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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 [ext] | 379 comments [ext]
2.MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies (techcrunch.com)
391 points by vorpalhex on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 222 comments [ext]
3.Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows (llvm.org)
398 points by janvdberg on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
4. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
4.Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency (engineering.instagram.com)
408 points by mikeyk on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 164 comments [ext]
5.Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (marckhoury.github.io)
401 points by marckhoury on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
6.History of the browser user-agent string (2008) (webaim.org)
558 points by jesperht on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 168 comments [ext]
7. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 18 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.A week-long programming retreat (facebook.com)
596 points by bane on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
8.Notes for new Make users (sourceforge.net)
332 points by henry_flower on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
9.How generics were added to .NET (mattwarren.org)
225 points by matthewwarren on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 124 comments [ext]
10. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
10.The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (ieee.org)
176 points by rbanffy on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
11.Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher (eternum.io)
315 points by stavros on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
12.Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer (theguardian.com)
167 points by DanBC on March 4, 2018 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
13. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
13.Message Passing and the Actor Model (dist-prog-book.com)
223 points by m1245 on March 4, 2018 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
14.Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site (nytimes.com)
169 points by scdoshi on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
15.Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption Promised (vice.com)
329 points by olds on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 323 comments [ext]
16. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006) (ronpatrickstuff.com)
156 points by panic on March 4, 2018 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
17.Ask HN: Cookies vs. JWT vs. OAuth [ext]
260 points by amend on March 4, 2018 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
18.RIP Cert.org (riskbasedsecurity.com)
194 points by Angostura on March 4, 2018 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
19. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
19.Show HN: Hacking a Mercedes GLA Class Ride-on kids car (ihackshit.com)
221 points by AnnoyingSwede on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
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 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
21.Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (scientificamerican.com)
327 points by okket on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 204 comments [ext]
22. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
22.Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch (petapixel.com)
218 points by rdoherty on March 3, 2018 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
23.Sndio: a small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project (sndio.org)
101 points by setra on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
24.Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away (irishtimes.com)
205 points by vinnyglennon on March 4, 2018 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
25. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
25.A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
102 points by ingve on March 5, 2018 [ext]
26.Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible (arxiv.org)
107 points by mkhalil on March 4, 2018 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
27.MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010) (computerhistory.org)
89 points by pbreit on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
28. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
28.The Drugging of the American Boy (2014) (esquire.com)
145 points by walterbell on March 4, 2018 [ext] | 151 comments [ext]
29.Tracking where your time went with Lego workstream visualisation (joejag.com)
127 points by touristtam on March 5, 2018 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
30.A UI Experiment with the iPhone X’s Front-Facing Camera (fastcodesign.com)
134 points by dirtyaura on March 3, 2018 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
31. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments

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