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1. US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data (zdnet.com)
1630 points by voctor on May 16, 2018 | 625 comments
2. How a domain registrar can kill your business (uptimechecker.io)
633 points by richeyrw on May 16, 2018 | 274 comments
3. What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M (ghost.org)
645 points by saturdayplace on May 16, 2018 | 173 comments
4. Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality (theverge.com)
754 points by kposehn on May 16, 2018 | 228 comments
5. Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems (acm.org)
572 points by matt_d on May 16, 2018 | 50 comments
6. A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers (github.com/isomorphic-git)
381 points by axiomdata316 on May 16, 2018 | 190 comments
7. AI and Compute (blog.openai.com)
347 points by gdb on May 16, 2018 | 130 comments
8. Tarballs, the ultimate container image format (gnu.org)
342 points by severus_snape on May 16, 2018 | 191 comments
9. Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5 (curious-expedition.com)
458 points by riadd on May 16, 2018 | 141 comments
10. I Got Catfished by a Candidate (saastr.com)
414 points by imartin2k on May 15, 2018 | 634 comments
11. The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) (vitavonni.de)
558 points by xg15 on May 16, 2018 | 426 comments
12. Statistics, Fast and Slow (timharford.com)
265 points by khc on May 16, 2018 | 40 comments
13. HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud (howeycoins.com)
419 points by ChrisArchitect on May 16, 2018 | 130 comments
14. The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now (nytimes.com)
447 points by jds375 on May 16, 2018 | 241 comments
15. Salesforce CEO Benioff calls for national privacy law (salesforce.com)
318 points by jeffthechimp on May 16, 2018 | 155 comments
16. Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings (github.com/jparise)
273 points by falcon620 on May 16, 2018 | 208 comments
17. Verizon AS701 blocking Tor consensus server tor26 (86.59.21.38) (torproject.org)
169 points by neelc on May 16, 2018 | 22 comments
18. A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (2017) (bloomberg.com)
147 points by dmmalam on May 16, 2018 | 104 comments
19. ClassicKit – A collection of UI components for iOS influenced by Windows 95 (github.com/baddaboo)
236 points by prithvi24 on May 16, 2018 | 58 comments
20. A world hidden 30m below Budapest (bbc.com)
137 points by MiriamWeiner on May 15, 2018 | 8 comments
21. The Language of the Roman Empire (historytoday.com)
186 points by diodorus on May 15, 2018 | 114 comments
22. 2FA Notifier – Know when a site supports 2FA (2fanotifier.org)
74 points by dceddia on May 16, 2018 | 47 comments
23. The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day (twitter.com/fermatslibrary)
361 points by slbenfica on May 16, 2018 | 189 comments
24. The myth of ‘mad’ genius (aeon.co)
107 points by baddash on May 16, 2018 | 69 comments
25. The Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (cybok.org)
89 points by MrEliasen on May 15, 2018 | 18 comments
26. Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte (lemire.me)
139 points by ingve on May 16, 2018 | 69 comments
27. JavaScript is Good, Actually (ashfurrow.com)
345 points by skellertor on May 16, 2018 | 358 comments
28. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory issues “Red” aviation warning relating to Kīlauea (usgs.gov)
83 points by lunchbreak on May 16, 2018 | 56 comments
29. Chrome updated to temporarily remove the autoplay policy for the Web Audio API (chromium.org)
99 points by bjornstar on May 16, 2018 | 73 comments
30. Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled from Go (npmjs.com)
89 points by mvdan on May 16, 2018 | 69 comments

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