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1.		82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding (aarp.org)
		709 points by joering2 on May 21, 2018 \| 214 comments
2.		PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements (pgdash.io)
		361 points by craigkerstiens on May 21, 2018 \| 55 comments
3.		The Power of Prolog (metalevel.at)
		480 points by tosh on May 21, 2018 \| 158 comments
4.		Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers (rus.ec)
		502 points by jacquesm on May 20, 2018 \| 255 comments
5.		Go vgo: Semantic Versioning and Human Error (codeengineered.com)
		131 points by aleksi on May 21, 2018 \| 68 comments
6.		Meta Crush Saga: a C++17 compile-time game (jguegant.github.io)
		172 points by ingve on May 20, 2018 \| 47 comments
7.		The Complete History of Lemmings (2006) (javalemmings.com)
		189 points by tosh on May 20, 2018 \| 39 comments
8.		Japan's secret spy agency (theintercept.com)
		312 points by tjomk on May 21, 2018 \| 90 comments
9.		Playing battleships over BGP (benjojo.co.uk)
		352 points by benjojo12 on May 21, 2018 \| 37 comments
10.		Opa – An open-source, general-purpose policy engine (github.com/open-policy-agent)
		157 points by tosh on May 21, 2018 \| 39 comments
11.		Tearing apart printf() (maizure.org)
		231 points by necrodome on May 20, 2018 \| 42 comments
12.		How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (2015) (bzarg.com)
		390 points by sytelus on May 21, 2018 \| 34 comments
13.		A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture (wired.com)
		213 points by simulate on May 21, 2018 \| 111 comments
14.		Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy (phillytrib.com)
		219 points by thomas on May 21, 2018 \| 194 comments
15.		Speculative execution, variant 4: speculative store bypass (chromium.org)
		184 points by brandon on May 21, 2018 \| 21 comments
16.		Getting Google to ban our entire company (reddit.com)
		538 points by highace on May 21, 2018 \| 336 comments
17.		Apps for which macOS applies compatibillity fixes (worthdoingbadly.com)
		256 points by ebcase on May 21, 2018 \| 125 comments
18.		Doug Engelbart's advice to a young software developer [video] (youtube.com)
		183 points by DonHopkins on May 21, 2018 \| 39 comments
19.		Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups (theverge.com)
		325 points by DmenshunlAnlsis on May 21, 2018 \| 171 comments
20.		Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent (ropnop.com)
		148 points by vuln on May 21, 2018 \| 63 comments
21.		How Britain’s First Mission to China Went Wrong (chinachannel.org)
		90 points by lermontov on May 21, 2018 \| 44 comments
22.		One-Of-a-Kind Private Train Takes on Florida’s Traffic Nightmare (bloomberg.com)
		197 points by jseliger on May 21, 2018 \| 274 comments
23.		Medieval trade networks (imgur.com)
		220 points by benbreen on May 20, 2018 \| 65 comments
24.		Growing up with AI (medium.com/mit-media-lab)
		130 points by kawera on May 21, 2018 \| 33 comments
25.		How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015) (lwn.net)
		129 points by ingve on May 20, 2018 \| 7 comments
26.		CBS “60 Minutes” piece on Google’s abuse of dominance (yelpblog.com)
		321 points by ericzawo on May 21, 2018 \| 179 comments
27.		Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance (wired.co.uk)
		208 points by justaguyhere on May 21, 2018 \| 59 comments
28.		Mandaeism (wikipedia.org)
		83 points by mr_golyadkin on May 21, 2018 \| 41 comments
29.		What Sucks About Erlang (2008) (damienkatz.net)
		145 points by jxub on May 20, 2018 \| 103 comments
30.		Boeing's folding wingtips get the FAA green light (engadget.com)
		106 points by mpweiher on May 21, 2018 \| 125 comments
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