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1. Did I just win? (twitter.com/sc00bzt)
950 points by davidtgoldblatt on May 13, 2016 | 129 comments
2. Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area (mercurynews.com)
494 points by akg_67 on May 12, 2016 | 342 comments
3. A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant (washingtonpost.com)
382 points by dlgeek on May 13, 2016 | 115 comments
4. That'll do, pig, that'll do (medium.com/oscargodson)
409 points by exolymph on May 13, 2016 | 203 comments
5. Artem vs. Predator (ribbonfarm.com)
651 points by sharpn on May 12, 2016 | 67 comments
6. Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes (thewirecutter.com)
335 points by Osiris30 on May 13, 2016 | 228 comments
7. Giving up on Julia (zverovich.net)
265 points by ingve on May 13, 2016 | 230 comments
8. Investigating Erlang by reading its system calls (jvns.ca)
159 points by ingve on May 13, 2016 | 39 comments
9. AWS IoT Button (amazon.com)
285 points by vasinov on May 12, 2016 | 137 comments
10. Taking Rust everywhere with rustup (rust-lang.org)
259 points by steveklabnik on May 13, 2016 | 87 comments
11. Apple invests $1B in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing (reuters.com)
300 points by ssclafani on May 13, 2016 | 126 comments
12. New Sublime Text update (sublimetext.com)
338 points by pyed on May 13, 2016 | 229 comments
13. Data Brewery – Python Framework for Data Processing (databrewery.org)
96 points by dedalus on May 13, 2016 | 11 comments
14. State of Starfighter (starfighters.io)
179 points by gk1 on May 13, 2016 | 129 comments
15. Engineer and Investor in Spat About Wireless Charging Startup UBeam (ieee.org)
160 points by w1ntermute on May 13, 2016 | 105 comments
16. CO2 emissions from electricity generation in 2015 were lowest since 1993 (eia.gov)
113 points by Osiris30 on May 13, 2016 | 47 comments
17. Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer (the-paper-trail.org)
265 points by shakkhar on May 13, 2016 | 23 comments
18. LispY C (github.com/eratosthenesia)
184 points by signa11 on May 12, 2016 | 44 comments
19. Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction [video] (msdn.com)
191 points by ingve on May 12, 2016 | 40 comments
20. Another Study Finds Link Between Pharma Money and Brand-name Prescribing (propublica.org)
85 points by acsillag on May 13, 2016 | 10 comments
21. Who Pays Writers? (whopayswriters.com)
240 points by duck on May 13, 2016 | 93 comments
22. SyntaxNet in Context: Understanding Google's New TensorFlow NLP Model (spacy.io)
183 points by syllogism on May 13, 2016 | 32 comments
23. New details about planet 2007 OR10, third largest dwarf planet in solar system (gizmodo.com)
67 points by curtis on May 13, 2016 | 39 comments
24. We Don’t Need More Blood Tests (fivethirtyeight.com)
110 points by fisherjeff on May 13, 2016 | 96 comments
25. “Ancient Mayan city” discovered by teen may in fact be cannabis crop (bbc.com)
115 points by markhellewell on May 13, 2016 | 42 comments
26. Not a Hacker or a Hipster – How I Got My First Startup Job (medium.com/tech-london)
109 points by elemeno on May 12, 2016 | 58 comments
27. HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low (anandtech.com)
84 points by jseliger on May 12, 2016 | 84 comments
28. Here's to the systems programmers – Writing Hello World on a home brew CPU (medium.com/jackqu7)
112 points by jackqu7 on May 12, 2016 | 31 comments
29. Apple stops support for WebObjects (cnn.com)
99 points by secondary on May 13, 2016 | 76 comments
30. Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable (nautil.us)
219 points by dnetesn on May 13, 2016 | 137 comments

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