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31. The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016) (vice.com)
64 points by pmoriarty on May 12, 2017 | 47 comments
32. Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition (slate.com)
168 points by lxm on May 12, 2017 | 170 comments
33. Collecting huge amounts of data with WhatsApp (lorankloeze.nl)
290 points by jboynyc on May 12, 2017 | 59 comments
34. The Story of a Rust Bug (thesquareplanet.com)
140 points by Jonhoo on May 11, 2017 | 16 comments
35. Moscow, my family, and me (newstatesman.com)
52 points by pepys on May 12, 2017 | 36 comments
36. Using Google Assistant with AutoPi to enable voice control of a car (autopi.io)
69 points by MurdocTannen on May 12, 2017 | 37 comments
37. 600 Watt, 3d-printed, Halbach Array, Brushless DC Electric Motor [video] (youtube.com)
147 points by donquichotte on May 12, 2017 | 49 comments
38. How Australia Bungled Its $36B High-Speed Internet Rollout (nytimes.com)
150 points by bootload on May 11, 2017 | 182 comments
39. Using RTL-SDR to Open Car Doors (2016) (anthonys.io)
75 points by weinzierl on May 12, 2017 | 47 comments
40. How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other (ceros.com)
83 points by thefalcon on May 12, 2017 | 68 comments
41. Minecraft arrives on the Nintendo Switch (techcrunch.com)
108 points by denchikceo on May 12, 2017 | 63 comments
42. Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?
156 points by carlmungz on May 12, 2017 | 119 comments
43. Programmers Should Automate More (shubhamjain.co)
128 points by shubhamjain on May 12, 2017 | 75 comments
44. First-Ever LSD Microdosing Study Will Pit the Human Brain Against AI (vice.com)
99 points by fraqed on May 12, 2017 | 48 comments
45. When You Picture Someone with Mental Illness, Picture Me in a Nice Tailored Suit (huffingtonpost.com.au)
68 points by pmoriarty on May 12, 2017 | 38 comments
46. The Xerox Star: A Retrospective (1989) [pdf] (umd.edu)
52 points by mpweiher on May 12, 2017 | 9 comments
47. Where have all the insects gone? (sciencemag.org)
149 points by sergeant3 on May 12, 2017 | 107 comments
48. Nuisance call firm Keurboom hit with record fine (bbc.com)
70 points by happy-go-lucky on May 12, 2017 | 25 comments
49. Repetitiveness and compressibility analysis in song lyrics (pudding.cool)
103 points by iheredia on May 12, 2017 | 29 comments
50. Sprint, SoftBank Said in Informal Deal Talks With T-Mobile (bloomberg.com)
72 points by rayuela on May 12, 2017 | 74 comments
51. David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” (2012) (slate.com)
35 points by Tomte on May 12, 2017 | 15 comments
52. The Multiverse as Muse (nautil.us)
31 points by dnetesn on May 11, 2017 | 10 comments
53. An Extension-Oriented Compiler (2008) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
44 points by astdb on May 12, 2017 | 4 comments
54. Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store (theverge.com)
106 points by ptrptr on May 12, 2017 | 92 comments
55. Security Update Release (postgresql.org)
59 points by slyrus on May 12, 2017 | 3 comments
56. Elon Musk's Boring Company Begins First Tunnel (theverge.com)
154 points by Dangeranger on May 12, 2017 | 165 comments
57. A Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017 (microsoft.com)
109 points by LyalinDotCom on May 12, 2017 | 41 comments
58. Writing a Lisp: Explicit Stack and Stacktraces (reinvanderwoerd.nl)
45 points by reinvdwoerd on May 11, 2017 | 11 comments
59. [dupe] Cloudflare Declares War on a Patent Troll with $50,000 Bounty (fortune.com)
77 points by nitin_flanker on May 12, 2017 | 13 comments
60. ShotSpotter IPO suggests there’s not much profit in urban surveillance (observer.com)
29 points by BradyDale on May 12, 2017 | 24 comments

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