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1.		The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop (cjr.org)
		369 points by Alex3917 on May 16, 2015 \| 179 comments
2.		Filter all ICMP and watch the world burn (rachelbythebay.com)
		292 points by jonchang on May 16, 2015 \| 57 comments
3.		Julia issue #8839 closed (github.com/julialang)
		273 points by noethers on May 16, 2015 \| 22 comments
4.		AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app (lg.io)
		229 points by arange on May 16, 2015 \| 73 comments
5.		How to Ship a Beluga Whale via UPS (priceonomics.com)
		109 points by ryan_j_naughton on May 15, 2015 \| 42 comments
6.		Diving into C++ internals of Node (indutny.com)
		143 points by anandsuresh on May 16, 2015 \| 31 comments
7.		On the Taxonomy of Spaceships (criticalshit.org)
		145 points by mproud on May 15, 2015 \| 18 comments
8.		Death Note Anonymity: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (gwern.net)
		99 points by rfreytag on May 15, 2015 \| 23 comments
9.		Rain simulator for pluviophiles (pluvior.com)
		102 points by verbilis on May 16, 2015 \| 41 comments
10.		Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck (medium.com/basic-income)
		260 points by edward on May 16, 2015 \| 303 comments
11.		Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts (news-herald.com)
		100 points by schrofer on May 15, 2015 \| 82 comments
12.		Why squared error? (benkuhn.net)
		124 points by luu on May 16, 2015 \| 51 comments
13.		On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag (goodandtidy.com)
		89 points by thisisrobv on May 16, 2015 \| 55 comments
14.		Arduino Announces New Brand, Genuino, Manufacturing Partnership with Adafruit (makezine.com)
		90 points by zaaaaz on May 16, 2015 \| 27 comments
15.		Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10 (alexvking.com)
		156 points by ingve on May 16, 2015 \| 166 comments
16.		How the Strugatsky brothers’ science fiction went from utopian to dystopian (theparisreview.org)
		79 points by lermontov on May 15, 2015 \| 17 comments
17.		Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin Split [pdf] (landley.net)
		127 points by Somasis on May 15, 2015 \| 25 comments
18.		The Day Google Decided HttpWatch Was ‘Unwanted Software’ (httpwatch.com)
		194 points by httpwatch on May 16, 2015 \| 73 comments
19.		Tries and Lexers (ircmaxell.com)
		67 points by aberatiu on May 16, 2015 \| 28 comments
20.		Roman Mars Explains the Genius of the Chicago Flag (chicagomag.com)
		70 points by tptacek on May 16, 2015 \| 42 comments
21.		Most children are happy, but material deprivation catches up eventually (qz.com)
		88 points by lxm on May 16, 2015 \| 61 comments
22.		Engineers of addiction (theverge.com)
		125 points by colinbartlett on May 16, 2015 \| 127 comments
23.		Switching from imperative to functional programming with games in Elm (github.com/dobiasd)
		67 points by Dobiasd on May 16, 2015 \| 2 comments
24.		Frankencamera (frankencamera.wordpress.com)
		62 points by franzb on May 16, 2015 \| 19 comments
25.		Clinkle Implodes as Employees Quit in Protest of CEO (techcrunch.com)
		225 points by ssclafani on May 16, 2015 \| 150 comments
26.		John McCarthy: Challenges to Machine Learning (2007) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		62 points by sgt101 on May 16, 2015 \| 7 comments
27.		Prototyping a 3D light field display video projector array (usc.edu)
		54 points by zackmorris on May 16, 2015 \| 9 comments
28.		Pgsql: Support Grouping Sets, Cube, and Rollup (postgresql.org)
		69 points by amitlan on May 16, 2015 \| 20 comments
29.		Close Call Database for Cycling (closecalldatabase.com)
		54 points by thanatosmin on May 16, 2015 \| 47 comments
30.		Go: A Surprising Edge Case Concerning Append and Slice Aliasing (jjinux.com)
		63 points by tosh on May 16, 2015 \| 72 comments
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