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1.		PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem (gocardless.com)
		322 points by stevedomin on Dec 6, 2017 \| 117 comments
2.		Antidote: CRDT-based distributed database (syncfree.github.io)
		288 points by KirinDave on Dec 6, 2017 \| 83 comments
3.		Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? (theguardian.com)
		572 points by benbreen on Dec 6, 2017 \| 518 comments
4.		Ask HN: Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code
		513 points by throwawaysource on Dec 6, 2017 \| 277 comments
5.		Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating (nytimes.com)
		397 points by veidr on Dec 6, 2017 \| 285 comments
6.		Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)
		539 points by dennybritz on Dec 6, 2017 \| 270 comments
7.		Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin (steamcommunity.com)
		675 points by tsneed290 on Dec 6, 2017 \| 395 comments
8.		Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back (bloomberg.com)
		527 points by jseliger on Dec 6, 2017 \| 270 comments
9.		About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 (support.apple.com)
		208 points by firloop on Dec 6, 2017 \| 115 comments
10.		How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company, and HuffPost stories (theoutline.com)
		358 points by coloneltcb on Dec 5, 2017 \| 99 comments
11.		Some SpiderMonkey Optimizations in Firefox Quantum (jandemooij.nl)
		212 points by jandem on Dec 6, 2017 \| 5 comments
12.		3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiFi devices (washington.edu)
		376 points by soofy on Dec 6, 2017 \| 238 comments
13.		Writing a C Compiler, Part 2 (norasandler.com)
		241 points by luu on Dec 6, 2017 \| 25 comments
14.		Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV (engadget.com)
		332 points by electriclove on Dec 5, 2017 \| 353 comments
15.		Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music (classicalmusiconly.com)
		273 points by ClassicalmOnly on Dec 6, 2017 \| 107 comments
16.		The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than double that of veterans (theguardian.com)
		317 points by liyanage on Dec 6, 2017 \| 380 comments
17.		Regarding the NiceHash security breach (nicehash.com)
		169 points by 6d6b73 on Dec 6, 2017 \| 110 comments
18.		‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem (2015) (quantamagazine.org)
		160 points by 18nleung on Dec 5, 2017 \| 28 comments
19.		How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop (engadget.com)
		239 points by 11thEarlOfMar on Dec 6, 2017 \| 145 comments
20.		Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath (blog.mozilla.org)
		239 points by ac29 on Dec 6, 2017 \| 63 comments
21.		Learning with Privacy at Scale (machinelearning.apple.com)
		132 points by gok on Dec 6, 2017 \| 16 comments
22.		A Final Farewell (getfinal.com)
		131 points by kreitje on Dec 6, 2017 \| 75 comments
23.		How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn It into a Sponge (jstor.org)
		169 points by fern12 on Dec 6, 2017 \| 101 comments
24.		PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com)
		420 points by pvsukale3 on Dec 6, 2017 \| 46 comments
25.		Parsons code (wikipedia.org)
		85 points by trampi on Dec 6, 2017 \| 22 comments
26.		The Open Mathematics of Crystallization [pdf] (ams.org)
		55 points by mathgenius on Dec 6, 2017 \| 2 comments
27.		How the Apollo Fire Propelled NASA to the Moon (arstechnica.com)
		109 points by NaOH on Dec 5, 2017 \| 21 comments
28.		Connections between Abstract Algebra and High School Algebra (2015) (ams.org)
		126 points by _culy on Dec 5, 2017 \| 38 comments
29.		Apple Introduces Search Ads Basic (searchads.apple.com)
		125 points by dottrap on Dec 6, 2017 \| 105 comments
30.		ReactOS 0.4.7 released (reactos.org)
		229 points by jeditobe on Dec 6, 2017 \| 59 comments
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