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1.		Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979) (medium.com/acidflask)
		237 points by acidflask on May 29, 2016 \| 122 comments
2.		Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know (slate.com)
		452 points by janvdberg on May 27, 2016 \| 284 comments
3.		A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a visit to a subsea cable site (arstechnica.com)
		251 points by matan_a on May 26, 2016 \| 32 comments
4.		Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's plan for a household robot (techinsider.io)
		225 points by ilamont on May 28, 2016 \| 120 comments
5.		The real responsive design challenge is RSS (begriffs.com)
		221 points by begriffs on May 29, 2016 \| 109 comments
6.		500 Lines or Less (github.com/aosabook)
		377 points by divkakwani on May 29, 2016 \| 61 comments
7.		How big an issue is the nausea problem for VR products? (quora.com)
		387 points by BrandiATMuhkuh on May 29, 2016 \| 175 comments
8.		How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods? (2003) (scientificamerican.com)
		214 points by matan_a on May 29, 2016 \| 150 comments
9.		Flask 0.11 Released (pocoo.org)
		368 points by welder on May 29, 2016 \| 126 comments
10.		Autonomous Plant Watering (monotonous.org)
		138 points by ashitlerferad on May 26, 2016 \| 48 comments
11.		Keeping 1990s Virtual Reality Machines Alive (kotaku.com)
		75 points by evo_9 on May 28, 2016 \| 13 comments
12.		PyThalesians: Python Open Source Financial Library (github.com/thalesians)
		139 points by sndean on May 29, 2016 \| 8 comments
13.		Show HN: Run your own OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider (github.com/ory-am)
		161 points by aeneasr on May 29, 2016 \| 49 comments
14.		JVM JIT optimization techniques (advancedweb.hu)
		112 points by sashee on May 27, 2016 \| 61 comments
15.		Boys who live with books ‘earn more as adults’ (theguardian.com)
		119 points by bootload on May 29, 2016 \| 82 comments
16.		The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (economist.com)
		87 points by edward on May 28, 2016 \| 5 comments
17.		The Geneva Free Port is crammed with storage vaults that contain great art (nytimes.com)
		67 points by bootload on May 29, 2016 \| 46 comments
18.		GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick popen() shell vulnerability via filename (gmane.org)
		144 points by marksamman on May 29, 2016 \| 54 comments
19.		Writing my first shellcode (0day.work)
		94 points by internetwache on May 28, 2016 \| 20 comments
20.		Students Build a Glove to Translate Sign Language into English (fastcompany.com)
		55 points by cpeterso on May 26, 2016 \| 23 comments
21.		A simple Vulkan Compute example (duskborn.com)
		85 points by ingve on May 29, 2016 \| 24 comments
22.		Scientists say they have created a new platform for antibiotic discovery (genengnews.com)
		63 points by jseliger on May 29, 2016 \| 18 comments
23.		You can’t replace your face, says face recognition (kaspersky.com)
		84 points by nandha on May 29, 2016 \| 46 comments
24.		Cuckoo filters and their analysis (11011110.livejournal.com)
		85 points by robinhouston on May 29, 2016 \| 8 comments
25.		Dutch Firm Trains Eagles to Take Down Drones (nytimes.com)
		69 points by breck on May 29, 2016 \| 43 comments
26.		Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (2009) (wolfire.com)
		177 points by maastaar on May 29, 2016 \| 23 comments
27.		German WW2 code machine found on eBay (bbc.com)
		93 points by mhb on May 29, 2016 \| 41 comments
28.		I've Been Waiting For The Oculus Rift, But Now It's Sitting In My Closet (forbes.com/sites/insertcoin)
		125 points by r0h1n on May 28, 2016 \| 150 comments
29.		Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones (2014) (arxiv.org)
		66 points by brahmwg on May 29, 2016 \| 25 comments
30.		Bullshit fighting (stactivist.com)
		58 points by azuajef on May 29, 2016 \| 34 comments
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