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1. JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 (googlesource.com)
509 points by onestone on May 17, 2016 | 217 comments
2. Reason: A new interface to OCaml (facebook.github.io)
603 points by clayallsopp on May 17, 2016 | 287 comments
3. Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB (horizon.io)
606 points by coffeemug on May 17, 2016 | 127 comments
4. High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user” (microsoft.com)
444 points by ivank on May 17, 2016 | 202 comments
5. Cool URIs don't change (1998) (w3.org)
297 points by benjaminjosephw on May 17, 2016 | 122 comments
6. Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata (techcrunch.com)
251 points by zbjornson on May 17, 2016 | 71 comments
7. “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009) (launchpad.net)
419 points by hardmath123 on May 17, 2016 | 155 comments
8. Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time (arstechnica.com)
338 points by okket on May 17, 2016 | 204 comments
9. Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout (themacro.com)
224 points by shayannafisi on May 17, 2016 | 449 comments
10. Yubico: Secure Hardware vs. Open Source (yubico.com)
190 points by francois2 on May 17, 2016 | 110 comments
11. Symantec/Norton Antivirus Remote Heap/Pool Memory Corruption CVE-2016-2208 (chromium.org)
209 points by reubenmorais on May 17, 2016 | 51 comments
12. Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support (quantamagazine.org)
206 points by elorant on May 17, 2016 | 142 comments
13. Microsoft Edge supports ES6 modules (windows.com)
150 points by pilif on May 17, 2016 | 67 comments
14. Singular Value Decomposition Part 2: Theorem, Proof, Algorithm (jeremykun.com)
131 points by alanfranz on May 16, 2016 | 15 comments
15. Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review (madmalik.github.io)
241 points by nikolay on May 17, 2016 | 125 comments
16. Major Remote SSH Security Issue in CoreOS Linux Alpha (coreos.com)
142 points by jonaslejon on May 17, 2016 | 42 comments
17. Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries (techcrunch.com)
120 points by mkolodny on May 17, 2016 | 112 comments
18. AMD releases FireRays 2.0 ray-tracing library as open source (gpuopen.com)
140 points by SXX on May 16, 2016 | 22 comments
19. LMFDB, a catalog of mathematical objects and the connections between them (aimath.org)
136 points by ghosh on May 17, 2016 | 24 comments
20. Raspberry Pi Car Speed Detector (gregtinkers.wordpress.com)
187 points by mhss on May 17, 2016 | 68 comments
21. Google applying to patent deep neural network (LSTM) for machine translation (freepatentsonline.com)
133 points by shmageggy on May 17, 2016 | 72 comments
22. Magic mushrooms found to lift severe depression in clinical trial (theguardian.com)
173 points by torus on May 17, 2016 | 162 comments
23. Understanding consensus and Paxos in distributed systems (ifeanyi.co)
107 points by kiyanwang on May 17, 2016 | 25 comments
24. One Billion Drive Hours and Counting: Q1 2016 Hard Drive Stats (backblaze.com)
279 points by thejosh on May 17, 2016 | 135 comments
25. Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good (newyorker.com)
109 points by gk1 on May 17, 2016 | 173 comments
26. Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard drives, US government says (arstechnica.co.uk)
266 points by LukeB_UK on May 17, 2016 | 216 comments
27. Google veterans head off on their own to work on self-driving trucks (theverge.com)
136 points by lemiant on May 17, 2016 | 137 comments
28. Thoughts on the future of Python and graphical interfaces (medium.com/tryexceptpass)
103 points by sebg on May 17, 2016 | 127 comments
29. LendingClub Loan Buyers Retreat After Shakeup; U.S. Probes (bloomberg.com)
64 points by luther07 on May 16, 2016 | 39 comments
30. Push.js – A minimalist JavaScript library for desktop notifications (github.com/nickersoft)
122 points by Nickersoft on May 17, 2016 | 38 comments

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