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1. Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden (aftonbladet.se)
301 points by henrikberggren on May 31, 2014 | 169 comments
2. Who or What Broke My Kids? (powersfulmath.wordpress.com)
177 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2014 | 198 comments
3. LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly (latimes.com)
153 points by radley on May 31, 2014 | 110 comments
4. How to get business ideas – remove steps (ninjasandrobots.com)
147 points by nate on May 31, 2014 | 71 comments
5. Justin.tv ending archiving, deleting all archived videos after June 14 (justin.tv)
149 points by makomk on May 31, 2014 | 74 comments
6. Universities can’t fulfil the myth, but can’t become vocational schools either (arstechnica.com)
146 points by whyenot on May 31, 2014 | 64 comments
7. How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) (norvig.com)
144 points by yankoff on May 31, 2014 | 41 comments
8. Mt Everest in 3D: Everest Avalanche Tragedy (everestavalanchetragedy.com)
135 points by njsubedi on May 31, 2014 | 47 comments
9. Pointers Gone Wild (ucsd.edu)
132 points by lelf on May 31, 2014 | 65 comments
10. Don't buy the IEEE edition of my book (plus.google.com)
121 points by geekam on May 31, 2014 | 33 comments
11. Software Foundations (upenn.edu)
114 points by luu on May 31, 2014 | 14 comments
12. Edward Snowden responds to release of e-mail by U.S. officials (washingtonpost.com)
109 points by ChrisAntaki on May 31, 2014 | 39 comments
13. An upgrade to attoparsec, Haskell parsing library: more speed, more power (serpentine.com)
105 points by jcurbo on May 31, 2014 | 11 comments
14. It's the Latency, Stupid (1996) (stanford.edu)
101 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2014 | 52 comments
15. Startup vs. Corporate Life (lawnstarter.com)
101 points by stevencorcoran on May 31, 2014 | 81 comments
16. Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” Cinnamon released (linuxmint.com)
95 points by Akhilan on May 31, 2014 | 28 comments
17. Show HN: FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget (fivestar.io)
75 points by Shrugs on May 31, 2014 | 46 comments
18. This Guy Trademarked the Symbol for Pi and Took Away Our Geeky T-Shirts (wired.com)
79 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2014 | 21 comments
19. [flagged] The tech boom in Seattle is bringing in droves of successful, insufferable guys (salon.com)
72 points by ForHackernews on May 31, 2014 | 45 comments
20. The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers (niemanlab.org)
67 points by Brajeshwar on May 31, 2014 | 28 comments
21. German foreign intelligence agency wants to access social media in realtime (dw.de)
71 points by rosser on May 31, 2014 | 31 comments
22. Ask HN: Open Courses vs. Master degrees value in the IT market
63 points by atmosx on May 31, 2014 | 47 comments
23. A startup postmortem with a happy ending (fridriksson.tumblr.com)
62 points by watson on May 31, 2014 | 30 comments
24. Google to close Motorola smartphone factory in Texas (bbc.com)
60 points by oori on May 31, 2014 | 44 comments
25. The Pocket Handbook of Image Processing Algorithms in C (1993) [pdf] (umich.edu)
61 points by StandardFuture on May 31, 2014 | 14 comments
26. It’s Still the Latency, Stupid (2007) (edgeblog.net)
57 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2014 | 5 comments
27. Ask HN: Mentor Saturday
61 points by eatitraw on May 31, 2014 | 41 comments
28. Diversity and Feedback at GitHub (github.com/blog)
56 points by akerl_ on May 31, 2014 | 55 comments
29. How to spot first stories on Twitter using Storm (micvog.com)
53 points by nkurz on May 31, 2014 | 6 comments
30. Ask HN: How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate?
56 points by mark_l_watson on May 31, 2014 | 115 comments

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