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1. Coinbase Index Fund (coinbase.com)
509 points by smaili on March 6, 2018 | 321 comments
2. First firing of air-breathing electric thruster (esa.int)
497 points by sohkamyung on March 6, 2018 | 116 comments
3. Uber self-driving trucks are now moving cargo for Uber Freight customers (techcrunch.com)
365 points by wil_wheat_on on March 6, 2018 | 266 comments
4. Create Statistics in PostgreSQL 10 (citusdata.com)
357 points by samber on March 6, 2018 | 7 comments
5. 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach (wa.gov.au)
318 points by Someone on March 6, 2018 | 104 comments
6. Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil (wikipedia.org)
342 points by dorfsmay on March 6, 2018 | 110 comments
7. The Mystery of the Slow Downloads (panic.com)
441 points by Doubleguitars on March 5, 2018 | 100 comments
8. Show HN: Investment Calculator – A simple retirement calculator (investmentcalculator.io)
308 points by Calebbarclay on March 6, 2018 | 210 comments
9. Updated Request for Startups (blog.ycombinator.com)
249 points by craigcannon on March 6, 2018 | 177 comments
10. LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision floating point numbers (bellard.org)
159 points by g0xA52A2A on March 6, 2018 | 60 comments
11. Sin and Cos: The Programmer's Pals (helixsoft.nl)
322 points by 1bytebeta on March 6, 2018 | 89 comments
12. Measuring the many sizes of a Git repository (blog.github.com)
138 points by edmorley on March 5, 2018 | 26 comments
13. OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings (eater.com)
252 points by danso on March 6, 2018 | 160 comments
14. Ask HN: How will you manage your digital assets when you die?
298 points by sirsuki on March 6, 2018 | 171 comments
15. A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
215 points by amitkapila on March 6, 2018 | 30 comments
16. Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back (chicagomaroon.com)
142 points by avree on March 5, 2018 | 60 comments
17. New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life (quantamagazine.org)
150 points by IntronExon on March 6, 2018 | 105 comments
18. Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor (github.com/atom)
320 points by seanwilson on March 5, 2018 | 225 comments
19. Something Mysterious Is Killing Captive Gorillas (theatlantic.com)
103 points by kumaranvpl on March 6, 2018 | 87 comments
20. Pitching Your Startup (stripe.com)
163 points by gk1 on March 6, 2018 | 27 comments
21. Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013) (bookofhook.blogspot.com)
319 points by andxor on March 6, 2018 | 84 comments
22. Let’s Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech (locusmag.com)
163 points by magoghm on March 6, 2018 | 100 comments
23. First stable version of Scheme web framework Artanis released (lists.gnu.org)
126 points by nalaginrut on March 6, 2018 | 22 comments
24. Crawling and Indexing: Technical SEO Basics That Drive Revenue (rozhon.com)
84 points by vinnyglennon on March 5, 2018 | 8 comments
25. Progressive Locks: fast, upgradable read/write locks (wtarreau.blogspot.com)
121 points by vbernat on March 6, 2018 | 3 comments
26. The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO (chartmogul.com)
102 points by erikrothoff on March 6, 2018 | 61 comments
27. Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.11.0 (github.com/tidwall)
126 points by tidwall on March 6, 2018 | 17 comments
28. The Building Blocks of Interpretability (distill.pub)
125 points by dsr12 on March 6, 2018 | 24 comments
29. Paypal Patent Application: Expedited Virtual Currency Transaction System (uspto.gov)
134 points by lrvick on March 5, 2018 | 78 comments
30. Socialhome: a federated personal profile with social networking functionality (github.com/jaywink)
68 points by jaywink on March 6, 2018 | 18 comments

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