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1.
LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time (robertxiao.ca)
1209 points by uptown on May 17, 2018 | 270 comments
2.
Too Clever by Half (epsilontheory.com)
704 points by moat on May 16, 2018 | 244 comments
3.
Another flaw in Signal desktop app leaks chats in plaintext (thehackernews.com)
451 points by workerthread on May 17, 2018 | 221 comments
4.
Tiny Trains: Neat Narrow-Gauge Rail Connects German Island to Mainland (weburbanist.com)
256 points by misnamed on May 17, 2018 | 93 comments
5.
Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, According to SimilarWeb (nwn.blogs.com)
370 points by Kroeler on May 17, 2018 | 188 comments
6.
GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU (monal.im)
369 points by maufl on May 17, 2018 | 923 comments
7.
Show HN: Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust (github.com/joncatanio)
292 points by joncatanio on May 17, 2018 | 94 comments
8.
MacOS command line version of the WireGuard VPN is now available for testing (latacora.singles)
333 points by zx2c4 on May 17, 2018 | 193 comments
9.
The SpaceDrive Project – First Results on EMDrive and Mach-Effect Thrusters (researchgate.net)
202 points by mynegation on May 17, 2018 | 153 comments
10.
Japan's most valuable startup aims to teach factory robots to think (bloomberg.com)
184 points by raleighm on May 17, 2018 | 58 comments
11.
Book recommendation: Measure what matters (gatesnotes.com)
235 points by seshagiric on May 17, 2018 | 82 comments
12.
Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim (economist.com)
166 points by hecubus on May 17, 2018 | 174 comments
13.
Southern White Rhino Victoria Is Pregnant, Could Save Subspecies (bloomberg.com)
143 points by uptown on May 17, 2018 | 26 comments
14.
Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors (anandtech.com)
140 points by dmmalam on May 17, 2018 | 109 comments
15.
How many deaths make a disaster newsworthy? (ourworldindata.org)
125 points by anigbrowl on May 16, 2018 | 111 comments
16.
YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon (googleblog.com)
229 points by ac29 on May 17, 2018 | 318 comments
17.
A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine (quantamagazine.org)
149 points by bcaulfield on May 17, 2018 | 51 comments
18.
Raising a seed round instead of a Series A (atrium.co)
132 points by justin on May 17, 2018 | 29 comments
19.
Reinforcement learning with musculoskeletal models (stanford.edu)
131 points by kidzik on May 17, 2018 | 26 comments
20.
U.S. Army, Uber sign research agreement (army.mil)
157 points by hapnin on May 17, 2018 | 120 comments
21.
A new Xbox controller to make gaming accessible to more people with disabilities (news.microsoft.com)
294 points by lamchob on May 17, 2018 | 75 comments
22.
Boeing 747s are back in demand as workhorses of global shipping (bloomberg.com)
167 points by cepth on May 17, 2018 | 113 comments
23.
Non-Recursive Make Considered Harmful: Build Systems at Scale (2016) [pdf] (ndmitchell.com)
113 points by setra on May 17, 2018 | 76 comments
24.
Mice with 3D-Printed Ovaries Successfully Give Birth (smithsonianmag.com)
115 points by vezycash on May 16, 2018 | 13 comments
25.
In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need? (nytimes.com)
75 points by techrede on May 17, 2018 | 46 comments
26.
Stochastic – Create and manage contracts backed by Bitcoin (stochastic.xyz)
65 points by r32a_ on May 17, 2018 | 41 comments
27.
A Closer Inspection of Tesla’s Autopilot Safety Statistics (medium.com/mc2maven)
57 points by stardust83 on May 17, 2018 | 44 comments
28.
The Nengo Neural Simulator (nengo.ai)
96 points by indescions_2018 on May 16, 2018 | 16 comments
29.
Cheesemaking tips from the ancients (laphamsquarterly.org)
73 points by diodorus on May 16, 2018 | 19 comments
30.
Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.' (ietf.org)
107 points by okket on May 17, 2018 | 72 comments

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