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1.		Why Spotify Pays So Little (vulf.de)
		613 points by kfor on March 18, 2015 \| 295 comments
2.		MSBuild is now open source on GitHub (msdn.com)
		520 points by pauljz on March 18, 2015 \| 173 comments
3.		John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket” (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
		402 points by tilt on March 17, 2015 \| 275 comments
4.		Show HN: Textures.js, SVG Patterns for Data Visualization (riccardoscalco.github.io)
		404 points by ricsca on March 18, 2015 \| 61 comments
5.		NSF announces plan for comprehensive public access to research results (nsf.gov)
		290 points by basilgohar on March 18, 2015 \| 29 comments
6.		YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' coffin (productionadvice.co.uk)
		381 points by anigbrowl on March 18, 2015 \| 128 comments
7.		Planets in the Fourth Dimension (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
		252 points by diego898 on March 18, 2015 \| 53 comments
8.		The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces (vice.com)
		426 points by DiabloD3 on March 18, 2015 \| 185 comments
9.		AeroFS is now free up to 30 users (aerofs.com)
		210 points by yurisagalov on March 18, 2015 \| 135 comments
10.		The 1980 Math Olympiad Program: Where are they now? (andrewgelman.com)
		165 points by claywm on March 18, 2015 \| 100 comments
11.		Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life (gyrosco.pe)
		227 points by tburger on March 18, 2015 \| 115 comments
12.		I Hate the News (2006) (aaronsw.com)
		222 points by oskarth on March 18, 2015 \| 187 comments
13.		Apple iOS Hardware Assisted Screenlock Bruteforce (mdsec.co.uk)
		214 points by allending on March 18, 2015 \| 101 comments
14.		We Buy Broken Gold (laphamsquarterly.org)
		204 points by diodorus on March 18, 2015 \| 194 comments
15.		Spain Finds Cervantes' Tomb in Madrid (bbc.com)
		118 points by antr on March 18, 2015 \| 19 comments
16.		Macbook screen coating issues (staingate.org)
		279 points by greggman on March 18, 2015 \| 180 comments
17.		Analysis of DNA uncovers a rough dating scene after the advent of agriculture (psmag.com)
		135 points by pepys on March 18, 2015 \| 88 comments
18.		Hardware Designs Should Be Free. Here’s How to Do It (wired.com)
		93 points by CapitalistCartr on March 18, 2015 \| 51 comments
19.		Where the Real Skyscrapers Are (Hint: North Dakota) (medium.com/re-form)
		118 points by tzs on March 18, 2015 \| 49 comments
20.		Dale – A GC-less S-expression system programming language (github.com/tomhrr)
		123 points by omaranto on March 18, 2015 \| 33 comments
21.		Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013) (somethingsimilar.com)
		100 points by ajdecon on March 18, 2015 \| 7 comments
22.		Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter (gatesnotes.com)
		191 points by dsr12 on March 18, 2015 \| 79 comments
23.		Binomial Heap in OCaml (typeocaml.com)
		78 points by jacksontale on March 18, 2015 \| 13 comments
24.		ES6 RC3 released (ecmascript.org)
		105 points by jakerella86 on March 18, 2015 \| 22 comments
25.		Hacker Monthly will publish its final issue 12 months from now (hackermonthly.com)
		168 points by Zweihander on March 18, 2015 \| 74 comments
26.		The Spy in the Sandbox: Practical Cache Attacks in JavaScript (arxiv.org)
		85 points by aaron695 on March 18, 2015 \| 4 comments
27.		Why Many Smart, Low-Income Students Don't Apply to Elite Schools (npr.org)
		109 points by eroo on March 17, 2015 \| 81 comments
28.		Pearson Under Fire for Monitoring Students’ Twitter Posts (nytimes.com)
		73 points by digital55 on March 18, 2015 \| 25 comments
29.		Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking home over $1m? $500k?
		213 points by fideloper on March 18, 2015 \| 196 comments
30.		Geodesic Asteroids: Classic arcade game gets correct physics (nbodyphysics.com)
		55 points by musgravepeter on March 17, 2015 \| 17 comments
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