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1. Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979) (medium.com/acidflask)
237 points by acidflask on May 29, 2016 | 122 comments
2. Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know (slate.com)
452 points by janvdberg on May 27, 2016 | 284 comments
3. A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a visit to a subsea cable site (arstechnica.com)
251 points by matan_a on May 26, 2016 | 32 comments
4. Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's plan for a household robot (techinsider.io)
225 points by ilamont on May 28, 2016 | 120 comments
5. The real responsive design challenge is RSS (begriffs.com)
221 points by begriffs on May 29, 2016 | 109 comments
6. 500 Lines or Less (github.com/aosabook)
377 points by divkakwani on May 29, 2016 | 61 comments
7. How big an issue is the nausea problem for VR products? (quora.com)
387 points by BrandiATMuhkuh on May 29, 2016 | 175 comments
8. How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods? (2003) (scientificamerican.com)
214 points by matan_a on May 29, 2016 | 150 comments
9. Flask 0.11 Released (pocoo.org)
368 points by welder on May 29, 2016 | 126 comments
10. Autonomous Plant Watering (monotonous.org)
138 points by ashitlerferad on May 26, 2016 | 48 comments
11. Keeping 1990s Virtual Reality Machines Alive (kotaku.com)
75 points by evo_9 on May 28, 2016 | 13 comments
12. PyThalesians: Python Open Source Financial Library (github.com/thalesians)
139 points by sndean on May 29, 2016 | 8 comments
13. Show HN: Run your own OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider (github.com/ory-am)
161 points by aeneasr on May 29, 2016 | 49 comments
14. JVM JIT optimization techniques (advancedweb.hu)
112 points by sashee on May 27, 2016 | 61 comments
15. Boys who live with books ‘earn more as adults’ (theguardian.com)
119 points by bootload on May 29, 2016 | 82 comments
16. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (economist.com)
87 points by edward on May 28, 2016 | 5 comments
17. The Geneva Free Port is crammed with storage vaults that contain great art (nytimes.com)
67 points by bootload on May 29, 2016 | 46 comments
18. GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick popen() shell vulnerability via filename (gmane.org)
144 points by marksamman on May 29, 2016 | 54 comments
19. Writing my first shellcode (0day.work)
94 points by internetwache on May 28, 2016 | 20 comments
20. Students Build a Glove to Translate Sign Language into English (fastcompany.com)
55 points by cpeterso on May 26, 2016 | 23 comments
21. A simple Vulkan Compute example (duskborn.com)
85 points by ingve on May 29, 2016 | 24 comments
22. Scientists say they have created a new platform for antibiotic discovery (genengnews.com)
63 points by jseliger on May 29, 2016 | 18 comments
23. You can’t replace your face, says face recognition (kaspersky.com)
84 points by nandha on May 29, 2016 | 46 comments
24. Cuckoo filters and their analysis (11011110.livejournal.com)
85 points by robinhouston on May 29, 2016 | 8 comments
25. Dutch Firm Trains Eagles to Take Down Drones (nytimes.com)
69 points by breck on May 29, 2016 | 43 comments
26. Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (2009) (wolfire.com)
177 points by maastaar on May 29, 2016 | 23 comments
27. German WW2 code machine found on eBay (bbc.com)
93 points by mhb on May 29, 2016 | 41 comments
28. I've Been Waiting For The Oculus Rift, But Now It's Sitting In My Closet (forbes.com/sites/insertcoin)
125 points by r0h1n on May 28, 2016 | 150 comments
29. Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones (2014) (arxiv.org)
66 points by brahmwg on May 29, 2016 | 25 comments
30. Bullshit fighting (stactivist.com)
58 points by azuajef on May 29, 2016 | 34 comments

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