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1.		WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete (twitter.com/webkit)
		755 points by M4v3R on May 16, 2016 \| 109 comments
2.		Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit (bloomberg.com)
		386 points by davidbarker on May 16, 2016 \| 188 comments
3.		How Intel missed the smartphone market (mondaynote.com)
		292 points by JeremyMorgan on May 16, 2016 \| 195 comments
4.		Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo (nytimes.com)
		288 points by interconnector on May 16, 2016 \| 130 comments
5.		Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Takes $1B Position in Apple (wsj.com)
		358 points by stevenj on May 16, 2016 \| 252 comments
6.		CertBot: Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with Let's Encrypt certs (eff.org)
		393 points by itherseed on May 16, 2016 \| 88 comments
7.		Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project (techcrunch.com)
		252 points by sethbannon on May 16, 2016 \| 206 comments
8.		Spaces, a tool for small group sharing (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		201 points by el_duderino on May 16, 2016 \| 139 comments
9.		The MOnSter 6502 (tubetime.us)
		383 points by mmastrac on May 16, 2016 \| 74 comments
10.		SSL Labs in 2016 and Beyond (qualys.com)
		204 points by mostafah on May 16, 2016 \| 20 comments
11.		Linux 4.6 is out (lwn.net)
		228 points by tshtf on May 15, 2016 \| 83 comments
12.		Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments (experimental-geography.blogspot.com)
		200 points by spenrose on May 16, 2016 \| 151 comments
13.		Show HN: Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks (joelotter.com)
		217 points by JayOtter on May 16, 2016 \| 28 comments
14.		How computer programming languages for kids have evolved and where they're going (makewonder.com)
		168 points by junelin on May 16, 2016 \| 122 comments
15.		Android platform engineer on application architecture (plus.google.com)
		220 points by EddieRingle on May 16, 2016 \| 121 comments
16.		Campaign demands telecoms unlock the FM radio found in many smartphones (cbc.ca)
		199 points by jonbaer on May 16, 2016 \| 177 comments
17.		How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for Login and Sudo (linux.com)
		139 points by lobo_tuerto on May 15, 2016 \| 38 comments
18.		The blockchain is a threat to the distributed future of the Internet (lasindias.com)
		124 points by xrorre on May 16, 2016 \| 77 comments
19.		Soyuz 2.1a 3-Stage Launch [video] (vedomosti.ru)
		119 points by rodionos on May 16, 2016 \| 13 comments
20.		Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data (aeracode.org)
		140 points by andrewgodwin on May 16, 2016 \| 41 comments
21.		Tech Startups Come Up with Some Creative Definitions for ‘Profitable’ (bloomberg.com)
		137 points by chang2301 on May 16, 2016 \| 72 comments
22.		Enabling HTTP/2 for Dropbox web services: experiences and observations (dropbox.com)
		126 points by 0xmohit on May 15, 2016 \| 40 comments
23.		Doctors' Secret Language for Assisted Suicide (theatlantic.com)
		197 points by nitin_flanker on May 16, 2016 \| 63 comments
24.		Stoned drivers are safer than drunk ones, new federal data show (washingtonpost.com)
		251 points by pkaeding on May 16, 2016 \| 268 comments
25.		Viking Horde: A New Type of Android Malware on Google Play (checkpoint.com)
		103 points by reimertz on May 16, 2016 \| 37 comments
26.		"Another World" source code review (2011) (fabiensanglard.net)
		146 points by theunamedguy on May 15, 2016 \| 31 comments
27.		The life’s work that proved Einstein right (bostonglobe.com)
		96 points by pcl on May 15, 2016 \| 27 comments
28.		Size cost of C++ exception handling on embedded platforms (andriidevel.blogspot.com)
		172 points by Tatyanazaxarova on May 16, 2016 \| 80 comments
29.		The slow death of purposeless walking (2014) (bbc.co.uk)
		229 points by darrhiggs on May 16, 2016 \| 162 comments
30.		Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi (github.com/christinaa)
		96 points by hermanhermitage on May 16, 2016 \| 36 comments
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