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1.Poll: What database does your company/you use? [ext]
228 points by rorhug on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
2.Transform any text into a patent application (lav.io)
206 points by dvanduzer on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
3.Google offering $1M prize for a much smaller power inverter (littleboxchallenge.com)
200 points by staunch on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
4. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
4.DuckDuckGo Goodies (duckduckgo.com)
187 points by heliumcraft on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
5.What Happened at NewsGator (inessential.com)
178 points by swilliams on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
6.Large Public Datasets (quora.com)
164 points by amazedsaint on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
7. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
7.Quantum Random Number Generator Created Using A Smartphone Camera (medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog)
138 points by adamnemecek on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
8.Oracle continue to circumvent EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
151 points by fafner on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
9.Syntax highlighters are wrong (medium.com/p)
139 points by jamesfisher on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 124 comments [ext]
10. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
10.Why Your Cell-Phone Bill Should Be Going Down But Isn't (readwrite.com)
138 points by nkurz on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
11.TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl (tinyssh.org)
129 points by elasticdog on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
12.If You Can Read This, You're SNIing (mnot.net)
129 points by mmastrac on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
13. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
13.Dumb.domains (dumb.domains)
125 points by dkasper on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
14.Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you perform at an interview (theguardian.com)
122 points by Roonerelli on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
15.How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company (priceonomics.com)
119 points by benjaminfox on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
16. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
16.GitHub Down with a 503 (status.github.com)
126 points by cheese1756 on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
17.Bob – A Tarsnap GUI client for OS X (github.com/casperstorm)
113 points by CStorm on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
18.Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed (nautil.us)
109 points by leakybucket on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
19. What Happens When You Hand GPT-5 and Claude Real Money (nof1.ai)
454 points by esn516 151 days ago | hide | 8 comments
19.What's wrong with systemd (landley.net)
110 points by uggedal on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
20.Take It to the Limit (2010) (nytimes.com)
98 points by drjohnson on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
21.Things that drive me nuts about OpenGL (richg42.blogspot.com)
97 points by nkurz on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
22. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
22.UK police ask blogger to remove UKIP tweets (axeofreason.blogspot.com)
93 points by polemic on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
23.The compiler is always right (blog.mozilla.org)
88 points by nkurz on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
24.The International – Dota 2 Championships (dota2.com)
78 points by sillysaurus3 on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
25. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
25.Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983 (alcatel-lucent.com)
75 points by wglb on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
26.The homogenization of scientific computing (2013) (talyarkoni.org)
71 points by stickhandle on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
27.Streamparse: Pythonic processing of real-time data streams using Apache Storm (github.com/parsely)
75 points by msukmanowsky on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
28. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
28.Defending the Open Internet (nytimes.com)
72 points by chebureki on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
29.Shortwave: iBeacon-powered messaging (getshortwave.com)
70 points by siralonso on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
30.Programming with Nothing (2011) (codon.com)
59 points by throwaway344 on May 11, 2014 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
31. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments

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