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1. Improve your touch typing (keybr.com)
413 points by r2b2 on May 20, 2015 | 195 comments
2. PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices (bbc.com)
380 points by uladzislau on May 20, 2015 | 217 comments
3. “I'm wiping this repository away” (github.com/venomous0x)
485 points by vishaltelangre on May 20, 2015 | 187 comments
4. Ta'izz (idlewords.com)
277 points by ingve on May 20, 2015 | 52 comments
5. Logjam TLS attack (weakdh.org)
334 points by noondip on May 20, 2015 | 99 comments
6. WCF is Open Source (dotnetfoundation.org)
290 points by Vitallium on May 20, 2015 | 142 comments
7. Using Waifu2x to Upscale Japanese Prints (ejohn.org)
245 points by mxfh on May 20, 2015 | 64 comments
8. Why do buses bunch? (setosa.io)
216 points by lewis500 on May 20, 2015 | 154 comments
9. Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers (harvardlawreview.org)
374 points by philrea on May 20, 2015 | 315 comments
10. Reasons for Python async/await (lwn.net)
135 points by hittaruki on May 20, 2015 | 51 comments
11. Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (damninteresting.com)
217 points by choult on May 19, 2015 | 114 comments
12. Voxel Quest Fluid Dynamics and New Rendering Method (voxelquest.com)
194 points by akavel on May 20, 2015 | 65 comments
13. The trickiest bug I've encountered (mokafive.tumblr.com)
183 points by kenjackson on May 20, 2015 | 65 comments
14. Show HN: Hydrogen Brings Light Table to Atom (atom.io)
190 points by willwhitney on May 20, 2015 | 70 comments
15. MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition (memsql.com)
198 points by ericfrenkiel on May 20, 2015 | 54 comments
16. Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars (vice.com)
179 points by Errorcod3 on May 19, 2015 | 130 comments
17. Understanding C by learning assembly (recurse.com)
147 points by luu on May 20, 2015 | 52 comments
18. A wave of experiments is probing the root of quantum weirdness (nature.com)
98 points by jonbaer on May 20, 2015 | 49 comments
19. Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? (quantamagazine.org)
110 points by jonbaer on May 19, 2015 | 50 comments
20. Processing Billion-Node Graphs on an Array of Commodity SSDs (highscalability.com)
89 points by gk1 on May 19, 2015 | 6 comments
21. Algolia (YC W14) raises a $18.3M Series A (techcrunch.com)
123 points by redox_ on May 20, 2015 | 47 comments
22. Ada 2012: A New Language for Safe and Secure Software (2012) (cotsjournalonline.com)
77 points by shepardrtc on May 19, 2015 | 42 comments
23. NYSE launches a Bitcoin index (usatoday.com)
149 points by ghosh on May 20, 2015 | 47 comments
24. Norwegian butter crisis (2011) (wikipedia.org)
176 points by monort on May 20, 2015 | 111 comments
25. Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video] (senate.gov)
321 points by sinak on May 20, 2015 | 136 comments
26. Ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents (mail-archive.com)
89 points by alrs on May 20, 2015 | 54 comments
27. Downloading PuTTY Safely Is Nearly Impossible (2014) (noncombatant.org)
264 points by Rondom on May 20, 2015 | 166 comments
28. Python Coroutines with Async and Await (lwn.net)
101 points by doublextremevil on May 20, 2015 | 36 comments
29. The Sound of TED: A Case for Distaste (theamericanreader.com)
112 points by jonathansizz on May 19, 2015 | 71 comments
30. NetUSB Impacts the Security of Millions of Devices Worldwide (sec-consult.com)
114 points by _jomo on May 20, 2015 | 41 comments

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