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1. A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month (medium.com/contact_16315)
952 points by lpellegr on May 17, 2017 | 497 comments
2. My Family’s Slave (theatlantic.com)
1419 points by aaron695 on May 16, 2017 | 606 comments
3. Android now supports Kotlin (venturebeat.com)
620 points by JOfferijns on May 17, 2017 | 216 comments
4. A Case of Stolen Source Code (panic.com)
527 points by uptown on May 17, 2017 | 215 comments
5. JSON Feed (jsonfeed.org)
486 points by fold on May 17, 2017 | 215 comments
6. Elf Hello World (cirosantilli.com)
334 points by rocky1138 on May 17, 2017 | 30 comments
7. The Boring Company FAQ (boringcompany.com)
624 points by schiffern on May 17, 2017 | 451 comments
8. Vancouver bans whales and dolphins at aquarium (bbc.com)
378 points by tempestn on May 17, 2017 | 235 comments
9. Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud (googleblog.com)
364 points by Anon84 on May 17, 2017 | 63 comments
10. Google.ai (google.ai)
611 points by rbanffy on May 17, 2017 | 222 comments
11. Hyundai Whistle-Blower, in Rarity for South Korea, Prompts Recall (nytimes.com)
229 points by JumpCrisscross on May 16, 2017 | 100 comments
12. Oculus Research to Present Focal Surface Display Discovery at SIGGRAPH (oculus.com)
212 points by srinathrajaram on May 17, 2017 | 101 comments
13. Google I/O 2017 (google.com)
344 points by ergo14 on May 17, 2017 | 275 comments
14. Chelsea Manning released from prison (cnn.com)
629 points by nerdy on May 17, 2017 | 258 comments
15. U.S. Senate staff can now use Signal (zdnet.com)
255 points by bshanks on May 16, 2017 | 85 comments
16. US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High (nytimes.com)
250 points by kcorbitt on May 17, 2017 | 418 comments
17. Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs (googleblog.com)
204 points by jamest on May 17, 2017 | 73 comments
18. Plato knew a lot about behavioural economics (aeon.co)
144 points by __ka on May 16, 2017 | 23 comments
19. A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab (lwn.net)
228 points by rbanffy on May 16, 2017 | 202 comments
20. UH Researchers Report New, More Efficient Catalyst for Water Splitting (uh.edu)
105 points by weston on May 17, 2017 | 100 comments
21. AMD Unveils “EPYC” CPUs Featuring Up to 32 Cores and 64 Threads for the Datacenter (wccftech.com)
191 points by chx on May 16, 2017 | 107 comments
22. Show HN: 3DC.io – A dead simple cross-platform 3D design tool (3dc.io)
161 points by eerikkivistik on May 17, 2017 | 71 comments
23. Show HN: Goka – distributed stream processing library for Kafka written in Go (github.com/lovoo)
105 points by flosch on May 17, 2017 | 10 comments
24. Machine Learning (xkcd.com)
546 points by tchalla on May 17, 2017 | 128 comments
25. As We May Read (2015) (craigmod.com)
39 points by diodorus on May 17, 2017 | 8 comments
26. Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Management (cmu.edu)
206 points by melqdusy on May 17, 2017 | 135 comments
27. Anchor Physics Simulator in JavaScript (pjama.github.io)
94 points by pjama on May 17, 2017 | 7 comments
28. Tips for Building High-Quality Django Apps at Scale (doordash.com)
191 points by stanleytang on May 16, 2017 | 120 comments
29. ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution (arcanoae.com)
94 points by ch_123 on May 17, 2017 | 33 comments
30. LHC Micro Models: Build Your Own Particle Detector (build-your-own-particle-detector.org)
48 points by Tomte on May 17, 2017 | 12 comments

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