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1.		The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written (quora.com)
		1493 points by graposaymaname on May 18, 2018 \| 481 comments
2.		An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression (novaspivack.com)
		626 points by airesearcher on May 18, 2018 \| 179 comments
3.		Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles (kb.se)
		784 points by rreichman on May 18, 2018 \| 116 comments
4.		Solving dynamic programming interview problems (refdash.com)
		461 points by otasevic on May 18, 2018 \| 164 comments
5.		Introducing Git protocol version 2 (googleblog.com)
		547 points by robmaceachern on May 18, 2018 \| 163 comments
6.		Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story (facebook.com)
		455 points by tzhenghao on May 18, 2018 \| 272 comments
7.		Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard (whiteboardfree.com)
		396 points by vbordo on May 18, 2018 \| 349 comments
8.		Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy Disk System (paleotronic.com)
		336 points by empressplay on May 18, 2018 \| 70 comments
9.		GDPR: Don't Panic (jacquesmattheij.com)
		863 points by grabeh on May 18, 2018 \| 800 comments
10.		Epigenetics: The Evolution Revolution (nybooks.com)
		115 points by techrede on May 18, 2018 \| 32 comments
11.		$11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts (adsensepublishersettlement.com)
		181 points by smartician on May 18, 2018 \| 127 comments
12.		Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale (improbable.io)
		177 points by henridf on May 18, 2018 \| 55 comments
13.		Binary SMS – The old backdoor to your new thing (contextis.com)
		213 points by wolframio on May 17, 2018 \| 37 comments
14.		Pie Menus: A 30-Year Retrospective: Take a Look and Feel Free (medium.com/donhopkins)
		130 points by DonHopkins on May 18, 2018 \| 49 comments
15.		How NASA’s Mission to Pluto Was Nearly Lost (nautil.us)
		101 points by dnetesn on May 18, 2018 \| 21 comments
16.		On Competing with C Using Haskell (2017) (two-wrongs.com)
		101 points by signa11 on May 18, 2018 \| 23 comments
17.		Making Radio Chips for Hell (ieee.org)
		94 points by rbanffy on May 18, 2018 \| 28 comments
18.		Rust Qt Binding Generator (github.com/kde)
		206 points by vbsteven on May 18, 2018 \| 42 comments
19.		Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes (quantamagazine.org)
		227 points by bainsfather on May 18, 2018 \| 59 comments
20.		EC2 Instance Update – C5 Instances with Local NVMe Storage (amazon.com)
		108 points by jeffbarr on May 18, 2018 \| 62 comments
21.		Proxy, a new JavaScript ES6 feature (atyantik.com)
		199 points by tirthbodawala on May 18, 2018 \| 90 comments
22.		Signalling System No 7 (wikipedia.org)
		64 points by godelmachine on May 18, 2018 \| 17 comments
23.		Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research (jstor.org)
		178 points by DmenshunlAnlsis on May 18, 2018 \| 67 comments
24.		What the History of Math Can Teach Us About the Future of AI (scientificamerican.com)
		81 points by jkuria on May 17, 2018 \| 37 comments
25.		Semantic Compression (caseymuratori.com)
		88 points by rinesh on May 17, 2018 \| 41 comments
26.		Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years (boingboing.net)
		253 points by stablemap on May 18, 2018 \| 124 comments
27.		People crave silence, yet are unnerved by it (economist.com)
		113 points by tintinnabula on May 18, 2018 \| 70 comments
28.		Show HN: Simple and comprehensive tutorials in Deep Learning using TensorFlow (github.com/easy-tensorflow)
		157 points by irsina on May 18, 2018 \| 6 comments
29.		New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines (nytimes.com)
		95 points by petethomas on May 17, 2018 \| 109 comments
30.		The popular creation story of astronomy is wrong (nautil.us)
		110 points by dustfinger on May 18, 2018 \| 71 comments
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