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1.
Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store (linuxuprising.com)
342 points by dafran on May 12, 2018 | 220 comments
2.
Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (2015) (telegraph.co.uk)
282 points by montrose on May 12, 2018 | 132 comments
3.
Why the Luddites Matter (librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com)
261 points by imartin2k on May 12, 2018 | 128 comments
4.
Reviving Smalltalk-78 (2014) [pdf] (freudenbergs.de)
155 points by pmarin on May 12, 2018 | 21 comments
5.
The Sound of Madness (harpers.org)
106 points by fmihaila on May 11, 2018 | 53 comments
6.
Mozilla Fights for Net Neutrality This May (and Always) (blog.mozilla.org)
223 points by DiabloD3 on May 11, 2018 | 175 comments
7.
Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs (discoverdev.io)
423 points by deepakkarki on May 12, 2018 | 44 comments
8.
On Cumulative Advantage and How to Think About Luck (ofdollarsanddata.com)
248 points by imartin2k on May 11, 2018 | 137 comments
9.
Passive Wi-Fi: Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions (usenix.org)
136 points by godelmachine on May 12, 2018 | 29 comments
10.
Leveraging the type system to avoid mistakes (beyondthelines.net)
167 points by m1245 on May 12, 2018 | 116 comments
11.
Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless (thepointmag.com)
119 points by lermontov on May 9, 2018 | 27 comments
12.
Batch editing files with ed (jvns.ca)
151 points by weinzierl on May 12, 2018 | 72 comments
13.
Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight (bbc.com)
235 points by mtuncer on May 12, 2018 | 124 comments
14.
Why soap bubbles are colourful and windowpanes are not (gist.github.com)
118 points by yomritoyj on May 12, 2018 | 44 comments
15.
Bryan Caplan on Learning Across Disciplines (medium.com/conversations-with-tyler)
82 points by pepys on May 11, 2018 | 4 comments
16.
Is K8s Too Complicated?  (jmoiron.net)
265 points by signa11 on May 12, 2018 | 166 comments
17.
Building GCC as a Cross Compiler for Raspberry Pi (solarianprogrammer.com)
99 points by AlexeyBrin on May 12, 2018 | 53 comments
18.
Its Reputation and Its Odor Precede It (2003) (nytimes.com)
35 points by danielam on May 11, 2018 | 4 comments
19.
Grid-Cell Like Deep Layers in Navigation AI (nature.com)
77 points by SubiculumCode on May 12, 2018 | 28 comments
20.
How Posture Makes Us Human (nautil.us)
82 points by dnetesn on May 12, 2018 | 41 comments
21.
Man donated blood every week for 60 years and helped save 2.4M babies (independent.co.uk)
277 points by pmoriarty on May 12, 2018 | 94 comments
22.
Children of the Opioid Epidemic (nytimes.com)
66 points by dsr12 on May 12, 2018 | 42 comments
23.
Apple faces class action lawsuit over failing MacBook butterfly keyboards (9to5mac.com)
322 points by craigc on May 12, 2018 | 268 comments
24.
Math problems that challenge the world (hpe.com)
98 points by ohjeez on May 11, 2018 | 19 comments
25.
A static binary rewriter that does not use heuristics (github.com/utds3lab)
56 points by adulau on May 12, 2018 | 15 comments
26.
The Silent Type: On Ulysses S. Grant (nybooks.com)
49 points by samclemens on May 11, 2018 | 4 comments
27.
The recipes for solar system formation are getting a rewrite (sciencenews.org)
37 points by DmenshunlAnlsis on May 12, 2018
28.
Paul Simon vs. the World (theringer.com)
62 points by tintinnabula on May 11, 2018 | 36 comments
29.
Chip 2.0: High Level C to Verilog with Python Bindings (github.com/dawsonjon)
63 points by Immortalin on May 11, 2018 | 27 comments
30.
The financial cost of not knowing things (medium.com/andyferris)
101 points by andyferris on May 12, 2018 | 30 comments

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