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1. Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative (gitea.io)
638 points by amjd on May 6, 2018 | 234 comments
2. Subscription Hell (techcrunch.com)
745 points by Semirhage on May 6, 2018 | 597 comments
3. AstroNavigation – A free course (vanderbilt.edu)
299 points by jweir on May 5, 2018 | 38 comments
4. “Manager READMEs” from some tech companies (hackernoon.com)
394 points by thmslee on May 5, 2018 | 99 comments
5. Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store solar and wind energy (stanford.edu)
255 points by nopinsight on May 6, 2018 | 80 comments
6. California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes (ocregister.com)
314 points by baron816 on May 6, 2018 | 336 comments
7. The Erlang Runtime System (happi.github.io)
262 points by mattw1810 on May 5, 2018 | 21 comments
8. Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (2012) (nytimes.com)
323 points by brunoluiz on May 6, 2018 | 315 comments
9. NASA advisers say SpaceX rocket technology could put lives at risk (chicagotribune.com)
184 points by jackfoxy on May 6, 2018 | 197 comments
10. New autoplay policy in Chrome (blog.google)
169 points by AndersSandvik on May 6, 2018 | 174 comments
11. A woman’s brain stimulator stopped working after her home struck by lightning (nytimes.com)
75 points by dnetesn on May 6, 2018 | 39 comments
12. Show HN: Refjar.com – bookmark links and fetch online discussions (refjar.com)
92 points by mdoliwa on May 3, 2018 | 37 comments
13. The Micronesian island of Yap has stone money too heavy to move (bbc.com)
89 points by MiriamWeiner on May 3, 2018 | 41 comments
14. China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry (wsj.com)
156 points by yazr on May 6, 2018 | 147 comments
15. Letting go of the GPS to learn the art of natural navigation (theguardian.com)
202 points by mislankanova on May 6, 2018 | 87 comments
16. ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story (d46.us)
116 points by pmoriarty on May 5, 2018 | 55 comments
17. Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses (quantamagazine.org)
201 points by omarkn on May 6, 2018 | 40 comments
18. Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016) (frankchimero.com)
144 points by bcongdon on May 3, 2018 | 20 comments
19. CS109 Data Science (cs109.github.io)
215 points by kercker on May 6, 2018 | 16 comments
20. Origins of the finger command (1990) (groups.google.com)
150 points by ColinWright on May 6, 2018 | 55 comments
21. Tesla reviewing contractors, firing everyone not vouched for by an employee (electrek.co)
175 points by WalterSear on May 6, 2018 | 98 comments
22. More fun with reactive-banana-automation (joeyh.name)
138 points by edward on May 6, 2018 | 17 comments
23. Open sourcing Terratest: tools for testing infrastructure code (gruntwork.io)
105 points by kiyanwang on May 6, 2018 | 10 comments
24. 1,000 True Fans (2008) (kk.org)
69 points by pknerd on May 6, 2018 | 7 comments
25. Java’s Mysterious Interrupt (carlmastrangelo.com)
125 points by mattiemass on May 6, 2018 | 35 comments
26. NIST Uncertainty Machine – User’s Manual [pdf] (nist.gov)
56 points by swixmix on May 6, 2018 | 2 comments
27. How Harvey Karp Turned Baby Sleep into Big Business (nytimes.com)
86 points by wallflower on May 6, 2018 | 46 comments
28. A venture fund's experiment in human-free investing (bloomberg.com)
75 points by rafaelc on May 6, 2018 | 19 comments
29. Show HN: ~200 byte in-browser, no JS, private notepad (jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io)
133 points by janneklouman on May 5, 2018 | 70 comments
30. Show HN: Morning Cup of Coding – A curated newsletter of programming articles (humanreadablemag.com)
192 points by pekalicious on May 6, 2018 | 41 comments

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