| 1. |  | PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem (gocardless.com) | 
|  | 322 points by stevedomin on Dec 6, 2017  | 117 comments | 
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| 2. |  | Antidote: CRDT-based distributed database (syncfree.github.io) | 
|  | 288 points by KirinDave on Dec 6, 2017  | 83 comments | 
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| 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 | 
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| 4. |  | Ask HN: Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code | 
|  | 513 points by throwawaysource on Dec 6, 2017  | 277 comments | 
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| 5. |  | Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating (nytimes.com) | 
|  | 397 points by veidr on Dec 6, 2017  | 285 comments | 
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| 6. |  | Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org) | 
|  | 539 points by dennybritz on Dec 6, 2017  | 270 comments | 
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| 7. |  | Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin (steamcommunity.com) | 
|  | 675 points by tsneed290 on Dec 6, 2017  | 395 comments | 
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| 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 | 
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| 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 | 
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| 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 | 
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| 11. |  | Some SpiderMonkey Optimizations in Firefox Quantum (jandemooij.nl) | 
|  | 212 points by jandem on Dec 6, 2017  | 5 comments | 
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| 12. |  | 3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiFi devices (washington.edu) | 
|  | 376 points by soofy on Dec 6, 2017  | 238 comments | 
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| 13. |  | Writing a C Compiler, Part 2 (norasandler.com) | 
|  | 241 points by luu on Dec 6, 2017  | 25 comments | 
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| 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 | 
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| 15. |  | Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music (classicalmusiconly.com) | 
|  | 273 points by ClassicalmOnly on Dec 6, 2017  | 107 comments | 
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| 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 | 
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| 17. |  | Regarding the NiceHash security breach (nicehash.com) | 
|  | 169 points by 6d6b73 on Dec 6, 2017  | 110 comments | 
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| 18. |  | ‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem (2015) (quantamagazine.org) | 
|  | 160 points by 18nleung on Dec 5, 2017  | 28 comments | 
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| 19. |  | How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop (engadget.com) | 
|  | 239 points by 11thEarlOfMar on Dec 6, 2017  | 145 comments | 
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| 20. |  | Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath (blog.mozilla.org) | 
|  | 239 points by ac29 on Dec 6, 2017  | 63 comments | 
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| 21. |  | Learning with Privacy at Scale (machinelearning.apple.com) | 
|  | 132 points by gok on Dec 6, 2017  | 16 comments | 
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| 22. |  | A Final Farewell (getfinal.com) | 
|  | 131 points by kreitje on Dec 6, 2017  | 75 comments | 
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| 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 | 
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| 24. |  | PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com) | 
|  | 420 points by pvsukale3 on Dec 6, 2017  | 46 comments | 
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| 25. |  | Parsons code (wikipedia.org) | 
|  | 85 points by trampi on Dec 6, 2017  | 22 comments | 
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| 26. |  | The Open Mathematics of Crystallization [pdf] (ams.org) | 
|  | 55 points by mathgenius on Dec 6, 2017  | 2 comments | 
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| 27. |  | How the Apollo Fire Propelled NASA to the Moon (arstechnica.com) | 
|  | 109 points by NaOH on Dec 5, 2017  | 21 comments | 
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| 28. |  | Connections between Abstract Algebra and High School Algebra (2015) (ams.org) | 
|  | 126 points by _culy on Dec 5, 2017  | 38 comments | 
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| 29. |  | Apple Introduces Search Ads Basic (searchads.apple.com) | 
|  | 125 points by dottrap on Dec 6, 2017  | 105 comments | 
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| 30. |  | ReactOS 0.4.7 released (reactos.org) | 
|  | 229 points by jeditobe on Dec 6, 2017  | 59 comments | 
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