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1. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds (medium.com/tristanharris)
1612 points by lxm on May 20, 2016 | 427 comments
2. Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today (nytimes.com)
321 points by strivedi on May 20, 2016 | 233 comments
3. Project Ara Lives: Google's Modular Phone (wired.com)
141 points by anigbrowl on May 20, 2016 | 94 comments
4. A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing (atlasobscura.com)
220 points by curtis on May 20, 2016 | 43 comments
5. Libui: GUI library in C (github.com/andlabs)
373 points by avitex on May 20, 2016 | 182 comments
6. If you care about privacy, you should not use Google Allo (vice.com)
248 points by walterbell on May 20, 2016 | 150 comments
7. Standard deviation is ready for retirement: Nassim Taleb (2014) (edge.org)
223 points by chollida1 on May 20, 2016 | 120 comments
8. Moving Away from Python 2 (asmeurer.github.io)
227 points by ngoldbaum on May 20, 2016 | 275 comments
9. CSS coding techniques (hacks.mozilla.org)
329 points by nachtigall on May 20, 2016 | 132 comments
10. China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study (bloomberg.com)
221 points by suprgeek on May 20, 2016 | 193 comments
11. Anguish: Invisible Programming Language and Invisible Data Theft (perl.org)
225 points by labster on May 19, 2016 | 59 comments
12. CSS Purge (csspurge.com)
190 points by tnorthcutt on May 20, 2016 | 78 comments
13. How the Gut Affects Mood (fivethirtyeight.com)
198 points by sndean on May 19, 2016 | 33 comments
14. Lens of human eye can be fully regenerated, at least in newborns (evidenceba.se)
98 points by krzysiek on May 20, 2016 | 35 comments
15. Darwinian medicine and the ‘hygiene’ or ‘old friends’ hypothesis (nih.gov)
55 points by slicktux on May 19, 2016 | 8 comments
16. Support for parallel ECDSA / RSA certificates (nginx.org)
82 points by runesoerensen on May 20, 2016 | 17 comments
17. Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US (theverge.com)
187 points by chirau on May 20, 2016 | 249 comments
18. One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
103 points by astdb on May 20, 2016 | 19 comments
19. Cutestrap: 8k CSS framework (cutestrap.com)
161 points by tangue on May 20, 2016 | 54 comments
20. Minecraft Server with a Bitcoin-denominated monetary system (bitquest.co)
119 points by martindale on May 20, 2016 | 48 comments
21. Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone (theguardian.com)
202 points by lucaspiller on May 20, 2016 | 69 comments
22. Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5 (bitmovin.com)
215 points by slederer on May 20, 2016 | 234 comments
23. A Docker file for Reason development (github.com/facebook)
56 points by yunxing on May 20, 2016 | 20 comments
24. Shebang Quine (github.com/geon)
162 points by geon on May 20, 2016 | 54 comments
25. Fox 'uses' a gameplay video from YouTube, and removes the original with DMCA (torrentfreak.com)
363 points by juanito on May 20, 2016 | 77 comments
26. Apex lets you build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease (apex.run)
85 points by davedx on May 20, 2016 | 57 comments
27. Museum of Soviet arcade machines (15kop.ru)
90 points by tosseraccount on May 20, 2016 | 40 comments
28. Ways C compilers break for objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX bytes (trust-in-soft.com)
74 points by panic on May 20, 2016 | 18 comments
29. Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea (bbc.com)
125 points by leothekim on May 20, 2016 | 97 comments
30. Cruise settles legal case involving cofounder (businessinsider.com)
99 points by taylorhou on May 20, 2016 | 63 comments

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