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1.		JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 (googlesource.com)
		509 points by onestone on May 17, 2016 \| 217 comments
2.		Reason: A new interface to OCaml (facebook.github.io)
		603 points by clayallsopp on May 17, 2016 \| 287 comments
3.		Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB (horizon.io)
		606 points by coffeemug on May 17, 2016 \| 127 comments
4.		High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user” (support.microsoft.com)
		444 points by ivank on May 17, 2016 \| 202 comments
5.		Cool URIs don't change (1998) (w3.org)
		297 points by benjaminjosephw on May 17, 2016 \| 122 comments
6.		Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata (techcrunch.com)
		251 points by zbjornson on May 17, 2016 \| 71 comments
7.		“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009) (launchpad.net)
		419 points by hardmath123 on May 17, 2016 \| 155 comments
8.		Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time (arstechnica.com)
		338 points by okket on May 17, 2016 \| 204 comments
9.		Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout (themacro.com)
		224 points by shayannafisi on May 17, 2016 \| 449 comments
10.		Yubico: Secure Hardware vs. Open Source (yubico.com)
		190 points by francois2 on May 17, 2016 \| 110 comments
11.		Symantec/Norton Antivirus Remote Heap/Pool Memory Corruption CVE-2016-2208 (chromium.org)
		209 points by reubenmorais on May 17, 2016 \| 51 comments
12.		Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support (quantamagazine.org)
		206 points by elorant on May 17, 2016 \| 142 comments
13.		Microsoft Edge supports ES6 modules (windows.com)
		150 points by pilif on May 17, 2016 \| 67 comments
14.		Singular Value Decomposition Part 2: Theorem, Proof, Algorithm (jeremykun.com)
		131 points by alanfranz on May 16, 2016 \| 15 comments
15.		Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review (madmalik.github.io)
		241 points by nikolay on May 17, 2016 \| 125 comments
16.		Major Remote SSH Security Issue in CoreOS Linux Alpha (coreos.com)
		142 points by jonaslejon on May 17, 2016 \| 42 comments
17.		Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries (techcrunch.com)
		120 points by mkolodny on May 17, 2016 \| 112 comments
18.		AMD releases FireRays 2.0 ray-tracing library as open source (gpuopen.com)
		140 points by SXX on May 16, 2016 \| 22 comments
19.		LMFDB, a catalog of mathematical objects and the connections between them (aimath.org)
		136 points by ghosh on May 17, 2016 \| 24 comments
20.		Raspberry Pi Car Speed Detector (gregtinkers.wordpress.com)
		187 points by mhss on May 17, 2016 \| 68 comments
21.		Google applying to patent deep neural network (LSTM) for machine translation (freepatentsonline.com)
		133 points by shmageggy on May 17, 2016 \| 72 comments
22.		Magic mushrooms found to lift severe depression in clinical trial (theguardian.com)
		173 points by torus on May 17, 2016 \| 162 comments
23.		Understanding consensus and Paxos in distributed systems (ifeanyi.co)
		107 points by kiyanwang on May 17, 2016 \| 25 comments
24.		One Billion Drive Hours and Counting: Q1 2016 Hard Drive Stats (backblaze.com)
		279 points by thejosh on May 17, 2016 \| 135 comments
25.		Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good (newyorker.com)
		109 points by gk1 on May 17, 2016 \| 173 comments
26.		Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard drives, US government says (arstechnica.co.uk)
		266 points by LukeB_UK on May 17, 2016 \| 216 comments
27.		Google veterans head off on their own to work on self-driving trucks (theverge.com)
		136 points by lemiant on May 17, 2016 \| 137 comments
28.		Thoughts on the future of Python and graphical interfaces (medium.com/tryexceptpass)
		103 points by sebg on May 17, 2016 \| 127 comments
29.		LendingClub Loan Buyers Retreat After Shakeup; U.S. Probes (bloomberg.com)
		64 points by luther07 on May 16, 2016 \| 39 comments
30.		Push.js – A minimalist JavaScript library for desktop notifications (github.com/nickersoft)
		122 points by Nickersoft on May 17, 2016 \| 38 comments
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