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1.		New GNU Emacs website (gnu.org)
		547 points by rvern on May 8, 2016 \| 229 comments
2.		Java Polyfill for the Browser (javapoly.com)
		330 points by velmu on May 8, 2016 \| 88 comments
3.		Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because of Antivirus Scan (softpedia.com)
		291 points by akehrer on May 7, 2016 \| 204 comments
4.		Tesla crash after flying 82 feet in the air shows importance of a crumple zone (electrek.co)
		296 points by vinnyglennon on May 7, 2016 \| 181 comments
5.		FBI Told Cops to Recreate Evidence from Secret Cell-Phone Trackers (theintercept.com)
		310 points by nomoba on May 5, 2016 \| 69 comments
6.		Learning Chess at 40 (nautil.us)
		242 points by sergeant3 on May 8, 2016 \| 98 comments
7.		Arcade Raid – The Duke of Lancaster Ship (arcadeblogger.com)
		140 points by kilroy123 on May 8, 2016 \| 20 comments
8.		We discovered our parents were Russian spies (theguardian.com)
		208 points by nkurz on May 7, 2016 \| 54 comments
9.		Giant bags of mostly water: Securing your IT infrastructure (slides.com)
		263 points by rdl on May 8, 2016 \| 116 comments
10.		Code Page 437 Refuses to Die (horstmann.com)
		197 points by ingve on May 8, 2016 \| 89 comments
11.		Number plate recognition with Tensorflow (matthewearl.github.io)
		238 points by pizza on May 8, 2016 \| 43 comments
12.		Show HN: Phone verification at no cost (github.com/natsu90)
		147 points by natsu90 on May 8, 2016 \| 62 comments
13.		Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for (marco.org)
		261 points by jsm386 on May 8, 2016 \| 68 comments
14.		Mathematical Intuition Behind Bezier Curves (buildingvts.com)
		139 points by farashh on May 8, 2016 \| 19 comments
15.		Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, the New, the Missing [pdf] (columbia.edu)
		113 points by ryancox on May 8, 2016 \| 51 comments
16.		Analyzing 10,000 Show HN Submissions (antontarasenko.github.io)
		96 points by anton_tarasenko on May 8, 2016 \| 14 comments
17.		Ketamine and Depression: A Breakthrough? (discovermagazine.com)
		86 points by DiabloD3 on May 7, 2016 \| 55 comments
18.		Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software (arfon.org)
		126 points by simoncoggins on May 6, 2016 \| 17 comments
19.		Where Can a Ph.D. Take You? Back to School, Usually (nytimes.com)
		103 points by simonorlovsky on May 8, 2016 \| 116 comments
20.		What Happened When Facebook Hired Some Journalists (gizmodo.com)
		102 points by hollaur on May 8, 2016 \| 99 comments
21.		A Fast Lightweight Time-Series Store for IoT Data (arxiv.org)
		97 points by rch on May 8, 2016 \| 30 comments
22.		Lyft and Uber to Halt Operations in Austin After Voters Reject Proposal (buzzfeed.com)
		118 points by danso on May 8, 2016 \| 191 comments
23.		Estonia's e-Residency Program (vice.com)
		126 points by jkaljundi on May 8, 2016 \| 41 comments
24.		Deadlines, delays, and departures dog Tesla Model 3 (arstechnica.com)
		46 points by jzwinck on May 8, 2016 \| 34 comments
25.		[flagged] New worm can propagate between power-plant controllers without a host PC (theregister.co.uk)
		56 points by DyslexicAtheist on May 8, 2016 \| 10 comments
26.		A bit of background on compilers exploiting signed overflow (gist.github.com)
		104 points by ingve on May 8, 2016 \| 49 comments
27.		Mpemba effect: warmer water can freeze faster than colder water (wikipedia.org)
		91 points by akircher on May 8, 2016 \| 38 comments
28.		IBM is making a quantum computer available for anyone to play with (economist.com)
		58 points by cawel on May 8, 2016 \| 10 comments
29.		How the Jeans Capital of the World Moved from Texas to China (atlasobscura.com)
		55 points by okfine on May 8, 2016 \| 74 comments
30.		Cost cutting at Dropbox and Silicon Valley startups (businessinsider.com)
		102 points by jboydyhacker on May 8, 2016 \| 88 comments
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