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1.		Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version (thenextweb.com)
		887 points by sethbannon on March 25, 2014 \| 351 comments
2.		Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public (technet.com)
		756 points by hornokplease on March 25, 2014 \| 204 comments
3.		Virtual Reality is going to change the world (notch.net)
		597 points by bpierre on March 25, 2014 \| 210 comments
4.		Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
		386 points by westonh on March 25, 2014 \| 212 comments
5.		We’re Fucked, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brink (a16z.com)
		351 points by rajbala on March 25, 2014 \| 112 comments
6.		Why I like Java (plover.com)
		339 points by snupples on March 25, 2014 \| 425 comments
7.		IRS Says Bitcoin Is Property (bloomberg.com)
		345 points by rbc on March 25, 2014 \| 303 comments
8.		Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google (techcrunch.com)
		340 points by byoogle on March 25, 2014 \| 258 comments
9.		Clojure 1.6 released (github.com/clojure)
		335 points by Morgawr on March 25, 2014 \| 170 comments
10.		Oculus Joins Facebook (oculusvr.com)
		289 points by kposehn on March 25, 2014 \| 177 comments
11.		Ask HN: Is Ryan Bates okay?
		209 points by mmanfrin on March 25, 2014 \| 30 comments
12.		Introductions to advanced Haskell topics (haskellforall.com)
		190 points by davidkellis on March 25, 2014 \| 38 comments
13.		Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser (sharedrop.io)
		165 points by szimek on March 25, 2014 \| 68 comments
14.		How British satellite company Inmarsat tracked down MH370 (telegraph.co.uk)
		164 points by pedrocr on March 25, 2014 \| 86 comments
15.		Projects that power GitHub (github.com/showcases)
		164 points by waffle_ss on March 25, 2014 \| 37 comments
16.		Could keybase.io do for crypto what GitHub did for Git? (matthew-sinclair.com)
		152 points by matthewsinclair on March 25, 2014 \| 139 comments
17.		Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection (nytimes.com)
		147 points by samdk on March 25, 2014 \| 85 comments
18.		Fourier transform for dummies (math.stackexchange.com)
		141 points by wfn on March 25, 2014 \| 37 comments
19.		Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire (arstechnica.com)
		132 points by line-zero on March 25, 2014 \| 211 comments
20.		Mistakes we've made (hackerschool.com)
		121 points by mgeraci on March 25, 2014 \| 35 comments
21.		The tourist map of flash drives (gnod.com)
		112 points by mg on March 25, 2014 \| 74 comments
22.		Who Needs a Boss? (nytimes.com)
		116 points by HSO on March 25, 2014 \| 81 comments
23.		A decentralized anonymous marketplace (stanford.edu)
		114 points by posthumangr on March 25, 2014 \| 66 comments
24.		Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator (samaltman.com)
		112 points by gatsby on March 25, 2014 \| 50 comments
25.		Venice votes 89% to secede from Italy (mises.org)
		105 points by stefan_kendall3 on March 25, 2014 \| 109 comments
26.		[dupe] The Creator of 'Doom' Is Now A Facebook Employee (techcrunch.com)
		106 points by antonius on March 25, 2014 \| 38 comments
27.		Game Programming Patterns – Bytecode (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
		103 points by beef3333 on March 25, 2014 \| 71 comments
28.		Mylar: A platform for building secure web applications (csail.mit.edu)
		101 points by gphilip on March 25, 2014 \| 23 comments
29.		NIST Randomness Beacon (nist.gov)
		97 points by dfc on March 25, 2014 \| 63 comments
30.		Waze Co-Founder Skips Google to Try Startup World Again (bloomberg.com)
		102 points by gwendolynregina on March 25, 2014 \| 31 comments
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