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1.		WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge (theintercept.com)
		972 points by tshtf on May 2, 2016 \| 608 comments
2.		TTIP Leaks (ttip-leaks.org)
		752 points by Hjugo on May 2, 2016 \| 251 comments
3.		Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto (economist.com)
		639 points by shazad on May 2, 2016 \| 259 comments
4.		Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto (nikcub.com)
		584 points by rdl on May 2, 2016 \| 248 comments
5.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
		553 points by whoishiring on May 2, 2016 \| 936 comments
6.		“Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research right now” (neverworkintheory.org)
		355 points by zdw on May 1, 2016 \| 189 comments
7.		Judge Grants Search Warrant Forcing Woman to Unlock iPhone with Touch ID (macrumors.com)
		218 points by outworlder on May 2, 2016 \| 206 comments
8.		Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security (nytimes.com)
		291 points by hvo on May 2, 2016 \| 494 comments
9.		Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund?
		231 points by dang on May 2, 2016 \| 276 comments
10.		After a year of using Node.js in production (geekforbrains.com)
		320 points by 0xmohit on May 2, 2016 \| 240 comments
11.		RIP Kuro5hin (kuro5hin.org)
		298 points by Jerry2 on May 2, 2016 \| 270 comments
12.		SSH for Fun and Profit (karla.io)
		324 points by tetrakai on May 1, 2016 \| 55 comments
13.		After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight (nytimes.com)
		305 points by yanowitz on May 2, 2016 \| 364 comments
14.		Dolphins have been observed chattering while cooperating to solve a puzzle (newscientist.com)
		144 points by Osiris30 on May 2, 2016 \| 44 comments
15.		Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser (justsecurity.org)
		281 points by throwaway2016a on May 2, 2016 \| 120 comments
16.		Wren: a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language (munificent.github.io)
		163 points by bluesilver07 on May 2, 2016 \| 39 comments
17.		The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press (vanityfair.com)
		153 points by forgotmyoldpw on May 2, 2016 \| 84 comments
18.		New example of rare Etruscan writing found (arstechnica.com)
		132 points by Phithagoras on May 2, 2016 \| 32 comments
19.		Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data (newscientist.com)
		124 points by AlexandrB on May 2, 2016 \| 77 comments
20.		Go bindings to Rust's regex engine (github.com/burntsushi)
		127 points by burntsushi on May 2, 2016 \| 108 comments
21.		The Feed Is Dying (nymag.com)
		125 points by jonbaer on May 1, 2016 \| 92 comments
22.		Non-Lexical Lifetimes in Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
		135 points by kibwen on May 2, 2016 \| 58 comments
23.		LLVM Backend for the VideoCore4, Raspberry Pi 2 VPU (github.com/christinaa)
		129 points by DHowett on May 2, 2016 \| 53 comments
24.		LimeSDR: Flexible, Next-Generation, Open Source Software Defined Radio (crowdsupply.com)
		98 points by wolframio on May 2, 2016 \| 28 comments
25.		The Fallout – The medical aftermath of Hiroshima (australiandoctor.com.au)
		82 points by vezycash on May 1, 2016 \| 31 comments
26.		How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (uic.edu)
		116 points by ingve on May 2, 2016 \| 59 comments
27.		Berlin Is Banning Most Vacation Apartment Rentals (citylab.com)
		143 points by haldujai on May 1, 2016 \| 178 comments
28.		Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discovered ATM Skimmer (trustfoundry.net)
		210 points by ProfDreamer on May 2, 2016 \| 89 comments
29.		Gavin Andresen's commit access to Bitcoin revoked, hacking suspected (twitter.com/petertoddbtc)
		297 points by apsec112 on May 2, 2016 \| 164 comments
30.		Comparing Clustering Algorithms (jupyter.org)
		178 points by merusame on May 2, 2016 \| 40 comments
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