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1. U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court (reuters.com)
653 points by dnewms on May 7, 2015 | 143 comments
2. Facebook PathPicker (facebook.github.io)
538 points by ben_hall on May 7, 2015 | 162 comments
3. NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Their Heartbeats (gizmodo.com)
473 points by kaa2102 on May 7, 2015 | 86 comments
4. The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies (nickkolenda.com)
418 points by nkolenda on May 6, 2015 | 81 comments
5. Tmux 2.0 released (sourceforge.net)
353 points by byaruhaf on May 7, 2015 | 216 comments
6. Mysterious Planes Over Baltimore Spark Surveillance Suspicions (aclu.org)
282 points by CapitalistCartr on May 7, 2015 | 143 comments
7. Why Lisp? (rongarret.info)
322 points by lisper on May 7, 2015 | 241 comments
8. Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon (technologyreview.com)
272 points by lelf on May 6, 2015 | 79 comments
9. Join the Engineering Leisure Class (medium.com/chrisloer)
220 points by ChrisLoer on May 7, 2015 | 192 comments
10. Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge (windows.com)
188 points by leo2urlevan on May 7, 2015 | 86 comments
11. Go crypto: bridging the performance gap (cloudflare.com)
211 points by jgrahamc on May 7, 2015 | 87 comments
12. GitHub and Jupyter IPython Notebooks (github.com/blog)
199 points by benn_88 on May 7, 2015 | 51 comments
13. The Town That Creep Built (bldgblog.blogspot.com)
130 points by ascertain on May 7, 2015 | 31 comments
14. Things that aren't work (aaronkharris.com)
136 points by jordanmessina on May 7, 2015 | 31 comments
15. Go-bootstrap: Generates a lean and mean Go web project (go-bootstrap.io)
150 points by didip on May 7, 2015 | 58 comments
16. Why Ken Jennings’s ‘Jeopardy’ Streak Is Nearly Impossible to Break (fivethirtyeight.com)
100 points by mblevin on May 6, 2015 | 57 comments
17. Bitcoin Exchange Receives First License in New York State (nytimes.com)
94 points by verkter on May 7, 2015 | 26 comments
18. Harj Taggar Is Building a New Technical Hiring Pipeline with TripleByte (techcrunch.com)
115 points by bvrlt on May 7, 2015 | 127 comments
19. Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Shortened Links (thesempost.com)
102 points by moe on May 7, 2015 | 52 comments
20. Flickr redesigns web and mobile apps to create a powerhouse in photo storage (theverge.com)
93 points by rchandra101 on May 7, 2015 | 48 comments
21. Cheap Centimeter-Precision GPS for Cars, Drones, Virtual Reality (ieee.org)
78 points by jonbaer on May 6, 2015 | 25 comments
22. Four Years of Success and Failure on the App Store (medium.com/clarky07)
91 points by clarky07 on May 7, 2015 | 35 comments
23. Signal Processing for Everyone (2000) [pdf] (www-math.mit.edu)
107 points by primroot on May 7, 2015 | 8 comments
24. The tensor renaissance in data science (oreilly.com)
85 points by datascientist on May 7, 2015 | 46 comments
25. Can Algorithms Form Price-Fixing Cartels? (newyorker.com)
68 points by jonbaer on May 6, 2015 | 27 comments
26. AMD's next-gen Zen CPU heading to desktops, servers in 2016 (techreport.com)
93 points by geoffgasior on May 6, 2015 | 74 comments
27. Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf] (kent.ac.uk)
113 points by znt on May 6, 2015 | 139 comments
28. Show HN: 4m-accuracy Indoor Location with Beacons (estimote.com)
71 points by jimiasty on May 6, 2015 | 30 comments
29. How friendship became a tool of the powerful (theguardian.com)
79 points by sergeant3 on May 7, 2015 | 26 comments
30. Bill C-51 passes in House of Commons (cbc.ca)
168 points by alfredxing on May 7, 2015 | 76 comments

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