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1.		The Brutal Ageism of Tech (newrepublic.com)
		535 points by GabrielF00 on March 23, 2014 \| 346 comments
2.		California police use of body cameras cuts violence and complaints (2013) (theguardian.com)
		261 points by mercenario on March 23, 2014 \| 113 comments
3.		Link Bubble - A new browser for Android (play.google.com)
		230 points by intull on March 23, 2014 \| 106 comments
4.		It’s impossible to work your way through college nowadays (randalolson.com)
		200 points by frostmatthew on March 23, 2014 \| 195 comments
5.		Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes (getbreadbox.com)
		199 points by getbreadbox on March 23, 2014 \| 145 comments
6.		Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey (torproject.org)
		180 points by hexa- on March 23, 2014 \| 82 comments
7.		Top Algorithms in Data Mining (2008) [pdf] (uvm.edu)
		177 points by Anon84 on March 23, 2014 \| 43 comments
8.		Some facts about how NSA stories are reported (firstlook.org)
		161 points by trauco on March 23, 2014 \| 44 comments
9.		Free Startup Ideas (docs.google.com)
		153 points by vladmk on March 23, 2014 \| 96 comments
10.		Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers? (economist.com)
		149 points by dmmalam on March 23, 2014 \| 92 comments
11.		ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP (computerworld.com)
		136 points by gphilip on March 23, 2014 \| 124 comments
12.		MIT professor Marvin Minsky wins $540,000 award (bostonglobe.com)
		130 points by wslh on March 23, 2014 \| 109 comments
13.		Mt. Gox's Bitcoins are being sold on Bitstamp? (pastebin.com)
		124 points by Andrew_Quentin on March 23, 2014 \| 83 comments
14.		PHP compiler for JVM (github.com/dim-s)
		115 points by tjomk on March 23, 2014 \| 24 comments
15.		2(048) (wegnerdesign.com)
		117 points by josephwegner on March 23, 2014 \| 46 comments
16.		How to design an elliptic-curve signature system (cr.yp.to)
		115 points by hexa- on March 23, 2014 \| 9 comments
17.		Duktape: an embeddable JavaScript engine (duktape.org)
		109 points by brassybadger on March 23, 2014 \| 43 comments
18.		Principles of good data analysis (gregreda.com)
		108 points by gjreda on March 23, 2014 \| 6 comments
19.		Sinkhole of bureaucracy (washingtonpost.com)
		109 points by AndrewDucker on March 23, 2014 \| 59 comments
20.		Microsoft defends its right to read your email (cnn.com)
		106 points by gphilip on March 23, 2014 \| 90 comments
21.		Textbooks Prices: Out of Control (cliffmass.blogspot.com)
		106 points by aaronbrethorst on March 23, 2014 \| 89 comments
22.		The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage (theatlantic.com)
		108 points by vitaminj on March 23, 2014 \| 122 comments
23.		Basic Concepts of High Availability Linux (frankgroeneveld.nl)
		101 points by frenkel on March 23, 2014 \| 24 comments
24.		Nice $40M ecommerce company – call me when it scales (pando.com)
		99 points by ski on March 23, 2014 \| 22 comments
25.		Frozen Funds (vircurex.com)
		100 points by moe on March 23, 2014 \| 100 comments
26.		WebP – A new image format for the Web (developers.google.com)
		93 points by personjerry on March 23, 2014 \| 53 comments
27.		Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling (techcrunch.com)
		94 points by bjenik on March 23, 2014 \| 56 comments
28.		Linux: Difference between /dev/console , /dev/tty and /dev/tty0 (unix.stackexchange.com)
		84 points by axelfontaine on March 23, 2014 \| 25 comments
29.		Introducing Ring -3 Rootkits: BIOS rootkit targeting vPro chipsets (2009) [pdf] (blackhat.com)
		74 points by devconsole on March 23, 2014 \| 26 comments
30.		World's first carbon fiber and Kevlar 3D printer [video] (markforged.com)
		71 points by wheresclark on March 23, 2014 \| 22 comments
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