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1.		Ontario Wrongly Separated Families Because of Junk Science Hair-Testing Program (reason.com)
		54 points by okket 1 hour ago \| hide \| 10 comments
2.		Retweets are Trash (theatlantic.com)
		32 points by shaki-dora 1 hour ago \| hide \| 16 comments
3.		First firing of air-breathing electric thruster (esa.int)
		254 points by sohkamyung 6 hours ago \| hide \| 65 comments
4.		Clicker Heroes maker compares new lawsuit from “patent troll” to extortion (arstechnica.com)
		30 points by WayneSmallman 2 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
5.		Ethereum’s smart contracts are full of holes (technologyreview.com)
		4 points by Woodoo 10 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
6.		How a database leak was discovered in one of the biggest swiss hosting provider (infoteam.ch)
		26 points by redsec 1 hour ago \| hide \| 10 comments
7.		Sin and Cos: The Programmer's Pals (helixsoft.nl)
		18 points by 1bytebeta 1 hour ago \| hide \| 4 comments
8.		OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings (eater.com)
		178 points by danso 8 hours ago \| hide \| 77 comments
9.		Is Google Going Underground with Hypersonic Tech? (ieee.org)
		15 points by charlysl 1 hour ago \| hide \| 3 comments
10.		MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies (techcrunch.com)
		319 points by vorpalhex 14 hours ago \| hide \| 179 comments
11.		The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO (chartmogul.com)
		18 points by erikrothoff 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
12.		Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows (llvm.org)
		334 points by janvdberg 15 hours ago \| hide \| 85 comments
13.		A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
		112 points by amitkapila 8 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
14.		The Mystery of the Slow Downloads (panic.com)
		297 points by Doubleguitars 13 hours ago \| hide \| 61 comments
15.		Scheme web framework GNU Artanis-0.2.3 [stable] released (gnu.org)
		35 points by nalaginrut 4 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
16.		Swift Expert Wanted Work on iOS as Simple Habit's 4th Engineer (lever.co)
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17.		Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (marckhoury.github.io)
		326 points by marckhoury 15 hours ago \| hide \| 52 comments
18.		Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.11.0 (github.com)
		85 points by tidwall 7 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
19.		Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency (engineering.instagram.com)
		368 points by mikeyk 17 hours ago \| hide \| 138 comments
20.		New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life (quantamagazine.org)
		101 points by IntronExon 9 hours ago \| hide \| 54 comments
21.		In the Future Movie Stars May Be Performing Even After They're Dead (npr.org)
		9 points by happy-go-lucky 1 hour ago \| hide \| 9 comments
22.		Bazel Fawlty (danmux.com)
		4 points by elrodeo 55 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
23.		Progressive Locks: fast, upgradable read/write locks (wtarreau.blogspot.com)
		11 points by vbernat 2 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
24.		How generics were added to .NET (mattwarren.org)
		177 points by matthewwarren 13 hours ago \| hide \| 84 comments
25.		Why I am excited about RocksDB (williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)
		4 points by willvarfar 1 hour ago \| hide \| 1 comment
26.		History of the browser user-agent string (2008) (webaim.org)
		486 points by jesperht 12 hours ago \| hide \| 141 comments
27.		Pitching Your Startup (stripe.com)
		100 points by gk1 9 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
28.		Notes for new Make users (sourceforge.net)
		296 points by henry_flower 17 hours ago \| hide \| 84 comments
29.		The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (ieee.org)
		129 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago \| hide \| 76 comments
30.		Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back (chicagomaroon.com)
		110 points by avree 13 hours ago \| hide \| 51 comments
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