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1.		I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		928 points by pjc50 on March 11, 2016 \| 314 comments
2.		Hard Tech is Back (samaltman.com)
		453 points by firloop on March 11, 2016 \| 287 comments
3.		Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything (factorio.com)
		582 points by staticelf on March 11, 2016 \| 113 comments
4.		Trackers (jacquesmattheij.com)
		874 points by henrik_w on March 11, 2016 \| 209 comments
5.		Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat (qz.com)
		399 points by potshot on March 11, 2016 \| 144 comments
6.		Terra Bella (terrabella.google.com)
		257 points by midko on March 11, 2016 \| 159 comments
7.		State of the Art JavaScript in 2016 (medium.com/javascript-and-opinions)
		550 points by achairapart on March 10, 2016 \| 297 comments
8.		Please scan my towel (jerrygamblin.com)
		407 points by jgrahamc on March 11, 2016 \| 105 comments
9.		America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries' High School Dropouts (wamc.org)
		297 points by tokenadult on March 11, 2016 \| 359 comments
10.		A SimCity inspired city builder where you design an MMO RPG (tigsource.com)
		388 points by doener on March 11, 2016 \| 80 comments
11.		GM to Acquire Autonomous-Vehicle Technology Developer Cruise Automation (YC W14) (techcrunch.com)
		255 points by Element_ on March 11, 2016 \| 83 comments
12.		Image Processing 101 (recurse.com)
		368 points by abecedarius on March 11, 2016 \| 41 comments
13.		How OpenGL works: software renderer in 500 lines of code (github.com/ssloy)
		363 points by gregorymichael on March 11, 2016 \| 36 comments
14.		Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? (medium.com/stevenlevy)
		238 points by steven on March 11, 2016 \| 86 comments
15.		What Makes Software Good? (medium.com/mbostock)
		128 points by revorad on March 10, 2016 \| 18 comments
16.		Welcome x 11 (blog.ycombinator.com)
		103 points by runesoerensen on March 11, 2016 \| 41 comments
17.		Golang: channels are not enough (gist.github.com)
		138 points by azth on March 11, 2016 \| 114 comments
18.		Scala School (twitter.github.io)
		224 points by alongtheflow on March 11, 2016 \| 173 comments
19.		TP-Link blocks open source router firmware to comply with new FCC rule (arstechnica.com)
		166 points by jhack on March 11, 2016 \| 99 comments
20.		Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis (citylab.com)
		153 points by jseliger on March 11, 2016 \| 208 comments
21.		Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch (businessinsider.com)
		120 points by coloneltcb on March 10, 2016 \| 138 comments
22.		Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services (allthingsdistributed.com)
		169 points by yarapavan on March 11, 2016 \| 24 comments
23.		PCE.js Mac Plus Emulator Running Mac OS System 7 (jamesfriend.com.au)
		124 points by vmorgulis on March 11, 2016 \| 26 comments
24.		Mystery 'Dude' Rattles Turkish Stock Traders With Massive Bets (bloomberg.com)
		113 points by petethomas on March 11, 2016 \| 45 comments
25.		UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors (techcrunch.com)
		280 points by benevol on March 11, 2016 \| 150 comments
26.		Croteam releases Serious Sam Classics engine under GPL (github.com/croteam-official)
		146 points by SXX on March 11, 2016 \| 19 comments
27.		What No One Told You About Z-Index (2013) (philipwalton.com)
		141 points by caffeinewriter on March 10, 2016 \| 26 comments
28.		The Open API Initiative (openapis.org)
		80 points by xrorre on March 11, 2016 \| 21 comments
29.		‘Shocking’ unification reduces disparate spin models to just one (sciencemag.org)
		68 points by croller on March 11, 2016 \| 15 comments
30.		Update on InfluxDB Clustering, High Availability and Monetization (influxdata.com)
		124 points by KyleBrandt on March 10, 2016 \| 70 comments
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