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1.		Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s (iwarp.com)
		867 points by rpeden on March 2, 2018 \| 417 comments
2.		Understanding word vectors (gist.github.com)
		354 points by jxub on March 2, 2018 \| 69 comments
3.		Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game (clickerheroes2.com)
		487 points by guildwriter on March 2, 2018 \| 190 comments
4.		Let's make the Emacs GC safe and iterative (lists.gnu.org)
		208 points by noch on March 2, 2018 \| 64 comments
5.		NASA finds a large amount of water in an exoplanet's atmosphere (nasa.gov)
		336 points by dnetesn on March 1, 2018 \| 145 comments
6.		A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)
		203 points by okket on March 2, 2018 \| 17 comments
7.		Wine 3.3 has Vulkan support (wine-reviews.net)
		177 points by twickline on March 2, 2018 \| 47 comments
8.		Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust (github.com/luminarys)
		195 points by Luminarys on March 2, 2018 \| 71 comments
9.		Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially (2015) (newyorker.com)
		329 points by oftenwrong on March 2, 2018 \| 245 comments
10.		Queryparser, an Open Source Tool for Parsing and Analyzing SQL (uber.com)
		259 points by manigandham on March 1, 2018 \| 94 comments
11.		Do neural networks dream of electric sheep? (aiweirdness.com)
		139 points by sp332 on March 2, 2018 \| 43 comments
12.		Kenneth Eng Is on the Other Side of Viral Now (popehat.com)
		99 points by ddulaney on March 2, 2018 \| 31 comments
13.		Wing Commander II (filfre.net)
		232 points by doppp on March 2, 2018 \| 124 comments
14.		Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting (elevationlab.com)
		433 points by hop on March 2, 2018 \| 223 comments
15.		WebKit exploit write-up (github.com/cryptogenic)
		94 points by DyslexicAtheist on March 2, 2018 \| 3 comments
16.		Why Don’t Patients Get Sick in Sync? Modelers Find Statistical Clues (quantamagazine.org)
		52 points by IntronExon on March 2, 2018 \| 14 comments
17.		Shrinking the kernel with a hammer (lwn.net)
		175 points by rbanffy on March 2, 2018 \| 31 comments
18.		More art is being produced and sold than ever before, at ever higher prices (newrepublic.com)
		227 points by prismatic on March 2, 2018 \| 164 comments
19.		Lost Causes of Theoretical Physics (2003) (archive.org)
		98 points by scottlocklin on March 2, 2018 \| 53 comments
20.		How Big Deals Kill Companies (blog.ycombinator.com)
		175 points by craigcannon on March 1, 2018 \| 43 comments
21.		When CEOs’ Equity Is About to Vest, They Cut Investment to Boost the Stock Price (hbr.org)
		261 points by joeyespo on March 2, 2018 \| 107 comments
22.		Firefox Configuration Guide for Privacy Freaks and Performance Buffs (12bytes.org)
		321 points by bigbugbag on March 2, 2018 \| 118 comments
23.		Agent on Demand – Job Offer Negotiation as a Service (10xmanagement.com)
		152 points by gregsadetsky on March 1, 2018 \| 64 comments
24.		Announcing Rust 1.24.1 (rust-lang.org)
		203 points by steveklabnik on March 2, 2018 \| 65 comments
25.		Burning Out: What Really Happens Inside a Crematorium (popularmechanics.com)
		101 points by aaronbrethorst on March 2, 2018 \| 44 comments
26.		Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction' (theguardian.com)
		137 points by bertzzie on March 2, 2018 \| 167 comments
27.		The Return of Software Vulnerabilities in the Brazilian Voting Machine (researchgate.net)
		132 points by vitorcoliveira on March 2, 2018 \| 19 comments
28.		AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients (nvidia.com)
		41 points by tf_12 on March 2, 2018 \| 6 comments
29.		Chrome lets hackers phish even 'Unphishable' Yubikey users (wired.com)
		141 points by asm on March 2, 2018 \| 109 comments
30.		The downsizing of Chinook salmon (opb.org)
		42 points by DoreenMichele on March 2, 2018 \| 12 comments
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