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Stories from May 5, 2014
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1.Observations of an Internet Middleman (level3.com)
424 points by staticsafe on May 5, 2014 | 175 comments
2.Minimum Viable Block Chain (igvita.com)
335 points by vikrum on May 5, 2014 | 73 comments
3.Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster (php.net)
293 points by mrsaint on May 5, 2014 | 139 comments
4.Volvo’s first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Sweden (kurzweilai.net)
252 points by taivo on May 5, 2014 | 172 comments
5.NES Dual Port RAM Interface (batslyadams.com)
249 points by jboggan on May 5, 2014 | 23 comments
6.Startup School is going global (blog.ycombinator.com)
252 points by katm on May 5, 2014 | 96 comments
7.Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork (animalnewyork.com)
244 points by ChrisArchitect on May 5, 2014 | 108 comments
8.Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day (swype.com)
215 points by seaghost on May 5, 2014 | 158 comments
9.The Case for React.js and ClojureScript (murilopereira.com)
200 points by mpereira on May 5, 2014 | 85 comments
10.Why I am excited about Clojure (txus.io)
184 points by txus on May 5, 2014 | 169 comments
11.Through the Warp Zone: Hacking Super Mario Brothers to unlock new worlds (emily.st)
171 points by emilyst on May 5, 2014 | 36 comments
12.You never did math in high school (j2kun.svbtle.com)
160 points by xSwag on May 5, 2014 | 176 comments
13.Google’s fiber effect: Fuel for a broadband explosion (cnet.com)
159 points by prlin on May 5, 2014 | 76 comments
14.SCiO: A Pocket Molecular Sensor For All (kickstarter.com)
149 points by svermigo on May 5, 2014 | 79 comments
15.TextSecure's Private Group Messaging (whispersystems.org)
139 points by FredericJ on May 5, 2014 | 106 comments
16.Packr – Packages Java apps for distribution on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (github.com/libgdx)
131 points by zdw on May 5, 2014 | 40 comments
17.I “Leaked” the story about the Biometric EarPods. But I’m not proud of it (earpodsecret.tumblr.com)
135 points by kunle on May 5, 2014 | 62 comments
18.Optimizely Raises $57 Million (optimizely.com)
133 points by dsiroker on May 5, 2014 | 56 comments
19.Automattic Raises $160 Million, Valued at $1.16 Billion (recode.net)
123 points by dkasper on May 5, 2014 | 35 comments
20.OpenSSH sshd – memory leak (pastebin.com)
116 points by jvehent on May 5, 2014 | 42 comments
21.Why our startup failed (oncletom.io)
115 points by kaelig on May 5, 2014 | 93 comments
22.Simple steps to implementing a programming language (kjetilvalle.com)
112 points by kvalle on May 5, 2014 | 37 comments
23.Target removes CEO in wake of cyber attack (reuters.com)
111 points by wiremine on May 5, 2014 | 93 comments
24.Using Wikipedia in the classroom: a cautionary tale (dynamicecology.wordpress.com)
105 points by jcurbo on May 5, 2014 | 80 comments
25.A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks (github.com/ipython)
106 points by sctb on May 5, 2014 | 21 comments
26.Advice for ambitious 19 year olds (2013) (samaltman.com)
100 points by Jarred on May 5, 2014 | 92 comments
27.Facebook's Realtime Updates API has been down for 12 days (facebook.com)
100 points by jobeirne on May 5, 2014 | 28 comments
28.AMD is working on K12, brand-new x86 and ARM cores (techreport.com)
96 points by AnthonyMouse on May 5, 2014 | 54 comments
29.Death to the Technical Interview (iambob.me)
93 points by rigid_airship on May 5, 2014 | 113 comments
30.New dev release of Sublime Text 3 (sublimetext.com)
85 points by diggan on May 5, 2014 | 54 comments

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