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1. Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?
395 points by septerr on May 23, 2014 | 201 comments
2. Surface Pro 3 (penny-arcade.com)
351 points by ismavis on May 23, 2014 | 223 comments
3. Neutralizing the iOS camera click sound through active sound cancellation (stackoverflow.com)
334 points by dmd on May 23, 2014 | 105 comments
4. The new VirginAmerica.com (virginamerica.com)
313 points by malditojavi on May 23, 2014 | 158 comments
5. Understanding web pages better (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
236 points by dmnd on May 23, 2014 | 76 comments
6. Privacy Badger (eff.org)
231 points by sbt on May 23, 2014 | 67 comments
7. Why TLS is called "TLS", not "SSL 3.1" (dierks.org)
229 points by timdierks on May 23, 2014 | 35 comments
8. Developer Anxiety, we’re not alone (geekyboy.com)
222 points by saurabh on May 23, 2014 | 131 comments
9. Stay Classy Makerbot (openbeamusa.com)
213 points by thealphanerd on May 23, 2014 | 60 comments
10. Animals in the wild found to use running wheel if given the choice (phys.org)
184 points by pwg on May 23, 2014 | 115 comments
11. The Fourier Transform and its Applications (stanford.edu)
174 points by bsilvereagle on May 23, 2014 | 22 comments
12. Panda 4.0: Why eBay lost many of its organic rankings (wordstream.com)
168 points by gere on May 23, 2014 | 89 comments
13. Why Online Communities Decay Over Time (rs.io)
158 points by adbge on May 23, 2014 | 143 comments
14. Browserify handbook (github.com/substack)
154 points by mambodog on May 23, 2014 | 68 comments
15. Explanation of 44.1 kHz CD sampling rate (columbia.edu)
149 points by jcr on May 23, 2014 | 39 comments
16. Amazon Flexes Its Muscles in Fight Against Publishers (nytimes.com)
136 points by kjhughes on May 23, 2014 | 121 comments
17. Google Project Lets You Program a Simulated Quantum Computer (readwrite.com)
139 points by amaks on May 23, 2014 | 43 comments
18. OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic (brendangregg.com)
123 points by akerl_ on May 23, 2014 | 135 comments
19. Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters (debian.org)
129 points by tshepang on May 23, 2014 | 37 comments
20. A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland (jacquesmattheij.com)
118 points by octopus on May 23, 2014 | 31 comments
21. The Hidden Beauty of Airport Runways, and How to Decipher Them (wired.com)
114 points by ghosh on May 23, 2014 | 36 comments
22. CoreOS images are now available on Google Compute Engine (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
125 points by freeman478 on May 23, 2014 | 11 comments
23. Why lawmakers just voted against their own bill to reform the NSA (washingtonpost.com)
102 points by Libertatea on May 23, 2014 | 15 comments
24. U.S. officials cut estimate of recoverable Monterey Shale oil by 96% (latimes.com)
94 points by T-A on May 23, 2014 | 46 comments
25. Rust for C++ Programmers Part 7: Data Types (featherweightmusings.blogspot.com)
93 points by ihnorton on May 23, 2014 | 38 comments
26. Mathematical Impressions: Spontaneous Stratification (simonsfoundation.org)
87 points by digital55 on May 23, 2014 | 5 comments
27. Coinbase now supports the Bitcoin Payment Protocol (coinbase.com)
91 points by roasbeef on May 23, 2014 | 8 comments
28. Predictive brains, situated agents and future of cognitive science (2013) [pdf] (dropboxusercontent.com)
87 points by gwern on May 23, 2014 | 9 comments
29. New Middleware Technology Quadruples SSD Speed? (nikkeibp.co.jp)
80 points by daureg on May 23, 2014 | 25 comments
30. E-Commerce Is A Bear (medium.com/what-i-learned-building)
77 points by bkudria on May 23, 2014 | 44 comments

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