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1.		Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis (princeton.edu)
		592 points by itg on May 19, 2016 \| 268 comments
2.		Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks (googleblog.com)
		380 points by ojn on May 19, 2016 \| 202 comments
3.		Chrome removes Backspace to go back (chromium.org)
		690 points by ivank on May 19, 2016 \| 583 comments
4.		LinkedIn password leak (kaspersky.com)
		398 points by trumpeter on May 19, 2016 \| 207 comments
5.		Bootcamps vs. College (triplebyte.com)
		391 points by kwi on May 19, 2016 \| 435 comments
6.		A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch (github.com/byvoid)
		392 points by onecooldev24 on May 19, 2016 \| 142 comments
7.		Google's mapping cars discover hundreds of underground gas leaks (dallasnews.com)
		245 points by state_machine on May 19, 2016 \| 76 comments
8.		Visual profiler for Python (github.com/nvdv)
		213 points by nvdv on May 19, 2016 \| 36 comments
9.		Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people (troyhunt.com)
		355 points by danso on May 19, 2016 \| 116 comments
10.		Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results (wsj.com)
		299 points by ssclafani on May 19, 2016 \| 167 comments
11.		More contributions on your profile (github.com/blog)
		240 points by cheshire137 on May 19, 2016 \| 120 comments
12.		Keep your identity small (2009) (paulgraham.com)
		184 points by nostrademons on May 19, 2016 \| 151 comments
13.		How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid (lowtechmagazine.com)
		201 points by hellrich on May 18, 2016 \| 138 comments
14.		A Practical Guide to Lasers for Experimenters and Hobbyists (repairfaq.org)
		162 points by Phithagoras on May 19, 2016 \| 18 comments
15.		Introducing the 2nd Generation Boosted Board (boostedboards.com)
		198 points by jpb0104 on May 19, 2016 \| 187 comments
16.		Exercise Tied to Lower Risk for Some Types of Cancer (nytimes.com)
		104 points by hvo on May 19, 2016 \| 54 comments
17.		So Far, So Good (hintjens.com)
		162 points by okket on May 19, 2016 \| 28 comments
18.		Inferno: A compact OS for building cross-platform distributed systems (vitanuova.com)
		122 points by arm on May 19, 2016 \| 53 comments
19.		Sysdig: Behavioral Activity Monitor With Container Support (sysdig.org)
		80 points by louis-paul on May 18, 2016 \| 7 comments
20.		Swift: Things I really wanted that won’t make it (ericasadun.com)
		102 points by ingve on May 19, 2016 \| 51 comments
21.		Blue Feed, Red Feed (wsj.com)
		91 points by some-guy on May 19, 2016 \| 55 comments
22.		Ransomware maker TeslaCrypt shuts down after releasing master key (techcrunch.com)
		106 points by cyberfart on May 19, 2016 \| 92 comments
23.		How tainted drugs “froze” young people but kickstarted Parkinson’s research (arstechnica.com)
		68 points by gvb on May 18, 2016 \| 20 comments
24.		Space Invaders: A Burglar’s Guide to the City (lareviewofbooks.org)
		69 points by allthebest on May 19, 2016 \| 17 comments
25.		Tips for beginning systems and software engineers (ilya-sher.org)
		217 points by ilyash on May 19, 2016 \| 111 comments
26.		A lesson in the lost technology of shorthand (2014) (theatlantic.com)
		96 points by kqr on May 19, 2016 \| 63 comments
27.		Git Reflow (github.com/reenhanced)
		109 points by jaybosamiya on May 19, 2016 \| 79 comments
28.		In Sharp Reversal, California Suspends Water Restrictions (nytimes.com)
		73 points by jstreebin on May 19, 2016 \| 65 comments
29.		Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools (exceptionnotfound.net)
		305 points by kiyanwang on May 19, 2016 \| 165 comments
30.		The False Promise of DNA Testing (theatlantic.com)
		64 points by sergeant3 on May 18, 2016 \| 32 comments
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