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1.		US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data (zdnet.com)
		1630 points by voctor on May 16, 2018 \| 625 comments
2.		How a domain registrar can kill your business (uptimechecker.io)
		633 points by richeyrw on May 16, 2018 \| 274 comments
3.		What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M (ghost.org)
		645 points by saturdayplace on May 16, 2018 \| 173 comments
4.		Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality (theverge.com)
		754 points by kposehn on May 16, 2018 \| 228 comments
5.		Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems (acm.org)
		572 points by matt_d on May 16, 2018 \| 50 comments
6.		A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers (github.com/isomorphic-git)
		381 points by axiomdata316 on May 16, 2018 \| 190 comments
7.		AI and Compute (blog.openai.com)
		347 points by gdb on May 16, 2018 \| 130 comments
8.		Tarballs, the ultimate container image format (gnu.org)
		342 points by severus_snape on May 16, 2018 \| 191 comments
9.		Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5 (curious-expedition.com)
		458 points by riadd on May 16, 2018 \| 141 comments
10.		I Got Catfished by a Candidate (saastr.com)
		414 points by imartin2k on May 15, 2018 \| 634 comments
11.		The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) (vitavonni.de)
		558 points by xg15 on May 16, 2018 \| 426 comments
12.		Statistics, Fast and Slow (timharford.com)
		265 points by khc on May 16, 2018 \| 40 comments
13.		HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud (howeycoins.com)
		419 points by ChrisArchitect on May 16, 2018 \| 130 comments
14.		The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now (nytimes.com)
		447 points by jds375 on May 16, 2018 \| 241 comments
15.		Salesforce CEO Benioff calls for national privacy law (salesforce.com)
		318 points by jeffthechimp on May 16, 2018 \| 155 comments
16.		Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings (github.com/jparise)
		273 points by falcon620 on May 16, 2018 \| 208 comments
17.		Verizon AS701 blocking Tor consensus server tor26 (86.59.21.38) (torproject.org)
		169 points by neelc on May 16, 2018 \| 22 comments
18.		A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (2017) (bloomberg.com)
		147 points by dmmalam on May 16, 2018 \| 104 comments
19.		ClassicKit – A collection of UI components for iOS influenced by Windows 95 (github.com/baddaboo)
		236 points by prithvi24 on May 16, 2018 \| 58 comments
20.		A world hidden 30m below Budapest (bbc.com)
		137 points by MiriamWeiner on May 15, 2018 \| 8 comments
21.		The Language of the Roman Empire (historytoday.com)
		186 points by diodorus on May 15, 2018 \| 114 comments
22.		2FA Notifier – Know when a site supports 2FA (2fanotifier.org)
		74 points by dceddia on May 16, 2018 \| 47 comments
23.		The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day (twitter.com/fermatslibrary)
		361 points by slbenfica on May 16, 2018 \| 189 comments
24.		The myth of ‘mad’ genius (aeon.co)
		107 points by baddash on May 16, 2018 \| 69 comments
25.		The Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (cybok.org)
		89 points by MrEliasen on May 15, 2018 \| 18 comments
26.		Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte (lemire.me)
		139 points by ingve on May 16, 2018 \| 69 comments
27.		JavaScript is Good, Actually (ashfurrow.com)
		345 points by skellertor on May 16, 2018 \| 358 comments
28.		Hawaiian Volcano Observatory issues “Red” aviation warning relating to Kīlauea (usgs.gov)
		83 points by lunchbreak on May 16, 2018 \| 56 comments
29.		Chrome updated to temporarily remove the autoplay policy for the Web Audio API (chromium.org)
		99 points by bjornstar on May 16, 2018 \| 73 comments
30.		Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled from Go (npmjs.com)
		89 points by mvdan on May 16, 2018 \| 69 comments
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