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1. Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit (theguardian.com)
806 points by cottonseed on May 20, 2014 | 226 comments
2. Level3 is without peer, now what to do? (cringely.com)
781 points by mortimerwax on May 20, 2014 | 382 comments
3. Using the wrong dictionary (jsomers.net)
635 points by jsomers on May 20, 2014 | 138 comments
4. New DuckDuckGo design (duckduckgo.com)
614 points by ashishk on May 20, 2014 | 214 comments
5. When AES(☢) = ☠ – a crypto-binary trick (speakerdeck.com)
287 points by ange4771_ on May 20, 2014 | 34 comments
6. China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers (reuters.com)
286 points by yiedyie on May 20, 2014 | 142 comments
7. Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3 (theverge.com)
275 points by sz4kerto on May 20, 2014 | 315 comments
8. Questions for Donald Knuth (informit.com)
249 points by robinhouston on May 20, 2014 | 58 comments
9. Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful (igvita.com)
235 points by igrigorik on May 20, 2014 | 56 comments
10. The desktop and the developer (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
199 points by ekianjo on May 20, 2014 | 301 comments
11. Erlang and code style (medium.com/p)
195 points by kungfooguru on May 20, 2014 | 57 comments
12. How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark (newyorker.com)
192 points by jrochkind1 on May 20, 2014 | 93 comments
13. Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999) (bell-labs.com)
170 points by evntdrvn on May 20, 2014 | 54 comments
14. 808 Cube (808cube.com)
165 points by getdavidhiggins on May 20, 2014 | 43 comments
15. This png encrypts to the same image (imgur.com)
154 points by diafygi on May 20, 2014 | 37 comments
16. Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft (ieee.org)
154 points by andyjohnson0 on May 20, 2014 | 50 comments
17. Try-catch speeding up my code? (stackoverflow.com)
144 points by vishal0123 on May 20, 2014 | 59 comments
18. As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The Price (npr.org)
145 points by dataminer on May 20, 2014 | 49 comments
19. The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012) (russolsen.com)
121 points by reforge_reborn on May 20, 2014 | 50 comments
20. To Get a Home in San Francisco, First Get a $200,000-a-Year Job (wsj.com)
115 points by anishkothari on May 20, 2014 | 167 comments
21. Thoughts on Martini – Introducing Negroni (codegangsta.io)
116 points by sld on May 20, 2014 | 25 comments
22. Dear Google: Parody Is Not Trademark Infringement (eff.org)
99 points by anaphor on May 20, 2014 | 31 comments
23. Elm 0.12.3 – Hardware accelerated 3D rendering with WebGL (elm-lang.org)
101 points by wheatBread on May 20, 2014 | 37 comments
24. [dupe] Starting An Airline (boeing.com)
96 points by rickdale on May 20, 2014 | 68 comments
25. The pitfalls of allowing file uploads on your website (detectify.com)
100 points by BogdanCalin on May 20, 2014 | 30 comments
26. Unions and Airlines (2010) (greenspun.com)
94 points by luu on May 20, 2014 | 72 comments
27. Uncss – Find unused CSS (davidwalsh.name)
90 points by josephcs on May 20, 2014 | 24 comments
28. Disneyland's original prospectus (1953) (boingboing.net)
84 points by trsohmers on May 20, 2014 | 16 comments
29. Poll: Do you use marijuana
91 points by evo_9 on May 20, 2014 | 107 comments
30. For Workers, Less Flexible Companies (nytimes.com)
86 points by 001sky on May 20, 2014 | 42 comments

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