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1.		Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?
		395 points by septerr on May 23, 2014 \| 201 comments
2.		Surface Pro 3 (penny-arcade.com)
		351 points by ismavis on May 23, 2014 \| 223 comments
3.		Neutralizing the iOS camera click sound through active sound cancellation (stackoverflow.com)
		334 points by dmd on May 23, 2014 \| 105 comments
4.		The new VirginAmerica.com (virginamerica.com)
		313 points by malditojavi on May 23, 2014 \| 158 comments
5.		Understanding web pages better (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
		236 points by dmnd on May 23, 2014 \| 76 comments
6.		Privacy Badger (eff.org)
		231 points by sbt on May 23, 2014 \| 67 comments
7.		Why TLS is called "TLS", not "SSL 3.1" (dierks.org)
		229 points by timdierks on May 23, 2014 \| 35 comments
8.		Developer Anxiety, we’re not alone (geekyboy.com)
		222 points by saurabh on May 23, 2014 \| 131 comments
9.		Stay Classy Makerbot (openbeamusa.com)
		213 points by thealphanerd on May 23, 2014 \| 60 comments
10.		Animals in the wild found to use running wheel if given the choice (phys.org)
		184 points by pwg on May 23, 2014 \| 115 comments
11.		The Fourier Transform and its Applications (stanford.edu)
		174 points by bsilvereagle on May 23, 2014 \| 22 comments
12.		Panda 4.0: Why eBay lost many of its organic rankings (wordstream.com)
		168 points by gere on May 23, 2014 \| 89 comments
13.		Why Online Communities Decay Over Time (rs.io)
		158 points by adbge on May 23, 2014 \| 143 comments
14.		Browserify handbook (github.com/substack)
		154 points by mambodog on May 23, 2014 \| 68 comments
15.		Explanation of 44.1 kHz CD sampling rate (columbia.edu)
		149 points by jcr on May 23, 2014 \| 39 comments
16.		Amazon Flexes Its Muscles in Fight Against Publishers (nytimes.com)
		136 points by kjhughes on May 23, 2014 \| 121 comments
17.		Google Project Lets You Program a Simulated Quantum Computer (readwrite.com)
		139 points by amaks on May 23, 2014 \| 43 comments
18.		OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic (brendangregg.com)
		123 points by akerl_ on May 23, 2014 \| 135 comments
19.		Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters (debian.org)
		129 points by tshepang on May 23, 2014 \| 37 comments
20.		A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland (jacquesmattheij.com)
		118 points by octopus on May 23, 2014 \| 31 comments
21.		The Hidden Beauty of Airport Runways, and How to Decipher Them (wired.com)
		114 points by ghosh on May 23, 2014 \| 36 comments
22.		CoreOS images are now available on Google Compute Engine (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
		125 points by freeman478 on May 23, 2014 \| 11 comments
23.		Why lawmakers just voted against their own bill to reform the NSA (washingtonpost.com)
		102 points by Libertatea on May 23, 2014 \| 15 comments
24.		U.S. officials cut estimate of recoverable Monterey Shale oil by 96% (latimes.com)
		94 points by T-A on May 23, 2014 \| 46 comments
25.		Rust for C++ Programmers Part 7: Data Types (featherweightmusings.blogspot.com)
		93 points by ihnorton on May 23, 2014 \| 38 comments
26.		Mathematical Impressions: Spontaneous Stratification (simonsfoundation.org)
		87 points by digital55 on May 23, 2014 \| 5 comments
27.		Coinbase now supports the Bitcoin Payment Protocol (coinbase.com)
		91 points by roasbeef on May 23, 2014 \| 8 comments
28.		Predictive brains, situated agents and future of cognitive science (2013) [pdf] (dropboxusercontent.com)
		87 points by gwern on May 23, 2014 \| 9 comments
29.		New Middleware Technology Quadruples SSD Speed? (nikkeibp.co.jp)
		80 points by daureg on May 23, 2014 \| 25 comments
30.		E-Commerce Is A Bear (medium.com/what-i-learned-building)
		77 points by bkudria on May 23, 2014 \| 44 comments
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