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1.		Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat (bloomberg.com)
		830 points by doener on March 17, 2016 \| 387 comments
2.		A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case (wired.com)
		795 points by runesoerensen on March 17, 2016 \| 164 comments
3.		Facebook is the new Excel (alexmuir.com)
		565 points by AlexMuir on March 17, 2016 \| 250 comments
4.		Tcpdump is amazing (jvns.ca)
		567 points by ingve on March 17, 2016 \| 102 comments
5.		Real-Time Django: Get Started with Django Channels (heroku.com)
		304 points by joeyespo on March 17, 2016 \| 116 comments
6.		What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		259 points by Eldorado on March 16, 2016 \| 74 comments
7.		Unmasking Startup L. Jackson (bloomberg.com)
		357 points by jackgavigan on March 17, 2016 \| 87 comments
8.		US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code (zdnet.com)
		204 points by tshtf on March 17, 2016 \| 38 comments
9.		The birth of Baghdad was a landmark for world civilisation (theguardian.com)
		177 points by pepys on March 17, 2016 \| 45 comments
10.		Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development (github.com/rvirding)
		312 points by vdaniuk on March 17, 2016 \| 91 comments
11.		The Single Piece of JavaScript on HN (watchandcode.com)
		272 points by qasar on March 17, 2016 \| 186 comments
12.		Elements of Clojure (elementsofclojure.com)
		199 points by ingve on March 17, 2016 \| 43 comments
13.		Evidence that Alzheimer’s ‘lost memories’ may one day be recoverable (washingtonpost.com)
		135 points by daegloe on March 17, 2016 \| 20 comments
14.		ProtonMail's encrypted email is now available to all (engadget.com)
		163 points by rdl on March 17, 2016 \| 108 comments
15.		The Clipper Chip (wikipedia.org)
		244 points by jacquesm on March 16, 2016 \| 39 comments
16.		Limitless Worker Surveillance (ssrn.com)
		120 points by boh on March 17, 2016 \| 44 comments
17.		Stargate Physics 101: A comedy about the importance of software testing (archiveofourown.org)
		334 points by gwern on March 16, 2016 \| 67 comments
18.		Walt Whitman's Letter for a Dying Soldier to His Wife Discovered (npr.org)
		77 points by samclemens on March 16, 2016 \| 9 comments
19.		Feathers 2.0 – a minimalist real-time JavaScript framework (feathersjs.com)
		202 points by daffl on March 15, 2016 \| 81 comments
20.		Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineering (medium.com/rtotheohan)
		210 points by rohankshir on March 16, 2016 \| 125 comments
21.		Type hints – a mediocre programmer's reaction (2015) (python.org)
		106 points by ingve on March 17, 2016 \| 54 comments
22.		Illegal Math (prakashvenkat.com)
		201 points by colinprince on March 17, 2016 \| 100 comments
23.		2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results (stackoverflow.com)
		318 points by sambrand on March 17, 2016 \| 168 comments
24.		Jobs Involving Routine Tasks Aren't Growing (stlouisfed.org)
		133 points by sebgr on March 16, 2016 \| 111 comments
25.		Twitter kills TweetDeck for Windows, automates log-ins for TweetDeck users (techcrunch.com)
		80 points by protomyth on March 17, 2016 \| 47 comments
26.		The Law is Clear: The FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite its OS (backchannel.com)
		266 points by Osiris30 on March 17, 2016 \| 98 comments
27.		Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis (bloomberg.com)
		162 points by lxm on March 17, 2016 \| 160 comments
28.		A Typical Day in a Blockchain-Enabled World Circa 2030 (blockchainfutureslab.wordpress.com)
		88 points by elemeno on March 17, 2016 \| 35 comments
29.		Spacecraft Fire Experiment I (nasa.gov)
		69 points by ourmandave on March 16, 2016 \| 9 comments
30.		Making a Go program 70% faster by avoiding common mistakes (fmpwizard.com)
		147 points by numo16 on March 17, 2016 \| 66 comments
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