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1.		First firing of air-breathing electric thruster (esa.int)
		167 points by sohkamyung 3 hours ago \| hide \| 39 comments
2.		OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings (eater.com)
		152 points by danso 5 hours ago \| hide \| 64 comments
3.		MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies (techcrunch.com)
		298 points by vorpalhex 11 hours ago \| hide \| 164 comments
4.		Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.11.0 (github.com)
		58 points by tidwall 4 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
5.		Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows (llvm.org)
		296 points by janvdberg 12 hours ago \| hide \| 79 comments
6.		A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
		79 points by amitkapila 5 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
7.		The Mystery of the Slow Downloads (panic.com)
		250 points by Doubleguitars 10 hours ago \| hide \| 48 comments
8.		Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (marckhoury.github.io)
		294 points by marckhoury 12 hours ago \| hide \| 48 comments
9.		New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life (quantamagazine.org)
		78 points by IntronExon 6 hours ago \| hide \| 40 comments
10.		Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency (engineering.instagram.com)
		347 points by mikeyk 14 hours ago \| hide \| 124 comments
11.		How generics were added to .NET (mattwarren.org)
		150 points by matthewwarren 10 hours ago \| hide \| 60 comments
12.		History of the browser user-agent string (2008) (webaim.org)
		464 points by jesperht 9 hours ago \| hide \| 130 comments
13.		Pitching Your Startup (stripe.com)
		77 points by gk1 6 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
14.		Notes for new Make users (sourceforge.net)
		269 points by henry_flower 14 hours ago \| hide \| 69 comments
15.		Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back (chicagomaroon.com)
		96 points by avree 10 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
16.		Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor (github.com)
		255 points by seanwilson 8 hours ago \| hide \| 158 comments
17.		Get specific (2008) (sivers.org)
		65 points by duck 8 hours ago \| hide \| 17 comments
18.		The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (ieee.org)
		109 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago \| hide \| 55 comments
19.		Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer (theguardian.com)
		148 points by DanBC 15 hours ago \| hide \| 70 comments
20.		Paypal Patent Application: Expedited Virtual Currency Transaction System (uspto.gov)
		118 points by lrvick 10 hours ago \| hide \| 67 comments
21.		P&G and WPP: How shit hit the fan in digital marketing (mumbrella.com.au)
		133 points by tambourine_man 13 hours ago \| hide \| 61 comments
22.		Fond (YC W12) Is Looking for a Director of Product in SF (lever.co)
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23.		Message Passing and the Actor Model (dist-prog-book.com)
		192 points by amzans 16 hours ago \| hide \| 68 comments
24.		Google's C++ Class (developers.google.com)
		195 points by hamid914 9 hours ago \| hide \| 37 comments
25.		Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site (nytimes.com)
		163 points by scdoshi 16 hours ago \| hide \| 102 comments
26.		Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006) (ronpatrickstuff.com)
		151 points by panic 16 hours ago \| hide \| 54 comments
27.		Timers, reminders, alarms – oh, my (leancrew.com)
		42 points by idoh 9 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
28.		A few things I've learned about computer networking (jvns.ca)
		47 points by weinzierl 3 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
29.		In which a compiler gets its wings (technomancy.us)
		63 points by signa11 11 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
30.		SlimerJS: a replacement for PhantomJS using recent Firefox (slimerjs.org)
		52 points by fanf2 11 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
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