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1.		Keep the Internet Open (samaltman.com)
		1032 points by firloop on March 14, 2017 \| 391 comments
2.		Scala Native v0.1 (scala-lang.org)
		642 points by zepolud on March 14, 2017 \| 240 comments
3.		Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? (truthhawk.com)
		733 points by jonstokes on March 14, 2017 \| 399 comments
4.		A Formal Spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown (githubengineering.com)
		475 points by samlambert on March 14, 2017 \| 89 comments
5.		Vibrator Maker to Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use (npr.org)
		456 points by ceejayoz on March 14, 2017 \| 251 comments
6.		Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?
		512 points by berkeleyarchive on March 14, 2017 \| 148 comments
7.		Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions” (medium.com/the-polymath-project)
		358 points by _chu on March 14, 2017 \| 209 comments
8.		Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16) (expo.io)
		331 points by ccheever on March 14, 2017 \| 134 comments
9.		PostgreSQL Parallel Query v2 (rhaas.blogspot.com)
		265 points by Tostino on March 14, 2017 \| 42 comments
10.		Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice (2016) (nytimes.com)
		230 points by teslacar on March 14, 2017 \| 156 comments
11.		Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Happiness [pdf] (gwern.net)
		172 points by mannigfaltig on March 12, 2017 \| 82 comments
12.		Some fun with π in Julia (julialang.org)
		188 points by one-more-minute on March 14, 2017 \| 64 comments
13.		Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG (googlesource.com)
		234 points by maxst on March 14, 2017 \| 140 comments
14.		How I got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree (billmei.net)
		298 points by leeny on March 14, 2017 \| 179 comments
15.		React VR (facebookincubator.github.io)
		235 points by angrydev on March 14, 2017 \| 109 comments
16.		React Native Navigation Library (airbnb.io)
		235 points by HectorRamos on March 14, 2017 \| 50 comments
17.		The new legend of Zelda is a toy box of delights (1843magazine.com)
		271 points by noir-york on March 14, 2017 \| 254 comments
18.		Enabling Continual Learning in Neural Networks (deepmind.com)
		152 points by interconnector on March 14, 2017 \| 19 comments
19.		Graphql-Up: CLI to create a ready-to-use GraphQL API (graph.cool)
		168 points by schickling on March 14, 2017 \| 31 comments
20.		WikiHouse – Open source buildings and interiors for self-build (wikihouse.cc)
		270 points by bizzleDawg on March 13, 2017 \| 53 comments
21.		Lloyd Conover, Inventor of Groundbreaking Antibiotic Tetracycline, Dies at 93 (nytimes.com)
		80 points by danso on March 13, 2017 \| 14 comments
22.		Back-To-Basic Reading: Byzantine Generals (allthingsdistributed.com)
		91 points by jbredeche on March 14, 2017 \| 14 comments
23.		An introductory course in computer programming (1965) (cmu.edu)
		110 points by federicoponzi on March 14, 2017 \| 20 comments
24.		The CIA's “Development Tradecraft Do's and Dont's” (schneier.com)
		219 points by loop22 on March 13, 2017 \| 44 comments
25.		JSON Web Tokens should be avoided (paragonie.com)
		386 points by CiPHPerCoder on March 14, 2017 \| 297 comments
26.		Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook (buckbuild.com)
		272 points by Nimsical on March 14, 2017 \| 127 comments
27.		PegaSwitch: Exploit Toolkit for Nintendo Switch (pegaswitch.com)
		142 points by daeken on March 14, 2017 \| 50 comments
28.		Monte Carlo estimation of Pi (github.com/calebmadrigal)
		82 points by calebm on March 14, 2017 \| 42 comments
29.		Listen to the Clouds (listentothe.cloud)
		189 points by craigds on March 14, 2017 \| 84 comments
30.		Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm (sangaline.com)
		349 points by foob on March 14, 2017 \| 49 comments
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