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1.		A plane so good it's still in production after 60 years (bbc.com)
		509 points by nairteashop on March 4, 2017 \| 186 comments
2.		What happens when you swipe a credit card (affirm.com)
		470 points by trishakothari on March 4, 2017 \| 171 comments
3.		A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks (arstechnica.com)
		534 points by nikbackm on March 4, 2017 \| 235 comments
4.		A blockchain in 200 lines of code (medium.com/lhartikk)
		326 points by bpierre on March 4, 2017 \| 44 comments
5.		Partial WebAssembly backend for the GNU toolchain (sourceware.org)
		211 points by ingve on March 4, 2017 \| 101 comments
6.		Teenager's sickle cell reversed using a treatment to change his DNA (bbc.com)
		211 points by _nh_ on March 3, 2017 \| 75 comments
7.		Nintendo Switch Teardown (fictiv.com)
		313 points by fictivmade on March 4, 2017 \| 184 comments
8.		JavaScript in Parallel: Web Workers and SharedArrayBuffer (50linesofco.de)
		172 points by avgp on March 3, 2017 \| 67 comments
9.		Nash – A tracing JIT compiler for Scheme [pdf] (snow-fort.org)
		94 points by jsnell on March 2, 2017 \| 16 comments
10.		Understanding AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic (googleblog.com)
		151 points by diminish on March 4, 2017 \| 104 comments
11.		Gokrazy – a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances (gokrazy.github.io)
		178 points by dchuk on March 4, 2017 \| 30 comments
12.		The Weeping Time: A History of the Largest American Slave Auction (theatlantic.com)
		111 points by ryan_j_naughton on March 3, 2017 \| 5 comments
13.		PayPal Redirects Charitable Contributions Without Consent, Lawsuit Says (nytimes.com)
		301 points by jayzee on March 4, 2017 \| 83 comments
14.		Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space (github.com/mathieudutour)
		187 points by _ugfj on March 4, 2017 \| 31 comments
15.		A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode (reedbeta.com)
		299 points by ingve on March 4, 2017 \| 60 comments
16.		Ask HN: 50 job applications, 15 interviews, 7 onsites, and no offer – what next?
		255 points by throw-away1979 on March 3, 2017 \| 238 comments
17.		White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA (washingtonpost.com)
		283 points by molecule on March 4, 2017 \| 209 comments
18.		Phoenix 1.3 is pure love for API development (swanros.com)
		181 points by _ugfj on March 3, 2017 \| 53 comments
19.		How to Steal a River (nytimes.com)
		163 points by wallflower on March 4, 2017 \| 72 comments
20.		Write you a Haskell (2015) (stephendiehl.com)
		151 points by myth_drannon on March 3, 2017 \| 17 comments
21.		Decades after a Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets (2012) (newyorker.com)
		76 points by benbreen on March 3, 2017 \| 14 comments
22.		How is news marked as disputed on Facebook? (facebook.com)
		89 points by dplgk on March 4, 2017 \| 161 comments
23.		If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system (joshworth.com)
		364 points by ZeljkoS on March 4, 2017 \| 81 comments
24.		Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Loses Bonus And Stock Award Over Security Breach (gpbnews.org)
		150 points by diafygi on March 4, 2017 \| 69 comments
25.		What Causes Burnout and How to Overcome It (lifehacker.com)
		110 points by uladzislau on March 4, 2017 \| 31 comments
26.		A private high school in California makes $24M gain on Snapchat investment (foxnews.com)
		58 points by rak00n on March 4, 2017 \| 31 comments
27.		The Most Desirable Passports On Earth Don’t Include America’s (bloomberg.com)
		98 points by raphar on March 4, 2017 \| 116 comments
28.		Is naming things really that hard? (wade.be)
		90 points by jpswade on March 4, 2017 \| 76 comments
29.		The Vatican’s Latinist (newcriterion.com)
		105 points by tintinnabula on March 4, 2017 \| 23 comments
30.		Rust Faster Than C? Not So Fast… (dennisforbes.ca)
		94 points by endorphone on March 4, 2017 \| 37 comments
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