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1.		Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat (quirksmode.org)
		605 points by robin_reala on May 26, 2015 \| 505 comments
2.		Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		362 points by xPaw on May 26, 2015 \| 83 comments
3.		The mystery of the power bank phone taking over Ghana (qz.com)
		326 points by donohoe on May 26, 2015 \| 122 comments
4.		Show HN: An Isomorphic JavaScript Framework Faster Than React (jsblocks.com)
		337 points by astoilkov on May 26, 2015 \| 253 comments
5.		Yagni (martinfowler.com)
		271 points by petercooper on May 26, 2015 \| 178 comments
6.		The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole (bbc.com)
		261 points by fhinson on May 26, 2015 \| 157 comments
7.		Nom, a byte oriented, streaming, zero copy, parser combinators library in Rust [pdf] (langsec.org)
		183 points by steveklabnik on May 25, 2015 \| 28 comments
8.		Vox Media Acquiring ReCode (nytimes.com)
		178 points by coloneltcb on May 26, 2015 \| 75 comments
9.		Why PowerPoint should be banned (washingtonpost.com)
		284 points by SimplyUseless on May 26, 2015 \| 207 comments
10.		IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000 (washingtonpost.com)
		144 points by davidlago on May 26, 2015 \| 97 comments
11.		Microsoft’s Cortana Headed to iPhone and Android Phones (wsj.com)
		150 points by abetaha on May 26, 2015 \| 67 comments
12.		Why investors don’t fund dating (andrewchen.co)
		232 points by andrew_null on May 26, 2015 \| 185 comments
13.		New C++ experimental feature: The tadpole operators (msdn.com)
		129 points by ingve on May 25, 2015 \| 62 comments
14.		The Backing Up of the Internet Archive Continues (textfiles.com)
		175 points by bane on May 26, 2015 \| 65 comments
15.		Show HN: IPC between multiple Java processes/JVMs with nanosecond latency (mappedbus.io)
		114 points by mikaelj1 on May 26, 2015 \| 41 comments
16.		Uber Closes in on Its Last Frontier: Airports (nytimes.com)
		83 points by claywm on May 25, 2015 \| 77 comments
17.		Mr. Rogers Introduces Kids to Experimental Electronic Music (1968) (openculture.com)
		132 points by tintinnabula on May 26, 2015 \| 26 comments
18.		Snapshot Compression (gafferongames.com)
		71 points by jwmerrill on May 25, 2015 \| 2 comments
19.		Emmy Noether changed the course of physics (arstechnica.com)
		120 points by yk on May 26, 2015 \| 31 comments
20.		John and Alicia Nash, 1928,1933-2015 (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
		113 points by gluejar on May 26, 2015 \| 13 comments
21.		Vibrant.js: Extract prominent colors from an image (jariz.github.io)
		131 points by alexcasalboni on May 26, 2015 \| 21 comments
22.		Macros in Python: quasiquotes, case classes, LINQ and more (github.com/lihaoyi)
		93 points by mzl on May 26, 2015 \| 18 comments
23.		My first job burnout (niki.zone)
		128 points by szines on May 26, 2015 \| 90 comments
24.		"Freelance" Spies In NYC Are Publishing Private Conversations (gothamist.com)
		101 points by pavel_lishin on May 26, 2015 \| 21 comments
25.		Turn any part of your screen into a playable level of Super Mario Bros (aaronrandall.com)
		120 points by aaronrandall on May 26, 2015 \| 28 comments
26.		Why do people waste so much time at work? (bbc.co.uk)
		162 points by fredley on May 26, 2015 \| 214 comments
27.		Why the Battle of Waterloo was fought (smithsonianmag.com)
		75 points by fitzwatermellow on May 26, 2015 \| 31 comments
28.		Show HN: Parex – Simple Elixir module for parallel execution (github.com/stevenjl)
		43 points by hacker314159 on May 25, 2015 \| 7 comments
29.		The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Language Models (ipython.org)
		74 points by woodson on May 26, 2015 \| 12 comments
30.		A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservation Prize (brainpreservation.org)
		64 points by porejide on May 26, 2015 \| 57 comments
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