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1. The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written (quora.com)
1493 points by graposaymaname on May 18, 2018 | 481 comments
2. An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression (novaspivack.com)
626 points by airesearcher on May 18, 2018 | 179 comments
3. Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles (kb.se)
784 points by rreichman on May 18, 2018 | 116 comments
4. Solving dynamic programming interview problems (refdash.com)
461 points by otasevic on May 18, 2018 | 164 comments
5. Introducing Git protocol version 2 (googleblog.com)
547 points by robmaceachern on May 18, 2018 | 163 comments
6. Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story (facebook.com)
455 points by tzhenghao on May 18, 2018 | 272 comments
7. Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard (whiteboardfree.com)
396 points by vbordo on May 18, 2018 | 349 comments
8. Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy Disk System (paleotronic.com)
336 points by empressplay on May 18, 2018 | 70 comments
9. GDPR: Don't Panic (jacquesmattheij.com)
863 points by grabeh on May 18, 2018 | 800 comments
10. Epigenetics: The Evolution Revolution (nybooks.com)
115 points by techrede on May 18, 2018 | 32 comments
11. $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts (adsensepublishersettlement.com)
181 points by smartician on May 18, 2018 | 127 comments
12. Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale (improbable.io)
177 points by henridf on May 18, 2018 | 55 comments
13. Binary SMS – The old backdoor to your new thing (contextis.com)
213 points by wolframio on May 17, 2018 | 37 comments
14. Pie Menus: A 30-Year Retrospective: Take a Look and Feel Free (medium.com/donhopkins)
130 points by DonHopkins on May 18, 2018 | 49 comments
15. How NASA’s Mission to Pluto Was Nearly Lost (nautil.us)
101 points by dnetesn on May 18, 2018 | 21 comments
16. On Competing with C Using Haskell (2017) (two-wrongs.com)
101 points by signa11 on May 18, 2018 | 23 comments
17. Making Radio Chips for Hell (ieee.org)
94 points by rbanffy on May 18, 2018 | 28 comments
18. Rust Qt Binding Generator (github.com/kde)
206 points by vbsteven on May 18, 2018 | 42 comments
19. Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes (quantamagazine.org)
227 points by bainsfather on May 18, 2018 | 59 comments
20. EC2 Instance Update – C5 Instances with Local NVMe Storage (amazon.com)
108 points by jeffbarr on May 18, 2018 | 62 comments
21. Proxy, a new JavaScript ES6 feature (atyantik.com)
199 points by tirthbodawala on May 18, 2018 | 90 comments
22. Signalling System No 7 (wikipedia.org)
64 points by godelmachine on May 18, 2018 | 17 comments
23. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research (jstor.org)
178 points by DmenshunlAnlsis on May 18, 2018 | 67 comments
24. What the History of Math Can Teach Us About the Future of AI (scientificamerican.com)
81 points by jkuria on May 17, 2018 | 37 comments
25. Semantic Compression (caseymuratori.com)
88 points by rinesh on May 17, 2018 | 41 comments
26. Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years (boingboing.net)
253 points by stablemap on May 18, 2018 | 124 comments
27. People crave silence, yet are unnerved by it (economist.com)
113 points by tintinnabula on May 18, 2018 | 70 comments
28. Show HN: Simple and comprehensive tutorials in Deep Learning using TensorFlow (github.com/easy-tensorflow)
157 points by irsina on May 18, 2018 | 6 comments
29. New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines (nytimes.com)
95 points by petethomas on May 17, 2018 | 109 comments
30. The popular creation story of astronomy is wrong (nautil.us)
110 points by dustfinger on May 18, 2018 | 71 comments

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