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1.Improve your touch typing (keybr.com)
413 points by r2b2 on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 195 comments [ext]
2.PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices (bbc.com)
380 points by uladzislau on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 217 comments [ext]
3.“I'm wiping this repository away” (github.com/venomous0x)
485 points by vishaltelangre on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 187 comments [ext]
4. Why Getting Funded Stopped Meaning Your Idea Was Good ()
70 points by kol7770 98 days ago | hide | 139 comments
4.Ta'izz (idlewords.com)
277 points by ingve on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
5.Logjam TLS attack (weakdh.org)
334 points by noondip on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
6.WCF is Open Source (dotnetfoundation.org)
290 points by Vitallium on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 142 comments [ext]
7. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
7.Using Waifu2x to Upscale Japanese Prints (ejohn.org)
245 points by mxfh on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
8.Why do buses bunch? (setosa.io)
216 points by lewis500 on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
9.Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers (harvardlawreview.org)
374 points by philrea on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 315 comments [ext]
10. The Cybersecurity Stack Was Built on Assumptions AI Just Broke ()
486 points by gtm4646 84 days ago | hide | 150 comments
10.Reasons for Python async/await (lwn.net)
135 points by hittaruki on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
11.Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (damninteresting.com)
217 points by choult on May 19, 2015 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
12.Voxel Quest Fluid Dynamics and New Rendering Method (voxelquest.com)
194 points by akavel on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
13. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 10 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
13.The trickiest bug I've encountered (mokafive.tumblr.com)
183 points by kenjackson on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
14.Show HN: Hydrogen Brings Light Table to Atom (atom.io)
190 points by willwhitney on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
15.MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition (memsql.com)
198 points by ericfrenkiel on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
16. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 10 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars (vice.com)
179 points by Errorcod3 on May 19, 2015 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
17.Understanding C by learning assembly (recurse.com)
147 points by luu on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
18.A wave of experiments is probing the root of quantum weirdness (nature.com)
98 points by jonbaer on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
19. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
19.Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? (quantamagazine.org)
110 points by jonbaer on May 19, 2015 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
20.Processing Billion-Node Graphs on an Array of Commodity SSDs (highscalability.com)
89 points by gk1 on May 19, 2015 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
21.Algolia (YC W14) raises a $18.3M Series A (techcrunch.com)
123 points by redox_ on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
22. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 332 days ago | hide | 88 comments
22.Ada 2012: A New Language for Safe and Secure Software (2012) (cotsjournalonline.com)
77 points by shepardrtc on May 19, 2015 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
23.NYSE launches a Bitcoin index (usatoday.com)
149 points by ghosh on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
24.Norwegian butter crisis (2011) (wikipedia.org)
176 points by monort on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
25. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
25.Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video] (senate.gov)
321 points by sinak on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 136 comments [ext]
26.Ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents (mail-archive.com)
89 points by alrs on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
27.Downloading PuTTY Safely Is Nearly Impossible (2014) (noncombatant.org)
264 points by Rondom on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 166 comments [ext]
28. Inside Shopify's Multi-Year Playbook Behind Tobi Lütke's Viral AI Memo (firstround.com)
253 points by paz1543 251 days ago | hide | 127 comments
28.Python Coroutines with Async and Await (lwn.net)
101 points by doublextremevil on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
29.The Sound of TED: A Case for Distaste (theamericanreader.com)
112 points by jonathansizz on May 19, 2015 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
30.NetUSB Impacts the Security of Millions of Devices Worldwide (sec-consult.com)
114 points by _jomo on May 20, 2015 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
31. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 11 hours ago | hide | 47 comments

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