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1. WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones (ft.com)
939 points by EwanToo on May 13, 2019 | 283 comments
2. How I Run a Company with ADHD (andrewaskins.com)
784 points by askins4trouble on May 12, 2019 | 495 comments
3. Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets (cjr.org)
455 points by hhs on May 13, 2019 | 383 comments
4. Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed (wired.com)
448 points by CWSZ on May 13, 2019 | 342 comments
5. Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
927 points by nathanasmith on May 13, 2019 | 401 comments
6. Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs (reuters.com)
450 points by Vaslo on May 13, 2019 | 485 comments
7. 3D Game Shaders for Beginners (github.com/lettier)
391 points by lettier on May 12, 2019 | 44 comments
8. Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites (stackoverflow.com)
384 points by Thorondor on May 13, 2019 | 49 comments
9. U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly (bloomberg.com)
441 points by NoRagrets on May 13, 2019 | 335 comments
10. To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017) (netlify.com)
290 points by gk1 on May 13, 2019 | 99 comments
11. California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roundup cancer trial (reuters.com)
253 points by mi100hael on May 13, 2019 | 267 comments
12. The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill (citylab.com)
105 points by tshannon on May 13, 2019 | 133 comments
13. Crimes in Concrete (firstthings.com)
105 points by overwhelm on May 13, 2019 | 127 comments
14. CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history (techcrunch.com)
500 points by wang42 on May 13, 2019 | 533 comments
15. A Mechanised Cryptographic Proof of the WireGuard VPN Protocol (inria.fr)
200 points by colinprince on May 13, 2019 | 44 comments
16. Lenovo launches HoloLens competitor (engadget.com)
124 points by yodon on May 13, 2019 | 65 comments
17. The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ (spiked-online.com)
85 points by everbody on May 13, 2019 | 67 comments
18. The Neko Virtual Machine (nekovm.org)
131 points by azhenley on May 13, 2019 | 28 comments
19. Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa (theguardian.com)
127 points by curtis on May 13, 2019 | 36 comments
20. Show HN: PiShot – capture high-speed strobe images using a Raspberry Pi camera (github.com/revalo)
124 points by revalo on May 13, 2019 | 30 comments
21. Ask HN: Which books teach mental models?
473 points by wintercarver on May 12, 2019 | 92 comments
22. Derive Yourself a Kalman Filter (ngr.yt)
127 points by NougatRillettes on May 12, 2019 | 55 comments
23. Sued for copyright infringement for putting legal materials online (nytimes.com)
359 points by pseudolus on May 13, 2019 | 178 comments
24. Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups, with code examples (medium.com/1522933668924)
151 points by walterbell on May 11, 2019 | 33 comments
25. A horrifying globalThis polyfill in JavaScript (mathiasbynens.be)
154 points by fagnerbrack on May 12, 2019 | 73 comments
26. How to Join a Social Network in 1998 (ironicsans.com)
124 points by Doubleguitars on May 13, 2019 | 28 comments
27. A Spoon That Shakes to Counteract Hand Tremors (2014) (npr.org)
92 points by gballan on May 12, 2019 | 14 comments
28. The Origin of ‘Script Kiddie’ (liveoverflow.com)
152 points by LiveOverflow on May 12, 2019 | 62 comments
29. China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia (torproject.org)
432 points by JayXon on May 13, 2019 | 146 comments
30. Debugging in Vim (dannyadam.com)
152 points by dstein64 on May 13, 2019 | 38 comments

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