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1.		MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images (bombich.com)
		396 points by mpweiher on Feb 17, 2018 \| 180 comments
2.		Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars (nytimes.com)
		412 points by joshwa on Feb 16, 2018 \| 304 comments
3.		Learning to program is getting harder (allendowney.blogspot.com)
		470 points by henrik_w on Feb 16, 2018 \| 412 comments
4.		How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away with It (theintercept.com)
		246 points by DyslexicAtheist on Feb 17, 2018 \| 58 comments
5.		Ariane RISC-V CPU (github.com/pulp-platform)
		171 points by nickik on Feb 17, 2018 \| 43 comments
6.		New studies zero in on roots of depression and how ketamine affects it (arstechnica.com)
		290 points by rbanffy on Feb 17, 2018 \| 131 comments
7.		The case for ending Amazon’s dominance (timharford.com)
		320 points by imartin2k on Feb 17, 2018 \| 304 comments
8.		An American served a year in prison for copyright conduct that is legal in EU (blogs.harvard.edu)
		225 points by severine on Feb 17, 2018 \| 186 comments
9.		JMESPath – A query language for JSON (jmespath.org)
		219 points by selrond on Feb 17, 2018 \| 125 comments
10.		React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook (github.com/facebook)
		375 points by dabit3 on Feb 17, 2018 \| 118 comments
11.		Intel hit with 32 lawsuits over security flaws (reuters.com)
		238 points by mozumder on Feb 16, 2018 \| 81 comments
12.		Programmer's guide to polynomials and splines (wordsandbuttons.online)
		219 points by okaleniuk on Feb 17, 2018 \| 24 comments
13.		California-Grown Coffee Is Becoming the State's Next Gold Mine (npr.org)
		148 points by danans on Feb 17, 2018 \| 125 comments
14.		‘Lost’ ancient Mexican city had as many buildings as Manhattan, laser map shows (independent.co.uk)
		135 points by wildduck_io on Feb 17, 2018 \| 25 comments
15.		IDEA: A series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions (idea-instructions.com)
		112 points by blinry on Feb 15, 2018 \| 8 comments
16.		Reasons to think that, in terms of influence if not wealth, Facebook has peaked (bbc.co.uk)
		161 points by JohnHammersley on Feb 17, 2018 \| 110 comments
17.		Prince Rupert's cube (wikipedia.org)
		126 points by enhray on Feb 17, 2018 \| 40 comments
18.		A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012) (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
		166 points by jxub on Feb 16, 2018 \| 46 comments
19.		Telegram has raised an initial $850M for its billion-dollar ICO (techcrunch.com)
		184 points by doppp on Feb 17, 2018 \| 102 comments
20.		Waymo granted a permit to operate as a Transportation Network Company in Arizona (arstechnica.com)
		178 points by nopinsight on Feb 17, 2018 \| 76 comments
21.		In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster (usatoday.com)
		286 points by fmihaila on Feb 17, 2018 \| 294 comments
22.		How we built Watsi Coverage without stable electricity, WiFi, or email (watsi.org)
		135 points by necrodome on Feb 17, 2018 \| 25 comments
23.		Debian developer revisits FreeBSD after 20 years (2015) (complete.org)
		156 points by mariuz on Feb 17, 2018 \| 125 comments
24.		Commodore KERNAL History (pagetable.com)
		89 points by ingve on Feb 17, 2018 \| 23 comments
25.		Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy (2011) (stuffwithstuff.com)
		88 points by signa11 on Feb 17, 2018 \| 12 comments
26.		When to use Dictionary Compression (fastcompression.blogspot.com)
		64 points by ot on Feb 17, 2018 \| 16 comments
27.		A viable pathway for hydrogen as fuel (vox.com)
		69 points by SpuriousSignals on Feb 17, 2018 \| 48 comments
28.		What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Investigated (bloomberg.com)
		60 points by cdcro on Feb 17, 2018 \| 71 comments
29.		Native UIs using Vue.js and NativeScript (nativescript-vue.org)
		125 points by lobo_tuerto on Feb 17, 2018 \| 44 comments
30.		ICO startups band together to create $100M grant fund for Ethereum projects (techcrunch.com)
		92 points by sethbannon on Feb 17, 2018 \| 22 comments
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