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1.42-inch yacht still hoping to become the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic (yachtingworld.com)
464 points by tim_garcia on May 19, 2017 | 199 comments
2.Adding a new Bytecode instruction to the .NET runtime (mattwarren.org)
287 points by matthewwarren on May 19, 2017 | 28 comments
3.Writing correct lock-free and distributed stateful systems in Rust, with TLA+ (github.com/spacejam)
374 points by gfortaine on May 19, 2017 | 94 comments
4.Bootsnap: Optimizing Ruby App Boot Time (shopify.com)
285 points by Finbarr on May 19, 2017 | 74 comments
5.Introducing zetcd (coreos.com)
264 points by rtp on May 19, 2017 | 34 comments
6.WannaCry in-memory key recovery for Windows XP (github.com/aguinet)
317 points by uladzislau on May 19, 2017 | 90 comments
7.Hacker News Readers as Progressive Web Apps (hnpwa.com)
275 points by tbassetto on May 19, 2017 | 70 comments
8.The Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins (atlasobscura.com)
155 points by artsandsci on May 19, 2017 | 25 comments
9.Startup School 13: How to Find Product Market Fit – Peter Reinhardt [video] (startupschool.org)
178 points by sama on May 18, 2017 | 18 comments
10.Learning to break ciphers (littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com)
180 points by libeclipse on May 19, 2017 | 8 comments
11.3-D printed ovaries produce healthy offspring in mice (northwestern.edu)
140 points by Kliment on May 19, 2017 | 51 comments
12.Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation (bbc.co.uk)
538 points by choult on May 19, 2017 | 375 comments
13.Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming?
461 points by simplicitea on May 19, 2017 | 376 comments
14.Making a Neural Synthesizer Instrument (tensorflow.org)
147 points by jessejengel on May 19, 2017 | 44 comments
15.U.S. Startups Fail to Attract Expected Crowd of Small Investors (bloomberg.com)
184 points by vanderfluge on May 19, 2017 | 161 comments
16.So You Want to Write Your Own Language (2014) (drdobbs.com)
183 points by rspivak on May 19, 2017 | 143 comments
17.An open-source web platform for the new President of France (symfony.com)
174 points by esnard on May 19, 2017 | 27 comments
18.The Nimble Type Inferencer for Common Lisp-84 (1990) (pipeline.com)
68 points by Tomte on May 18, 2017 | 1 comment
19.Scastie: use any Scala compiler and Scala library in the browser (scala-lang.org)
170 points by heathermiller on May 19, 2017 | 33 comments
20.How we invented new ways to teach Japanese (duolingo.com)
255 points by jrehor on May 19, 2017 | 139 comments
21.The increased use of PowerShell in attacks [pdf] (symantec.com)
86 points by selmat on May 19, 2017 | 116 comments
22.The State of Go – Where we are in May 2017 (golang.org)
231 points by astdb on May 19, 2017 | 154 comments
23.Show HN: Interactively explore different map projections (mjmdavis.com)
109 points by mjmdavis on May 19, 2017 | 12 comments
24.How RNA formed at the origins of life (phys.org)
94 points by dnetesn on May 19, 2017 | 1 comment
25.Hauberk – A web-based roguelike written in Dart (github.com/munificent)
165 points by tosh on May 19, 2017 | 32 comments
26.JVM Anatomy Park – 11: Moving GC and Locality (shipilev.net)
138 points by hyperpape on May 19, 2017 | 51 comments
27.Google Home: An Insight Into a 4-Year-Old’s Mind (jonobacon.com)
202 points by Vinnl on May 19, 2017 | 148 comments
28.How San Francisco Chronicled Its Own Tech Boom (atlasobscura.com)
73 points by artsandsci on May 19, 2017 | 10 comments
29.Ask HN: Is Hackernews still using the file system as database?
264 points by tosh on May 18, 2017 | 78 comments
30.SketchRNN model released in Magenta (tensorflow.org)
124 points by wei_jok on May 19, 2017 | 10 comments

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