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1.		First firing of air-breathing electric thruster (esa.int)
		128 points by sohkamyung 2 hours ago \| hide \| 33 comments
2.		OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings (eater.com)
		140 points by danso 4 hours ago \| hide \| 54 comments
3.		Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.11.0 (github.com)
		47 points by tidwall 3 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
4.		MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies (techcrunch.com)
		288 points by vorpalhex 10 hours ago \| hide \| 161 comments
5.		A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
		69 points by amitkapila 4 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
6.		Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows (llvm.org)
		274 points by janvdberg 11 hours ago \| hide \| 78 comments
7.		New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life (quantamagazine.org)
		68 points by IntronExon 5 hours ago \| hide \| 38 comments
8.		The Mystery of the Slow Downloads (panic.com)
		220 points by Doubleguitars 9 hours ago \| hide \| 46 comments
9.		Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (marckhoury.github.io)
		285 points by marckhoury 11 hours ago \| hide \| 47 comments
10.		Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency (engineering.instagram.com)
		337 points by mikeyk 13 hours ago \| hide \| 123 comments
11.		History of the browser user-agent string (2008) (webaim.org)
		453 points by jesperht 8 hours ago \| hide \| 130 comments
12.		How generics were added to .NET (mattwarren.org)
		130 points by matthewwarren 9 hours ago \| hide \| 54 comments
13.		Pitching Your Startup (stripe.com)
		67 points by gk1 5 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
14.		Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor (github.com)
		243 points by seanwilson 8 hours ago \| hide \| 146 comments
15.		Fond (YC W12) Is Looking for a Director of Product in SF (lever.co)
		1 hour ago \| hide
16.		Notes for new Make users (sourceforge.net)
		265 points by henry_flower 13 hours ago \| hide \| 65 comments
17.		Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back (chicagomaroon.com)
		93 points by avree 9 hours ago \| hide \| 49 comments
18.		Get specific (2008) (sivers.org)
		59 points by duck 7 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
19.		The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (ieee.org)
		100 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
20.		Paypal Patent Application: Expedited Virtual Currency Transaction System (uspto.gov)
		117 points by lrvick 9 hours ago \| hide \| 67 comments
21.		Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer (theguardian.com)
		146 points by DanBC 14 hours ago \| hide \| 63 comments
22.		P&G and WPP: How shit hit the fan in digital marketing (mumbrella.com.au)
		130 points by tambourine_man 12 hours ago \| hide \| 56 comments
23.		Message Passing and the Actor Model (dist-prog-book.com)
		185 points by amzans 15 hours ago \| hide \| 68 comments
24.		Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site (nytimes.com)
		163 points by scdoshi 15 hours ago \| hide \| 101 comments
25.		Google's C++ Class (developers.google.com)
		176 points by hamid914 8 hours ago \| hide \| 34 comments
26.		Timers, reminders, alarms – oh, my (leancrew.com)
		40 points by idoh 8 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
27.		A few things I've learned about computer networking (jvns.ca)
		33 points by weinzierl 2 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
28.		Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006) (ronpatrickstuff.com)
		149 points by panic 15 hours ago \| hide \| 53 comments
29.		In which a compiler gets its wings (technomancy.us)
		58 points by signa11 10 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
30.		My Last Day at Moz, My First Day at SparkToro (sparktoro.com)
		59 points by freddier 4 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
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