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1. Are you paid to look busy? (pbs.org)
250 points by resdirector on May 10, 2014 | 210 comments
2. Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background (uspto.gov)
253 points by edandersen on May 10, 2014 | 157 comments
3. Reverse Engineering for Beginners (github.com/dennis714)
229 points by X4 on May 10, 2014 | 26 comments
4. Google Maps Has Forsaken Us (techcrunch.com)
229 points by rorhug on May 10, 2014 | 226 comments
5. How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment (priceonomics.com)
211 points by zootar on May 10, 2014 | 192 comments
6. ‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’ (nybooks.com)
177 points by Libertatea on May 10, 2014 | 22 comments
7. We scraped the World Bank's website (cgdev.org)
167 points by danso on May 10, 2014 | 30 comments
8. Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet (blog.mozilla.org)
159 points by sarreph on May 10, 2014 | 54 comments
9. Rich text editing with WriteLatex (writelatex.com)
127 points by nkoren on May 10, 2014 | 22 comments
10. The $13 Billion Mystery Angels (businessweek.com)
131 points by defective on May 10, 2014 | 54 comments
11. The Unix Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
128 points by frik on May 10, 2014 | 50 comments
12. Color for the Colorblind (boingboing.net)
117 points by SeanDav on May 10, 2014 | 35 comments
13. How a German Soda Became Hackers' Fuel of Choice (vice-motherboard-test.appspot.com)
111 points by rizumu on May 10, 2014 | 115 comments
14. The Financial Future of Game Developers (raphkoster.com)
111 points by captaincrowbar on May 10, 2014 | 54 comments
15. [dupe] The Case Against Time Warner-Comcast Just Got Stronger (tomsguide.com)
100 points by pwg on May 10, 2014 | 13 comments
16. MirageOS: A Unikernel For The Xen Hypervisor (openmirage.org)
99 points by godisdad on May 10, 2014 | 52 comments
17. Federal agents seek to loosen rules on hacking computers during investigations (bloomberg.com)
101 points by jamesbritt on May 10, 2014 | 50 comments
18. Royalty statements of a Grammy-nominated artist (digitalmusicnews.com)
94 points by ilamont on May 10, 2014 | 112 comments
19. Cdb: a fast, reliable, simple package for creating, reading constant databases (cr.yp.to)
91 points by networked on May 10, 2014 | 41 comments
20. The .NET Native Tool-Chain (msdn.com)
86 points by ntakasaki on May 10, 2014 | 55 comments
21. How We Get Tall (theatlantic.com)
87 points by sizzle on May 10, 2014 | 54 comments
22. The Bro Network Security Monitor (bro.org)
80 points by X4 on May 10, 2014 | 37 comments
23. Ironies of Automation (1983) (demon.co.uk)
65 points by jamesbritt on May 10, 2014 | 5 comments
24. New Tab Experiments (blog.mozilla.org)
66 points by RougeFemme on May 10, 2014 | 45 comments
25. What is an appropriate level of Basic Income? (hawkins.ventures)
54 points by mchusma on May 10, 2014 | 96 comments
26. TagSpaces – Open-source personal data manager (tagspaces.org)
59 points by computerjunkie on May 10, 2014 | 24 comments
27. ‘Rice Theory’ Explains North-South China Cultural Differences, Study Shows (virginia.edu)
57 points by aakil on May 10, 2014 | 24 comments
28. Scientific computing’s future: Can Haskell, Clojure, or Julia top Fortran? (arstechnica.com)
63 points by x43b on May 10, 2014 | 32 comments
29. Visualizing the Fourth Dimension Using Color (rdrop.com)
53 points by adbge on May 10, 2014 | 15 comments
30. Homer mystery script contest winner and results (uchicago.edu)
58 points by ForHackernews on May 10, 2014

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