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31.		Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform (wired.com)
		128 points by _zhqs on May 4, 2018 \| 70 comments
32.		Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot (online.net)
		130 points by olragon on May 4, 2018 \| 60 comments
33.		A secondary market has emerged for buying and selling Telegram tokens early (techcrunch.com)
		127 points by dsr12 on May 4, 2018 \| 103 comments
34.		A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm to Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid (defenseone.com)
		141 points by lnguyen on May 4, 2018 \| 149 comments
35.		The extraordinary life and death of the world’s oldest known spider (washingtonpost.com)
		171 points by okket on May 4, 2018 \| 18 comments
36.		Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook (longreads.com)
		99 points by kawera on May 4, 2018 \| 79 comments
37.		Zoopraxiscope (wikipedia.org)
		37 points by prismatic on May 2, 2018
38.		Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature This Year (wsj.com)
		133 points by dcgudeman on May 4, 2018 \| 164 comments
39.		Open Sourcing Seurat: bringing high-fidelity scenes to mobile VR (googleblog.com)
		69 points by barrongineer on May 4, 2018 \| 10 comments
40.		Ascii Art Generator (now.sh)
		189 points by saratonite on May 4, 2018 \| 28 comments
41.		How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System (nytimes.com)
		216 points by hvo on May 4, 2018 \| 180 comments
42.		Neural Networks and Primes (repl.it)
		68 points by amasad on May 4, 2018 \| 20 comments
43.		Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker (inc.com)
		73 points by fourmii on May 4, 2018 \| 67 comments
44.		Testing distributed systems (asatarin.github.io)
		127 points by Dawny33 on May 4, 2018 \| 2 comments
45.		The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civilizations (vice.com)
		66 points by anarbadalov on May 3, 2018 \| 19 comments
46.		Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history (nytimes.com)
		121 points by petethomas on May 4, 2018 \| 61 comments
47.		Ask HN: Startup to enterprise and back to startups – how?
		80 points by throwaway41441 on May 4, 2018 \| 50 comments
48.		Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes (drewdevault.com)
		313 points by ddevault on May 4, 2018 \| 185 comments
49.		Sinister parasites that control their hosts' minds (bbc.com)
		82 points by option_greek on May 4, 2018 \| 28 comments
50.		Technique to manipulate electrons with light could make computers much faster (opli.net)
		67 points by Menachem36 on May 4, 2018 \| 9 comments
51.		Lisp, Jazz, Aikido (programming-journal.org)
		114 points by mpweiher on May 4, 2018 \| 138 comments
52.		Performance analysis of cloud applications (acolyer.org)
		49 points by mpweiher on May 4, 2018 \| 2 comments
53.		Oni – Modern Modal Editing (onivim.io)
		110 points by jbernardo95 on May 4, 2018 \| 85 comments
54.		A new model for communication in plant cells (phys.org)
		29 points by dnetesn on May 4, 2018
55.		Pulling the Plug on GeForce Partner Program (nvidia.com)
		75 points by malmaud on May 4, 2018 \| 39 comments
56.		Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
		241 points by choogi on May 4, 2018 \| 244 comments
57.		We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS (2016) (beets.io)
		136 points by nailer on May 4, 2018 \| 118 comments
58.		Yippies vs. Zippies: New book reveals ’70s counterculture feud (thevillager.com)
		22 points by acsillag on May 3, 2018 \| 3 comments
59.		Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself (theguardian.com)
		78 points by t23 on May 4, 2018 \| 54 comments
60.		Cities from the sea: the true cost of reclaimed land (theguardian.com)
		20 points by AhmadM91 on May 2, 2018 \| 10 comments
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