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1.		Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say (theguardian.com)
		636 points by lemming on May 4, 2016 \| 502 comments
2.		New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutting Coal (bloomberg.com)
		367 points by Osiris30 on May 4, 2016 \| 205 comments
3.		The Startup Zeitgeist (macro.ycombinator.com)
		469 points by loyalelectron on May 4, 2016 \| 153 comments
4.		78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis (curiousgnu.com)
		303 points by gk1 on May 4, 2016 \| 201 comments
5.		Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP (posteriorscience.net)
		478 points by brunoc on May 4, 2016 \| 232 comments
6.		Simplevisor: Intel x64 Windows-specific hypervisor (ionescu007.github.io)
		178 points by transpute on May 4, 2016 \| 24 comments
7.		Uvloop: Fast Python networking (magic.io)
		456 points by c17r on May 4, 2016 \| 130 comments
8.		Why most mobile development projects fail (clean-swift.com)
		154 points by bontoJR on May 4, 2016 \| 103 comments
9.		The curious case of slow downloads (cloudflare.com)
		207 points by jgrahamc on May 4, 2016 \| 55 comments
10.		I wrote a small piece on planned death (hintjens.com)
		405 points by okket on May 4, 2016 \| 104 comments
11.		Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions (neuroscientistnews.com)
		172 points by brahmwg on May 4, 2016 \| 107 comments
12.		Refined Twitter (github.com/sindresorhus)
		179 points by mofle on May 4, 2016 \| 108 comments
13.		Introducing docs.microsoft.com (docs.microsoft.com)
		249 points by yread on May 4, 2016 \| 187 comments
14.		IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer (nytimes.com)
		203 points by jonbaer on May 4, 2016 \| 59 comments
15.		Serializable, Lockless, Distributed: Isolation in CockroachDB (cockroachlabs.com)
		130 points by orangechairs on May 4, 2016 \| 52 comments
16.		Triplebyte Engineer Genome Project (triplebyte.com)
		94 points by kwi on May 4, 2016 \| 38 comments
17.		Life Lessons from a Lifestyle Business: Interview with founder of Metafilter (medium.com/strong-words)
		159 points by tim_sw on May 4, 2016 \| 54 comments
18.		Select a document and have it certified in the Bitcoin blockchain (proofofexistence.com)
		130 points by ptr on May 4, 2016 \| 62 comments
19.		Google Deactivates Web Search API (ajax.googleapis.com)
		199 points by woodruffw on May 4, 2016 \| 129 comments
20.		Lead Water Pipes in 1900 Caused Higher Crime Rates in 1920? (motherjones.com)
		147 points by curtis on May 3, 2016 \| 67 comments
21.		We asked 15,000 people how they're learning to program (freecodecamp.com)
		123 points by quincyla on May 4, 2016 \| 91 comments
22.		Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence (whitehouse.gov)
		174 points by apsec112 on May 3, 2016 \| 90 comments
23.		Google: End of the Online Advertising Bubble (kalkis-research.com)
		295 points by skuas on May 4, 2016 \| 188 comments
24.		Nine years of censorship (nature.com)
		302 points by michaelmachine on May 4, 2016 \| 125 comments
25.		Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first (ruby-lang.org)
		161 points by JBiserkov on May 3, 2016 \| 135 comments
26.		Two Tesla Production Chiefs to Leave Ahead of Model 3 Ramp-Up (bloomberg.com)
		76 points by mgevans on May 4, 2016 \| 48 comments
27.		PieMessage: iMessage on Android (github.com/bboyairwreck)
		83 points by mikeflynn on May 3, 2016 \| 31 comments
28.		Target=”_blank” is an underestimated vulnerability (medium.com/jitbit)
		183 points by SimplyUseless on May 4, 2016 \| 53 comments
29.		Python manylinux (github.com/pypa)
		59 points by awinter-py on May 4, 2016 \| 9 comments
30.		The Bug in the Physical Building (two-wrongs.com)
		148 points by signa11 on May 4, 2016 \| 32 comments
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