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1.		SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. (computerworld.com)
		215 points by sc90 on May 3, 2014 \| 148 comments
2.		Why I won’t work for Google (qnrq.se)
		217 points by beshrkayali on May 3, 2014 \| 216 comments
3.		GitHub monoculture (nedbatchelder.com)
		156 points by ingve on May 3, 2014 \| 104 comments
4.		Shit HN Says (twitter.com/shit_hn_says)
		155 points by edward on May 3, 2014 \| 56 comments
5.		Does Google Have A Secret “Translate” Service? (searchengineland.com)
		146 points by Houshalter on May 3, 2014 \| 52 comments
6.		Truthcoin: Trustless, Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Marketplace (github.com/psztorc)
		140 points by poppingtonic on May 3, 2014 \| 60 comments
7.		Working on The Witness: The Nebraska Problem (mollyrocket.com)
		110 points by vilhelm_s on May 3, 2014 \| 19 comments
8.		Stranger in a Strange Land: “Big Data” programmer meets HPC community (machinedlearnings.com)
		108 points by drjohnson on May 3, 2014 \| 34 comments
9.		Snails Are Dissolving in Pacific Ocean (news.sciencemag.org)
		106 points by vinchuco on May 3, 2014 \| 55 comments
10.		The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved (1970) (liamk.org)
		107 points by keane on May 3, 2014 \| 60 comments
11.		Inferno Raspberry Pi image – beta release (lynxline.com)
		95 points by neverm0re on May 3, 2014 \| 28 comments
12.		Prose, a content editor for GitHub (prose.io)
		101 points by avinashv on May 3, 2014 \| 51 comments
13.		Parallelising Python with Threading and Multiprocessing (quantstart.com)
		94 points by shogunmike on May 3, 2014 \| 37 comments
14.		NoTex: An online text editor for reStructuredText, Markdown, LaTex (notex.ch)
		93 points by rhythmvs on May 3, 2014 \| 20 comments
15.		Why washing machines are no longer built to last (bbc.co.uk)
		89 points by akandiah on May 3, 2014 \| 113 comments
16.		The Great Smartphone War (vanityfair.com)
		84 points by IBM on May 3, 2014 \| 79 comments
17.		World History Maps and Timelines (geacron.com)
		84 points by blacktulip on May 3, 2014 \| 14 comments
18.		2014 MacBook Air: Performance benchmarks (macworld.com)
		87 points by ytch on May 3, 2014 \| 69 comments
19.		Confirming Consensus on removing RSA key Transport from TLS 1.3 (ietf.org)
		85 points by ilamont on May 3, 2014 \| 9 comments
20.		A Chinese copy of GitHub.com (csdn.net)
		79 points by yong on May 3, 2014 \| 49 comments
21.		Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010) (smashingmagazine.com)
		77 points by adamnemecek on May 3, 2014 \| 15 comments
22.		Show HN: My first Ludum Dare entry, online multiplayer game Hide-n-Stab (54.244.244.60)
		71 points by bendmorris on May 3, 2014 \| 54 comments
23.		Hello Haskell, Goodbye Lisp (2009) (newartisans.com)
		74 points by psibi on May 3, 2014 \| 68 comments
24.		Intuition for Simulated Annealing (rs.io)
		67 points by adbge on May 3, 2014 \| 9 comments
25.		An analysis of Facebook photo caching (facebook.com)
		71 points by uehtesham90 on May 3, 2014 \| 12 comments
26.		Stephen Hawking: AI, Potentially the Worst Thing to Happen to Humanity (yahoo.com)
		66 points by jaequery on May 3, 2014 \| 108 comments
27.		Pattern Matching – Make the Compiler Work for You (deliberate-software.com)
		65 points by JackMorgan on May 3, 2014 \| 33 comments
28.		Bill Gates on track to own no Microsoft stock in four years (reuters.com)
		64 points by gdilla on May 3, 2014 \| 54 comments
29.		FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s lame excuses for his net neutrality proposal (slate.com)
		70 points by Libertatea on May 3, 2014 \| 41 comments
30.		End of Moore's Law: It's not just about physics (cnet.com)
		60 points by davidiach on May 3, 2014 \| 61 comments
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