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1. AI Playbook (a16z.com)
806 points by jbredeche on May 15, 2017 | 113 comments
2. Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com)
719 points by josephpmay on May 15, 2017 | 371 comments
3. Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (2010) (mathoverflow.net)
620 points by mathgenius on May 15, 2017 | 260 comments
4. Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries (github.com/kshvmdn)
341 points by kshvmdn on May 15, 2017 | 126 comments
5. Consider a Dell Optiplex FX160 Instead of a Raspberry Pi (thesizzle.com.au)
526 points by uptown on May 15, 2017 | 219 comments
6. The Dark Side of Doctoring (ericlevi.com)
347 points by dy on May 15, 2017 | 230 comments
7. Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010) [pdf] (mitpress.mit.edu)
260 points by 7402 on May 15, 2017 | 30 comments
8. FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Spam Is Removed (jeffreyfossett.com)
380 points by xparadigm on May 14, 2017 | 144 comments
9. Nearly 1 in 3 drugs have a significant safety issue after FDA approval (latimes.com)
211 points by ohaikbai on May 15, 2017 | 159 comments
10. Dangerous Skyscrapers Channel Wind and Sun, Topple Pedestrians and Start Fires (99percentinvisible.org)
207 points by matthberg on May 15, 2017 | 88 comments
11. Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police (middleeasteye.net)
312 points by robteix on May 15, 2017 | 155 comments
12. Two years of Rust (rust-lang.org)
405 points by steveklabnik on May 15, 2017 | 303 comments
13. The World’s Largest Street-Level Imagery Dataset for Teaching Machines to See (mapillary.com)
139 points by hunglee2 on May 14, 2017 | 7 comments
14. The iPad Mystery (mondaynote.com)
204 points by robin_reala on May 15, 2017 | 256 comments
15. An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly (smashingmagazine.com)
235 points by pk2200 on May 15, 2017 | 102 comments
16. What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016) (quora.com)
260 points by janeboo on May 15, 2017 | 285 comments
17. Eliminating the Human (davidbyrne.com)
200 points by denom on May 15, 2017 | 109 comments
18. Why Amazon is eating the world (techcrunch.com)
417 points by Doubleguitars on May 15, 2017 | 279 comments
19. Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter Within Its Headquarters (amazon.com)
204 points by perfmode on May 15, 2017 | 186 comments
20. Show HN: Nginx Sysguard – throttle requests by load, average request time, etc. (github.com/vozlt)
161 points by vozlt on May 15, 2017 | 17 comments
21. Interfacing Fortran with OCaml (lambda-diode.com)
78 points by based2 on May 14, 2017
22. Borderlands' sponsorships came about as an alternative to closing the store (borderlands-sponsors.blogspot.com)
81 points by quickfox on May 15, 2017 | 84 comments
23. Access codes for United cockpit doors accidentally posted online (techcrunch.com)
161 points by gk1 on May 15, 2017 | 67 comments
24. WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine (twitter.com/hackerfantastic)
173 points by SteBu on May 15, 2017 | 49 comments
25. How Craigslist Makes Money (forbes.com/sites/ryanmac)
256 points by sytelus on May 14, 2017 | 232 comments
26. Scientists Achieve Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication (sciencealert.com)
88 points by mido22 on May 15, 2017 | 26 comments
27. Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update (troyhunt.com)
327 points by Kipters on May 15, 2017 | 551 comments
28. Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated by ‘WannaCry’ attack (bgr.com)
450 points by BishopD on May 15, 2017 | 180 comments
29. Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb (thenextweb.com)
442 points by ascorbic on May 15, 2017 | 107 comments
30. Intel’s Mark Bohr on the push into multi-chip solutions and issues at 5nm/7nm (semiengineering.com)
117 points by SemiTom on May 15, 2017 | 33 comments

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