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1.Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis (princeton.edu)
592 points by itg on May 19, 2016 | 268 comments
2.Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks (googleblog.com)
380 points by ojn on May 19, 2016 | 202 comments
3.Chrome removes Backspace to go back (chromium.org)
690 points by ivank on May 19, 2016 | 583 comments
4.LinkedIn password leak (kaspersky.com)
398 points by trumpeter on May 19, 2016 | 207 comments
5.Bootcamps vs. College (triplebyte.com)
391 points by kwi on May 19, 2016 | 435 comments
6.A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch (github.com/byvoid)
392 points by onecooldev24 on May 19, 2016 | 142 comments
7.Google's mapping cars discover hundreds of underground gas leaks (dallasnews.com)
245 points by state_machine on May 19, 2016 | 76 comments
8.Visual profiler for Python (github.com/nvdv)
213 points by nvdv on May 19, 2016 | 36 comments
9.Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people (troyhunt.com)
355 points by danso on May 19, 2016 | 116 comments
10.Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results (wsj.com)
299 points by ssclafani on May 19, 2016 | 167 comments
11.More contributions on your profile (github.com/blog)
240 points by cheshire137 on May 19, 2016 | 120 comments
12.Keep your identity small (2009) (paulgraham.com)
184 points by nostrademons on May 19, 2016 | 151 comments
13.How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid (lowtechmagazine.com)
201 points by hellrich on May 18, 2016 | 138 comments
14.A Practical Guide to Lasers for Experimenters and Hobbyists (repairfaq.org)
162 points by Phithagoras on May 19, 2016 | 18 comments
15.Introducing the 2nd Generation Boosted Board (boostedboards.com)
198 points by jpb0104 on May 19, 2016 | 187 comments
16.Exercise Tied to Lower Risk for Some Types of Cancer (nytimes.com)
104 points by hvo on May 19, 2016 | 54 comments
17.So Far, So Good (hintjens.com)
162 points by okket on May 19, 2016 | 28 comments
18.Inferno: A compact OS for building cross-platform distributed systems (vitanuova.com)
122 points by arm on May 19, 2016 | 53 comments
19.Sysdig: Behavioral Activity Monitor With Container Support (sysdig.org)
80 points by louis-paul on May 18, 2016 | 7 comments
20.Swift: Things I really wanted that won’t make it (ericasadun.com)
102 points by ingve on May 19, 2016 | 51 comments
21.Blue Feed, Red Feed (wsj.com)
91 points by some-guy on May 19, 2016 | 55 comments
22.Ransomware maker TeslaCrypt shuts down after releasing master key (techcrunch.com)
106 points by cyberfart on May 19, 2016 | 92 comments
23.How tainted drugs “froze” young people but kickstarted Parkinson’s research (arstechnica.com)
68 points by gvb on May 18, 2016 | 20 comments
24.Space Invaders: A Burglar’s Guide to the City (lareviewofbooks.org)
69 points by allthebest on May 19, 2016 | 17 comments
25.Tips for beginning systems and software engineers (ilya-sher.org)
217 points by ilyash on May 19, 2016 | 111 comments
26.A lesson in the lost technology of shorthand (2014) (theatlantic.com)
96 points by kqr on May 19, 2016 | 63 comments
27.Git Reflow (github.com/reenhanced)
109 points by jaybosamiya on May 19, 2016 | 79 comments
28.In Sharp Reversal, California Suspends Water Restrictions (nytimes.com)
73 points by jstreebin on May 19, 2016 | 65 comments
29.Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools (exceptionnotfound.net)
305 points by kiyanwang on May 19, 2016 | 165 comments
30.The False Promise of DNA Testing (theatlantic.com)
64 points by sergeant3 on May 18, 2016 | 32 comments

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