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1.Burying the URL (allenpike.com)
553 points by alxndr on May 1, 2014 | 368 comments
2.The slow death of purposeless walking (bbc.co.uk)
353 points by basisword on May 1, 2014 | 183 comments
3.Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands (washingtonpost.com)
324 points by trusche on May 1, 2014 | 82 comments
4.Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)
336 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2014 | 491 comments
5.The cost of Linux's page fault handling (plus.google.com)
260 points by LaSombra on May 1, 2014 | 128 comments
6.One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos (theguardian.com)
259 points by swatkat on May 1, 2014 | 106 comments
7.The New Aaron Swartz Documentary Looks Powerful. Here's the Trailer (slate.com)
232 points by jamesisaac on May 1, 2014 | 57 comments
8.How a Florida kid’s “stupid app” saved his family’s home (pando.com)
202 points by jamesjyu on May 1, 2014 | 90 comments
9.My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal
200 points by nthitz on May 1, 2014 | 175 comments
10.Our YC Interviews (alchemist.svbtle.com)
178 points by gdi2290 on May 1, 2014 | 73 comments
11.Gimli Glider (wikipedia.org)
176 points by lelf on May 1, 2014 | 80 comments

This is a new UI experiment that's deployed to a small fraction of users. We're looking at a few key metrics to see if this change is a net positive for Chrome users. (I imagine it may help defend against phishing).

My personal opinion is that it's a very bad change and runs anti-thetical to Chrome's goals. I hope the data backs that up as well.

But regardless, this change is far from shipping as the new default behavior and the reaction here will certainly have an impact on the feature's future. As mentioned, please feel free to disable it at chrome://flags/#origin-chip-in-omnibox

13.Let's Write Some x86-64 (nickdesaulniers.github.io)
163 points by mbrubeck on May 1, 2014 | 44 comments
14.Random JSON data generator (json-generator.com)
141 points by davidbarker on May 1, 2014 | 29 comments
15.John Carmack's former employer claims he stole tech for Oculus VR when he left (engadget.com)
144 points by pytrin on May 1, 2014 | 87 comments
16.Hugelkultur: the ultimate raised garden beds (richsoil.com)
134 points by Mz on May 1, 2014 | 36 comments
17.The Launch of the Mayday Citizens' SuperPAC (lessig.tumblr.com)
134 points by famousactress on May 1, 2014 | 97 comments
18.Python for Finance (amazon.com)
127 points by mjhea0 on May 1, 2014 | 61 comments
19.Linux file write patterns: So you want to write to a file fast (plenz.com)
120 points by noqqe on May 1, 2014 | 50 comments
20.Ask HN: Can we do a "Who's looking for work?"
121 points by jader201 on May 1, 2014 | 61 comments
21.Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)
129 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2014 | 157 comments
22.Comparing Ember and Angular (benlesh.com)
116 points by nreece on May 1, 2014 | 84 comments
23.Putting the Chat into Snapchat (snapchat.com)
123 points by dnlserrano on May 1, 2014 | 82 comments
24.Buttons – A button library built with Sass and Compass (alexwolfe.github.io)
119 points by djug on May 1, 2014 | 30 comments
25.SpaceX granted injunction in rocket launch suit against Lockheed-Boeing (washingtonpost.com)
114 points by cryptoz on May 1, 2014 | 76 comments
26.OpenBSD 5.5 Released (openbsd.org)
106 points by throwaway2048 on May 1, 2014 | 62 comments
27.Null pointer dereference – new security bug for OpenSSL (openbsd.org)
99 points by openbsddesktop on May 1, 2014 | 29 comments
28.Interactively Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript (rigsomelight.com)
107 points by brucehauman on May 1, 2014 | 42 comments
29.Web Framework Benchmarks Round 9 (techempower.com)
108 points by osener on May 1, 2014 | 68 comments
30.The Graphing Calculator Story (2004) (pacifict.com)
92 points by rsagula on May 1, 2014 | 12 comments

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