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1.		How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds (medium.com/tristanharris)
		1612 points by lxm on May 20, 2016 \| 427 comments
2.		Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today (nytimes.com)
		321 points by strivedi on May 20, 2016 \| 233 comments
3.		Project Ara Lives: Google's Modular Phone (wired.com)
		141 points by anigbrowl on May 20, 2016 \| 94 comments
4.		A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing (atlasobscura.com)
		220 points by curtis on May 20, 2016 \| 43 comments
5.		Libui: GUI library in C (github.com/andlabs)
		373 points by avitex on May 20, 2016 \| 182 comments
6.		If you care about privacy, you should not use Google Allo (vice.com)
		248 points by walterbell on May 20, 2016 \| 150 comments
7.		Standard deviation is ready for retirement: Nassim Taleb (2014) (edge.org)
		223 points by chollida1 on May 20, 2016 \| 120 comments
8.		Moving Away from Python 2 (asmeurer.github.io)
		227 points by ngoldbaum on May 20, 2016 \| 275 comments
9.		CSS coding techniques (hacks.mozilla.org)
		329 points by nachtigall on May 20, 2016 \| 132 comments
10.		China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study (bloomberg.com)
		221 points by suprgeek on May 20, 2016 \| 193 comments
11.		Anguish: Invisible Programming Language and Invisible Data Theft (perl.org)
		225 points by labster on May 19, 2016 \| 59 comments
12.		CSS Purge (csspurge.com)
		190 points by tnorthcutt on May 20, 2016 \| 78 comments
13.		How the Gut Affects Mood (fivethirtyeight.com)
		198 points by sndean on May 19, 2016 \| 33 comments
14.		Lens of human eye can be fully regenerated, at least in newborns (evidenceba.se)
		98 points by krzysiek on May 20, 2016 \| 35 comments
15.		Darwinian medicine and the ‘hygiene’ or ‘old friends’ hypothesis (nih.gov)
		55 points by slicktux on May 19, 2016 \| 8 comments
16.		Support for parallel ECDSA / RSA certificates (nginx.org)
		82 points by runesoerensen on May 20, 2016 \| 17 comments
17.		Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US (theverge.com)
		187 points by chirau on May 20, 2016 \| 249 comments
18.		One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
		103 points by astdb on May 20, 2016 \| 19 comments
19.		Cutestrap: 8k CSS framework (cutestrap.com)
		161 points by tangue on May 20, 2016 \| 54 comments
20.		Minecraft Server with a Bitcoin-denominated monetary system (bitquest.co)
		119 points by martindale on May 20, 2016 \| 48 comments
21.		Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone (theguardian.com)
		202 points by lucaspiller on May 20, 2016 \| 69 comments
22.		Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5 (bitmovin.com)
		215 points by slederer on May 20, 2016 \| 234 comments
23.		A Docker file for Reason development (github.com/facebook)
		56 points by yunxing on May 20, 2016 \| 20 comments
24.		Shebang Quine (github.com/geon)
		162 points by geon on May 20, 2016 \| 54 comments
25.		Fox 'uses' a gameplay video from YouTube, and removes the original with DMCA (torrentfreak.com)
		363 points by juanito on May 20, 2016 \| 77 comments
26.		Apex lets you build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease (apex.run)
		85 points by davedx on May 20, 2016 \| 57 comments
27.		Museum of Soviet arcade machines (15kop.ru)
		90 points by tosseraccount on May 20, 2016 \| 40 comments
28.		Ways C compilers break for objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX bytes (trust-in-soft.com)
		74 points by panic on May 20, 2016 \| 18 comments
29.		Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea (bbc.com)
		125 points by leothekim on May 20, 2016 \| 97 comments
30.		Cruise settles legal case involving cofounder (businessinsider.com)
		99 points by taylorhou on May 20, 2016 \| 63 comments
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