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1.		India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds (theguardian.com)
		495 points by Gupie on Feb 1, 2018 \| 192 comments
2.		Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle (bbc.com)
		393 points by rbanffy on Feb 2, 2018 \| 117 comments
3.		John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google (ieee.org)
		455 points by teklaperry on Feb 2, 2018 \| 101 comments
4.		A.I. Has Arrived in Investing, Humans Are Still Dominating (nytimes.com)
		215 points by smollett on Feb 2, 2018 \| 124 comments
5.		EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen (bloomberg.com)
		360 points by watchdogtimer on Feb 1, 2018 \| 191 comments
6.		RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images (dustinkirkland.com)
		280 points by pella on Feb 2, 2018 \| 115 comments
7.		Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) (theatlantic.com)
		245 points by franciscop on Feb 2, 2018 \| 194 comments
8.		DragonFFI: C Foreign Function Interface and JIT Using Clang/LLVM (github.com/aguinet)
		120 points by matt_d on Feb 2, 2018 \| 23 comments
9.		Ikea founder leaves fortune to no one, structures it to ensure it lasts forever (bloomberg.com)
		422 points by thinkloop on Feb 1, 2018 \| 357 comments
10.		Lying to TCP makes it a best-effort streaming protocol (eighty-twenty.org)
		213 points by tonyg on Feb 1, 2018 \| 91 comments
11.		A first naïve look at Truffle Ruby (github.com/oracle)
		118 points by thibaut_barrere on Feb 2, 2018 \| 65 comments
12.		How WeChat Came to Rule China (theverge.com)
		128 points by msh on Feb 1, 2018 \| 77 comments
13.		The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland (dynamicland.org)
		84 points by GuiA on Feb 2, 2018 \| 15 comments
14.		CSS Grid changes everything [video] (youtube.com)
		280 points by mladen5 on Feb 2, 2018 \| 86 comments
15.		Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015) (magnushoff.com)
		271 points by maggit on Feb 2, 2018 \| 73 comments
16.		Gut Microbes Combine to Cause Colon Cancer, Study Suggests (nytimes.com)
		228 points by montrose on Feb 2, 2018 \| 52 comments
17.		Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization (stephenwolfram.com)
		83 points by jedwhite on Jan 30, 2018 \| 20 comments
18.		Minimodem – General-purpose software audio FSK modem (2016) (whence.com)
		157 points by mmastrac on Feb 2, 2018 \| 62 comments
19.		Plan 9 public grid (9gridchan.org)
		182 points by zeveb on Feb 2, 2018 \| 43 comments
20.		New reports suggest limits to autonomous vehicle performance (ieee.org)
		105 points by charlysl on Feb 2, 2018 \| 125 comments
21.		DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation in the Wild (densepose.org)
		114 points by lainon on Feb 2, 2018 \| 17 comments
22.		No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X (medium.com/tall-west)
		199 points by tambourine_man on Feb 1, 2018 \| 190 comments
23.		Bloxels – Build Your Own Video Games (bloxelsbuilder.com)
		130 points by handpickednames on Feb 2, 2018 \| 72 comments
24.		The Popularity of Near-Death Experience (lareviewofbooks.org)
		57 points by breitling on Feb 2, 2018 \| 38 comments
25.		Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India (washingtonpost.com)
		160 points by cpncrunch on Feb 1, 2018 \| 74 comments
26.		What If GPS Stood for “Galactic Positioning System”? (ieee.org)
		136 points by charlysl on Feb 2, 2018 \| 60 comments
27.		Family fun with deepfakes (svencharleer.com)
		427 points by robinhouston on Feb 2, 2018 \| 263 comments
28.		Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook (arstechnica.com)
		166 points by dumindunuwan on Feb 2, 2018 \| 123 comments
29.		The Evolution of Bitcoin Hardware [pdf] (ucsd.edu)
		116 points by Katydid on Feb 2, 2018 \| 39 comments
30.		HEVC and the No Good Month of January (streaminglearningcenter.com)
		125 points by clouddrover on Feb 1, 2018 \| 28 comments
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