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1.
How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux (linuxvoice.com)
382 points by mksaunders on May 9, 2014 | 197 comments
2.
Wayback Machine Hits 400,000,000,000 (archive.org)
300 points by tweakz on May 9, 2014 | 56 comments
3.
Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards (ankisrs.net)
293 points by amjd on May 9, 2014 | 135 comments
4.
Quora in the next YC batch (blog.ycombinator.com)
306 points by _pius on May 9, 2014 | 177 comments
5.
How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds (gist.github.com)
274 points by mrsaint on May 9, 2014 | 124 comments
6.
Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf] (uscourts.gov)
285 points by dctoedt on May 9, 2014 | 253 comments
7.
CoreOS Beta Release (coreos.com)
253 points by grk on May 9, 2014 | 37 comments
8.
Flux Application Architecture (facebook.github.io)
235 points by sehr on May 9, 2014 | 87 comments
9.
Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (jakevdp.github.io)
208 points by underyx on May 9, 2014 | 176 comments
10.
WhatsApplebee's: the premiere Applebee's-based social chat app (whatsapplebees.com)
210 points by lazerwalker on May 9, 2014 | 53 comments
11.
Haskell tutorial for C programmers (haskell.org)
177 points by foulas on May 9, 2014 | 51 comments
12.
Brazilian Kids Learn English by Video Chatting With Elderly Americans (adweek.com)
176 points by felipelalli on May 9, 2014 | 30 comments
13.
Brain.js Demo – Train a neural network to recognize color contrast (harthur.github.io)
176 points by davidbarker on May 9, 2014 | 26 comments
14.
How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup (trevorstarick.com)
166 points by ngjjdkdk on May 9, 2014 | 76 comments
15.
Jsfmt – Like Gofmt, but for JavaScript (github.com/rdio)
155 points by jimfleming on May 9, 2014 | 47 comments
16.
CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE (cshell.net)
142 points by rayvega on May 9, 2014 | 83 comments
17.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python (python-guide.org)
137 points by dsego on May 9, 2014 | 12 comments
18.
How I Handle Trello Support (fogcreek.com)
132 points by joeyespo on May 9, 2014 | 14 comments
19.
Don't Call it a Fast Lane (dontcallitafastlane.com)
126 points by xwowsersx on May 9, 2014 | 37 comments
20.
What Happens When a Neurosurgeon Removes Your Hippocampus (wired.com)
111 points by ghosh on May 9, 2014 | 70 comments
21.
Birdly – An attempt to fly with Oculus Rift [video] (zhdk.ch)
111 points by muratmutlu on May 9, 2014 | 38 comments
22.
We don't eat swans (modernfarmer.com)
113 points by drjohnson on May 9, 2014 | 134 comments
23.
Extension Points, or how OCaml is becoming more like Lisp (janestreet.com)
104 points by edwintorok on May 9, 2014 | 29 comments
24.
Saving the Feynman van (symmetrymagazine.org)
98 points by captainmuon on May 9, 2014 | 7 comments
25.
JavaZone 2014 movies (javazone.no)
94 points by kgs42 on May 9, 2014 | 15 comments
26.
Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad (dringend.cc)
90 points by davidbarker on May 9, 2014 | 59 comments
27.
Protest in front of the FCC (goldenfrog.com)
96 points by rqebmm on May 9, 2014 | 31 comments
28.
Google Music natively on Linux (packetfire.org)
93 points by Tiksi on May 9, 2014 | 23 comments
29.
The Lurking Smalltalk in Unix and Plan 9 [pdf] (plosworkshop.org)
91 points by mpweiher on May 9, 2014 | 38 comments
30.
ZTE Starts Sales of Open C Firefox OS Phone on eBay (blog.mozilla.org)
86 points by conductor on May 9, 2014 | 62 comments

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