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1.		The Dangers of DNA Testing (nytimes.com)
		108 points by seibelj 1 hour ago \| hide \| 26 comments
2.		Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down (heapanalytics.com)
		46 points by drob 1 hour ago \| hide \| 20 comments
3.		NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
		386 points by evanweaver 8 hours ago \| hide \| 225 comments
4.		Holding a Program in One's Head (2007) (paulgraham.com)
		83 points by dasmoth 4 hours ago \| hide \| 47 comments
5.		Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		126 points by mattip 5 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
6.		A Day in the Life of Americans (flowingdata.com)
		26 points by paulb81 2 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
7.		Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades (latimes.com)
		93 points by spking 5 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
8.		Apple File System Reference [pdf] (apple.com)
		155 points by abkumar 5 hours ago \| hide \| 31 comments
9.		Worst Puzzle Ever (2009) (rongarret.info)
		55 points by lisper 3 hours ago \| hide \| 21 comments
10.		Lugg (YC S15) is hiring software engineers (full stack, front end, back end) (gist.github.com)
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11.		Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (1999) [pdf] (rowan.edu)
		98 points by drusepth 6 hours ago \| hide \| 38 comments
12.		Twitter says bug may have exposed some direct messages to third-party developers (techcrunch.com)
		33 points by uptown 3 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
13.		Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China (theintercept.com)
		283 points by halestock 4 hours ago \| hide \| 168 comments
14.		After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community Is Being Evicted (atlasobscura.com)
		37 points by extarial 3 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
15.		The new Jaguar cars sound like spaceships, thanks to Richard Devine (cdm.link)
		26 points by glitcher 2 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
16.		Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer – Part Two (stoplight.io)
		45 points by pytlesk4 5 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
17.		Drug giants Novartis and Bayer fail to stop NHS offering cheaper eye treatment (bbc.co.uk)
		29 points by cirrus-clouds 1 hour ago \| hide \| 1 comment
18.		Introduction to HAProxy Stick Tables (haproxy.com)
		59 points by phil21 4 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
19.		Deep learning experiments in OCaml (janestreet.com)
		185 points by yminsky 10 hours ago \| hide \| 68 comments
20.		Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law (usatoday.com)
		162 points by kimsk112 4 hours ago \| hide \| 80 comments
21.		Show HN: Super Smooth Tab View – Made with Pure CSS3 and JavaScript (github.com)
		36 points by Johnny-the-eye 4 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
22.		Discovery of Galileo’s lost letter shows he edited his ideas to fool Inquisition (nature.com)
		85 points by snake117 9 hours ago \| hide \| 34 comments
23.		Meet the Shaggs (1999) (newyorker.com)
		5 points by tintinnabula 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
24.		The South African mountains older than continents (bbc.com)
		137 points by MiriamWeiner 12 hours ago \| hide \| 39 comments
25.		The first calculating machine (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		22 points by benbreen 5 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
26.		The Wetware Crisis: TEPES (2008) (brucefwebster.com)
		19 points by mpweiher 5 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
27.		Tensegrity (1961) (rwgrayprojects.com)
		45 points by codetrotter 8 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
28.		Pallene: A statically typed companion language for Lua [pdf] (inf.puc-rio.br)
		87 points by eggy 11 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
29.		Gamma Steganography (carlmastrangelo.com)
		42 points by denormalfloat 7 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
30.		A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago (latimes.com)
		5 points by DoreenMichele 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
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