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1. 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders (agilebits.com)
1004 points by nthitz on May 23, 2017 | 521 comments
2. Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013) (chrisstucchio.com)
598 points by tosh on May 23, 2017 | 352 comments
3. Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of the Samsung Galaxy S8 (ccc.de)
674 points by morsch on May 23, 2017 | 159 comments
4. Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim (stackoverflow.blog)
775 points by var_explained on May 23, 2017 | 473 comments
5. Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers (bloomberg.com)
342 points by rayuela on May 23, 2017 | 225 comments
6. New Surface Pro (microsoft.com)
405 points by pierre-renaux on May 23, 2017 | 598 comments
7. The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized Internet (blockstack.org)
378 points by adunk on May 23, 2017 | 159 comments
8. 22-Year-Old Lidar Whiz Claims Breakthrough (ieee.org)
280 points by deepnotderp on May 23, 2017 | 151 comments
9. I’ve become worse at programming (fascinatedbox.blogspot.com)
352 points by kumaranvpl on May 23, 2017 | 115 comments
10. Principal Component Analysis Explained Visually (2015) (setosa.io)
315 points by espiii on May 23, 2017 | 25 comments
11. Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence (nytimes.com)
372 points by ilamont on May 23, 2017 | 352 comments
12. Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking Cat? (bloomberg.com)
192 points by lumisota on May 23, 2017 | 81 comments
13. The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo (events.google.com)
359 points by tvvocold on May 23, 2017 | 281 comments
14. Xperia Touch makes any surface interactive (sonymobile.com)
204 points by astdb on May 22, 2017 | 78 comments
15. Viper: a new programming language from Ethereum (github.com/ethereum)
192 points by RabbitmqGuy on May 22, 2017 | 123 comments
16. Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies (stratechery.com)
206 points by darwhy on May 23, 2017 | 166 comments
17. Show HN: 15-question programming quiz with answers (triplebyte.com)
227 points by ammon on May 23, 2017 | 228 comments
18. At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared (npr.org)
131 points by collapse on May 23, 2017 | 89 comments
19. How jeans conquered the world (2012) (bbc.com)
126 points by prmph on May 23, 2017 | 147 comments
20. Writing a second video game for the Micro:bit in Rust (medium.com/stestagg)
106 points by _gok2 on May 22, 2017 | 27 comments
21. Hardbin: secure encrypted pastebin (hardbin.com)
133 points by natejackdev on May 23, 2017 | 69 comments
22. Jamboard is now available (blog.google)
116 points by happy-go-lucky on May 23, 2017 | 71 comments
23. Memcached-Backed Content Infrastructure at Khan Academy (khanacademy.org)
93 points by ka-engineering on May 23, 2017 | 22 comments
24. Better Form Design: One Thing per Page (smashingmagazine.com)
151 points by petercooper on May 22, 2017 | 62 comments
25. Long Exposures – Creating Average Frames from Movies (shkspr.mobi)
82 points by edent on May 22, 2017 | 19 comments
26. Ask HN: How liquid is Bitcoin?
192 points by AznHisoka on May 23, 2017 | 103 comments
27. Turning Off GitHub Issues (2016) (gist.github.com)
160 points by jashkenas on May 23, 2017 | 126 comments
28. Ask HN: How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?
296 points by sidcool on May 23, 2017 | 177 comments
29. The Higgins Boat: Wood, Steel, and Purpose (smallwarsjournal.com)
58 points by smacktoward on May 22, 2017 | 14 comments
30. Sand and gravel mining “greatly exceeds natural renewal rates” (newyorker.com)
82 points by sergeant3 on May 23, 2017 | 28 comments

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