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1.		Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation (github.com/iojs)
		794 points by onestone on May 13, 2015 \| 81 comments
2.		How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime (washingtonpost.com)
		602 points by rl3 on May 13, 2015 \| 433 comments
3.		House Votes to End N.S.A.’s Bulk Phone Data Collection (nytimes.com)
		368 points by colinmegill on May 13, 2015 \| 186 comments
4.		Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet (wsj.com)
		283 points by kjhughes on May 13, 2015 \| 148 comments
5.		Facebook Visual Identity (officeofbenbarry.com)
		283 points by yuvals on May 13, 2015 \| 48 comments
6.		Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb (latimes.com)
		241 points by adamio on May 13, 2015 \| 409 comments
7.		The Failure of Agile (toolshed.com)
		335 points by ingve on May 13, 2015 \| 255 comments
8.		Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive code (crowdstrike.com)
		236 points by fulafel on May 13, 2015 \| 118 comments
9.		The last male northern white rhino (theguardian.com)
		193 points by Red_Tarsius on May 13, 2015 \| 133 comments
10.		The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills (mosaicscience.com)
		291 points by lemaudit on May 12, 2015 \| 344 comments
11.		Servo: Embeddable Browser Engine (s-osg.org)
		192 points by Manishearth on May 13, 2015 \| 50 comments
12.		After 100 Years, Ramanujan Gap Filled (2013) (wolfram.com)
		127 points by bladecatcher on May 13, 2015 \| 7 comments
13.		Scaling Secret: Real-Time Chat (medium.com/davidbyttow)
		136 points by danielalmeida on May 13, 2015 \| 57 comments
14.		Frame-Based Editing (greenfoot.org)
		117 points by gnocchi on May 12, 2015 \| 25 comments
15.		How Eve Online went to the edge of apocalypse and back (theguardian.com)
		225 points by omnibrain on May 13, 2015 \| 114 comments
16.		Benchmarking JS (mrale.ph)
		131 points by luu on May 12, 2015 \| 31 comments
17.		Implementation of Hex Grids (redblobgames.com)
		174 points by qzervaas on May 13, 2015 \| 15 comments
18.		SML and OCaml: Why was OCaml faster? (thebreakfastpost.com)
		83 points by cannam on May 13, 2015 \| 22 comments
19.		ElixirConfEU Keynote – Phoenix Takes Flight [video] (chrismccord.com)
		107 points by chrismccord on May 13, 2015 \| 12 comments
20.		A Look at Backblaze’s Toshiba Hard Drives (backblaze.com)
		96 points by ehPReth on May 13, 2015 \| 50 comments
21.		List of Unsolved Scientific Problems with Large Monetary Prizes (scienceprizes.org)
		109 points by pancero on May 12, 2015 \| 41 comments
22.		Virtual DOM in Elm (elm-lang.org)
		87 points by bahador on May 13, 2015 \| 17 comments
23.		Publishing Effective Modern C++, Part 1 (scottmeyers.blogspot.com)
		73 points by ingve on May 13, 2015 \| 25 comments
24.		On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech war on rats (theverge.com)
		81 points by Petiver on May 13, 2015 \| 32 comments
25.		What is money? (1913) (moslereconomics.com)
		87 points by darkroasted on May 12, 2015 \| 67 comments
26.		Scientists develop atomic-scale hardware to implement natural computing (phys.org)
		64 points by jonbaer on May 13, 2015 \| 1 comment
27.		Board Members (samaltman.com)
		75 points by BIackSwan on May 13, 2015 \| 33 comments
28.		Sometimes, the old ways are the best (serpentine.com)
		74 points by boothead on May 13, 2015 \| 23 comments
29.		Inspiration vs. Imitation (cushionapp.com)
		193 points by sinak on May 13, 2015 \| 26 comments
30.		The Secrets of Cloth Simulation in Alan Wake (gamasutra.com)
		66 points by Red_Tarsius on May 13, 2015 \| 11 comments
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