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1.		Ontario Wrongly Separated Families Because of Junk Science Hair-Testing Program (reason.com)
		86 points by okket 2 hours ago \| hide \| 29 comments
2.		Hindu Nationalists Undertake Effort to Rewrite History in India (reuters.com)
		32 points by hownottowrite 58 minutes ago \| hide \| 6 comments
3.		First firing of air-breathing electric thruster (esa.int)
		273 points by sohkamyung 7 hours ago \| hide \| 66 comments
4.		Clicker Heroes maker compares new lawsuit from “patent troll” to extortion (arstechnica.com)
		46 points by WayneSmallman 3 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
5.		Retweets are Trash (theatlantic.com)
		58 points by shaki-dora 2 hours ago \| hide \| 42 comments
6.		Sin and Cos: The Programmer's Pals (helixsoft.nl)
		33 points by 1bytebeta 2 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
7.		The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO (chartmogul.com)
		34 points by erikrothoff 2 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
8.		How a database leak was discovered in one of the biggest swiss hosting provider (infoteam.ch)
		34 points by redsec 2 hours ago \| hide \| 15 comments
9.		OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings (eater.com)
		182 points by danso 9 hours ago \| hide \| 82 comments
10.		MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies (techcrunch.com)
		323 points by vorpalhex 15 hours ago \| hide \| 180 comments
11.		Bazel Fawlty (danmux.com)
		15 points by elrodeo 1 hour ago \| hide \| 7 comments
12.		Is Google Going Underground with Hypersonic Tech? (ieee.org)
		24 points by charlysl 2 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
13.		Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows (llvm.org)
		338 points by janvdberg 16 hours ago \| hide \| 85 comments
14.		Scheme web framework GNU Artanis-0.2.3 [stable] released (gnu.org)
		46 points by nalaginrut 5 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
15.		In the Future Movie Stars May Be Performing Even After They're Dead (npr.org)
		16 points by happy-go-lucky 2 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
16.		The Mystery of the Slow Downloads (panic.com)
		312 points by Doubleguitars 14 hours ago \| hide \| 66 comments
17.		Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (marckhoury.github.io)
		335 points by marckhoury 16 hours ago \| hide \| 54 comments
18.		A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
		118 points by amitkapila 9 hours ago \| hide \| 24 comments
19.		Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency (engineering.instagram.com)
		378 points by mikeyk 18 hours ago \| hide \| 140 comments
20.		Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.11.0 (github.com)
		86 points by tidwall 8 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
21.		Progressive Locks: fast, upgradable read/write locks (wtarreau.blogspot.com)
		15 points by vbernat 3 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
22.		New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life (quantamagazine.org)
		106 points by IntronExon 10 hours ago \| hide \| 59 comments
23.		Swift Expert Wanted Work on iOS as Simple Habit's 4th Engineer (lever.co)
		2 hours ago \| hide
24.		How generics were added to .NET (mattwarren.org)
		179 points by matthewwarren 14 hours ago \| hide \| 89 comments
25.		History of the browser user-agent string (2008) (webaim.org)
		495 points by jesperht 13 hours ago \| hide \| 142 comments
26.		Pitching Your Startup (stripe.com)
		104 points by gk1 10 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
27.		Notes for new Make users (sourceforge.net)
		303 points by henry_flower 18 hours ago \| hide \| 86 comments
28.		The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (ieee.org)
		136 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago \| hide \| 80 comments
29.		Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back (chicagomaroon.com)
		116 points by avree 14 hours ago \| hide \| 53 comments
30.		Get specific (2008) (sivers.org)
		85 points by duck 12 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
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