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1.		Coinbase Index Fund (coinbase.com)
		509 points by smaili on March 6, 2018 \| 321 comments
2.		First firing of air-breathing electric thruster (esa.int)
		497 points by sohkamyung on March 6, 2018 \| 116 comments
3.		Uber self-driving trucks are now moving cargo for Uber Freight customers (techcrunch.com)
		365 points by wil_wheat_on on March 6, 2018 \| 266 comments
4.		Create Statistics in PostgreSQL 10 (citusdata.com)
		357 points by samber on March 6, 2018 \| 7 comments
5.		132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach (wa.gov.au)
		318 points by Someone on March 6, 2018 \| 104 comments
6.		Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil (wikipedia.org)
		342 points by dorfsmay on March 6, 2018 \| 110 comments
7.		The Mystery of the Slow Downloads (panic.com)
		441 points by Doubleguitars on March 5, 2018 \| 100 comments
8.		Show HN: Investment Calculator – A simple retirement calculator (investmentcalculator.io)
		308 points by Calebbarclay on March 6, 2018 \| 210 comments
9.		Updated Request for Startups (blog.ycombinator.com)
		249 points by craigcannon on March 6, 2018 \| 177 comments
10.		LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision floating point numbers (bellard.org)
		159 points by g0xA52A2A on March 6, 2018 \| 60 comments
11.		Sin and Cos: The Programmer's Pals (helixsoft.nl)
		322 points by 1bytebeta on March 6, 2018 \| 89 comments
12.		Measuring the many sizes of a Git repository (blog.github.com)
		138 points by edmorley on March 5, 2018 \| 26 comments
13.		OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings (eater.com)
		252 points by danso on March 6, 2018 \| 160 comments
14.		Ask HN: How will you manage your digital assets when you die?
		298 points by sirsuki on March 6, 2018 \| 171 comments
15.		A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
		215 points by amitkapila on March 6, 2018 \| 30 comments
16.		Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back (chicagomaroon.com)
		142 points by avree on March 5, 2018 \| 60 comments
17.		New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life (quantamagazine.org)
		150 points by IntronExon on March 6, 2018 \| 105 comments
18.		Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor (github.com/atom)
		320 points by seanwilson on March 5, 2018 \| 225 comments
19.		Something Mysterious Is Killing Captive Gorillas (theatlantic.com)
		103 points by kumaranvpl on March 6, 2018 \| 87 comments
20.		Pitching Your Startup (stripe.com)
		163 points by gk1 on March 6, 2018 \| 27 comments
21.		Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013) (bookofhook.blogspot.com)
		319 points by andxor on March 6, 2018 \| 84 comments
22.		Let’s Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech (locusmag.com)
		163 points by magoghm on March 6, 2018 \| 100 comments
23.		First stable version of Scheme web framework Artanis released (lists.gnu.org)
		126 points by nalaginrut on March 6, 2018 \| 22 comments
24.		Crawling and Indexing: Technical SEO Basics That Drive Revenue (rozhon.com)
		84 points by vinnyglennon on March 5, 2018 \| 8 comments
25.		Progressive Locks: fast, upgradable read/write locks (wtarreau.blogspot.com)
		121 points by vbernat on March 6, 2018 \| 3 comments
26.		The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO (chartmogul.com)
		102 points by erikrothoff on March 6, 2018 \| 61 comments
27.		Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.11.0 (github.com/tidwall)
		126 points by tidwall on March 6, 2018 \| 17 comments
28.		The Building Blocks of Interpretability (distill.pub)
		125 points by dsr12 on March 6, 2018 \| 24 comments
29.		Paypal Patent Application: Expedited Virtual Currency Transaction System (uspto.gov)
		134 points by lrvick on March 5, 2018 \| 78 comments
30.		Socialhome: a federated personal profile with social networking functionality (github.com/jaywink)
		68 points by jaywink on March 6, 2018 \| 18 comments
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