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1. Lily – Drone camera
1397 points by duck on May 12, 2015 | 480 comments
2. Be Kind (boz.com)
1198 points by austenallred on May 12, 2015 | 385 comments
3. Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it (durazo.us)
803 points by losvedir on May 12, 2015 | 165 comments
4. Wait, Google Sent Me (chrome.google.com)
502 points by jashkenas on May 12, 2015 | 237 comments
5. A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art (dinofarmgames.com)
440 points by dsil on May 12, 2015 | 191 comments
6. FTC Officials Back Tesla’s Right to Sell Cars Direct to Consumers (techcrunch.com)
428 points by lxm on May 12, 2015 | 207 comments
7. Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York (citylab.com)
273 points by epsylon on May 12, 2015 | 202 comments
8. Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules (arstechnica.com)
332 points by ulysses on May 11, 2015 | 84 comments
9. Temporary fork enables Node.js to optionally use the Chakra JavaScript engine (github.com/microsoft)
170 points by chcokr on May 12, 2015 | 97 comments
10. Guide for Technical Development (google.com)
396 points by gits1225 on May 12, 2015 | 176 comments
11. Is it ASCII or Protobuf? The importance of types in cryptographic signatures (sandstorm.io)
156 points by qiqing on May 12, 2015 | 33 comments
12. Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B (wsj.com)
298 points by morkfromork on May 12, 2015 | 226 comments
13. Think – Fast mobile whiteboarding (fiftythree.com)
159 points by reimertz on May 12, 2015 | 51 comments
14. Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React (segment.com)
189 points by gwintrob on May 11, 2015 | 83 comments
15. Show HN: Recurrent neural net plays 'neural slime volleyball' in JavaScript (otoro.net)
147 points by hardmaru on May 12, 2015 | 74 comments
16. How Googlebot crawls JavaScript (searchengineland.com)
237 points by mweibel on May 12, 2015 | 109 comments
17. The Roland TR-808: the drum machine that revolutionised music (theguardian.com)
127 points by mattdennewitz on May 12, 2015 | 66 comments
18. Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds (nature.com)
115 points by aethertap on May 12, 2015 | 31 comments
19. Keras: Fast Deep Learning Prototyping for Python (github.com/fchollet)
151 points by _ntka on May 12, 2015 | 25 comments
20. Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support (techcrunch.com)
259 points by harshabhat86 on May 12, 2015 | 212 comments
21. Immutable Infrastructure is the future (michaeldehaan.net)
125 points by geerlingguy on May 11, 2015 | 51 comments
22. Using Go at The New York Times [video] (youtube.com)
140 points by somerandomness on May 11, 2015 | 55 comments
23. Why so many Dutch people work part time (economist.com)
181 points by petethomas on May 12, 2015 | 181 comments
24. Show HN: Pyre – A command-line interface for Tinder (github.com/zachlatta)
107 points by zachlatta on May 12, 2015 | 42 comments
25. BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms (bittorrent.com)
97 points by xngzng on May 12, 2015 | 70 comments
26. Samsung is imploding in China (businessinsider.com)
150 points by carlchenet on May 12, 2015 | 146 comments
27. Gamer beats both Mega Man X and Mega Man X2 using the same controller (todayinawesome.com)
107 points by huac on May 12, 2015 | 21 comments
28. The big drug database in the sky: One firefighter’s year-long legal nightmare (arstechnica.com)
72 points by Errorcod3 on May 12, 2015 | 52 comments
29. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (aralbalkan.com)
191 points by lelf on May 11, 2015 | 139 comments
30. Introducing Xubuntu core (xubuntu.org)
91 points by kermatt on May 12, 2015 | 46 comments

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