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1.		Burying the URL (allenpike.com)
		553 points by alxndr on May 1, 2014 \| 368 comments
2.		The slow death of purposeless walking (bbc.co.uk)
		353 points by basisword on May 1, 2014 \| 183 comments
3.		Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands (washingtonpost.com)
		324 points by trusche on May 1, 2014 \| 82 comments
4.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)
		336 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2014 \| 491 comments
5.		The cost of Linux's page fault handling (plus.google.com)
		260 points by LaSombra on May 1, 2014 \| 128 comments
6.		One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos (theguardian.com)
		259 points by swatkat on May 1, 2014 \| 106 comments
7.		The New Aaron Swartz Documentary Looks Powerful. Here's the Trailer (slate.com)
		232 points by jamesisaac on May 1, 2014 \| 57 comments
8.		How a Florida kid’s “stupid app” saved his family’s home (pando.com)
		202 points by jamesjyu on May 1, 2014 \| 90 comments
9.		My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal
		200 points by nthitz on May 1, 2014 \| 175 comments
10.		Our YC Interviews (alchemist.svbtle.com)
		178 points by gdi2290 on May 1, 2014 \| 73 comments
11.		Gimli Glider (wikipedia.org)
		176 points by lelf on May 1, 2014 \| 80 comments
12.		Let's Write Some x86-64 (nickdesaulniers.github.io)
		163 points by mbrubeck on May 1, 2014 \| 44 comments
13.		Random JSON data generator (json-generator.com)
		141 points by davidbarker on May 1, 2014 \| 29 comments
14.		John Carmack's former employer claims he stole tech for Oculus VR when he left (engadget.com)
		144 points by pytrin on May 1, 2014 \| 87 comments
15.		Hugelkultur: the ultimate raised garden beds (richsoil.com)
		134 points by Mz on May 1, 2014 \| 36 comments
16.		The Launch of the Mayday Citizens' SuperPAC (lessig.tumblr.com)
		134 points by famousactress on May 1, 2014 \| 97 comments
17.		Python for Finance (amazon.com)
		127 points by mjhea0 on May 1, 2014 \| 61 comments
18.		Linux file write patterns: So you want to write to a file fast (plenz.com)
		120 points by noqqe on May 1, 2014 \| 50 comments
19.		Ask HN: Can we do a "Who's looking for work?"
		121 points by jader201 on May 1, 2014 \| 61 comments
20.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)
		129 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2014 \| 157 comments
21.		Comparing Ember and Angular (benlesh.com)
		116 points by nreece on May 1, 2014 \| 84 comments
22.		Putting the Chat into Snapchat (snapchat.com)
		123 points by dnlserrano on May 1, 2014 \| 82 comments
23.		Buttons – A button library built with Sass and Compass (alexwolfe.github.io)
		119 points by djug on May 1, 2014 \| 30 comments
24.		SpaceX granted injunction in rocket launch suit against Lockheed-Boeing (washingtonpost.com)
		114 points by cryptoz on May 1, 2014 \| 76 comments
25.		OpenBSD 5.5 Released (openbsd.org)
		106 points by throwaway2048 on May 1, 2014 \| 62 comments
26.		Null pointer dereference – new security bug for OpenSSL (openbsd.org)
		99 points by openbsddesktop on May 1, 2014 \| 29 comments
27.		Interactively Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript (rigsomelight.com)
		107 points by brucehauman on May 1, 2014 \| 42 comments
28.		Web Framework Benchmarks Round 9 (techempower.com)
		108 points by osener on May 1, 2014 \| 68 comments
29.		The Graphing Calculator Story (2004) (pacifict.com)
		92 points by rsagula on May 1, 2014 \| 12 comments
30.		Swarm: Foursquare's ambitious plan to split its app in two (theverge.com)
		103 points by jeremylevy on May 1, 2014 \| 42 comments
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