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31. Lighthouse: Decentralized Kickstarter (vinumeris.com)
55 points by tikhon on May 17, 2014 | 7 comments
32. The Water That The Coast Guard Won’t Save You From (discovermagazine.com)
59 points by curtis on May 17, 2014 | 49 comments
33. Life360 CEO calls patent troll "Piece of Shit" (twitter.com/chrishulls)
47 points by stevencorona on May 17, 2014 | 34 comments
34. The death of the homepage (martinbelam.com)
45 points by Isofarro on May 17, 2014 | 13 comments
35. Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines (theguardian.com)
45 points by edward on May 17, 2014 | 14 comments
36. The lie about Edward Snowden that just won't die (boingboing.net)
47 points by shill on May 17, 2014 | 35 comments
37. April 2014 Web Server Survey (netcraft.com)
43 points by igravious on May 17, 2014 | 20 comments
38. Ada, C, C++, and Java vs. The Steelman (1997) (dwheeler.com)
32 points by diegoperini on May 17, 2014 | 25 comments
39. Linux.fm – Broadcasting the Linux kernel, one source file at a time (linux.fm)
32 points by dalek2point3 on May 17, 2014 | 9 comments
40. Browse the web Hands Free (Chrome extension) (handsfreechrome.com)
34 points by windowshopping on May 17, 2014 | 12 comments
41. America dumbs down: A rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking (macleans.ca)
32 points by JacksonGariety on May 17, 2014 | 36 comments
42. Robbery Suspect Tracked by GPS and Killed (nytimes.com)
29 points by WestCoastJustin on May 17, 2014 | 21 comments
43. Unsold cars (vincelewis.net)
26 points by mmoya on May 17, 2014 | 8 comments
44. Down-Vote Leads To A Vicious Circle Of Negative Feedback (medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog)
26 points by ecesena on May 17, 2014 | 33 comments
45. TDD is a feedback tool, not a religion (th3james.github.io)
25 points by th3james on May 17, 2014 | 16 comments
46. Vedis – An Embeddable Implementation of Redis (github.com/symisc)
24 points by symisc_devel on May 17, 2014 | 10 comments
47. OS.js Version 2.0 (andersevenrud.github.io)
22 points by radmuzom on May 17, 2014 | 3 comments
48. Running an Akka cluster in an EC2 Autoscaling Group (chrisloy.net)
23 points by chrisloy on May 17, 2014 | 13 comments
49. Callaloo Radio System: Part 2 – Building a Homebrew USB Device (atomicobject.com)
19 points by silentbicycle on May 17, 2014 | 4 comments
50. Education Automation, Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies (1962) (archive.org)
17 points by todayiamme on May 17, 2014 | 2 comments
51. Ask HN: How do you organize your text files?
15 points by asimjalis on May 17, 2014 | 12 comments
52. [dupe] Cider: Native Execution of iOS Apps on Android [pdf] (columbia.edu)
15 points by jcr on May 17, 2014 | 8 comments
53. Why HTML5 is superior to native for mobile apps (fincrunch.wordpress.com)
14 points by jonpress on May 17, 2014 | 18 comments
54. GNU Nano acquired by the VIM project (April 1, 2013) (lists.gnu.org)
12 points by JoshTriplett on May 17, 2014 | 2 comments
55. Is a Stradivarius Just a Violin? (npr.org)
12 points by a_olt on May 17, 2014 | 2 comments
56. Josh Wise voted into NASCAR race by Dogecoin community [video] (nascar.com)
11 points by milesf on May 17, 2014 | 4 comments
57. Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA (theguardian.com)
11 points by kurren on May 17, 2014
58. Ask HN: What do people think of Ray Kurzweil's theories (AI, etc)?
10 points by EleventhSun on May 17, 2014 | 5 comments
59. Coding in color (medium.com/programming-ideas-tutorial-an...)
9 points by bhaumik on May 17, 2014 | 1 comment
60. Much Faster CryptoJS SHA1 (aorensoftware.com)
9 points by snielsen on May 17, 2014 | 2 comments

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