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1. I turned my interview task for Google into a startup (uxdesign.cc)
752 points by mmoez on May 16, 2019 | 599 comments
2. Sony and Microsoft set rivalry aside for cloud gaming alliance (nikkei.com)
322 points by jmsflknr on May 16, 2019 | 261 comments
3. Zero Cost Abstractions (boats.gitlab.io)
350 points by steveklabnik on May 16, 2019 | 110 comments
4. Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal (cnbc.com)
634 points by Despegar on May 16, 2019 | 423 comments
5. Racket 7.3 (racket-lang.org)
287 points by jessealama on May 16, 2019 | 53 comments
6. Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous (nytimes.com)
273 points by undefined1 on May 13, 2019 | 262 comments
7. SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships (nytimes.com)
355 points by ckinnan on May 16, 2019 | 895 comments
8. MyCPU – Homebrew Computer from Discrete Logic Gates (thtec.org)
257 points by lainon on May 16, 2019 | 37 comments
9. Why is a Rust executable large? (2016) (lifthrasiir.github.io)
195 points by new4thaccount on May 16, 2019 | 128 comments
10. I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit other workers (theguardian.com)
480 points by otikik on May 16, 2019 | 313 comments
11. Hackers can fake radio signals to 'hijack' aircraft landing systems (computing.co.uk)
153 points by wglb on May 16, 2019 | 124 comments
12. The moon may be tectonically active (nationalgeographic.com)
174 points by alanwong on May 16, 2019 | 44 comments
13. Resilience engineering: Where do I start? (github.com/lorin)
167 points by azhenley on May 13, 2019 | 11 comments
14. Protothreads: Lightweight Stackless Threads in C (dunkels.com)
163 points by signa11 on May 14, 2019 | 42 comments
15. I.M. Pei has died (nytimes.com)
275 points by SREinSF on May 16, 2019 | 47 comments
16. Sexy weasels in Renaissance art (ridiculouslyinteresting.com)
173 points by okfine on May 16, 2019 | 32 comments
17. Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit (lwn.net)
148 points by l2dy on May 16, 2019 | 56 comments
18. Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road (reuters.com)
181 points by Melchizedek on May 16, 2019 | 118 comments
19. Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012) (esbe.eu)
104 points by vq on May 16, 2019 | 43 comments
20. Scientists have created a living organism whose DNA is human-made (nytimes.com)
132 points by Osiris30 on May 16, 2019 | 54 comments
21. Hermes – A message broker built on top of Kafka (allegro.tech)
125 points by qluml on May 16, 2019 | 54 comments
22. Grocery Outlet S-1 (sec.gov)
135 points by hhs on May 16, 2019 | 64 comments
23. How Contemporary Art Became a Fiat Currency for the World’s Richest (bloomberg.com)
84 points by pseudolus on May 16, 2019 | 59 comments
24. ELF files on Linux (linux-audit.com)
142 points by ingve on May 16, 2019 | 27 comments
25. The origin story of data science (welcometothejungle.co)
121 points by sheckpar on May 16, 2019 | 33 comments
26. Tracking the Journey of a Uranium Cube (scitation.org)
62 points by gballan on May 16, 2019 | 6 comments
27. City residents live with mental illness at higher rates than general population (popsci.com)
154 points by dtagames on May 15, 2019 | 168 comments
28. China’s Rover Reveals Moon’s Hidden Depths (scientificamerican.com)
102 points by ForFreedom on May 16, 2019 | 13 comments
29. The Sunset HTTP Header Field (ietf.org)
159 points by okket on May 16, 2019 | 82 comments
30. U.S. blacklists Huawei (reuters.com)
225 points by fspeech on May 15, 2019 | 192 comments

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