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1.
How to Sleep (theatlantic.com)
649 points by ALee on May 28, 2017 | 265 comments
2.
Why do so few people major in computer science? (danwang.co)
424 points by dmnd on May 29, 2017 | 599 comments
3.
Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor (pipes.digital)
280 points by onli on May 29, 2017 | 126 comments
4.
Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell (github.com/aviaviavi)
239 points by aviaviavi on May 29, 2017 | 71 comments
5.
Extracting Chinese Hard Subs from a Video, Part 1 (kerrickstaley.com)
216 points by KerrickStaley on May 29, 2017 | 64 comments
6.
Unicode is hard (shkspr.mobi)
337 points by edent on May 29, 2017 | 194 comments
7.
Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
685 points by 1ba9115454 on May 29, 2017 | 308 comments
8.
Coffee from California (nytimes.com)
200 points by hvo on May 29, 2017 | 157 comments
9.
Hub: Wraps Git with extra features that make working with GitHub easier (github.com/github)
98 points by loppers92 on May 27, 2017 | 49 comments
10.
Hacking Go's type system (katcipis.github.io)
156 points by katcipis on May 28, 2017 | 4 comments
11.
In Memoriam: Jean E. Sammet 1928-2017 (acm.org)
131 points by sohkamyung on May 29, 2017 | 12 comments
12.
“They Basically Reset My Brain” (theplayerstribune.com)
424 points by aburan28 on May 28, 2017 | 140 comments
13.
Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces? (medium.com/yolpogists)
405 points by lorenzosnap on May 29, 2017 | 98 comments
14.
Green Threads Explained (c9x.me)
195 points by terminalcommand on May 29, 2017 | 47 comments
15.
Show HN: Stretch – Free limousine rides (stretchcorp.com)
168 points by drpancake on May 28, 2017 | 42 comments
16.
Jailbreaking Super Mario World to Install a Hex Editor and Mod Loader [video] (youtube.com)
185 points by ChazDazzle on May 29, 2017 | 13 comments
17.
Acquisitions accelerate as tech giants seek to build AI smarts (reuters.com)
100 points by t23 on May 28, 2017 | 79 comments
18.
The challenge of decentralized marketplaces (arxiv.org)
69 points by lainon on May 28, 2017 | 7 comments
19.
An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems (acolyer.org)
105 points by mpweiher on May 29, 2017 | 16 comments
20.
Fifty Years of Minimalism (2015) (moredarkthanshark.org)
72 points by howsilly on May 29, 2017 | 11 comments
21.
The scourge of web analytics (stavros.io)
160 points by stavros on May 29, 2017 | 79 comments
22.
Ask HN: Ex-Founder. Should I take lowball buyout offer?
152 points by throwaway21121 on May 29, 2017 | 158 comments
23.
Mathematics of shuffling by smooshing (quantamagazine.org)
75 points by cjg on May 29, 2017 | 20 comments
24.
Two Different Approaches to Saving Bees (npr.org)
79 points by lettersdigits on May 29, 2017 | 32 comments
25.
Voronoi Tessellations (datagenetics.com)
158 points by sebg on May 28, 2017 | 29 comments
26.
Exploring DynamIQ and ARM’s New CPUs: Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55 (anandtech.com)
67 points by msh on May 29, 2017 | 22 comments
27.
An 1874 Type Catalog (collectorsweekly.com)
81 points by whocansay on May 29, 2017 | 13 comments
28.
Ask HN: Why isn't Prolog more popular?
181 points by miguelrochefort on May 29, 2017 | 184 comments
29.
Writing a Unix Shell (indradhanush.github.io)
193 points by luu on May 29, 2017 | 57 comments
30.
China has become a major player in AI (nytimes.com)
148 points by gk1 on May 29, 2017 | 90 comments

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