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1. A plane so good it's still in production after 60 years (bbc.com)
509 points by nairteashop on March 4, 2017 | 186 comments
2. What happens when you swipe a credit card (affirm.com)
470 points by trishakothari on March 4, 2017 | 171 comments
3. A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks (arstechnica.com)
534 points by nikbackm on March 4, 2017 | 235 comments
4. A blockchain in 200 lines of code (medium.com/lhartikk)
326 points by bpierre on March 4, 2017 | 44 comments
5. Partial WebAssembly backend for the GNU toolchain (sourceware.org)
211 points by ingve on March 4, 2017 | 101 comments
6. Teenager's sickle cell reversed using a treatment to change his DNA (bbc.com)
211 points by _nh_ on March 3, 2017 | 75 comments
7. Nintendo Switch Teardown (fictiv.com)
313 points by fictivmade on March 4, 2017 | 184 comments
8. JavaScript in Parallel: Web Workers and SharedArrayBuffer (50linesofco.de)
172 points by avgp on March 3, 2017 | 67 comments
9. Nash – A tracing JIT compiler for Scheme [pdf] (snow-fort.org)
94 points by jsnell on March 2, 2017 | 16 comments
10. Understanding AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic (googleblog.com)
151 points by diminish on March 4, 2017 | 104 comments
11. Gokrazy – a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances (gokrazy.github.io)
178 points by dchuk on March 4, 2017 | 30 comments
12. The Weeping Time: A History of the Largest American Slave Auction (theatlantic.com)
111 points by ryan_j_naughton on March 3, 2017 | 5 comments
13. PayPal Redirects Charitable Contributions Without Consent, Lawsuit Says (nytimes.com)
301 points by jayzee on March 4, 2017 | 83 comments
14. Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space (github.com/mathieudutour)
187 points by chx on March 4, 2017 | 31 comments
15. A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode (reedbeta.com)
299 points by ingve on March 4, 2017 | 60 comments
16. Ask HN: 50 job applications, 15 interviews, 7 onsites, and no offer – what next?
255 points by throw-away1979 on March 3, 2017 | 238 comments
17. White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA (washingtonpost.com)
283 points by molecule on March 4, 2017 | 209 comments
18. Phoenix 1.3 is pure love for API development (swanros.com)
181 points by chx on March 3, 2017 | 53 comments
19. How to Steal a River (nytimes.com)
163 points by wallflower on March 4, 2017 | 72 comments
20. Write you a Haskell (2015) (stephendiehl.com)
151 points by myth_drannon on March 3, 2017 | 17 comments
21. Decades after a Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets (2012) (newyorker.com)
76 points by benbreen on March 3, 2017 | 14 comments
22. How is news marked as disputed on Facebook? (facebook.com)
89 points by dplgk on March 4, 2017 | 161 comments
23. If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system (joshworth.com)
364 points by ZeljkoS on March 4, 2017 | 81 comments
24. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Loses Bonus And Stock Award Over Security Breach (gpbnews.org)
150 points by diafygi on March 4, 2017 | 69 comments
25. What Causes Burnout and How to Overcome It (lifehacker.com)
110 points by uladzislau on March 4, 2017 | 31 comments
26. A private high school in California makes $24M gain on Snapchat investment (foxnews.com)
58 points by rak00n on March 4, 2017 | 31 comments
27. The Most Desirable Passports On Earth Don’t Include America’s (bloomberg.com)
98 points by raphar on March 4, 2017 | 116 comments
28. Is naming things really that hard? (wade.be)
90 points by jpswade on March 4, 2017 | 76 comments
29. The Vatican’s Latinist (newcriterion.com)
105 points by tintinnabula on March 4, 2017 | 23 comments
30. Rust Faster Than C? Not So Fast… (dennisforbes.ca)
94 points by endorphone on March 4, 2017 | 37 comments

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