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1. Fish shell (fishshell.com)
451 points by Aloha on May 18, 2015 | 182 comments
2. Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Graphics Study (adriancourreges.com)
346 points by epsylon on May 18, 2015 | 120 comments
3. What one may find in robots.txt (xn--thibaud-dya.fr)
393 points by cellover on May 18, 2015 | 122 comments
4. Introducing Preemptible VMs (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
300 points by boulos on May 18, 2015 | 94 comments
5. A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning [pdf] (washington.edu)
213 points by alrex021 on May 18, 2015 | 18 comments
6. Top data mining algorithms in plain English (rayli.net)
318 points by Rexxar on May 18, 2015 | 22 comments
7. Why Good Developers Write Bad Code: An Observational Case Study [pdf] (upedu.org)
173 points by danielalmeida on May 18, 2015 | 80 comments
8. Inside Look at Valve's New Lighthouse Tracking System (hizook.com)
143 points by beambot on May 18, 2015 | 35 comments
9. A Bitcoin miner in every hand (medium.com/21dotco)
167 points by zmanian on May 18, 2015 | 118 comments
10. Interview with Eric Brewer (medium.com/s-c-a-l-e)
186 points by agonzalezro on May 18, 2015 | 134 comments
11. Building the Mad Max machines (autoweek.com)
144 points by fezz on May 18, 2015 | 38 comments
12. Silon – Adders and Logic Gates in Pure CSS (slaks.net)
173 points by stirno on May 18, 2015 | 39 comments
13. Hello, World (whitehouse.gov)
199 points by sethbannon on May 18, 2015 | 115 comments
14. Snake: Full Python Scripting in Vim (github.com/amoffat)
154 points by daenz on May 17, 2015 | 20 comments
15. Sandcats.io: free dynamic DNS for Sandstorm users (sandstorm.io)
114 points by paulproteus on May 18, 2015 | 18 comments
16. Signalfd is useless (ldpreload.com)
105 points by tptacek on May 18, 2015 | 43 comments
17. Thoughtcrime (antipope.org)
344 points by panarky on May 18, 2015 | 257 comments
18. Solving a Crackme using Z3: Theorem Prover (wiremask.eu)
78 points by Wiremask on May 18, 2015 | 14 comments
19. Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3 (amazon.com)
189 points by folz on May 18, 2015 | 75 comments
20. Fake Diplomas, Real Cash: Pakistani Company Axact Reaps Millions (nytimes.com)
184 points by tysone on May 18, 2015 | 77 comments
21. Cassandra: Daughter of Dynamo and BigTable (insightdataengineering.com)
81 points by aouyang1 on May 18, 2015 | 47 comments
22. Using Chakra for Scripting Applications Across Windows 10 (windows.com)
53 points by neo_optimus on May 18, 2015 | 11 comments
23. Nvidia Pascal GPU Architecture to Provide 10X Speedup for Deep Learning Apps (nvidia.com)
67 points by jonbaer on May 18, 2015 | 26 comments
24. How misbehaving at school made one man a multimillionaire (bbc.com)
104 points by inm on May 18, 2015 | 57 comments
25. CEO Wanted University Scientists Dismissed Over Link Between Fracking and Quakes (bloomberg.com)
226 points by CapitalistCartr on May 18, 2015 | 52 comments
26. Firing Well (mondaynote.com)
100 points by MaysonL on May 18, 2015 | 77 comments
27. What is Superadobe? (calearth.org)
93 points by enduser on May 18, 2015 | 36 comments
28. A brief history of fighting spam at Pinterest (youtube.com)
49 points by exitoptions on May 18, 2015 | 6 comments
29. Introduction to Higher Order Functions (comp-phil.blogspot.com)
46 points by michaelsbradley on May 17, 2015 | 1 comment
30. Advantages of Monolithic Version Control (danluu.com)
92 points by benkuhn on May 18, 2015 | 64 comments

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