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1.		WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones (ft.com)
		939 points by EwanToo on May 13, 2019 \| 283 comments
2.		How I Run a Company with ADHD (andrewaskins.com)
		784 points by askins4trouble on May 12, 2019 \| 495 comments
3.		Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets (cjr.org)
		455 points by hhs on May 13, 2019 \| 383 comments
4.		Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed (wired.com)
		448 points by CWSZ on May 13, 2019 \| 342 comments
5.		Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
		927 points by nathanasmith on May 13, 2019 \| 401 comments
6.		Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs (reuters.com)
		450 points by Vaslo on May 13, 2019 \| 485 comments
7.		3D Game Shaders for Beginners (github.com/lettier)
		391 points by lettier on May 12, 2019 \| 44 comments
8.		Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites (stackoverflow.com)
		384 points by Thorondor on May 13, 2019 \| 49 comments
9.		U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly (bloomberg.com)
		441 points by NoRagrets on May 13, 2019 \| 335 comments
10.		To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017) (netlify.com)
		290 points by gk1 on May 13, 2019 \| 99 comments
11.		California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roundup cancer trial (reuters.com)
		253 points by mi100hael on May 13, 2019 \| 267 comments
12.		The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill (citylab.com)
		105 points by tshannon on May 13, 2019 \| 133 comments
13.		Crimes in Concrete (firstthings.com)
		105 points by overwhelm on May 13, 2019 \| 127 comments
14.		CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history (techcrunch.com)
		500 points by wang42 on May 13, 2019 \| 533 comments
15.		A Mechanised Cryptographic Proof of the WireGuard VPN Protocol (inria.fr)
		200 points by colinprince on May 13, 2019 \| 44 comments
16.		Lenovo launches HoloLens competitor (engadget.com)
		124 points by yodon on May 13, 2019 \| 65 comments
17.		The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ (spiked-online.com)
		85 points by everbody on May 13, 2019 \| 67 comments
18.		The Neko Virtual Machine (nekovm.org)
		131 points by azhenley on May 13, 2019 \| 28 comments
19.		Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa (theguardian.com)
		127 points by curtis on May 13, 2019 \| 36 comments
20.		Show HN: PiShot – capture high-speed strobe images using a Raspberry Pi camera (github.com/revalo)
		124 points by revalo on May 13, 2019 \| 30 comments
21.		Ask HN: Which books teach mental models?
		473 points by wintercarver on May 12, 2019 \| 92 comments
22.		Derive Yourself a Kalman Filter (ngr.yt)
		127 points by NougatRillettes on May 12, 2019 \| 55 comments
23.		Sued for copyright infringement for putting legal materials online (nytimes.com)
		359 points by pseudolus on May 13, 2019 \| 178 comments
24.		Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups, with code examples (medium.com/1522933668924)
		151 points by walterbell on May 11, 2019 \| 33 comments
25.		A horrifying globalThis polyfill in JavaScript (mathiasbynens.be)
		154 points by fagnerbrack on May 12, 2019 \| 73 comments
26.		How to Join a Social Network in 1998 (ironicsans.com)
		124 points by Doubleguitars on May 13, 2019 \| 28 comments
27.		A Spoon That Shakes to Counteract Hand Tremors (2014) (npr.org)
		92 points by gballan on May 12, 2019 \| 14 comments
28.		The Origin of ‘Script Kiddie’ (liveoverflow.com)
		152 points by LiveOverflow on May 12, 2019 \| 62 comments
29.		China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia (torproject.org)
		432 points by JayXon on May 13, 2019 \| 146 comments
30.		Debugging in Vim (dannyadam.com)
		152 points by dstein64 on May 13, 2019 \| 38 comments
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