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31. Port of SGI ElectroPaint screensaver made via decompilation (github.com/drvink)
90 points by QqQqQqQqQ on May 5, 2014 | 42 comments
32. Snowden's letter: Big things are happening in Denmark (b.dk)
86 points by Svip on May 5, 2014 | 33 comments
33. The Alexandria Police Department is taking pictures of everyone’s cars (capitolcityproject.com)
78 points by danso on May 5, 2014 | 51 comments
34. The End of Food? (newyorker.com)
72 points by beniaminmincu on May 5, 2014 | 67 comments
35. Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?
71 points by tomek_zemla on May 5, 2014 | 79 comments
36. Combinator Parsing (goodmath.org)
69 points by FBT on May 5, 2014 | 9 comments
37. Sony develops new 185 TB storage tape (bbc.com)
65 points by mootothemax on May 5, 2014 | 65 comments
38. My favorite debugging tool (campaign-archive1.com)
64 points by Isofarro on May 5, 2014 | 37 comments
39. Proposed Mexican Telecom Law Would Be a Disaster for Internet Freedom (eff.org)
63 points by DiabloD3 on May 5, 2014 | 23 comments
40. Python recursion visualization with rcviz (zvzzt.wordpress.com)
58 points by carlsborg on May 5, 2014 | 3 comments
41. Plasso: Payments Made Simple (plasso.co)
56 points by ianwootten on May 5, 2014 | 40 comments
42. On Pull Requests (cramer.io)
58 points by cribwi on May 5, 2014 | 34 comments
43. Ask HN: “Coinbase just sent you 0.002329 BTC”
57 points by jw2013 on May 5, 2014 | 22 comments
44. Show HN: I open-sourced my iPhone app side project (github.com/dvingo)
52 points by dvingo on May 5, 2014 | 19 comments
45. RFC 3092: Etymology of "Foo" (ietf.org)
53 points by nkurz on May 5, 2014 | 20 comments
46. How Did Dread Pirate Roberts Acquire and Protect His Bitcoin Wealth? [pdf] (iacr.org)
56 points by oxama on May 5, 2014 | 23 comments
47. Exploit Mitigation Techniques (2013) (openbsd.org)
49 points by willvarfar on May 5, 2014 | 20 comments
48. Gulp-obfuscate Zalgo setting (mikegroseclose.github.io)
47 points by bitmilitia on May 5, 2014 | 12 comments
49. Cubli: Building cubes that can jump up and balance (ethz.ch)
46 points by l0gicpath on May 5, 2014 | 4 comments
50. Simple Binary Encoding (mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com)
48 points by dekayed on May 5, 2014 | 15 comments
51. The vast influence of Gary Becker (vox.com)
45 points by jseliger on May 5, 2014 | 4 comments
52. A Path to Retirement, for Those Far From It (nytimes.com)
41 points by jbae29 on May 5, 2014 | 18 comments
53. Paperpile (paperpile.com)
41 points by bowyakka on May 5, 2014 | 6 comments
54. How to: code JavaScript using Twitter bootstrap best practices (theodo.fr)
45 points by baptou12 on May 5, 2014 | 23 comments
55. A Shock-Absorbing Wheel for Bikes and Wheelchairs (wired.com)
45 points by jdnier on May 5, 2014 | 40 comments
56. AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart without leaving Twitter (amazon.com)
40 points by applecore on May 5, 2014 | 37 comments
57. [dupe] New Funding for Automattic (ma.tt)
36 points by hornokplease on May 5, 2014 | 17 comments
58. Physicists design quantum triggers that can be activated by a photon (news.harvard.edu)
38 points by adventured on May 5, 2014 | 5 comments
59. Hire from your user base (alinelerner.com)
42 points by leeny on May 5, 2014 | 11 comments
60. Show HN: Music for Squirrels – new iOS app (fiddlewax.com)
35 points by akumpf on May 5, 2014 | 11 comments

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