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1. Apple Stole My Music (vellumatlanta.com)
1259 points by panic on May 5, 2016 | 446 comments
2. The void left by the parallel port (medium.com/tltx)
496 points by OakNinja on May 5, 2016 | 144 comments
3. 30 years later, QBasic is still the best (nicolasbize.com)
493 points by bubblicious on May 5, 2016 | 299 comments
4. Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name (torrentfreak.com)
450 points by yunque on May 5, 2016 | 227 comments
5. Japan Now Has More Electric Car Charging Spots Than Gas Stations (transportevolved.com)
359 points by lxm on May 5, 2016 | 113 comments
6. Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof' (bbc.co.uk)
399 points by blacktulip on May 5, 2016 | 279 comments
7. Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 is bad for banking APIs and how we're fixing it (teller.io)
311 points by AffableSpatula on May 5, 2016 | 177 comments
8. Microsoft no longer allows admins to block Windows Store access in Win10 Pro (zdnet.com)
297 points by walterbell on May 5, 2016 | 239 comments
9. Cargo: predictable dependency management (rust-lang.org)
211 points by aturon on May 5, 2016 | 142 comments
10. OS X app in plain C (github.com/jimon)
249 points by dmytroi on May 5, 2016 | 151 comments
11. A Taste of JavaScript's New Parallel Primitives (hacks.mozilla.org)
237 points by faide on May 5, 2016 | 103 comments
12. Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer (microsoft.com)
223 points by nikbackm on May 5, 2016 | 61 comments
13. A beginner's guide to Big O notation (2009) (rob-bell.net)
312 points by g4k on May 5, 2016 | 65 comments
14. .NET framework ported to NetBSD (github.com/dotnet)
263 points by nbyouri on May 5, 2016 | 38 comments
15. Agile Is Dead, Long Live Continuous Delivery (gradle.org)
225 points by aechsten on May 5, 2016 | 145 comments
16. iOS Supporting IPv6-Only Networks (developer.apple.com)
205 points by r4um on May 5, 2016 | 108 comments
17. Signal Desktop beta now publicly available (whispersystems.org)
168 points by vmorim on May 5, 2016 | 62 comments
18. Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street? (thenittygritty.org)
197 points by jtsnow on May 5, 2016 | 167 comments
19. Bank Underground, the blog written by Bank of England staff (bankunderground.co.uk)
166 points by Erikun on May 5, 2016 | 66 comments
20. Growler: Asyncio Micro-Framework in Python (github.com/pygrowler)
116 points by akubera on May 4, 2016 | 30 comments
21. Everybody gets WebSockets (cloudflare.com)
193 points by jgrahamc on May 5, 2016 | 72 comments
22. Chernobyl Hints Radiation May Be Less Dangerous than Thought (spiegel.de)
116 points by 0x07c0 on May 5, 2016 | 51 comments
23. Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile Interaction [video] (youtube.com)
141 points by sarreph on May 5, 2016 | 35 comments
24. Siri's creators say they've made something better (washingtonpost.com)
129 points by jboydyhacker on May 5, 2016 | 77 comments
25. Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3
196 points by kevin on May 5, 2016 | 302 comments
26. Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them (usatoday.com)
180 points by minikites on May 5, 2016 | 227 comments
27. Train Your TensorFlow Models on Rescale (rescale.com)
88 points by gpoort on May 5, 2016 | 23 comments
28. Rdedup – backup deduplication with asymetric encryption (in Rust) (github.com/dpc)
120 points by dpc_pw on May 5, 2016 | 24 comments
29. Toil – A Python Workflow Engine (toil.readthedocs.io)
111 points by nikolay on May 4, 2016 | 28 comments
30. U.S. Regulator Wants to End Mandatory Arbitration for Consumers (fortune.com)
181 points by ourmandave on May 5, 2016 | 33 comments

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