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31.		A Developer's Perspective On Porting Games To Linux (phoronix.com)
		88 points by intull on May 8, 2014 \| 30 comments
32.		[dupe] Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy backdoor (fsf.org)
		81 points by dn2k on May 8, 2014 \| 16 comments
33.		You get what you pay for. (trenchescomic.com)
		83 points by minimaxir on May 8, 2014 \| 58 comments
34.		Planetary Scientist Colin Pillinger has died (bbc.co.uk)
		82 points by rb2e on May 8, 2014 \| 6 comments
35.		BasicCoin, a cryptocurrency in less than 600 lines of Python (github.com/zack-bitcoin)
		77 points by dbbolton on May 8, 2014 \| 38 comments
36.		The Single Responsibility Principle (8thlight.com)
		69 points by marcbarbosa on May 8, 2014 \| 20 comments
37.		Mission Impossible: Hardening Android for Security and Privacy (torproject.org)
		61 points by joelanders on May 8, 2014 \| 14 comments
38.		First life with 'alien' DNA (nature.com)
		60 points by jamesbritt on May 8, 2014 \| 46 comments
39.		Snapchat Settles Charges with FTC That It Deceived Users (nytimes.com)
		61 points by ewang1 on May 8, 2014 \| 19 comments
40.		Woothemes.com Credit Card Leak
		57 points by GiantTitan on May 8, 2014 \| 9 comments
41.		Poll: what smartphone do you use as your primary smartphone?
		53 points by plg on May 8, 2014 \| 85 comments
42.		How we build an MVP on a budget with BizSpark and Azure (apirise.com)
		52 points by geopsist on May 8, 2014 \| 28 comments
43.		Replacing a Thinkpad X60 Bootflash Chip (patternsinthevoid.net)
		52 points by WestCoastJustin on May 8, 2014 \| 41 comments
44.		Trees as graphs vs. trees as data structures (codefellows.org)
		60 points by mikeyanderson on May 8, 2014 \| 14 comments
45.		Lanyon, a Markdown web server in Go (github.com/mkaz)
		54 points by marcuskaz on May 8, 2014 \| 19 comments
46.		Qt 5.3 Release Candidate Available (digia.com)
		48 points by bratao on May 8, 2014 \| 22 comments
47.		Show HN: Kiwichat – group chat of people who are within 1 mile (kiwichat.co)
		50 points by tomd3v on May 8, 2014 \| 41 comments
48.		The Illustris project: A large cosmological simulation of galaxy formation (illustris-project.org)
		49 points by carljoseph on May 8, 2014 \| 5 comments
49.		Scientific computing’s future: Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth? (arstechnica.com)
		51 points by privong on May 8, 2014 \| 5 comments
50.		GitHub search for 84600 seconds. Oops. (github.com/search)
		43 points by jeremycole on May 8, 2014 \| 57 comments
51.		China mulls high-speed train to US (chinadaily.com.cn)
		43 points by adventured on May 8, 2014 \| 63 comments
52.		KernelCare – Kernel updates without rebooting the system (kernelcare.com)
		45 points by yiedyie on May 8, 2014 \| 34 comments
53.		Is Consciousness Computable? (arxiv.org)
		39 points by Fice on May 8, 2014 \| 71 comments
54.		Apple releases guidelines for law enforcement data requests (cnet.com)
		36 points by RougeFemme on May 8, 2014 \| 20 comments
55.		Water flows uphill? Maybe, in California drought (mercurynews.com)
		32 points by kevin818 on May 8, 2014 \| 1 comment
56.		Ask HN: What's your favorite bookmarked HN thread?
		34 points by NicoJuicy on May 8, 2014 \| 9 comments
57.		[dupe] Apple in talks for $3.2bn Beats deal (ft.com)
		33 points by doh on May 8, 2014 \| 37 comments
58.		[dupe] Google Nest Parody Protest (techcrunch.com)
		32 points by t-3-k on May 8, 2014 \| 7 comments
59.		HealthCare.Gov Looks Like A Bargain Compared With State Exchanges (npr.org)
		32 points by marojejian on May 8, 2014 \| 52 comments
60.		Show HN: CodeReview – An iPad app for reviewing, editing, merging pull requests (codereview.io)
		36 points by jacksonh on May 8, 2014 \| 24 comments
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