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1.		Level3 is without peer, now what to do? (cringely.com)
		781 points by mortimerwax on May 20, 2014 \| 382 comments
2.		Using the wrong dictionary (jsomers.net)
		635 points by jsomers on May 20, 2014 \| 138 comments
3.		New DuckDuckGo design (duckduckgo.com)
		614 points by ashishk on May 20, 2014 \| 214 comments
4.		When AES(☢) = ☠ – a crypto-binary trick (speakerdeck.com)
		287 points by ange4771_ on May 20, 2014 \| 34 comments
5.		China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers (reuters.com)
		286 points by yiedyie on May 20, 2014 \| 142 comments
6.		Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3 (theverge.com)
		275 points by sz4kerto on May 20, 2014 \| 315 comments
7.		Questions for Donald Knuth (informit.com)
		249 points by robinhouston on May 20, 2014 \| 58 comments
8.		Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful (igvita.com)
		235 points by igrigorik on May 20, 2014 \| 56 comments
9.		The desktop and the developer (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		199 points by ekianjo on May 20, 2014 \| 301 comments
10.		Erlang and code style (medium.com/p)
		195 points by kungfooguru on May 20, 2014 \| 57 comments
11.		How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark (newyorker.com)
		192 points by jrochkind1 on May 20, 2014 \| 93 comments
12.		Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999) (bell-labs.com)
		170 points by evntdrvn on May 20, 2014 \| 54 comments
13.		808 Cube (808cube.com)
		165 points by getdavidhiggins on May 20, 2014 \| 43 comments
14.		This png encrypts to the same image (imgur.com)
		154 points by diafygi on May 20, 2014 \| 37 comments
15.		Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft (ieee.org)
		154 points by andyjohnson0 on May 20, 2014 \| 50 comments
16.		Try-catch speeding up my code? (stackoverflow.com)
		144 points by vishal0123 on May 20, 2014 \| 59 comments
17.		As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The Price (npr.org)
		145 points by dataminer on May 20, 2014 \| 49 comments
18.		The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012) (russolsen.com)
		121 points by reforge_reborn on May 20, 2014 \| 50 comments
19.		To Get a Home in San Francisco, First Get a $200,000-a-Year Job (wsj.com)
		115 points by anishkothari on May 20, 2014 \| 167 comments
20.		Thoughts on Martini – Introducing Negroni (codegangsta.io)
		116 points by sld on May 20, 2014 \| 25 comments
21.		Dear Google: Parody Is Not Trademark Infringement (eff.org)
		99 points by anaphor on May 20, 2014 \| 31 comments
22.		Elm 0.12.3 – Hardware accelerated 3D rendering with WebGL (elm-lang.org)
		101 points by wheatBread on May 20, 2014 \| 37 comments
23.		[dupe] Starting An Airline (boeing.com)
		96 points by rickdale on May 20, 2014 \| 68 comments
24.		The pitfalls of allowing file uploads on your website (detectify.com)
		100 points by BogdanCalin on May 20, 2014 \| 30 comments
25.		Unions and Airlines (2010) (greenspun.com)
		94 points by luu on May 20, 2014 \| 72 comments
26.		Uncss – Find unused CSS (davidwalsh.name)
		90 points by josephcs on May 20, 2014 \| 24 comments
27.		Disneyland's original prospectus (1953) (boingboing.net)
		84 points by trsohmers on May 20, 2014 \| 16 comments
28.		Poll: Do you use marijuana
		91 points by evo_9 on May 20, 2014 \| 107 comments
29.		For Workers, Less Flexible Companies (nytimes.com)
		86 points by 001sky on May 20, 2014 \| 42 comments
30.		Docker: Lightweight Linux containers for consistent development and deployment (linuxjournal.com)
		86 points by Isofarro on May 20, 2014 \| 30 comments
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