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1. Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building (derrickreimer.com)
494 points by rwalling on May 17, 2019 | 215 comments
2. The struggles of an open source maintainer (antirez.com)
719 points by ngaut on May 17, 2019 | 216 comments
3. Guide to Deep Work (doist.com)
418 points by pointnova on May 17, 2019 | 65 comments
4. Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter (github.com/python)
407 points by collinmanderson on May 17, 2019 | 244 comments
5. Game Engine Black Books Update (fabiensanglard.net)
436 points by _bxg1 on May 17, 2019 | 68 comments
6. Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray (reuters.com)
245 points by jeremiahlee on May 17, 2019 | 165 comments
7. New Game: Minecraft Earth (minecraft.net)
441 points by eDameXxX on May 17, 2019 | 227 comments
8. Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete (cnbc.com)
402 points by coloneltcb on May 17, 2019 | 221 comments
9. Amazon Jumps into Freight Brokerage (ttnews.com)
201 points by turtlegrids on May 17, 2019 | 117 comments
10. Can we all stop using Medium now? (webdistortion.com)
925 points by squiggy22 on May 16, 2019 | 327 comments
11. Peermaps (peermaps.org)
149 points by bpierre on May 16, 2019 | 19 comments
12. Update to Security Incident (stackoverflow.blog)
235 points by rahuldottech on May 17, 2019 | 44 comments
13. Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms (nytimes.com)
469 points by ingve on May 17, 2019 | 444 comments
14. Get Your Book, Make It Free (realtimerendering.com)
356 points by arunc on May 17, 2019 | 130 comments
15. Firms That Promised Ransomware Decryption Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers (propublica.org)
397 points by jkao-propublica on May 15, 2019 | 137 comments
16. Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools (hacks.mozilla.org)
320 points by edmorley on May 16, 2019 | 72 comments
17. A new documentary on the downfall of General Magic (hyperallergic.com)
125 points by pseudolus on May 17, 2019 | 70 comments
18. Security Update (stackoverflow.blog)
292 points by taspeotis on May 17, 2019 | 200 comments
19. Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning (ocw.mit.edu)
306 points by ericol on May 16, 2019 | 21 comments
20. Genomics – A programmer’s guide (gist.github.com)
274 points by andy-thomason on May 17, 2019 | 51 comments
21. Matrices as Tensor Network Diagrams (math3ma.com)
225 points by _Microft on May 17, 2019 | 33 comments
22. As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern (quantamagazine.org)
184 points by pseudolus on May 17, 2019 | 131 comments
23. An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is no longer the standard kilogram (news.mit.edu)
202 points by WalterSobchak on May 17, 2019 | 143 comments
24. Spina bifida: Keyhole surgery repairs baby spine in womb (bbc.co.uk)
127 points by bauc on May 17, 2019 | 53 comments
25. Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK beaches: study (theguardian.com)
256 points by cfarm on May 15, 2019 | 196 comments
26. Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider (twitter.com/waxzce)
332 points by samber on May 17, 2019 | 178 comments
27. Tracking logo found in Navy email to Navy Times amid leak investigation (militarytimes.com)
103 points by Jerry2 on May 17, 2019 | 137 comments
28. Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed (thedrive.com)
358 points by ryanmarsh on May 17, 2019 | 235 comments
29. Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model (googleblog.com)
121 points by bkudria on May 17, 2019 | 39 comments
30. Unwind: A privilege-separated DNS recursive nameserver for every laptop [pdf] (openbsd.org)
76 points by Jonhoo on May 17, 2019 | 6 comments

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