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1.		Observations of an Internet Middleman (level3.com)
		424 points by staticsafe on May 5, 2014 \| 175 comments
2.		Minimum Viable Block Chain (igvita.com)
		335 points by vikrum on May 5, 2014 \| 73 comments
3.		Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster (php.net)
		293 points by mrsaint on May 5, 2014 \| 139 comments
4.		Volvo’s first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Sweden (kurzweilai.net)
		252 points by taivo on May 5, 2014 \| 172 comments
5.		NES Dual Port RAM Interface (batslyadams.com)
		249 points by jboggan on May 5, 2014 \| 23 comments
6.		Startup School is going global (blog.ycombinator.com)
		252 points by katm on May 5, 2014 \| 96 comments
7.		Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork (animalnewyork.com)
		244 points by ChrisArchitect on May 5, 2014 \| 108 comments
8.		Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day (swype.com)
		215 points by seaghost on May 5, 2014 \| 158 comments
9.		The Case for React.js and ClojureScript (murilopereira.com)
		200 points by mpereira on May 5, 2014 \| 85 comments
10.		Why I am excited about Clojure (txus.io)
		184 points by txus on May 5, 2014 \| 169 comments
11.		Through the Warp Zone: Hacking Super Mario Brothers to unlock new worlds (emily.st)
		171 points by emilyst on May 5, 2014 \| 36 comments
12.		You never did math in high school (j2kun.svbtle.com)
		160 points by xSwag on May 5, 2014 \| 176 comments
13.		Google’s fiber effect: Fuel for a broadband explosion (cnet.com)
		159 points by prlin on May 5, 2014 \| 76 comments
14.		SCiO: A Pocket Molecular Sensor For All (kickstarter.com)
		149 points by svermigo on May 5, 2014 \| 79 comments
15.		TextSecure's Private Group Messaging (whispersystems.org)
		139 points by FredericJ on May 5, 2014 \| 106 comments
16.		Packr – Packages Java apps for distribution on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (github.com/libgdx)
		131 points by zdw on May 5, 2014 \| 40 comments
17.		I “Leaked” the story about the Biometric EarPods. But I’m not proud of it (earpodsecret.tumblr.com)
		135 points by kunle on May 5, 2014 \| 62 comments
18.		Optimizely Raises $57 Million (optimizely.com)
		133 points by dsiroker on May 5, 2014 \| 56 comments
19.		Automattic Raises $160 Million, Valued at $1.16 Billion (recode.net)
		123 points by dkasper on May 5, 2014 \| 35 comments
20.		OpenSSH sshd – memory leak (pastebin.com)
		116 points by jvehent on May 5, 2014 \| 42 comments
21.		Why our startup failed (oncletom.io)
		115 points by kaelig on May 5, 2014 \| 93 comments
22.		Simple steps to implementing a programming language (kjetilvalle.com)
		112 points by kvalle on May 5, 2014 \| 37 comments
23.		Target removes CEO in wake of cyber attack (reuters.com)
		111 points by wiremine on May 5, 2014 \| 93 comments
24.		Using Wikipedia in the classroom: a cautionary tale (dynamicecology.wordpress.com)
		105 points by jcurbo on May 5, 2014 \| 80 comments
25.		A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks (github.com/ipython)
		106 points by sctb on May 5, 2014 \| 21 comments
26.		Advice for ambitious 19 year olds (2013) (samaltman.com)
		100 points by Jarred on May 5, 2014 \| 92 comments
27.		Facebook's Realtime Updates API has been down for 12 days (facebook.com)
		100 points by jobeirne on May 5, 2014 \| 28 comments
28.		AMD is working on K12, brand-new x86 and ARM cores (techreport.com)
		96 points by AnthonyMouse on May 5, 2014 \| 54 comments
29.		Death to the Technical Interview (iambob.me)
		93 points by rigid_airship on May 5, 2014 \| 113 comments
30.		New dev release of Sublime Text 3 (sublimetext.com)
		85 points by diggan on May 5, 2014 \| 54 comments
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