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YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion? (variety.com)
403 points by Ocerge on May 18, 2014 | 235 comments
2.
Why I Don’t Do CrossFit (erinsimmonsfitness.me)
265 points by r0h1n on May 18, 2014 | 173 comments
3.
So You’re Not Desirable (nytimes.com)
255 points by wallflower on May 18, 2014 | 133 comments
4.
Basics of Machine Learning (ed.ac.uk)
253 points by luu on May 18, 2014 | 32 comments
5.
New York City photographed with the Game Boy Camera in 2000 (ironicsans.com)
238 points by smacktoward on May 18, 2014 | 31 comments
6.
AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion (nytimes.com)
235 points by basisword on May 18, 2014 | 164 comments
7.
Don't Become a Scientist (1999) (wustl.edu)
195 points by geekam on May 18, 2014 | 159 comments
8.
What If U.S. Cities Just Stopped Participating in the War on Drugs? (citylab.com)
165 points by samsolomon on May 18, 2014 | 141 comments
9.
Always Hungry? Here’s Why (nytimes.com)
153 points by kozlovsky on May 18, 2014 | 131 comments
10.
Arecibo Observatory Detects Mysterious, Energetic Radio Burst (nationalgeographic.com)
152 points by givan on May 18, 2014 | 81 comments
11.
Some small suggestions for the Intel instruction set (cr.yp.to)
138 points by zdw on May 18, 2014 | 37 comments
12.
Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command (lerner.co.il)
122 points by reuven on May 18, 2014 | 61 comments
13.
Finch – local port forwarding (meetfinch.com)
126 points by lachgr on May 18, 2014 | 54 comments
14.
MIT-related work that has transformed computer science (csail.mit.edu)
123 points by kp25 on May 18, 2014 | 52 comments
15.
How to become a Good Theoretical Physicist (uu.nl)
122 points by tokenadult on May 18, 2014 | 33 comments
16.
Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage (gnu.org)
120 points by pearjuice on May 18, 2014 | 94 comments
17.
OCaml 4.02: Everything else (janestreet.com)
98 points by yminsky on May 18, 2014 | 52 comments
18.
Google Maps Adds Elevation Profiles To Bike Routes (techcrunch.com)
101 points by sunilkumarc on May 18, 2014 | 46 comments
19.
What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong (nytimes.com)
95 points by 001sky on May 18, 2014 | 23 comments
20.
Type checking in Python (senko.net)
97 points by senko on May 18, 2014 | 77 comments
21.
Integrating Google Docs, Chrome, and IPython (plus.google.com)
96 points by renatooliveira on May 18, 2014 | 13 comments
22.
BADA55: safe curves for elliptic-curve cryptography (cr.yp.to)
94 points by mrsaint on May 18, 2014 | 15 comments
23.
The woman who saw beneath oceans (skepticblog.org)
86 points by tokenadult on May 18, 2014 | 21 comments
24.
Clib: Package manager for C (github.com/clibs)
83 points by petercooper on May 18, 2014 | 56 comments
25.
Jmat.js: A new mathematics library in JavaScript (lodev.org)
84 points by jmatjs on May 18, 2014 | 13 comments
26.
SSH Tunnel – Local and Remote Port Forwarding Explained With Examples (sensible.io)
78 points by darthdeus on May 18, 2014 | 13 comments
27.
Computer-related horror stories, folklore and anecdotes (1990) (speedygrl.com)
78 points by ben0x539 on May 18, 2014 | 10 comments
28.
 [dupe] LibreSSL – the first 30 days (openbsd.org)
76 points by lysium on May 18, 2014 | 31 comments
29.
Patent reform hangs by a thread as Senate Democrats bottle up key bill (gigaom.com)
84 points by wfjackson on May 18, 2014 | 10 comments
30.
Detroit: Bankrupt city turned corporate luxury brand (theguardian.com)
74 points by drjohnson on May 18, 2014 | 61 comments

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