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1.		It's Different for Girls (heidiroizen.tumblr.com)
		427 points by tkorotkikh on May 2, 2014 \| 379 comments
2.		How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch (gizmodo.com)
		351 points by mr_tyzik on May 2, 2014 \| 97 comments
3.		A new book compiles knowledge necessary for society to recover after disaster (scientificamerican.com)
		280 points by ColinWright on May 2, 2014 \| 133 comments
4.		Headphones and Earphones Benchmarking Test Files (audiocheck.net)
		247 points by 6cxs2hd6 on May 2, 2014 \| 137 comments
5.		Global heatmap of cycling and running routes (strava.com)
		258 points by knappe on May 2, 2014 \| 139 comments
6.		Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy (eff.org)
		226 points by schoen on May 2, 2014 \| 125 comments
7.		Hamming, "You and Your Research" (1995) [video] (youtube.com)
		194 points by espeed on May 2, 2014 \| 25 comments
8.		With IPO Hopes Fading, Square and Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products (techcrunch.com)
		206 points by onedev on May 2, 2014 \| 108 comments
9.		Here’s my favorite operating systems war story, what’s yours? (valerieaurora.org)
		191 points by luu on May 2, 2014 \| 24 comments
10.		Common LibreSSL porting mistakes (insanecoding.blogspot.com)
		185 points by edwintorok on May 2, 2014 \| 66 comments
11.		‘Solar’ jet fuel made out of air (rsc.org)
		173 points by Libertatea on May 2, 2014 \| 123 comments
12.		Thinking in Types (thoughtbot.com)
		168 points by Croaky on May 2, 2014 \| 118 comments
13.		Washington state sues Kickstarted game creator who failed to deliver (gamasutra.com)
		161 points by kryptiskt on May 2, 2014 \| 77 comments
14.		We Aren’t the World (2013) (psmag.com)
		145 points by tshepang on May 2, 2014 \| 81 comments
15.		The Illusion of Life: Disney's principles of animation (the12principles.tumblr.com)
		144 points by mike_h on May 2, 2014 \| 31 comments
16.		Is it Pokémon or big data technology? (docs.google.com)
		140 points by RainforestCx on May 2, 2014 \| 37 comments
17.		When Sued Don't Tweet (jacquesmattheij.com)
		130 points by bussetta on May 2, 2014 \| 115 comments
18.		Snowden: Why hasn’t DNI Clapper been punished for lying to Congress? (washingtonpost.com)
		131 points by ryutin on May 2, 2014 \| 113 comments
19.		Map Reduce: A simple introduction (2010) (ksat.me)
		117 points by awjr on May 2, 2014 \| 36 comments
20.		Value Types for Java – A sketch of proposed enhancements (java.net)
		121 points by pjmlp on May 2, 2014 \| 98 comments
21.		How to tell when someone is lying? (newyorker.com)
		120 points by vbv on May 2, 2014 \| 97 comments
22.		OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Redirect Vulnerability (tetraph.com)
		120 points by bevacqua on May 2, 2014 \| 56 comments
23.		‘~’ is being removed from Rust (github.com/rust-lang)
		126 points by steveklabnik on May 2, 2014 \| 115 comments
24.		The bug that hides from breakpoints (drewdevault.com)
		107 points by luu on May 2, 2014 \| 28 comments
25.		It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment (wired.com)
		104 points by ghosh on May 2, 2014 \| 63 comments
26.		Make Your Own Grid Paper (gridzzly.com)
		100 points by quodestabsurdum on May 2, 2014 \| 38 comments
27.		[dupe] Elon Musk Wants SpaceX to Replace Russia as NASA's Space Station Transport (businessweek.com)
		92 points by lelf on May 2, 2014 \| 57 comments
28.		What Programming is Like (samstokes.co.uk)
		96 points by samstokes on May 2, 2014 \| 38 comments
29.		Ask HN: Best current Linux-compatible laptop?
		92 points by sz0ka on May 2, 2014 \| 120 comments
30.		Lulzlabs AirChat: Free Communications For Everyone. (github.com/lulzlabs)
		86 points by jamesbritt on May 2, 2014 \| 62 comments
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