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1. The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop (cjr.org)
369 points by Alex3917 on May 16, 2015 | 179 comments
2. Filter all ICMP and watch the world burn (rachelbythebay.com)
292 points by jonchang on May 16, 2015 | 57 comments
3. Julia issue #8839 closed (github.com/julialang)
273 points by noethers on May 16, 2015 | 22 comments
4. AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app (lg.io)
229 points by arange on May 16, 2015 | 73 comments
5. How to Ship a Beluga Whale via UPS (priceonomics.com)
109 points by ryan_j_naughton on May 15, 2015 | 42 comments
6. Diving into C++ internals of Node (indutny.com)
143 points by anandsuresh on May 16, 2015 | 31 comments
7. On the Taxonomy of Spaceships (criticalshit.org)
145 points by mproud on May 15, 2015 | 18 comments
8. Death Note Anonymity: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (gwern.net)
99 points by rfreytag on May 15, 2015 | 23 comments
9. Rain simulator for pluviophiles (pluvior.com)
102 points by verbilis on May 16, 2015 | 41 comments
10. Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck (medium.com/basic-income)
260 points by edward on May 16, 2015 | 303 comments
11. Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts (news-herald.com)
100 points by schrofer on May 15, 2015 | 82 comments
12. Why squared error? (benkuhn.net)
124 points by luu on May 16, 2015 | 51 comments
13. On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag (goodandtidy.com)
89 points by thisisrobv on May 16, 2015 | 55 comments
14. Arduino Announces New Brand, Genuino, Manufacturing Partnership with Adafruit (makezine.com)
90 points by zaaaaz on May 16, 2015 | 27 comments
15. Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10 (alexvking.com)
156 points by ingve on May 16, 2015 | 166 comments
16. How the Strugatsky brothers’ science fiction went from utopian to dystopian (theparisreview.org)
79 points by lermontov on May 15, 2015 | 17 comments
17. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin Split [pdf] (landley.net)
127 points by Somasis on May 15, 2015 | 25 comments
18. The Day Google Decided HttpWatch Was ‘Unwanted Software’ (httpwatch.com)
194 points by httpwatch on May 16, 2015 | 73 comments
19. Tries and Lexers (ircmaxell.com)
67 points by aberatiu on May 16, 2015 | 28 comments
20. Roman Mars Explains the Genius of the Chicago Flag (chicagomag.com)
70 points by tptacek on May 16, 2015 | 42 comments
21. Most children are happy, but material deprivation catches up eventually (qz.com)
88 points by lxm on May 16, 2015 | 61 comments
22. Engineers of addiction (theverge.com)
125 points by colinbartlett on May 16, 2015 | 127 comments
23. Switching from imperative to functional programming with games in Elm (github.com/dobiasd)
67 points by Dobiasd on May 16, 2015 | 2 comments
24. Frankencamera (frankencamera.wordpress.com)
62 points by franzb on May 16, 2015 | 19 comments
25. Clinkle Implodes as Employees Quit in Protest of CEO (techcrunch.com)
225 points by ssclafani on May 16, 2015 | 150 comments
26. John McCarthy: Challenges to Machine Learning (2007) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
62 points by sgt101 on May 16, 2015 | 7 comments
27. Prototyping a 3D light field display video projector array (usc.edu)
54 points by zackmorris on May 16, 2015 | 9 comments
28. Pgsql: Support Grouping Sets, Cube, and Rollup (postgresql.org)
69 points by amitlan on May 16, 2015 | 20 comments
29. Close Call Database for Cycling (closecalldatabase.com)
54 points by thanatosmin on May 16, 2015 | 47 comments
30. Go: A Surprising Edge Case Concerning Append and Slice Aliasing (jjinux.com)
63 points by tosh on May 16, 2015 | 72 comments

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