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1.
Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer (hello-world.io)
698 points by coder2222 on May 5, 2015 | 341 comments
2.
Call me maybe: Aerospike (aphyr.com)
383 points by joshrotenberg on May 5, 2015 | 124 comments
3.
Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down (medium.com/inside-wattage)
328 points by divy on May 5, 2015 | 157 comments
4.
Touch Pianist – Tap in Rhythm and Perform Your Favourite Music (touchpianist.com)
320 points by faramarz on May 5, 2015 | 100 comments
5.
A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves (curvytron.com)
212 points by testcross on May 5, 2015 | 98 comments
6.
Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance (nytimes.com)
184 points by mineshaftgap on May 5, 2015 | 99 comments
7.
Ripple fined for acting as a money services business without registration (fincen.gov)
177 points by zmanian on May 5, 2015 | 154 comments
8.
Creator of Raft Algorithm introduces LogCabin (sourcegraph.com)
199 points by dencold on May 5, 2015 | 52 comments
9.
SpaceX’s Pad Abort Test (spacex.com)
162 points by ggonweb on May 4, 2015 | 68 comments
10.
The Secret Lives of Homeless Students (medium.com/bright)
170 points by sarika008 on May 5, 2015 | 30 comments
11.
The compiler flag that time forgot (mistys-internet.website)
130 points by sp332 on May 4, 2015 | 84 comments
12.
Io.js 2.0.0 Released (iojs.org)
236 points by feross on May 5, 2015 | 94 comments
13.
How the NSA converts spoken words into searchable text (firstlook.org)
189 points by jbegley on May 5, 2015 | 22 comments
14.
Radium – The Music Editor (notam02.no)
116 points by buovjaga on May 5, 2015 | 62 comments
15.
Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain Text (joelburget.com)
109 points by kenpratt on May 5, 2015 | 69 comments
16.
ClojureScript Unraveled (funcool.github.io)
96 points by macco on May 4, 2015 | 28 comments
17.
A cursory look at meta-programming in Nim (ldlework.com)
97 points by ldlework on May 5, 2015 | 29 comments
18.
Why Topological Data Analysis Works (ayasdi.com)
67 points by psoto on May 4, 2015 | 10 comments
19.
Prenda Law and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Appellate Argument (popehat.com)
142 points by batguano on May 5, 2015 | 25 comments
20.
What afl-fuzz is bad at (regehr.org)
54 points by doty on May 4, 2015 | 10 comments
21.
Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped (washingtonpost.com)
216 points by junto on May 5, 2015 | 176 comments
22.
Mark Twain stories, 150 years old, uncovered by Berkeley scholars (theguardian.com)
122 points by dnetesn on May 5, 2015 | 16 comments
23.
In Rwanda, Building a “University in a Box” (medium.com/bright)
41 points by sarika008 on May 4, 2015 | 15 comments
24.
What every computer science major should know (2011) (might.net)
148 points by max0563 on May 5, 2015 | 95 comments
25.
Org-trello: Trello for org-mode (org-trello.github.io)
157 points by brudgers on May 5, 2015 | 36 comments
26.
Working Capital Optimization Trade-Offs: Does Apple Ship iPhones by Air or Sea? (flexport.com)
66 points by thedogeye on May 5, 2015 | 34 comments
27.
Let It Crash the Right Way (2009) (mazenharake.wordpress.com)
92 points by jacquesm on May 5, 2015 | 38 comments
28.
Berlin 1945 and Today (morgenpost.de)
168 points by guruz on May 5, 2015 | 43 comments
29.
DIY Iron Man Arc Reactor and Repulsor (spark.io)
58 points by zsupalla on May 5, 2015 | 1 comment
30.
Virtual Structs Part 1: Where Rust’s Enum Shines (smallcultfollowing.com)
95 points by Manishearth on May 5, 2015 | 30 comments

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