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1. 82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding (aarp.org)
709 points by joering2 on May 21, 2018 | 214 comments
2. PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements (pgdash.io)
361 points by craigkerstiens on May 21, 2018 | 55 comments
3. The Power of Prolog (metalevel.at)
480 points by tosh on May 21, 2018 | 158 comments
4. Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers (rus.ec)
502 points by jacquesm on May 20, 2018 | 255 comments
5. Go vgo: Semantic Versioning and Human Error (codeengineered.com)
131 points by aleksi on May 21, 2018 | 68 comments
6. Meta Crush Saga: a C++17 compile-time game (jguegant.github.io)
172 points by ingve on May 20, 2018 | 47 comments
7. The Complete History of Lemmings (2006) (javalemmings.com)
189 points by tosh on May 20, 2018 | 39 comments
8. Japan's secret spy agency (theintercept.com)
312 points by tjomk on May 21, 2018 | 90 comments
9. Playing battleships over BGP (benjojo.co.uk)
352 points by benjojo12 on May 21, 2018 | 37 comments
10. Opa – An open-source, general-purpose policy engine (github.com/open-policy-agent)
157 points by tosh on May 21, 2018 | 39 comments
11. Tearing apart printf() (maizure.org)
231 points by necrodome on May 20, 2018 | 42 comments
12. How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (2015) (bzarg.com)
390 points by sytelus on May 21, 2018 | 34 comments
13. A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture (wired.com)
213 points by simulate on May 21, 2018 | 111 comments
14. Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy (phillytrib.com)
219 points by thomas on May 21, 2018 | 194 comments
15. Speculative execution, variant 4: speculative store bypass (chromium.org)
184 points by brandon on May 21, 2018 | 21 comments
16. Getting Google to ban our entire company (reddit.com)
538 points by highace on May 21, 2018 | 336 comments
17. Apps for which macOS applies compatibillity fixes (worthdoingbadly.com)
256 points by ebcase on May 21, 2018 | 125 comments
18. Doug Engelbart's advice to a young software developer [video] (youtube.com)
183 points by DonHopkins on May 21, 2018 | 39 comments
19. Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups (theverge.com)
325 points by DmenshunlAnlsis on May 21, 2018 | 171 comments
20. Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent (ropnop.com)
148 points by vuln on May 21, 2018 | 63 comments
21. How Britain’s First Mission to China Went Wrong (chinachannel.org)
90 points by lermontov on May 21, 2018 | 44 comments
22. One-Of-a-Kind Private Train Takes on Florida’s Traffic Nightmare (bloomberg.com)
197 points by jseliger on May 21, 2018 | 274 comments
23. Medieval trade networks (imgur.com)
220 points by benbreen on May 20, 2018 | 65 comments
24. Growing up with AI (medium.com/mit-media-lab)
130 points by kawera on May 21, 2018 | 33 comments
25. How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015) (lwn.net)
129 points by ingve on May 20, 2018 | 7 comments
26. CBS “60 Minutes” piece on Google’s abuse of dominance (yelpblog.com)
321 points by ericzawo on May 21, 2018 | 179 comments
27. Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance (wired.co.uk)
208 points by justaguyhere on May 21, 2018 | 59 comments
28. Mandaeism (wikipedia.org)
83 points by mr_golyadkin on May 21, 2018 | 41 comments
29. What Sucks About Erlang (2008) (damienkatz.net)
145 points by jxub on May 20, 2018 | 103 comments
30. Boeing's folding wingtips get the FAA green light (engadget.com)
106 points by mpweiher on May 21, 2018 | 125 comments

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