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1.How to Sleep (theatlantic.com)
649 points by ALee on May 28, 2017 [ext] | 265 comments [ext]
2.Why do so few people major in computer science? (danwang.co)
424 points by dmnd on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 599 comments [ext]
3.Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor (pipes.digital)
280 points by onli on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
4. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 14 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
4.Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell (github.com/aviaviavi)
239 points by aviaviavi on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
5.Extracting Chinese Hard Subs from a Video, Part 1 (kerrickstaley.com)
216 points by KerrickStaley on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
6.Unicode is hard (shkspr.mobi)
337 points by edent on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 194 comments [ext]
7. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
7.Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses? [ext]
685 points by 1ba9115454 on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 308 comments [ext]
8.Coffee from California (nytimes.com)
200 points by hvo on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
9.Hub: Wraps Git with extra features that make working with GitHub easier (github.com/github)
98 points by loppers92 on May 27, 2017 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
10. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
10.Hacking Go's type system (katcipis.github.io)
156 points by katcipis on May 28, 2017 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
11.In Memoriam: Jean E. Sammet 1928-2017 (acm.org)
131 points by sohkamyung on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
12.“They Basically Reset My Brain” (theplayerstribune.com)
424 points by aburan28 on May 28, 2017 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
13. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 601 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces? (medium.com/yolpogists)
405 points by lorenzosnap on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
14.Green Threads Explained (c9x.me)
195 points by terminalcommand on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
15.Show HN: Stretch – Free limousine rides (stretchcorp.com)
168 points by drpancake on May 28, 2017 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
16. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Jailbreaking Super Mario World to Install a Hex Editor and Mod Loader [video] (youtube.com)
185 points by ChazDazzle on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
17.Acquisitions accelerate as tech giants seek to build AI smarts (reuters.com)
100 points by t23 on May 28, 2017 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
18.The challenge of decentralized marketplaces (arxiv.org)
69 points by lainon on May 28, 2017 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
19. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
19.An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems (acolyer.org)
105 points by mpweiher on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
20.Fifty Years of Minimalism (2015) (moredarkthanshark.org)
72 points by howsilly on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
21.The scourge of web analytics (stavros.io)
160 points by stavros on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
22. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
22.Ask HN: Ex-Founder. Should I take lowball buyout offer? [ext]
152 points by throwaway21121 on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 158 comments [ext]
23.Mathematics of shuffling by smooshing (quantamagazine.org)
75 points by cjg on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
24.Two Different Approaches to Saving Bees (npr.org)
79 points by lettersdigits on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
25. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 13 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Voronoi Tessellations (datagenetics.com)
158 points by sebg on May 28, 2017 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
26.Exploring DynamIQ and ARM’s New CPUs: Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55 (anandtech.com)
67 points by msh on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.An 1874 Type Catalog (collectorsweekly.com)
81 points by whocansay on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
28. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
28.Ask HN: Why isn't Prolog more popular? [ext]
181 points by miguelrochefort on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
29.Writing a Unix Shell (indradhanush.github.io)
193 points by luu on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
30.China has become a major player in AI (nytimes.com)
148 points by gk1 on May 29, 2017 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
31. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments

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