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1.		A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s (blogs.microsoft.com)
		278 points by wglb on May 21, 2017 \| 101 comments
2.		Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?
		699 points by humaninstrument on May 21, 2017 \| 270 comments
3.		A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 microprocessor (monster6502.com)
		335 points by cmod on May 21, 2017 \| 44 comments
4.		Q – Initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computers (ibm.com)
		212 points by davidyapdy on May 21, 2017 \| 63 comments
5.		A way to make water potable using carbon dioxide (economist.com)
		181 points by spatulan on May 21, 2017 \| 38 comments
6.		Google scored points with its community by supporting Kotlin (backchannel.com)
		347 points by steven on May 21, 2017 \| 218 comments
7.		Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (pbs.org)
		144 points by curtis on May 21, 2017 \| 71 comments
8.		The Making of Freeciv WebGL 3D (freeciv.org)
		182 points by roschdal on May 20, 2017 \| 27 comments
9.		Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings (twitter.com/m8urnett)
		467 points by tmkbry on May 21, 2017 \| 255 comments
10.		300 miles of secret UK cycle paths have been discovered [audio] (bbc.co.uk)
		173 points by DanBC on May 21, 2017 \| 70 comments
11.		We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment (nytimes.com)
		303 points by rrherr on May 21, 2017 \| 133 comments
12.		TFS: A file system built for performance, space efficiency, and scalability (github.com/redox-os)
		281 points by vog on May 21, 2017 \| 116 comments
13.		Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction (2011) (worrydream.com)
		142 points by semanser on May 20, 2017 \| 5 comments
14.		Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations (nytimes.com)
		254 points by georgecmu on May 21, 2017 \| 168 comments
15.		New SMB Worm Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools, whilst WannaCry Used Just Two (bleepingcomputer.com)
		167 points by rbanffy on May 21, 2017 \| 59 comments
16.		Tisp: Time is space programming language (github.com/raviqqe)
		106 points by davidyapdy on May 20, 2017 \| 34 comments
17.		Washington Post launches a Reddit public profile (washingtonpost.com)
		131 points by waqasaday on May 21, 2017 \| 138 comments
18.		Building a legacy search engine for a legacy protocol (benjojo.co.uk)
		137 points by benjojo12 on May 21, 2017 \| 23 comments
19.		Baby boomers are making it harder for millennials to buy homes (sfgate.com)
		186 points by MilnerRoute on May 21, 2017 \| 137 comments
20.		Nasa revives 'weird life forms' trapped inside crystals for 60,000 years (telegraph.co.uk)
		175 points by robteix on May 21, 2017 \| 68 comments
21.		Ask HN: What are the Madrid and Barcelona tech scenes like?
		244 points by throwaway0110 on May 21, 2017 \| 155 comments
22.		On the Turing Completeness of MS PowerPoint [pdf] (cmu.edu)
		160 points by gwern on May 21, 2017 \| 16 comments
23.		The Energy Expansions of Evolution (nature.com)
		53 points by hunglee2 on May 21, 2017 \| 6 comments
24.		Ask HN: How do you close your side projects?
		98 points by andrewgrossi on May 21, 2017 \| 31 comments
25.		Experiments with prepledge (tedunangst.com)
		52 points by ingve on May 20, 2017 \| 5 comments
26.		Poisoning Daddy (1996) (texasmonthly.com)
		58 points by samclemens on May 20, 2017 \| 15 comments
27.		The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject Creative Ideas (2010) [pdf] (cornell.edu)
		105 points by tjalfi on May 21, 2017 \| 41 comments
28.		They call it Canaan: How 200K Haitians built a city on their own (vqronline.org)
		78 points by hownottowrite on May 21, 2017 \| 27 comments
29.		The Ruby Module Builder Pattern (dejimata.com)
		94 points by shioyama on May 21, 2017 \| 20 comments
30.		Myths Over Miami (1997) (miaminewtimes.com)
		44 points by Thevet on May 21, 2017 \| 5 comments
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