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1.Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish (unitedstatescourts.org)
579 points by jayess on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 228 comments [ext]
2.Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy (khanacademy.org)
439 points by pamelafox on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
3.Game theory’s cure for corruption (aeon.co)
246 points by vimes656 on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
4. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.Abstraction without overhead: traits in Rust (rust-lang.org)
212 points by steveklabnik on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 137 comments [ext]
5.Please stop calling databases CP or AP (kleppmann.com)
200 points by martinkl on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
6.Show HN: Deck of Cards – A playing card API (deckofcardsapi.com)
255 points by crobertsbmw on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 137 comments [ext]
7. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
7.The Mind of Marc Andreessen (newyorker.com)
281 points by cpeterso on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
8.Rust Discovery, Or: How I Figure Things Out (carol-nichols.com)
173 points by steveklabnik on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
9.The Killing of Osama Bin Laden (lrb.co.uk)
228 points by clarkm on May 10, 2015 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
10. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
10.Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives [ext]
279 points by Merkur on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 219 comments [ext]
11.The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car (medium.com/backchannel)
265 points by steven on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 279 comments [ext]
12.Russia now selling home-grown CPUs with Transmeta-like x86 emulation (arstechnica.com)
152 points by lelf on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
13. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
13.Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of (sahandsaba.com)
242 points by willk on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
14.Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web (cbloomrants.blogspot.com)
402 points by sagargv on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 277 comments [ext]
15.Michael Nielsen joins the Recurse Center to help build a research lab (recurse.com)
132 points by oskarth on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
16. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
16.White House Names Dr. Ed Felten as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer (whitehouse.gov)
124 points by JoshTriplett on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
17.A Response to “What's the Point of a Professor?” (thetattooedprof.com)
75 points by slvv on May 10, 2015 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
18.Lawnmower robots – the end of VLF time signals? (freebsd.dk)
96 points by icehawk on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
19. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
19.Matrix HiFi – Blind testing high end full equipment (matrixhifi.com)
84 points by ZeljkoS on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
20.Ceres RC3 Animation: Bright spots revealed to be composed of many smaller spots (nasa.gov)
110 points by anigbrowl on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
21.Intro to Node on AWS Lambda for S3 and Kinesis (localytics.com)
95 points by nicksergeant on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
22. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
22.Narrowing a residential street – McAllister (narrowstreetssf.com)
119 points by waffle_ss on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
23.Flexport (YC W14) raises $6.9M to reinvent global trade (bloomberg.com)
86 points by thedogeye on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
24.A Bitcoin Technology Gets Nasdaq Test (wsj.com)
72 points by lxm on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
25. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 16 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
25.HTTP/2 for TCP/IP Geeks (haxx.se)
109 points by akerl_ on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
26.Windows 1.01 in Your Browser (pcjs.org)
99 points by eliyak on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
27.Microsoft Invests in 3 Undersea Cables to Improve Data Center Connectivity (techcrunch.com)
91 points by Errorcod3 on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
28. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
28.New Debian project leader talks open source careers, PPAs and more (linux.com)
79 points by Enindu on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
29.The Terms Behind the Unicorn Valuations (fenwick.com)
68 points by zeeshanm on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
30.CloudFlare “Interview Questions” (cloudflare.com)
150 points by jgrahamc on May 11, 2015 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
31. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments

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