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1. SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch (phys.org)
814 points by dnetesn on May 6, 2016 | 474 comments
2. Inside Palantir (buzzfeed.com)
569 points by JimDash2145 on May 6, 2016 | 307 comments
3. Panama Papers source issues statement (icij.org)
376 points by p0ppe on May 6, 2016 | 138 comments
4. GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa (givedirectly.org)
274 points by deegles on May 6, 2016 | 213 comments
5. Tell HN: Apply HN apology and revision
653 points by dang on May 6, 2016 | 206 comments
6. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010) (busybox.net)
378 points by kylerpalmer on May 6, 2016 | 129 comments
7. Homeless alone (homelessalone.blogspot.com)
254 points by wkoszek on May 6, 2016 | 270 comments
8. Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades (cringely.com)
425 points by rfreytag on May 6, 2016 | 189 comments
9. Rails 5.0.0.rc1 (github.com/rails)
283 points by bdcravens on May 6, 2016 | 138 comments
10. Use AWS Lambda to self-host the comments for your blog (jimpick.com)
226 points by jarmitage on May 6, 2016 | 121 comments
11. Phrack 69 released (phrack.org)
381 points by ChrisArchitect on May 6, 2016 | 56 comments
12. Redis 3.2.0 is out (antirez.com)
366 points by mohamedbassem on May 6, 2016 | 67 comments
13. VXHeaven: Source code for classic viruses (vxheaven.org)
121 points by adamnemecek on May 6, 2016 | 13 comments
14. Inside the Gigafactory That Will Decide Tesla’s Fate (bloomberg.com)
112 points by virtualwhys on May 6, 2016 | 41 comments
15. Ncollide – 2D and 3D collision detection library (ncollide.org)
94 points by brson on May 6, 2016 | 42 comments
16. .NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap (microsoft.com)
157 points by choudeshell on May 6, 2016 | 109 comments
17. Geocities Forever – neural network generated geocities pages (geocitiesforever.com)
143 points by laacz on May 6, 2016 | 40 comments
18. Archivist Won’t Call “Torture Report” a Permanent Record (fas.org)
82 points by rl3 on May 6, 2016 | 13 comments
19. Inside the Magic Pocket (dropbox.com)
115 points by hepha1979 on May 6, 2016 | 29 comments
20. Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016 (polygraph.cool)
340 points by pzaich on May 6, 2016 | 106 comments
21. Henri Bergson’s debate with Albert Einstein swayed the 1921 Nobel committee (nautil.us)
90 points by dnetesn on May 6, 2016 | 43 comments
22. Two Years Open Source (atom.io)
118 points by okket on May 6, 2016 | 56 comments
23. Multidisciplinary (themultidisciplinarian.com)
72 points by Amorymeltzer on May 6, 2016 | 11 comments
24. GNU name system (gnunet.org)
265 points by ashitlerferad on May 6, 2016 | 58 comments
25. Go upgrade Xcode. Fix your Git security hole (rachelbythebay.com)
180 points by hepha1979 on May 6, 2016 | 89 comments
26. TheAIGames – Develop your coding skills by competing in various AI competitions (theaigames.com)
236 points by ceyhan on May 6, 2016 | 39 comments
27. Locking in WebKit (webkit.org)
121 points by pizlonator on May 6, 2016 | 40 comments
28. [dupe] SpaceX: “Landing confirmed” (twitter.com/spacex)
398 points by ajdlinux on May 6, 2016 | 1 comment
29. Typed Python: new Mypy release (mypy-lang.blogspot.com)
156 points by 1st1 on May 6, 2016 | 46 comments
30. Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers” (github.com/bartobri)
216 points by rfreytag on May 6, 2016 | 54 comments

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