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1.		Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware (transmissionbt.com)
		895 points by mroling on March 6, 2016 \| 338 comments
2.		Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, Has Died (theverge.com)
		451 points by jrbedard on March 6, 2016 \| 69 comments
3.		Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars (syonyk.blogspot.com)
		585 points by Shivetya on March 6, 2016 \| 361 comments
4.		Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors (medium.com/blakeross)
		362 points by philfreo on March 5, 2016 \| 66 comments
5.		Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug cartels' profits (washingtonpost.com)
		300 points by potshot on March 6, 2016 \| 223 comments
6.		Learning how to write a 3D engine from scratch in C#, TypeScript or JavaScript (2013) (msdn.microsoft.com)
		251 points by adamnemecek on March 6, 2016 \| 36 comments
7.		Let's code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP (saminiir.com)
		322 points by ingve on March 6, 2016 \| 49 comments
8.		Eating chocolate is associated with improved brain function (washingtonpost.com)
		207 points by mhb on March 6, 2016 \| 93 comments
9.		Letters Helped Challenger Shuttle Engineer Shed 30 Years of Guilt (npr.org)
		144 points by curtis on March 5, 2016 \| 23 comments
10.		“I Helped 8 People Die” (torontolife.com)
		166 points by kitbrennan on March 5, 2016 \| 71 comments
11.		Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C (github.com/tj)
		113 points by alongtheflow on March 6, 2016 \| 33 comments
12.		Q&A: Andrew Ng (mercurynews.com)
		101 points by jonbaer on March 5, 2016 \| 39 comments
13.		Hacking industrial vehicles from the internet (jcarlosnorte.com)
		152 points by akavel on March 6, 2016 \| 46 comments
14.		The nanolight revolution is coming (nature.com)
		167 points by danielsiders on March 6, 2016 \| 18 comments
15.		Advanced Tor Browser Fingerprinting (jcarlosnorte.com)
		135 points by hachiya on March 6, 2016 \| 29 comments
16.		How Duolingo got 110M users without spending on marketing (techinasia.com)
		158 points by vmalu on March 4, 2016 \| 63 comments
17.		Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX (acm.org)
		140 points by dcschelt on March 6, 2016 \| 43 comments
18.		Commuting Takes Its Toll (scientificamerican.com)
		126 points by brahmwg on March 6, 2016 \| 125 comments
19.		Airbnb Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor in Tourist-Friendly New Orleans (nytimes.com)
		71 points by geebee on March 6, 2016 \| 86 comments
20.		CEO (jacquesmattheij.com)
		313 points by jacquesm on March 6, 2016 \| 157 comments
21.		Garnet – a graphical toolkit for Lisp (sourceforge.net)
		54 points by cronjobber on March 5, 2016 \| 23 comments
22.		Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client (github.com/marshallofsound)
		99 points by dcschelt on March 6, 2016 \| 48 comments
23.		Confessions of a Sydney surgeon: why your operation may not work (smh.com.au)
		52 points by yetanotheracc on March 6, 2016 \| 48 comments
24.		A struggle within MIT’s IT department over its future (tech.mit.edu)
		102 points by chei0aiV on March 6, 2016 \| 65 comments
25.		Hiten Shah on VC funding vs. bootstrapping and how to determine ‘grit’ [video] (techcrunch.com)
		41 points by doppp on March 6, 2016 \| 6 comments
26.		Frege – a Haskell for the JVM (github.com/frege)
		177 points by talles on March 6, 2016 \| 48 comments
27.		There are no acceptable ads (github.com/fivefilters)
		226 points by k1m on March 6, 2016 \| 278 comments
28.		Rev. Robert Palladino, Scribe Who Shaped Apple’s Fonts, Dies at 83 (nytimes.com)
		66 points by jstreebin on March 6, 2016 \| 3 comments
29.		DOD officials say autonomous killing machines deserve a look (arstechnica.com)
		57 points by lxm on March 6, 2016 \| 83 comments
30.		Can a 3-year old represent herself in immigration court? This judge thinks so (washingtonpost.com)
		90 points by rl3 on March 6, 2016 \| 87 comments
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