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1.		Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler (hacks.mozilla.org)
		912 points by markdog12 on Jan 17, 2018 \| 220 comments
2.		System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware (github.com/fulldecent)
		515 points by yarapavan on Jan 17, 2018 \| 120 comments
3.		Who the Hell Uses Onion Juice? (markbittman.com)
		448 points by 0xbadcafebee on Jan 17, 2018 \| 207 comments
4.		BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales (bloomberg.com)
		389 points by JumpCrisscross on Jan 17, 2018 \| 248 comments
5.		Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes (reuters.com)
		369 points by chollida1 on Jan 17, 2018 \| 502 comments
6.		Indefinite solitary confinement in Canadian prisons ruled unconstitutional (cbc.ca)
		255 points by joering2 on Jan 17, 2018 \| 135 comments
7.		Turning Soybeans into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Billions (npr.org)
		225 points by happy-go-lucky on Jan 17, 2018 \| 138 comments
8.		DNS over HTTPS (github.com/curl)
		284 points by sohkamyung on Jan 17, 2018 \| 181 comments
9.		Elixir v1.6 released: code formatter, dynamic supervisors, and more (elixir-lang.org)
		341 points by josevalim on Jan 17, 2018 \| 39 comments
10.		Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda (brandur.org)
		187 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 17, 2018 \| 113 comments
11.		Sudden savant syndrome, in which exceptional abilities emerge after brain injury (bbc.com)
		221 points by clouddrover on Jan 17, 2018 \| 102 comments
12.		Fast base64 encoding and decoding (lemire.me)
		210 points by joeyespo on Jan 17, 2018 \| 77 comments
13.		Datomic Cloud (datomic.com)
		264 points by grzm on Jan 17, 2018 \| 106 comments
14.		Google IT Support Professional Certificate (blog.google)
		215 points by peterkshultz on Jan 17, 2018 \| 166 comments
15.		Long-Term Consequences of Spectre and Its Mitigations (ocallahan.org)
		136 points by sankha93 on Jan 17, 2018 \| 68 comments
16.		Changes to the YouTube Partner Program (googleblog.com)
		233 points by tomkwok on Jan 17, 2018 \| 253 comments
17.		California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B (latimes.com)
		184 points by protomyth on Jan 17, 2018 \| 476 comments
18.		Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown (daemonology.net)
		203 points by cperciva on Jan 17, 2018 \| 65 comments
19.		How to Measure the Working Set Size on Linux (brendangregg.com)
		133 points by ingve on Jan 17, 2018 \| 8 comments
20.		Why code that never goes wrong can still be wrong (pathsensitive.com)
		134 points by matt_d on Jan 17, 2018 \| 55 comments
21.		SPAs are harder and always will be (2013) (wgross.net)
		181 points by donatj on Jan 17, 2018 \| 180 comments
22.		Membarrier system call performance and the future of Userspace RCU on Linux (lttng.org)
		71 points by readmodwrite on Jan 16, 2018 \| 4 comments
23.		Instruction explosion in Guile (wingolog.org)
		111 points by sctb on Jan 17, 2018 \| 3 comments
24.		Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0 (acolyer.org)
		137 points by gcd883 on Jan 17, 2018 \| 120 comments
25.		Lithium chloride kills a honey bee parasite by a systemic mode of action (nature.com)
		91 points by curtis on Jan 17, 2018 \| 29 comments
26.		Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion (deanchalk.com)
		150 points by garganzol on Jan 16, 2018 \| 146 comments
27.		Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested (nytimes.com)
		130 points by ryanlol on Jan 17, 2018 \| 130 comments
28.		NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2 (neopg.io)
		112 points by sphinxc0re on Jan 17, 2018 \| 43 comments
29.		Machine Learning-Based End-To-End CRISPR/Cas9 Guide Design (crispr.ml)
		64 points by indescions_2018 on Jan 17, 2018 \| 15 comments
30.		Measuring the Tendency of CNNs to Learn Surface Statistical Regularities (arxiv.org)
		66 points by tim_sw on Jan 17, 2018 \| 36 comments
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