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1. How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name (fivethirtyeight.com)
421 points by ca98am79 on May 29, 2014 | 145 comments
2. Git 2.0 (iu.edu)
405 points by pantalaimon on May 29, 2014 | 137 comments
3. For Hire: Dedicated Young Man With Down Syndrome (aljazeera.com)
391 points by mr_tyzic on May 29, 2014 | 115 comments
4. Google's XSS game (xss-game.appspot.com)
376 points by morphics on May 29, 2014 | 156 comments
5. True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’ (krebsonsecurity.com)
360 points by panarky on May 29, 2014 | 237 comments
6. The Man Who Single-Handedly Converted a Washed-Out Land Into a 1,360 Acre Forest (thebetterindia.com)
326 points by dhimant on May 29, 2014 | 41 comments
7. US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers (theguardian.com)
273 points by wglb on May 29, 2014 | 83 comments
8. Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps (plus.google.com)
269 points by chippy on May 29, 2014 | 97 comments
9. The Makings of a Great Logo (pixelapse.com)
254 points by lominming on May 29, 2014 | 74 comments
10. Absolute Zero (damninteresting.com)
249 points by jqm on May 29, 2014 | 41 comments
11. Interesting Data Sets for Statistics (rs.io)
216 points by aficionado on May 29, 2014 | 17 comments
12. Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report (techcrunch.com)
216 points by sunilkumarc on May 29, 2014 | 77 comments
13. No more ads (opendns.com)
188 points by philip1209 on May 29, 2014 | 106 comments
14. OpenSSL, OpenSSH and NTP to receive support from Core Infrastructure Initiative (linuxfoundation.org)
181 points by ryanweal on May 29, 2014 | 90 comments
15. Laverna: Self-hosted Evernote alternative (laverna.cc)
180 points by yid on May 29, 2014 | 50 comments
16. A Data Analysis Curriculum (mysliderule.com)
168 points by gautambay on May 29, 2014 | 50 comments
17. “Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry” (nymag.com)
161 points by killerdhmo on May 29, 2014 | 129 comments
18. Google's diversity post makes no mention of age (brianstorms.com)
146 points by brianstorms on May 29, 2014 | 43 comments
19. An alternative Haskell home page (chrisdone.com)
136 points by chiachun on May 29, 2014 | 38 comments
20. Defensive Bash programming (kfirlavi.com)
127 points by urlwolf on May 29, 2014 | 57 comments
21. I got shipped to California to date tech guys (nymag.com)
130 points by jmduke on May 29, 2014 | 113 comments
22. Thomas Piketty Responds to Criticism of His Data (nytimes.com)
122 points by felix on May 29, 2014 | 70 comments
23. RenderMan Price Restructuring (pixar.com)
115 points by amock on May 29, 2014 | 50 comments
24. Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (2011)
104 points by chesterfield on May 29, 2014 | 17 comments
25. Go, REST APIs, and Pointers (willnorris.com)
117 points by watermel0n on May 29, 2014 | 20 comments
26. Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States (priceonomics.com)
105 points by harris11 on May 29, 2014 | 35 comments
27. Replace TrueCrypt – Candidate alternatives (boum.org)
106 points by chmars on May 29, 2014 | 56 comments
28. So a female programmer walks into a bar… (netguru.co)
110 points by filozynka on May 29, 2014 | 137 comments
29. Poll: Unban TempleOS?
100 points by jacquesm on May 29, 2014 | 87 comments
30. We picked the wrong lawyers for our first startup (gymsurfing.com)
96 points by kevinbracken on May 29, 2014 | 84 comments

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