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1.Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work (macuser.co.uk)
336 points by danso on May 16, 2014 | 233 comments
2.“A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines” (emory.edu)
337 points by slyall on May 16, 2014 | 138 comments
3.The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later (wololo.net)
321 points by dumpsterkid on May 16, 2014 | 157 comments
4.Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause (snopes.com)
246 points by magsafe on May 16, 2014 | 158 comments
5.Baidu Hires Andrew Ng (technologyreview.com)
227 points by chriskanan on May 16, 2014 | 83 comments
6.I Don’t Want to Hire Women (clarissasblog.com)
213 points by jseliger on May 16, 2014 | 212 comments
7.Practical Tmux (mutelight.org)
169 points by weitzj on May 16, 2014 | 94 comments
8.Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests (eff.org)
165 points by weeha on May 16, 2014 | 94 comments
9.Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition (wired.com)
162 points by apu on May 16, 2014 | 152 comments
10.India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win (reuters.com)
154 points by tokenadult on May 16, 2014 | 141 comments
11.Claude Shannon demonstrates Theseus, a magnetic maze-solving mouse [video] (att.com)
138 points by mr_tyzik on May 16, 2014 | 26 comments
12.TDD your API (balancedpayments.com)
147 points by steveklabnik on May 16, 2014 | 50 comments
13.The Multiple SQLite Problem (ericsink.com)
131 points by aaronbrethorst on May 16, 2014 | 45 comments
14.Zero to One, by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters (zerotoonebook.com)
130 points by beniaminmincu on May 16, 2014 | 62 comments
15.How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads (vox.com)
127 points by seferphier on May 16, 2014 | 123 comments
16.Word Lens (Quest Visual) is Joining Google (wordlens.com)
121 points by dannyr on May 16, 2014 | 42 comments
17.Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for' (bbc.com)
115 points by thewarrior on May 16, 2014 | 146 comments
18.How libraries decide which books to keep (medium.com/book-excerpts)
107 points by ASquare on May 16, 2014 | 48 comments
19.Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix (netflix.com)
109 points by rcsorensen on May 16, 2014 | 18 comments
20.Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitcoin" (kickstarter.com)
107 points by patrickaljord on May 16, 2014 | 44 comments
21.N2O: Erlang Web Framework (kukuruku.co)
98 points by andreygrehov on May 16, 2014 | 20 comments
22.MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the Bitcoin blockchain (microsoft.com)
100 points by zorked on May 16, 2014 | 77 comments
23.The perfect shape (bannalia.blogspot.com)
99 points by joaquintides on May 16, 2014 | 21 comments
24.Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read recently?
93 points by diegoloop on May 16, 2014 | 90 comments
25.Chain, the Blockchain API for developers (chain.com)
97 points by jmduke on May 16, 2014 | 58 comments
26.Pathfinding Demystified (gabrielgambetta.com)
77 points by iKlsR on May 16, 2014 | 20 comments
27.Kola Superdeep Borehole (atlasobscura.com)
84 points by gere on May 16, 2014 | 42 comments
28.Setting Up a Radio System from Scratch (atomicobject.com)
80 points by silentbicycle on May 16, 2014 | 17 comments
29.(Ab)Using Language Features: The Common Lisp Condition System (dawnofthedata.com)
81 points by jmdavis on May 16, 2014 | 24 comments
30.What web developers thought of in the noughties as being MVC doesn't scale (pastiche.org)
80 points by ingve on May 16, 2014 | 77 comments

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