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1.		Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs (telegraph.co.uk)
		472 points by randomname2 on May 25, 2016 \| 267 comments
2.		Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand (youtube.com)
		566 points by CameronBanga on May 25, 2016 \| 71 comments
3.		Nix as OS X Package Manager (ofilabs.com)
		357 points by ingve on May 25, 2016 \| 204 comments
4.		Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency (medium.com/the-coinbase-blog)
		340 points by sethbannon on May 24, 2016 \| 195 comments
5.		Open-Sourcing Twitter Heron (blog.twitter.com)
		289 points by samber on May 25, 2016 \| 63 comments
6.		Has a Hungarian physics lab found a new force of nature? (nature.com)
		264 points by etiam on May 25, 2016 \| 87 comments
7.		AMD’s Zen Summit Ridge 8-core CPUs on Par with Intel I7 5960X Extreme (techfrag.com)
		178 points by willvarfar on May 24, 2016 \| 73 comments
8.		Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? (news10.com)
		287 points by how-about-this on May 25, 2016 \| 239 comments
9.		A2: Analog Malicious Hardware [pdf] (impedimenttoprogress.com)
		315 points by ltcode on May 25, 2016 \| 94 comments
10.		How to move from Amazon RDS to a dedicated PostgreSQL server (authentise.com)
		161 points by cinnamonman on May 24, 2016 \| 71 comments
11.		Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to trust the machine (arstechnica.com)
		206 points by jonbaer on May 24, 2016 \| 146 comments
12.		Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide (quantamagazine.org)
		214 points by okket on May 24, 2016 \| 61 comments
13.		WebGazer.js: Eye Tracking on the Browser (brown.edu)
		190 points by trymas on May 25, 2016 \| 65 comments
14.		OpenAI Team Update (openai.com)
		125 points by sama on May 25, 2016 \| 25 comments
15.		Could Alzheimer’s Stem from Infections? (nytimes.com)
		128 points by Rezo on May 25, 2016 \| 33 comments
16.		Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops phone production (businessinsider.com)
		192 points by dacm on May 25, 2016 \| 162 comments
17.		Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter (arxiv.org)
		97 points by sapphireblue on May 24, 2016 \| 15 comments
18.		Autoencoding Blade Runner: reconstructing films with artificial neural networks (medium.com/terrybroad)
		119 points by arto on May 24, 2016 \| 37 comments
19.		Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) (stephenwolfram.com)
		108 points by NoXReX on May 25, 2016 \| 31 comments
20.		Search Bangs (duckduckgo.com)
		123 points by brudgers on May 25, 2016 \| 77 comments
21.		Hypernetes: Bringing Security and Multi-Tenancy to Kubernetes (kubernetes.io)
		109 points by scprodigy on May 24, 2016 \| 29 comments
22.		Canary Watch, One Year Later (eff.org)
		108 points by dwaxe on May 25, 2016 \| 24 comments
23.		Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong (techinsider.io)
		129 points by nkurz on May 24, 2016 \| 59 comments
24.		Repurposing Old Smartphones for Home Automation (linux.com)
		111 points by ashitlerferad on May 24, 2016 \| 20 comments
25.		In Silicon Valley, a new emphasis on barriers to government requests for data (washingtonpost.com)
		88 points by ValG on May 24, 2016 \| 34 comments
26.		How an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legendary movie fiasco (atavist.com)
		96 points by seventyhorses on May 24, 2016 \| 28 comments
27.		Study monitors programmers' stress levels to predict the quality of their code (boingboing.net)
		67 points by dhotson on May 24, 2016 \| 32 comments
28.		Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' (bbc.com)
		344 points by jrwan on May 25, 2016 \| 391 comments
29.		Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley (devcolor.org)
		226 points by bdr on May 25, 2016 \| 153 comments
30.		Application data caching using SSDs (netflix.com)
		107 points by sgmansfield on May 25, 2016 \| 28 comments
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