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1. Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse (techcrunch.com)
440 points by JumpCrisscross on May 12, 2019 | 266 comments
2. Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit limiting ability to shut off MCAS (seattletimes.com)
395 points by erentz on May 11, 2019 | 325 comments
3. Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs (withgoogle.com)
342 points by sarego on May 12, 2019 | 189 comments
4. What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft (medium.com/alicjaes)
380 points by newnoobpl on May 11, 2019 | 236 comments
5. Senate Testimony on Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy (idlewords.com)
313 points by aaronbrethorst on May 12, 2019 | 52 comments
6. Why Recycling Doesn't Work (thewalrus.ca)
273 points by pseudolus on May 12, 2019 | 216 comments
7. Show HN: Koonchi – Convert Photo to Hand-Painted Painting by Artists from India (koonchi.com)
275 points by OrganicQuote on May 12, 2019 | 115 comments
8. Openpilot – open-source self-driving agent (github.com/commaai)
262 points by boramalper on May 12, 2019 | 111 comments
9. During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw (smithsonianmag.com)
221 points by pseudolus on May 12, 2019 | 98 comments
10. Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, and Pascal shiny things (github.com/fr0st-brutal)
185 points by peter_d_sherman on May 12, 2019 | 45 comments
11. Gameboy.live: A basic Gameboy emulator with terminal “cloud gaming” support (github.com/hfo4)
148 points by gslin on May 12, 2019 | 50 comments
12. Predicting Stack Overflow Tags with Google’s Cloud AI (stackoverflow.blog)
163 points by amrrs on May 12, 2019 | 43 comments
13. F() vs. F(void) in C vs. C++ (nickdesaulniers.github.io)
194 points by headalgorithm on May 12, 2019 | 67 comments
14. Scientific Errors in Nat Geo Milky Way Photos (petapixel.com)
153 points by spzx on May 11, 2019 | 42 comments
15. Why are people modding Thomas the Tank Engine into video games? (theface.com)
121 points by bryanrasmussen on May 12, 2019 | 56 comments
16. They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia (nytimes.com)
301 points by pfortuny on May 12, 2019 | 321 comments
17. Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island (theguardian.com)
119 points by CDSlice on May 11, 2019 | 79 comments
18. Math teachers should be more like football coaches (nytimes.com)
210 points by mjirv on May 12, 2019 | 131 comments
19. Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass (atlasobscura.com)
134 points by Thevet on May 10, 2019 | 13 comments
20. The Peculiar Blindness of Experts (theatlantic.com)
129 points by 16961714b on May 11, 2019 | 30 comments
21. Humane by Design (humanebydesign.com)
99 points by AngeloAnolin on May 11, 2019 | 36 comments
22. The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit (upenn.edu)
189 points by mcenedella on May 12, 2019 | 111 comments
23. Jets: Ruby Serverless Framework (rubyonjets.com)
159 points by alfonsodev on May 12, 2019 | 39 comments
24. Zapping Nuclear Waste in Minutes Is Nobel Winner’s Holy Grail Quest (bloomberg.com)
100 points by malshe on May 12, 2019 | 234 comments
25. The speed of BGP network propagation (benjojo.co.uk)
102 points by luu on May 10, 2019 | 3 comments
26. The Empty Promise of Data Moats (a16z.com)
143 points by lxm on May 11, 2019 | 34 comments
27. Academe’s Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey, and Professional Collapse at MLA (chronicle.com)
66 points by jseliger on May 11, 2019 | 36 comments
28. What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat (kotaku.com.au)
174 points by luu on May 11, 2019 | 133 comments
29. The Feynman Lectures on Physics now free (caltech.edu)
253 points by stillmotion on May 11, 2019 | 27 comments
30. Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off San Francisco (2015) (telstarlogistics.typepad.com)
93 points by herendin2 on May 12, 2019 | 97 comments

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