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1.Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work (macuser.co.uk)
336 points by danso on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 233 comments [ext]
2.“A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines” (emory.edu)
337 points by slyall on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 138 comments [ext]
3.The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later (wololo.net)
321 points by dumpsterkid on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 157 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.Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause (snopes.com)
246 points by magsafe on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 158 comments [ext]
5.Baidu Hires Andrew Ng (technologyreview.com)
227 points by chriskanan on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
6.I Don’t Want to Hire Women (clarissasblog.com)
213 points by jseliger on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 212 comments [ext]
7. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
7.Practical Tmux (mutelight.org)
169 points by weitzj on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
8.Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests (eff.org)
165 points by weeha on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
9.Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition (wired.com)
162 points by apu on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
10. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win (reuters.com)
154 points by tokenadult on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
11.Claude Shannon demonstrates Theseus, a magnetic maze-solving mouse [video] (att.com)
138 points by mr_tyzik on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
12.TDD your API (balancedpayments.com)
147 points by steveklabnik on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
13. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments
13.The Multiple SQLite Problem (ericsink.com)
131 points by aaronbrethorst on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
14.Zero to One, by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters (zerotoonebook.com)
130 points by beniaminmincu on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
15.How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads (vox.com)
127 points by seferphier on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
16. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
16.Word Lens (Quest Visual) is Joining Google (wordlens.com)
121 points by dannyr on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
17.Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for' (bbc.com)
115 points by thewarrior on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 146 comments [ext]
18.How libraries decide which books to keep (medium.com/book-excerpts)
107 points by ASquare on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
19. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
19.Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix (netflix.com)
109 points by rcsorensen on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
20.Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitcoin" (kickstarter.com)
107 points by patrickaljord on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
21.N2O: Erlang Web Framework (kukuruku.co)
98 points by andreygrehov on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
22. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
22.MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the Bitcoin blockchain (answers.microsoft.com)
100 points by zorked on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
23.The perfect shape (bannalia.blogspot.com)
99 points by joaquintides on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
24.Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read recently? [ext]
93 points by diegoloop on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
25. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago | hide | 105 comments
25.Chain, the Blockchain API for developers (chain.com)
97 points by jmduke on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
26.Pathfinding Demystified (gabrielgambetta.com)
77 points by iKlsR on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
27.Kola Superdeep Borehole (atlasobscura.com)
84 points by gere on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
28. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.Setting Up a Radio System from Scratch (atomicobject.com)
80 points by silentbicycle on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
29.(Ab)Using Language Features: The Common Lisp Condition System (dawnofthedata.com)
81 points by jmdavis on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
30.What web developers thought of in the noughties as being MVC doesn't scale (pastiche.org)
80 points by ingve on May 16, 2014 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
31. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments

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