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1. PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem (gocardless.com)
322 points by stevedomin on Dec 6, 2017 | 117 comments
2. Antidote: CRDT-based distributed database (syncfree.github.io)
288 points by KirinDave on Dec 6, 2017 | 83 comments
3. Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? (theguardian.com)
572 points by benbreen on Dec 6, 2017 | 518 comments
4. Ask HN: Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code
513 points by throwawaysource on Dec 6, 2017 | 277 comments
5. Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating (nytimes.com)
397 points by veidr on Dec 6, 2017 | 285 comments
6. Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)
539 points by dennybritz on Dec 6, 2017 | 270 comments
7. Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin (steamcommunity.com)
675 points by tsneed290 on Dec 6, 2017 | 395 comments
8. Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back (bloomberg.com)
527 points by jseliger on Dec 6, 2017 | 270 comments
9. About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 (support.apple.com)
208 points by firloop on Dec 6, 2017 | 115 comments
10. How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company, and HuffPost stories (theoutline.com)
358 points by coloneltcb on Dec 5, 2017 | 99 comments
11. Some SpiderMonkey Optimizations in Firefox Quantum (jandemooij.nl)
212 points by jandem on Dec 6, 2017 | 5 comments
12. 3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiFi devices (washington.edu)
376 points by soofy on Dec 6, 2017 | 238 comments
13. Writing a C Compiler, Part 2 (norasandler.com)
241 points by luu on Dec 6, 2017 | 25 comments
14. Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV (engadget.com)
332 points by electriclove on Dec 5, 2017 | 353 comments
15. Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music (classicalmusiconly.com)
273 points by ClassicalmOnly on Dec 6, 2017 | 107 comments
16. The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than double that of veterans (theguardian.com)
317 points by liyanage on Dec 6, 2017 | 380 comments
17. Regarding the NiceHash security breach (nicehash.com)
169 points by 6d6b73 on Dec 6, 2017 | 110 comments
18. ‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem (2015) (quantamagazine.org)
160 points by 18nleung on Dec 5, 2017 | 28 comments
19. How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop (engadget.com)
239 points by 11thEarlOfMar on Dec 6, 2017 | 145 comments
20. Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath (blog.mozilla.org)
239 points by ac29 on Dec 6, 2017 | 63 comments
21. Learning with Privacy at Scale (machinelearning.apple.com)
132 points by gok on Dec 6, 2017 | 16 comments
22. A Final Farewell (getfinal.com)
131 points by kreitje on Dec 6, 2017 | 75 comments
23. How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn It into a Sponge (jstor.org)
169 points by fern12 on Dec 6, 2017 | 101 comments
24. PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com)
420 points by pvsukale3 on Dec 6, 2017 | 46 comments
25. Parsons code (wikipedia.org)
85 points by trampi on Dec 6, 2017 | 22 comments
26. The Open Mathematics of Crystallization [pdf] (ams.org)
55 points by mathgenius on Dec 6, 2017 | 2 comments
27. How the Apollo Fire Propelled NASA to the Moon (arstechnica.com)
109 points by NaOH on Dec 5, 2017 | 21 comments
28. Connections between Abstract Algebra and High School Algebra (2015) (ams.org)
126 points by _culy on Dec 5, 2017 | 38 comments
29. Apple Introduces Search Ads Basic (searchads.apple.com)
125 points by dottrap on Dec 6, 2017 | 105 comments
30. ReactOS 0.4.7 released (reactos.org)
229 points by jeditobe on Dec 6, 2017 | 59 comments

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