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1.		How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name (fivethirtyeight.com)
		421 points by ca98am79 on May 29, 2014 \| 145 comments
2.		Git 2.0 (iu.edu)
		405 points by pantalaimon on May 29, 2014 \| 137 comments
3.		For Hire: Dedicated Young Man With Down Syndrome (aljazeera.com)
		391 points by mr_tyzik on May 29, 2014 \| 115 comments
4.		Google's XSS game (xss-game.appspot.com)
		376 points by morphics on May 29, 2014 \| 156 comments
5.		True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’ (krebsonsecurity.com)
		360 points by panarky on May 29, 2014 \| 237 comments
6.		The Man Who Single-Handedly Converted a Washed-Out Land Into a 1,360 Acre Forest (thebetterindia.com)
		326 points by dhimant on May 29, 2014 \| 41 comments
7.		US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers (theguardian.com)
		273 points by wglb on May 29, 2014 \| 83 comments
8.		Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps (plus.google.com)
		269 points by chippy on May 29, 2014 \| 97 comments
9.		The Makings of a Great Logo (pixelapse.com)
		254 points by lominming on May 29, 2014 \| 74 comments
10.		Absolute Zero (damninteresting.com)
		249 points by jqm on May 29, 2014 \| 41 comments
11.		Interesting Data Sets for Statistics (rs.io)
		216 points by aficionado on May 29, 2014 \| 17 comments
12.		Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report (techcrunch.com)
		216 points by sunilkumarc on May 29, 2014 \| 77 comments
13.		No more ads (opendns.com)
		188 points by philip1209 on May 29, 2014 \| 106 comments
14.		OpenSSL, OpenSSH and NTP to receive support from Core Infrastructure Initiative (linuxfoundation.org)
		181 points by ryanweal on May 29, 2014 \| 90 comments
15.		Laverna: Self-hosted Evernote alternative (laverna.cc)
		180 points by yid on May 29, 2014 \| 50 comments
16.		A Data Analysis Curriculum (mysliderule.com)
		168 points by gautambay on May 29, 2014 \| 50 comments
17.		“Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry” (nymag.com)
		161 points by killerdhmo on May 29, 2014 \| 129 comments
18.		Google's diversity post makes no mention of age (brianstorms.com)
		146 points by brianstorms on May 29, 2014 \| 43 comments
19.		An alternative Haskell home page (chrisdone.com)
		136 points by chiachun on May 29, 2014 \| 38 comments
20.		Defensive Bash programming (kfirlavi.com)
		127 points by urlwolf on May 29, 2014 \| 57 comments
21.		I got shipped to California to date tech guys (nymag.com)
		130 points by jmduke on May 29, 2014 \| 113 comments
22.		Thomas Piketty Responds to Criticism of His Data (nytimes.com)
		122 points by felix on May 29, 2014 \| 70 comments
23.		RenderMan Price Restructuring (pixar.com)
		115 points by amock on May 29, 2014 \| 50 comments
24.		Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (2011)
		104 points by chesterfield on May 29, 2014 \| 17 comments
25.		Go, REST APIs, and Pointers (willnorris.com)
		117 points by watermel0n on May 29, 2014 \| 20 comments
26.		Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States (priceonomics.com)
		105 points by harris11 on May 29, 2014 \| 35 comments
27.		Replace TrueCrypt – Candidate alternatives (boum.org)
		106 points by chmars on May 29, 2014 \| 56 comments
28.		So a female programmer walks into a bar… (netguru.co)
		110 points by filozynka on May 29, 2014 \| 137 comments
29.		Poll: Unban TempleOS?
		100 points by jacquesm on May 29, 2014 \| 87 comments
30.		We picked the wrong lawyers for our first startup (gymsurfing.com)
		96 points by kevinbracken on May 29, 2014 \| 84 comments
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