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1. Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown (reddit.com)
1276 points by mastazi on May 23, 2019 | 325 comments
2. The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013) (plover.com)
732 points by luu on May 24, 2019 | 296 comments
3. H.264 is magic (2016) (sidbala.com)
680 points by dpeck on May 24, 2019 | 180 comments
4. First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records (krebsonsecurity.com)
418 points by PatrolX on May 24, 2019 | 164 comments
5. Making a Game Boy Game in 2017 (gamasutra.com)
366 points by tosh on May 24, 2019 | 82 comments
6. OKRs from a development team’s perspective (zafulabs.com)
317 points by thinksocrates on May 24, 2019 | 120 comments
7. Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? (os2museum.com)
271 points by Narishma on May 24, 2019 | 204 comments
8. Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker (theregister.co.uk)
235 points by lxm on May 24, 2019 | 99 comments
9. Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever (sciencemag.org)
112 points by Fifth_Star on May 24, 2019 | 35 comments
10. Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system (starlink.com)
533 points by mulcahey on May 24, 2019 | 359 comments
11. Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder (hacks.mozilla.org)
335 points by clouddrover on May 24, 2019 | 63 comments
12. Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow (twitter.com/jennifer__brett)
371 points by danso on May 24, 2019 | 141 comments
13. What Happened to 'Miegakure,' the Game That Promised the 4th Dimension? (2018) (vice.com)
177 points by zeristor on May 24, 2019 | 85 comments
14. What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0? (plover.com)
194 points by korethr on May 24, 2019 | 101 comments
15. Prospecting for gold by looking in leaves has proven itself in Australia (economist.com)
75 points by pseudolus on May 23, 2019 | 45 comments
16. 5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Damascus (github.com/eloraiby)
157 points by sanjayts on May 24, 2019 | 67 comments
17. Algorithm Solves Graph Isomorphism in Record Time (2015) (quantamagazine.org)
212 points by howard941 on May 24, 2019 | 72 comments
18. The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android (onezero.medium.com)
322 points by samrohn on May 24, 2019 | 343 comments
19. Belly.io – Curated List of Programming Coding Streamers (belly.io)
234 points by NickBusey on May 24, 2019 | 45 comments
20. BioRender – Professional Science Figures (biorender.com)
185 points by Schiphol on May 24, 2019 | 75 comments
21. Robinhood Is Set to Raise at Least $200 Million in New Funding (bloomberg.com)
153 points by jason_zig on May 24, 2019 | 182 comments
22. The geometry of an electron determined for the first time (unibas.ch)
154 points by furcyd on May 24, 2019 | 31 comments
23. Superconductivity near room temperature (nature.com)
164 points by Elof on May 22, 2019 | 69 comments
24. How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits (scirate.com)
174 points by vtomole on May 24, 2019 | 67 comments
25. Grafana v6.2 (grafana.com)
176 points by el_duderino on May 24, 2019 | 40 comments
26. Tonedeaf at the Top (utexas.edu)
82 points by whack on May 23, 2019 | 29 comments
27. MDMA as a Probe and Treatment for Social Behaviors (2016) (cell.com)
91 points by bookofjoe on May 22, 2019 | 55 comments
28. America is turning against facial-recognition software (economist.com)
269 points by pseudolus on May 24, 2019 | 143 comments
29. Plankton Haven’t Been the Same Since the Industrial Revolution (smithsonianmag.com)
92 points by pseudolus on May 24, 2019 | 12 comments
30. VR is opening up new ways to experience art (androidpit.com)
72 points by praveenscience on May 24, 2019 | 61 comments

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