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1.		Microsoft's new foldable keyboard (blogs.microsoft.com)
		461 points by tegeek on March 14, 2015 \| 243 comments
2.		The web of names, hashes and UUIDs (joearms.github.io)
		226 points by lelf on March 15, 2015 \| 77 comments
3.		Khan Academy: Algorithms (khanacademy.org)
		358 points by lobo_tuerto on March 15, 2015 \| 69 comments
4.		Valve's SteamVR solves big problems and poses bigger questions (eurogamer.net)
		191 points by jsnell on March 15, 2015 \| 76 comments
5.		End-to-End Encryption Plugin for Yahoo Mail (yahoo.tumblr.com)
		228 points by danielweber on March 15, 2015 \| 44 comments
6.		CoreCLR on Linux (github.com/aspnet)
		131 points by gokhan on March 14, 2015 \| 18 comments
7.		The importance of user interface, illustrated by the Go flag package (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		133 points by zdw on March 15, 2015 \| 49 comments
8.		Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video] (youtube.com)
		230 points by pmoriarty on March 15, 2015 \| 164 comments
9.		Twitter Gave Meerkat Two Hours’ Notice before Cutting Access (fastcompany.com)
		177 points by byoogle on March 15, 2015 \| 75 comments
10.		Ask HN: The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture
		251 points by haskellvilain on March 15, 2015 \| 153 comments
11.		Sirius: An Open Intelligent Personal Assistant (github.com/jhauswald)
		165 points by tectonic on March 15, 2015 \| 23 comments
12.		The Church of TED (nytimes.com)
		236 points by dcre on March 15, 2015 \| 94 comments
13.		Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (2009) (nextnature.net)
		108 points by edward on March 15, 2015 \| 37 comments
14.		MatLisp: A library for scientific computation in Common Lisp (github.com/matlisp)
		99 points by chesterfield on March 15, 2015 \| 27 comments
15.		Ancient Rome’s Hexagonal Port City (nasa.gov)
		103 points by mkempe on March 15, 2015 \| 8 comments
16.		Man In The Moonbase (Part 1): Death and Life of the Best Game You Never Played (gamasutra.com)
		107 points by danso on March 15, 2015 \| 5 comments
17.		Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern (openbsd.org)
		116 points by protomyth on March 15, 2015 \| 13 comments
18.		Scrum seems to be mostly about having better alibis (agileoverflow.com)
		126 points by RalfR on March 15, 2015 \| 86 comments
19.		Tracking Device Teardown (ifixit.com)
		83 points by aburan28 on March 15, 2015 \| 9 comments
20.		Lain, the Whom of the Verb World (chronicle.com)
		70 points by samclemens on March 15, 2015 \| 27 comments
21.		Why Our Brains Love High Ceilings (fastcodesign.com)
		86 points by lxm on March 14, 2015 \| 42 comments
22.		Please stop breaking the build (danluu.com)
		72 points by luu on March 15, 2015 \| 42 comments
23.		Superpowers – The extensible, collaborative HTML5 2D+3D game maker (sparklinlabs.com)
		64 points by elisee on March 14, 2015 \| 27 comments
24.		Making Pinterest HTTPS (pinterest.com)
		95 points by cpeterso on March 15, 2015 \| 35 comments
25.		Why Children Need Chores (wsj.com)
		54 points by lxm on March 14, 2015 \| 25 comments
26.		Companies with a flat structure are weird (rkoutnik.com)
		81 points by RKoutnik on March 15, 2015 \| 70 comments
27.		How to generate a double-precision floating-point number in [0, 1] uniformly (mumble.net)
		65 points by microtonal on March 15, 2015 \| 36 comments
28.		Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?
		239 points by adilmajid on March 15, 2015 \| 134 comments
29.		The Importance of Utilizing Extroverts and Introverts in Team Meetings (katiealbee.com)
		37 points by mooreds on March 15, 2015 \| 9 comments
30.		What Satoshi Didn't Know [video] (youtube.com)
		71 points by xsb on March 15, 2015 \| 10 comments
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