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1.		Did I just win? (twitter.com/sc00bzt)
		950 points by davidtgoldblatt on May 13, 2016 \| 129 comments
2.		Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area (mercurynews.com)
		494 points by akg_67 on May 12, 2016 \| 342 comments
3.		A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant (washingtonpost.com)
		382 points by dlgeek on May 13, 2016 \| 115 comments
4.		That'll do, pig, that'll do (medium.com/oscargodson)
		409 points by exolymph on May 13, 2016 \| 203 comments
5.		Artem vs. Predator (ribbonfarm.com)
		651 points by sharpn on May 12, 2016 \| 67 comments
6.		Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes (thewirecutter.com)
		335 points by Osiris30 on May 13, 2016 \| 228 comments
7.		Giving up on Julia (zverovich.net)
		265 points by ingve on May 13, 2016 \| 230 comments
8.		Investigating Erlang by reading its system calls (jvns.ca)
		159 points by ingve on May 13, 2016 \| 39 comments
9.		AWS IoT Button (amazon.com)
		285 points by vasinov on May 12, 2016 \| 137 comments
10.		Taking Rust everywhere with rustup (rust-lang.org)
		259 points by steveklabnik on May 13, 2016 \| 87 comments
11.		Apple invests $1B in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing (reuters.com)
		300 points by ssclafani on May 13, 2016 \| 126 comments
12.		New Sublime Text update (sublimetext.com)
		338 points by pyed on May 13, 2016 \| 229 comments
13.		Data Brewery – Python Framework for Data Processing (databrewery.org)
		96 points by dedalus on May 13, 2016 \| 11 comments
14.		State of Starfighter (starfighters.io)
		179 points by gk1 on May 13, 2016 \| 129 comments
15.		Engineer and Investor in Spat About Wireless Charging Startup UBeam (ieee.org)
		160 points by w1ntermute on May 13, 2016 \| 105 comments
16.		CO2 emissions from electricity generation in 2015 were lowest since 1993 (eia.gov)
		113 points by Osiris30 on May 13, 2016 \| 47 comments
17.		Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer (the-paper-trail.org)
		265 points by shakkhar on May 13, 2016 \| 23 comments
18.		LispY C (github.com/eratosthenesia)
		184 points by signa11 on May 12, 2016 \| 44 comments
19.		Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction [video] (msdn.com)
		191 points by ingve on May 12, 2016 \| 40 comments
20.		Another Study Finds Link Between Pharma Money and Brand-name Prescribing (propublica.org)
		85 points by acsillag on May 13, 2016 \| 10 comments
21.		Who Pays Writers? (whopayswriters.com)
		240 points by duck on May 13, 2016 \| 93 comments
22.		SyntaxNet in Context: Understanding Google's New TensorFlow NLP Model (spacy.io)
		183 points by syllogism on May 13, 2016 \| 32 comments
23.		New details about planet 2007 OR10, third largest dwarf planet in solar system (gizmodo.com)
		67 points by curtis on May 13, 2016 \| 39 comments
24.		We Don’t Need More Blood Tests (fivethirtyeight.com)
		110 points by fisherjeff on May 13, 2016 \| 96 comments
25.		“Ancient Mayan city” discovered by teen may in fact be cannabis crop (bbc.com)
		115 points by markhellewell on May 13, 2016 \| 42 comments
26.		Not a Hacker or a Hipster – How I Got My First Startup Job (medium.com/tech-london)
		109 points by elemeno on May 12, 2016 \| 58 comments
27.		HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low (anandtech.com)
		84 points by jseliger on May 12, 2016 \| 84 comments
28.		Here's to the systems programmers – Writing Hello World on a home brew CPU (medium.com/jackqu7)
		112 points by jackqu7 on May 12, 2016 \| 31 comments
29.		Apple stops support for WebObjects (cnn.com)
		99 points by secondary on May 13, 2016 \| 76 comments
30.		Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable (nautil.us)
		219 points by dnetesn on May 13, 2016 \| 137 comments
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