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1.
Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44% (monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com)
491 points by randomwalker on May 23, 2015 | 288 comments
2.
Silk (weavesilk.com)
442 points by cdvonstinkpot on May 23, 2015 | 63 comments
3.
I Let IBM’s Watson Tell Me What to Cook for a Week (medium.com/how-we-get-to-next)
280 points by quantisan on May 23, 2015 | 58 comments
4.
Mastering Emacs (masteringemacs.org)
225 points by amatheus on May 23, 2015 | 99 comments
5.
Rust Programming Language Book (rust-lang.org)
220 points by dolftax on May 23, 2015 | 48 comments
6.
Cryptographic Right Answers (gist.github.com)
187 points by sweis on May 23, 2015 | 130 comments
7.
PEP 0484 – Type Hints is accepted (python.org)
177 points by ilevkivskyi on May 23, 2015 | 72 comments
8.
Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash (righto.com)
162 points by dezgeg on May 23, 2015 | 34 comments
9.
NSA in P/poly: The Power of Precomputation (scottaaronson.com)
286 points by evanb on May 23, 2015 | 34 comments
10.
American Trailer Parks: The owners are getting rich (theguardian.com)
143 points by striking on May 23, 2015 | 233 comments
11.
A Plea for Culinary Modernism (jacobinmag.com)
117 points by ZeljkoS on May 23, 2015 | 74 comments
12.
Senate Blocks Patriot Act Extension (npr.org)
227 points by sinak on May 23, 2015 | 66 comments
13.
LLVM OpenMP Support (llvm.org)
101 points by conductor on May 22, 2015 | 15 comments
14.
Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and Revived C. elegans worms (liebertpub.com)
89 points by gwern on May 23, 2015 | 40 comments
15.
Wifi Skeleton Key has 270M active users, now valued at $1B (techinasia.com)
84 points by malditojavi on May 23, 2015 | 54 comments
16.
PID Theory Explained (2011) (ni.com)
80 points by striking on May 22, 2015 | 14 comments
17.
Tracing the life story of a Bronze Age female (nature.com)
73 points by georgecmu on May 22, 2015 | 9 comments
18.
Text-only NPR (npr.org)
96 points by pzaich on May 23, 2015 | 33 comments
19.
d-Threeact: Making d3 and React the Best of Friends (siftscience.com)
160 points by henneska on May 23, 2015 | 6 comments
20.
Report on FBI’s Use of Patriot Act Highlights Need for Intelligence Reform (eff.org)
122 points by DiabloD3 on May 23, 2015 | 17 comments
21.
Nand to Tetris 1 (oskarth.com)
66 points by luu on May 23, 2015 | 24 comments
22.
Multipath routing on a Raspberry Pi 2 (whizzy.org)
61 points by reddotX on May 23, 2015 | 10 comments
23.
Five Big Banks Plead Guilty to Rigging Currency Markets and No One Goes to Jail (therealnews.com)
249 points by snowy on May 23, 2015 | 90 comments
24.
Why We Need a ViewBox Property in CSS (sarasoueidan.com)
62 points by twsted on May 23, 2015 | 16 comments
25.
Arduino-based backyard aquaponics (2013) [video] (youtube.com)
53 points by datashovel on May 23, 2015 | 10 comments
26.
Pencil – Multi-platform GUI Prototyping and Wireframing (github.com/prikhi)
57 points by simulo on May 23, 2015 | 13 comments
27.
Self-Promoters Tend to Misjudge How Annoying They Are to Others (psychologicalscience.org)
110 points by cachehit on May 23, 2015 | 67 comments
28.
The Internet Archive Petabox Storage System (archive.org)
57 points by Mayeu on May 23, 2015 | 11 comments
29.
Reverse Engineering Might and Magic III Compression (blog.rewolf.pl)
57 points by adamnemecek on May 23, 2015 | 7 comments
30.
House of Secrets: Who Owns London's Most Expensive Mansion? (newyorker.com)
47 points by benbreen on May 23, 2015 | 20 comments

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