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1. It's Different for Girls (heidiroizen.tumblr.com)
427 points by tkorotkikh on May 2, 2014 | 379 comments
2. How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch (gizmodo.com)
351 points by mr_tyzic on May 2, 2014 | 97 comments
3. A new book compiles knowledge necessary for society to recover after disaster (scientificamerican.com)
280 points by ColinWright on May 2, 2014 | 133 comments
4. Headphones and Earphones Benchmarking Test Files (audiocheck.net)
247 points by 6cxs2hd6 on May 2, 2014 | 137 comments
5. Global heatmap of cycling and running routes (strava.com)
258 points by knappe on May 2, 2014 | 139 comments
6. Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy (eff.org)
226 points by schoen on May 2, 2014 | 125 comments
7. Hamming, "You and Your Research" (1995) [video] (youtube.com)
194 points by espeed on May 2, 2014 | 25 comments
8. With IPO Hopes Fading, Square and Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products (techcrunch.com)
206 points by onedev on May 2, 2014 | 108 comments
9. Here’s my favorite operating systems war story, what’s yours? (valerieaurora.org)
191 points by luu on May 2, 2014 | 24 comments
10. Common LibreSSL porting mistakes (insanecoding.blogspot.com)
185 points by edwintorok on May 2, 2014 | 66 comments
11. ‘Solar’ jet fuel made out of air (rsc.org)
173 points by Libertatea on May 2, 2014 | 123 comments
12. Thinking in Types (thoughtbot.com)
168 points by Croaky on May 2, 2014 | 118 comments
13. Washington state sues Kickstarted game creator who failed to deliver (gamasutra.com)
161 points by kryptiskt on May 2, 2014 | 77 comments
14. We Aren’t the World (2013) (psmag.com)
145 points by tshepang on May 2, 2014 | 81 comments
15. The Illusion of Life: Disney's principles of animation (the12principles.tumblr.com)
144 points by mike_h on May 2, 2014 | 31 comments
16. Is it Pokémon or big data technology? (docs.google.com)
140 points by RainforestCx on May 2, 2014 | 37 comments
17. When Sued Don't Tweet (jacquesmattheij.com)
130 points by bussetta on May 2, 2014 | 115 comments
18. Snowden: Why hasn’t DNI Clapper been punished for lying to Congress? (washingtonpost.com)
131 points by ryutin on May 2, 2014 | 113 comments
19. Map Reduce: A simple introduction (2010) (ksat.me)
117 points by awjr on May 2, 2014 | 36 comments
20. Value Types for Java – A sketch of proposed enhancements (java.net)
121 points by pjmlp on May 2, 2014 | 98 comments
21. How to tell when someone is lying? (newyorker.com)
120 points by vbv on May 2, 2014 | 97 comments
22. OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Redirect Vulnerability (tetraph.com)
120 points by bevacqua on May 2, 2014 | 56 comments
23. ‘~’ is being removed from Rust (github.com/rust-lang)
126 points by steveklabnik on May 2, 2014 | 115 comments
24. The bug that hides from breakpoints (drewdevault.com)
107 points by luu on May 2, 2014 | 28 comments
25. It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment (wired.com)
104 points by ghosh on May 2, 2014 | 63 comments
26. Make Your Own Grid Paper (gridzzly.com)
100 points by quodestabsurdum on May 2, 2014 | 38 comments
27. [dupe] Elon Musk Wants SpaceX to Replace Russia as NASA's Space Station Transport (businessweek.com)
92 points by lelf on May 2, 2014 | 57 comments
28. What Programming is Like (samstokes.co.uk)
96 points by samstokes on May 2, 2014 | 38 comments
29. Ask HN: Best current Linux-compatible laptop?
92 points by sz0ka on May 2, 2014 | 120 comments
30. Lulzlabs AirChat: Free Communications For Everyone. (github.com/lulzlabs)
86 points by jamesbritt on May 2, 2014 | 62 comments

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