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1.		Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That (raganwald.com)
		333 points by johanbrook on March 30, 2014 \| 240 comments
2.		Abstract Ideas Don’t Deserve Patents (nytimes.com)
		279 points by wrongc0ntinent on March 30, 2014 \| 174 comments
3.		Rendering Head in WebGL (alteredqualia.com)
		238 points by itamarb on March 30, 2014 \| 77 comments
4.		Wrong and Right Reasons To Be Upset About Oculus – with Carmack response (peterberkman.tumblr.com)
		211 points by julespitt on March 30, 2014 \| 150 comments
5.		Big data: are we making a big mistake? (ft.com)
		199 points by pietro on March 30, 2014 \| 83 comments
6.		How Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates of Tech Startups (forbes.com/sites/michaelthomsen)
		173 points by thelinuxkid on March 30, 2014 \| 54 comments
7.		[dupe] Good Samaritan Backfire (medium.com/human-parts)
		164 points by blearyeyed on March 30, 2014 \| 130 comments
8.		Pass: The standard unix password manager (zx2c4.com)
		159 points by po on March 30, 2014 \| 77 comments
9.		New Zealand school tossed its playground rules (nationalpost.com)
		158 points by cardamomo on March 30, 2014 \| 84 comments
10.		How Turtl has no idea when you're sharing copyrighted stuff (turtlapp.tumblr.com)
		158 points by orthecreedence on March 30, 2014 \| 76 comments
11.		Git Source Code Review (fabiensanglard.net)
		143 points by laurent123456 on March 30, 2014 \| 37 comments
12.		Why CoffeeScript Isn't the Answer (walkercoderanger.com)
		136 points by jhack on March 30, 2014 \| 142 comments
13.		Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (2011) (axisofeval.blogspot.ca)
		127 points by mmphosis on March 30, 2014 \| 117 comments
14.		Pyringe: Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting into Python processes (github.com/google)
		120 points by codecondo on March 30, 2014 \| 30 comments
15.		WebRTC: Not Quite Magic (alexfreska.com)
		120 points by alexfreska on March 30, 2014 \| 56 comments
16.		Dropbox DMCA takedown on personal folders (twitter.com/darrellwhitelaw)
		119 points by ayi on March 30, 2014 \| 40 comments
17.		Strangecoin: a proposal for a nonlinear currency (digitalinterface.blogspot.com)
		113 points by djestrada on March 30, 2014 \| 65 comments
18.		Sugar Love (nationalgeographic.com)
		107 points by glasnoster on March 30, 2014 \| 60 comments
19.		The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz (bostonglobe.com)
		105 points by morisy on March 30, 2014 \| 31 comments
20.		In Some Ways, It's Looking Like 1999 in the Stock Market (nytimes.com)
		105 points by applecore on March 30, 2014 \| 78 comments
21.		Tesla Motors plans to debut cheaper car in early 2015 (2013) (latimes.com)
		102 points by bane on March 30, 2014 \| 63 comments
22.		Microchips That Shook the World (ieee.org)
		105 points by thomasjames on March 30, 2014 \| 28 comments
23.		Signs you might be in "Survival Mode" (5whys.com)
		103 points by royosherove on March 30, 2014 \| 33 comments
24.		Combining the power of gdb and valgrind (billiob.net)
		100 points by jlemoine on March 30, 2014 \| 6 comments
25.		The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence (thenation.com)
		91 points by mcphilip on March 30, 2014 \| 52 comments
26.		Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD OS: 2nd edition available for preorder (amazon.com)
		85 points by adamnemecek on March 30, 2014 \| 25 comments
27.		Go and Android (dennisforbes.ca)
		82 points by stickhandle on March 30, 2014 \| 55 comments
28.		Working Ridiculously Long Hours is a Sign that Something is Wrong (netizencorp.com)
		79 points by USNetizen on March 30, 2014 \| 52 comments
29.		Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009) (sivers.org)
		74 points by diggan on March 30, 2014 \| 21 comments
30.		Univalent Foundations: New Foundations of Mathematics [video] (ias.edu)
		69 points by colinprince on March 30, 2014 \| 10 comments
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