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1.		Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe (techcrunch.com)
		1034 points by pdcerb on March 5, 2018 \| 379 comments
2.		MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies (techcrunch.com)
		391 points by vorpalhex on March 5, 2018 \| 222 comments
3.		Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows (llvm.org)
		398 points by janvdberg on March 5, 2018 \| 100 comments
4.		Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency (engineering.instagram.com)
		408 points by mikeyk on March 5, 2018 \| 164 comments
5.		Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (marckhoury.github.io)
		401 points by marckhoury on March 5, 2018 \| 64 comments
6.		History of the browser user-agent string (2008) (webaim.org)
		558 points by jesperht on March 5, 2018 \| 168 comments
7.		A week-long programming retreat (facebook.com)
		596 points by bane on March 5, 2018 \| 154 comments
8.		Notes for new Make users (sourceforge.net)
		332 points by henry_flower on March 5, 2018 \| 99 comments
9.		How generics were added to .NET (mattwarren.org)
		225 points by matthewwarren on March 5, 2018 \| 124 comments
10.		The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (ieee.org)
		176 points by rbanffy on March 5, 2018 \| 129 comments
11.		Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher (eternum.io)
		315 points by stavros on March 5, 2018 \| 104 comments
12.		Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer (theguardian.com)
		167 points by DanBC on March 4, 2018 \| 87 comments
13.		Message Passing and the Actor Model (dist-prog-book.com)
		223 points by m1245 on March 4, 2018 \| 85 comments
14.		Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site (nytimes.com)
		169 points by scdoshi on March 5, 2018 \| 104 comments
15.		Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption Promised (vice.com)
		329 points by olds on March 5, 2018 \| 323 comments
16.		Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006) (ronpatrickstuff.com)
		156 points by panic on March 4, 2018 \| 60 comments
17.		Ask HN: Cookies vs. JWT vs. OAuth
		260 points by amend on March 4, 2018 \| 93 comments
18.		RIP Cert.org (riskbasedsecurity.com)
		194 points by Angostura on March 4, 2018 \| 29 comments
19.		Show HN: Hacking a Mercedes GLA Class Ride-on kids car (ihackshit.com)
		221 points by AnnoyingSwede on March 5, 2018 \| 83 comments
20.		P&G and WPP: How shit hit the fan in digital marketing (mumbrella.com.au)
		154 points by tambourine_man on March 5, 2018 \| 71 comments
21.		Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (scientificamerican.com)
		327 points by okket on March 5, 2018 \| 204 comments
22.		Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch (petapixel.com)
		218 points by rdoherty on March 3, 2018 \| 60 comments
23.		Sndio: a small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project (sndio.org)
		101 points by setra on March 5, 2018 \| 25 comments
24.		Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away (irishtimes.com)
		205 points by vinnyglennon on March 4, 2018 \| 93 comments
25.		A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
		102 points by ingve on March 5, 2018
26.		Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible (arxiv.org)
		107 points by mkhalil on March 4, 2018 \| 123 comments
27.		MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010) (computerhistory.org)
		89 points by pbreit on March 5, 2018 \| 22 comments
28.		The Drugging of the American Boy (2014) (esquire.com)
		145 points by walterbell on March 4, 2018 \| 151 comments
29.		Tracking where your time went with Lego workstream visualisation (joejag.com)
		127 points by touristtam on March 5, 2018 \| 31 comments
30.		A UI Experiment with the iPhone X’s Front-Facing Camera (fastcodesign.com)
		134 points by dirtyaura on March 3, 2018 \| 105 comments
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