Hacker News

1.		Ontario Wrongly Separated Families Because of Junk Science Hair-Testing Program (reason.com)
		21 points by okket 25 minutes ago \| hide \| 2 comments
2.		First firing of air-breathing electric thruster (esa.int)
		233 points by sohkamyung 5 hours ago \| hide \| 56 comments
3.		How a database leak was discovered in one of the biggest swiss hosting provider (infoteam.ch)
		13 points by redsec 23 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
4.		Retweets are Trash (theatlantic.com)
		8 points by shaki-dora 46 minutes ago \| hide \| 1 comment
5.		OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings (eater.com)
		169 points by danso 7 hours ago \| hide \| 72 comments
6.		The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO (chartmogul.com)
		8 points by erikrothoff 25 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
7.		Clicker Heroes maker compares new lawsuit from “patent troll” to extortion (arstechnica.com)
		10 points by WayneSmallman 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
8.		Swift Expert Wanted Work on iOS as Simple Habit's 4th Engineer (lever.co)
		17 minutes ago \| hide
9.		MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies (techcrunch.com)
		309 points by vorpalhex 13 hours ago \| hide \| 176 comments
10.		Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows (llvm.org)
		323 points by janvdberg 14 hours ago \| hide \| 84 comments
11.		Progressive Locks: fast, upgradable read/write locks (wtarreau.blogspot.com)
		5 points by vbernat 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
12.		A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
		103 points by amitkapila 7 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
13.		Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.11.0 (github.com)
		74 points by tidwall 6 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
14.		The Mystery of the Slow Downloads (panic.com)
		285 points by Doubleguitars 12 hours ago \| hide \| 57 comments
15.		Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (marckhoury.github.io)
		316 points by marckhoury 14 hours ago \| hide \| 52 comments
16.		Scheme web framework GNU Artanis-0.2.3 [stable] released (gnu.org)
		25 points by nalaginrut 3 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
17.		New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life (quantamagazine.org)
		94 points by IntronExon 8 hours ago \| hide \| 52 comments
18.		Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency (engineering.instagram.com)
		359 points by mikeyk 16 hours ago \| hide \| 133 comments
19.		Is Google Going Underground with Hypersonic Tech? (ieee.org)
		3 points by charlysl 46 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
20.		How generics were added to .NET (mattwarren.org)
		168 points by matthewwarren 12 hours ago \| hide \| 80 comments
21.		History of the browser user-agent string (2008) (webaim.org)
		480 points by jesperht 11 hours ago \| hide \| 141 comments
22.		Pitching Your Startup (stripe.com)
		90 points by gk1 8 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
23.		Notes for new Make users (sourceforge.net)
		285 points by henry_flower 16 hours ago \| hide \| 75 comments
24.		Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back (chicagomaroon.com)
		104 points by avree 12 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
25.		The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (ieee.org)
		122 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago \| hide \| 70 comments
26.		Get specific (2008) (sivers.org)
		75 points by duck 10 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
27.		Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor (github.com)
		271 points by seanwilson 11 hours ago \| hide \| 172 comments
28.		Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer (theguardian.com)
		156 points by DanBC 17 hours ago \| hide \| 78 comments
29.		P&G and WPP: How shit hit the fan in digital marketing (mumbrella.com.au)
		141 points by tambourine_man 15 hours ago \| hide \| 66 comments
30.		Paypal Patent Application: Expedited Virtual Currency Transaction System (uspto.gov)
		122 points by lrvick 12 hours ago \| hide \| 71 comments
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