloading PuTTY Safely Is Nearly Impossible (2014) (noncombatant.org)
		264 points by Rondom on May 20, 2015 \| 166 comments
28.		Python Coroutines with Async and Await (lwn.net)
		101 points by doublextremevil on May 20, 2015 \| 36 comments
29.		The Sound of TED: A Case for Distaste (theamericanreader.com)
		112 points by jonathansizz on May 19, 2015 \| 71 comments
30.		NetUSB Impacts the Security of Millions of Devices Worldwide (sec-consult.com)
		114 points by _jomo on May 20, 2015 \| 41 comments
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