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1. I would have hired Doug, but... (liveblog.co)
505 points by nicolethenerd on May 6, 2015 | 238 comments
2. Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) (npr.org)
462 points by anacleto on May 6, 2015 | 81 comments
3. PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web (pypyjs.org)
461 points by doublextremevil on May 6, 2015 | 134 comments
4. Racking Mac Pros (imgix.com)
388 points by zacman85 on May 6, 2015 | 316 comments
5. Leaving Stripe (gregbrockman.com)
297 points by geetarista on May 6, 2015 | 70 comments
6. Weave is kinda slow (generictestdomain.net)
226 points by lclarkmichalek on May 6, 2015 | 157 comments
7. Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
257 points by suprgeek on May 6, 2015 | 151 comments
8. Group Currency (groupcurrency.org)
128 points by raldu on May 6, 2015 | 69 comments
9. Tarsnap performance issues in late March, most of April (tarsnap.com)
172 points by pndmnm on May 6, 2015 | 113 comments
10. Lawyers threaten researcher over key-cloning bug in high-security lock (arstechnica.com)
160 points by wglb on May 6, 2015 | 85 comments
11. Neural network chip built using memristors (arstechnica.com)
149 points by Grognak on May 6, 2015 | 61 comments
12. IBM's Watson will be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14 hospitals (bbc.co.uk)
139 points by Brakenshire on May 6, 2015 | 70 comments
13. Look Ma, no OS (slides.com)
177 points by lelf on May 5, 2015 | 88 comments
14. “Information asymmetry” cuts both ways (yosefk.com)
127 points by luu on May 5, 2015 | 44 comments
15. First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016 (oculus.com)
305 points by z3phyr on May 6, 2015 | 138 comments
16. Show HN: kiUi – Lightweight auto-layout stylable UI toolkit (novembermonk.github.io)
136 points by hugoamnov on May 6, 2015 | 39 comments
17. I was an undercover Uber driver (citypaper.net)
237 points by robdimarco on May 6, 2015 | 165 comments
18. Why Do We Play Video Games That Feel Like Work? (vice.com)
127 points by DiabloD3 on May 5, 2015 | 98 comments
19. MIT alumni in their 50s (law.harvard.edu)
199 points by zootar on May 6, 2015 | 151 comments
20. Launching a weather balloon, a camera and a Raspberry Pi to the stratosphere (pinterjann.is)
86 points by pinjiz on May 6, 2015 | 35 comments
21. Orson Welles, one of history's great workaholics (vox.com)
79 points by dctoedt on May 6, 2015 | 23 comments
22. Project Panama: Interconnecting JVM and Native Code (java.net)
65 points by amatheus on May 6, 2015 | 3 comments
23. Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans (recode.net)
71 points by elvinyung on May 6, 2015 | 38 comments
24. What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work (nytimes.com)
79 points by Chinjut on May 5, 2015 | 44 comments
25. Ccat – syntax highlighting cat (github.com/jingweno)
127 points by jingweno on May 6, 2015 | 45 comments
26. Valuation as a Scorecard (avc.com)
65 points by ghosh on May 6, 2015 | 13 comments
27. Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide (fourhourworkweek.com)
251 points by Killah911 on May 6, 2015 | 160 comments
28. World's Oldest Blood Found in Famed “Iceman” Mummy (nationalgeographic.com)
49 points by Thevet on May 6, 2015 | 7 comments
29. Java Mutation Testing (pitest.org)
88 points by onderkalaci on May 6, 2015 | 30 comments
30. Intent to Implement: SIMD.js (groups.google.com)
57 points by tosh on May 5, 2015 | 15 comments

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