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1.		Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building (derrickreimer.com)
		494 points by rwalling on May 17, 2019 \| 215 comments
2.		The struggles of an open source maintainer (antirez.com)
		719 points by ngaut on May 17, 2019 \| 216 comments
3.		Guide to Deep Work (doist.com)
		418 points by pointnova on May 17, 2019 \| 65 comments
4.		Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter (github.com/python)
		407 points by collinmanderson on May 17, 2019 \| 244 comments
5.		Game Engine Black Books Update (fabiensanglard.net)
		436 points by _bxg1 on May 17, 2019 \| 68 comments
6.		Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray (reuters.com)
		245 points by jeremiahlee on May 17, 2019 \| 165 comments
7.		New Game: Minecraft Earth (minecraft.net)
		441 points by eDameXxX on May 17, 2019 \| 227 comments
8.		Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete (cnbc.com)
		402 points by coloneltcb on May 17, 2019 \| 221 comments
9.		Amazon Jumps into Freight Brokerage (ttnews.com)
		201 points by turtlegrids on May 17, 2019 \| 117 comments
10.		Can we all stop using Medium now? (webdistortion.com)
		925 points by squiggy22 on May 16, 2019 \| 327 comments
11.		Peermaps (peermaps.org)
		149 points by bpierre on May 16, 2019 \| 19 comments
12.		Update to Security Incident (stackoverflow.blog)
		235 points by rahuldottech on May 17, 2019 \| 44 comments
13.		Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms (nytimes.com)
		469 points by ingve on May 17, 2019 \| 444 comments
14.		Get Your Book, Make It Free (realtimerendering.com)
		356 points by arunc on May 17, 2019 \| 130 comments
15.		Firms That Promised Ransomware Decryption Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers (propublica.org)
		397 points by jkao-propublica on May 15, 2019 \| 137 comments
16.		Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools (hacks.mozilla.org)
		320 points by edmorley on May 16, 2019 \| 72 comments
17.		A new documentary on the downfall of General Magic (hyperallergic.com)
		125 points by pseudolus on May 17, 2019 \| 70 comments
18.		Security Update (stackoverflow.blog)
		292 points by taspeotis on May 17, 2019 \| 200 comments
19.		Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning (ocw.mit.edu)
		306 points by ericol on May 16, 2019 \| 21 comments
20.		Genomics – A programmer’s guide (gist.github.com)
		274 points by andy-thomason on May 17, 2019 \| 51 comments
21.		Matrices as Tensor Network Diagrams (math3ma.com)
		225 points by _Microft on May 17, 2019 \| 33 comments
22.		As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern (quantamagazine.org)
		184 points by pseudolus on May 17, 2019 \| 131 comments
23.		An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is no longer the standard kilogram (news.mit.edu)
		202 points by WalterSobchak on May 17, 2019 \| 143 comments
24.		Spina bifida: Keyhole surgery repairs baby spine in womb (bbc.co.uk)
		127 points by bauc on May 17, 2019 \| 53 comments
25.		Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK beaches: study (theguardian.com)
		256 points by cfarm on May 15, 2019 \| 196 comments
26.		Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider (twitter.com/waxzce)
		332 points by samber on May 17, 2019 \| 178 comments
27.		Tracking logo found in Navy email to Navy Times amid leak investigation (militarytimes.com)
		103 points by Jerry2 on May 17, 2019 \| 137 comments
28.		Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed (thedrive.com)
		358 points by ryanmarsh on May 17, 2019 \| 235 comments
29.		Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model (googleblog.com)
		121 points by bkudria on May 17, 2019 \| 39 comments
30.		Unwind: A privilege-separated DNS recursive nameserver for every laptop [pdf] (openbsd.org)
		76 points by Jonhoo on May 17, 2019 \| 6 comments
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