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1. How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas (indiehackers.com)
986 points by ChanningAllen on May 18, 2018 | 143 comments
2. A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign (fivefilters.org)
748 points by yasp on May 19, 2018 | 366 comments
3. How to disappear from the internet (theguardian.com)
389 points by kawera on May 19, 2018 | 130 comments
4. How Judea Pearl Became One of AI's Sharpest Critics (theatlantic.com)
308 points by stevenwoo on May 19, 2018 | 121 comments
5. Devices Which Track Cellphones, Intercept Calls Found All Over DC, MD, VA (nbcwashington.com)
266 points by walterbell on May 19, 2018 | 107 comments
6. A relatively simple Datalog engine (github.com/frankmcsherry)
207 points by dmit on May 19, 2018 | 28 comments
7. Lessons from My Math Degree That Have Nothing to Do with Math (medium.com/s)
268 points by ginnungagap on May 19, 2018 | 87 comments
8. Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation (popupcity.net)
472 points by doener on May 19, 2018 | 279 comments
9. UIs that accidentally preserve memories (metafilter.com)
163 points by mistersquid on May 19, 2018 | 30 comments
10. Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from swapping schools (2017) (medium.com/social-choice)
170 points by m4lvin on May 19, 2018 | 222 comments
11. Inside the 76477 Space Invaders sound effect chip (righto.com)
151 points by reportingsjr on May 19, 2018 | 29 comments
12. The Cult of the Root Cause (reinertsenassociates.com)
180 points by fanf2 on May 19, 2018 | 66 comments
13. Dagoba: an in-memory graph database (2016) (aosabook.org)
133 points by jxub on May 18, 2018 | 12 comments
14. Decisions can be tough when you have chronic pain (futurity.org)
85 points by laurex on May 18, 2018 | 34 comments
15. Counting Bees on a Raspberry Pi with a ConvNet (matpalm.com)
177 points by burningion on May 18, 2018 | 23 comments
16. The Zen of Erlang (2016) (ferd.ca)
236 points by jxub on May 18, 2018 | 23 comments
17. Fridge 0.1 (joeyh.name)
257 points by edward on May 19, 2018 | 70 comments
18. Writing a Portable CPU/GPU Ray Tracer in C# (mellinoe.github.io)
116 points by mellinoe on May 19, 2018 | 22 comments
19. The memory models that underlie programming languages (2016) (canonical.org)
177 points by bshanks on May 18, 2018 | 35 comments
20. Evidence that drinking baking soda can promote an anti-inflammatory environment (augusta.edu)
206 points by pera on May 19, 2018 | 178 comments
21. A Deep Dive into Monte Carlo Tree Search (moderndescartes.com)
150 points by brilee on May 19, 2018 | 6 comments
22. Why it’s so hard to fix banking: An interview with Simple’s exiting CEO (slate.com)
158 points by jseliger on May 19, 2018 | 157 comments
23. Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out (nytimes.com)
139 points by cohaagen on May 19, 2018 | 137 comments
24. Show HN: Vuido builds desktop apps using Vue.js without Electron (vuejs.org)
192 points by rmason on May 18, 2018 | 113 comments
25. Open Source Calculator Teaches Us about Quality Documentation (hackaday.com)
183 points by sohkamyung on May 18, 2018 | 54 comments
26. A Scientist Finds Her Child’s Rare Brain Illness Stems from the Gene She Studies (nytimes.com)
127 points by robg on May 18, 2018 | 18 comments
27. Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as safer bet than Facebook (digiday.com)
145 points by amerine on May 18, 2018 | 80 comments
28. The weirdest bug I’ve found in a compiler: MSVC 2017 (medium.com/ryanhaining)
103 points by ingve on May 18, 2018 | 57 comments
29. New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood” (play0ad.com)
187 points by jonbaer on May 19, 2018 | 24 comments
30. Open-Sourcing our GDPR Compliance Preparation For Articles 30, 32, and 35 (everlaw.com)
161 points by homarp on May 19, 2018 | 69 comments

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