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1. New GNU Emacs website (gnu.org)
547 points by rvern on May 8, 2016 | 229 comments
2. Java Polyfill for the Browser (javapoly.com)
330 points by velmu on May 8, 2016 | 88 comments
3. Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because of Antivirus Scan (softpedia.com)
291 points by akehrer on May 7, 2016 | 204 comments
4. Tesla crash after flying 82 feet in the air shows importance of a crumple zone (electrek.co)
296 points by vinnyglennon on May 7, 2016 | 181 comments
5. FBI Told Cops to Recreate Evidence from Secret Cell-Phone Trackers (theintercept.com)
310 points by nomoba on May 5, 2016 | 69 comments
6. Learning Chess at 40 (nautil.us)
242 points by sergeant3 on May 8, 2016 | 98 comments
7. Arcade Raid – The Duke of Lancaster Ship (arcadeblogger.com)
140 points by kilroy123 on May 8, 2016 | 20 comments
8. We discovered our parents were Russian spies (theguardian.com)
208 points by nkurz on May 7, 2016 | 54 comments
9. Giant bags of mostly water: Securing your IT infrastructure (slides.com)
263 points by rdl on May 8, 2016 | 116 comments
10. Code Page 437 Refuses to Die (horstmann.com)
197 points by ingve on May 8, 2016 | 89 comments
11. Number plate recognition with Tensorflow (matthewearl.github.io)
238 points by pizza on May 8, 2016 | 43 comments
12. Show HN: Phone verification at no cost (github.com/natsu90)
147 points by natsu90 on May 8, 2016 | 62 comments
13. Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for (marco.org)
261 points by jsm386 on May 8, 2016 | 68 comments
14. Mathematical Intuition Behind Bezier Curves (buildingvts.com)
139 points by farashh on May 8, 2016 | 19 comments
15. Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, the New, the Missing [pdf] (columbia.edu)
113 points by ryancox on May 8, 2016 | 51 comments
16. Analyzing 10,000 Show HN Submissions (antontarasenko.github.io)
96 points by anton_tarasenko on May 8, 2016 | 14 comments
17. Ketamine and Depression: A Breakthrough? (discovermagazine.com)
86 points by DiabloD3 on May 7, 2016 | 55 comments
18. Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software (arfon.org)
126 points by simoncoggins on May 6, 2016 | 17 comments
19. Where Can a Ph.D. Take You? Back to School, Usually (nytimes.com)
103 points by simonorlovsky on May 8, 2016 | 116 comments
20. What Happened When Facebook Hired Some Journalists (gizmodo.com)
102 points by hollaur on May 8, 2016 | 99 comments
21. A Fast Lightweight Time-Series Store for IoT Data (arxiv.org)
97 points by rch on May 8, 2016 | 30 comments
22. Lyft and Uber to Halt Operations in Austin After Voters Reject Proposal (buzzfeed.com)
118 points by danso on May 8, 2016 | 191 comments
23. Estonia's e-Residency Program (vice.com)
126 points by jkaljundi on May 8, 2016 | 41 comments
24. Deadlines, delays, and departures dog Tesla Model 3 (arstechnica.com)
46 points by jzwinck on May 8, 2016 | 34 comments
25. [flagged] New worm can propagate between power-plant controllers without a host PC (theregister.co.uk)
56 points by DyslexicAtheist on May 8, 2016 | 10 comments
26. A bit of background on compilers exploiting signed overflow (gist.github.com)
104 points by ingve on May 8, 2016 | 49 comments
27. Mpemba effect: warmer water can freeze faster than colder water (wikipedia.org)
91 points by akircher on May 8, 2016 | 38 comments
28. IBM is making a quantum computer available for anyone to play with (economist.com)
58 points by cawel on May 8, 2016 | 10 comments
29. How the Jeans Capital of the World Moved from Texas to China (atlasobscura.com)
55 points by okfine on May 8, 2016 | 74 comments
30. Cost cutting at Dropbox and Silicon Valley startups (businessinsider.com)
102 points by jboydyhacker on May 8, 2016 | 88 comments

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