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1.		Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative (gitea.io)
		638 points by amjd on May 6, 2018 \| 234 comments
2.		Subscription Hell (techcrunch.com)
		745 points by Semirhage on May 6, 2018 \| 597 comments
3.		AstroNavigation – A free course (vanderbilt.edu)
		299 points by jweir on May 5, 2018 \| 38 comments
4.		“Manager READMEs” from some tech companies (hackernoon.com)
		394 points by thmslee on May 5, 2018 \| 99 comments
5.		Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store solar and wind energy (stanford.edu)
		255 points by nopinsight on May 6, 2018 \| 80 comments
6.		California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes (ocregister.com)
		314 points by baron816 on May 6, 2018 \| 336 comments
7.		The Erlang Runtime System (happi.github.io)
		262 points by mattw1810 on May 5, 2018 \| 21 comments
8.		Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (2012) (nytimes.com)
		323 points by brunoluiz on May 6, 2018 \| 315 comments
9.		NASA advisers say SpaceX rocket technology could put lives at risk (chicagotribune.com)
		184 points by jackfoxy on May 6, 2018 \| 197 comments
10.		New autoplay policy in Chrome (blog.google)
		169 points by AndersSandvik on May 6, 2018 \| 174 comments
11.		A woman’s brain stimulator stopped working after her home struck by lightning (nytimes.com)
		75 points by dnetesn on May 6, 2018 \| 39 comments
12.		Show HN: Refjar.com – bookmark links and fetch online discussions (refjar.com)
		92 points by mdoliwa on May 3, 2018 \| 37 comments
13.		The Micronesian island of Yap has stone money too heavy to move (bbc.com)
		89 points by MiriamWeiner on May 3, 2018 \| 41 comments
14.		China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry (wsj.com)
		156 points by yazr on May 6, 2018 \| 147 comments
15.		Letting go of the GPS to learn the art of natural navigation (theguardian.com)
		202 points by mislankanova on May 6, 2018 \| 87 comments
16.		ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story (d46.us)
		116 points by pmoriarty on May 5, 2018 \| 55 comments
17.		Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses (quantamagazine.org)
		201 points by omarkn on May 6, 2018 \| 40 comments
18.		Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016) (frankchimero.com)
		144 points by bcongdon on May 3, 2018 \| 20 comments
19.		CS109 Data Science (cs109.github.io)
		215 points by kercker on May 6, 2018 \| 16 comments
20.		Origins of the finger command (1990) (groups.google.com)
		150 points by ColinWright on May 6, 2018 \| 55 comments
21.		Tesla reviewing contractors, firing everyone not vouched for by an employee (electrek.co)
		175 points by WalterSear on May 6, 2018 \| 98 comments
22.		More fun with reactive-banana-automation (joeyh.name)
		138 points by edward on May 6, 2018 \| 17 comments
23.		Open sourcing Terratest: tools for testing infrastructure code (gruntwork.io)
		105 points by kiyanwang on May 6, 2018 \| 10 comments
24.		1,000 True Fans (2008) (kk.org)
		69 points by pknerd on May 6, 2018 \| 7 comments
25.		Java’s Mysterious Interrupt (carlmastrangelo.com)
		125 points by mattiemass on May 6, 2018 \| 35 comments
26.		NIST Uncertainty Machine – User’s Manual [pdf] (nist.gov)
		56 points by swixmix on May 6, 2018 \| 2 comments
27.		How Harvey Karp Turned Baby Sleep into Big Business (nytimes.com)
		86 points by wallflower on May 6, 2018 \| 46 comments
28.		A venture fund's experiment in human-free investing (bloomberg.com)
		75 points by rafaelc on May 6, 2018 \| 19 comments
29.		Show HN: ~200 byte in-browser, no JS, private notepad (jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io)
		133 points by janneklouman on May 5, 2018 \| 70 comments
30.		Show HN: Morning Cup of Coding – A curated newsletter of programming articles (humanreadablemag.com)
		192 points by pekalicious on May 6, 2018 \| 41 comments
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