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1.		The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months (electrek.co)
		756 points by lxm on May 3, 2016 \| 435 comments
2.		A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing (bloombergview.com)
		641 points by warrenmar on May 3, 2016 \| 809 comments
3.		Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment (nickcraver.com)
		428 points by Nick-Craver on May 3, 2016 \| 140 comments
4.		Scientists say sudden oak death epidemic is no longer stoppable (washingtonpost.com)
		288 points by whyenot on May 3, 2016 \| 136 comments
5.		Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick (imagetragick.com)
		478 points by nthitz on May 3, 2016 \| 230 comments
6.		Waybackpack: download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL (github.com/jsvine)
		261 points by ingve on May 3, 2016 \| 40 comments
7.		WhatsApp is back online in Brazil (facebook.com)
		209 points by natthub on May 3, 2016 \| 166 comments
8.		HP Unveils Premium Chromebook: 3K Display, Intel Core M, 16 GB of RAM and USB-C (anandtech.com)
		229 points by msh on May 3, 2016 \| 229 comments
9.		Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community (lede-project.org)
		199 points by ycmbntrthrwaway on May 3, 2016 \| 81 comments
10.		Supersingular elliptic curve isogeny Diffie-Hellman 101 (lvh.io)
		130 points by lvh on May 3, 2016 \| 8 comments
11.		Putting the Tesla HEPA Filter and Bioweapon Defense Mode to the Test (teslamotors.com)
		260 points by tremguy on May 3, 2016 \| 145 comments
12.		Weep for Graphics Programming (adriansampson.net)
		367 points by samps on May 2, 2016 \| 154 comments
13.		Two-factor paper passwords (jgc.org)
		186 points by jgrahamc on May 3, 2016 \| 96 comments
14.		OpenSSL Security Advisory (openssl.org)
		259 points by FiloSottile on May 3, 2016 \| 228 comments
15.		Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (ieee.org)
		166 points by fauria on May 3, 2016 \| 29 comments
16.		AdBlock Plus teams up with Flattr to help readers pay publishers (techcrunch.com)
		159 points by cpeterso on May 3, 2016 \| 123 comments
17.		My path to OpenAI (gregbrockman.com)
		233 points by craigkerstiens on May 3, 2016 \| 67 comments
18.		The cryptographically provable con man (dankaminsky.com)
		160 points by rdl on May 3, 2016 \| 46 comments
19.		Programming cheat sheets (overapi.com)
		324 points by donnemartin on May 3, 2016 \| 46 comments
20.		Improving Angular performance with 1 line of code (medium.com/hackupstate)
		221 points by lolptdr on May 3, 2016 \| 114 comments
21.		What cold showers and exercise have in common (2014) (gettingstronger.org)
		198 points by RogtamBar on May 2, 2016 \| 135 comments
22.		Scientists discover potentially habitable planets (news.mit.edu)
		172 points by stillsut on May 2, 2016 \| 52 comments
23.		Deep Language Modeling for Question Answering Using Keras (benjaminbolte.com)
		106 points by _ntka on May 3, 2016 \| 6 comments
24.		Probabilistic Programming for Anomaly Detection (fastforwardlabs.com)
		125 points by n-s-f on May 3, 2016 \| 17 comments
25.		Relax – A New Generation CMS on Top of React, Redux, and GraphQL (getrelax.io)
		149 points by nikolay on May 2, 2016 \| 58 comments
26.		Google XRay: A Function Call Tracing System [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
		124 points by mnem on May 2, 2016 \| 56 comments
27.		Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram security flaw (theverge.com)
		233 points by vvvv on May 3, 2016 \| 86 comments
28.		Johnson and Johnson hit with $55M damages in talc cancer case (bbc.com)
		77 points by powera on May 3, 2016 \| 41 comments
29.		Calysto: A Scheme kernel for Jupyter that can use Python libraries (github.com/calysto)
		74 points by pmoriarty on May 3, 2016 \| 3 comments
30.		Writing a Compiler in Go (squanch.org)
		171 points by dcw303 on May 3, 2016 \| 45 comments
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