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1.		High quality GIF with FFmpeg (pkh.me)
		482 points by ux on March 16, 2015 \| 124 comments
2.		Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab (apertoire.net)
		424 points by apertoire on March 16, 2015 \| 231 comments
3.		Adventures in message queues (antirez.com)
		350 points by fcambus on March 15, 2015 \| 99 comments
4.		The Hating Game (rachelnabors.com)
		339 points by luu on March 16, 2015 \| 135 comments
5.		Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and command prompt (xonsh.org)
		242 points by ngoldbaum on March 15, 2015 \| 61 comments
6.		Hertz puts cameras in its rental cars, says it has no plans to use them (fusion.net)
		241 points by eplanit on March 16, 2015 \| 127 comments
7.		How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware (highscalability.com)
		252 points by quicksilver03 on March 16, 2015 \| 189 comments
8.		Why Are Geospatial Databases So Hard to Build? (jandrewrogers.com)
		183 points by chippy on March 15, 2015 \| 54 comments
9.		“Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900” (facebook.com)
		491 points by aestetix on March 16, 2015 \| 602 comments
10.		Can a city really ban cars from its streets? (2014) (bbc.com)
		150 points by antr on March 16, 2015 \| 208 comments
11.		GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain (gitbook.com)
		172 points by lobo_tuerto on March 16, 2015 \| 74 comments
12.		Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an informant (theguardian.com)
		257 points by beardless_sysad on March 16, 2015 \| 68 comments
13.		A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (arxiv.org)
		129 points by brandonb on March 15, 2015 \| 26 comments
14.		Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf] (unm.edu)
		103 points by fabriceleal on March 15, 2015 \| 7 comments
15.		Rent Control Creates Higher Rents in SF (nickstefan.net)
		170 points by nickstefan12 on March 16, 2015 \| 281 comments
16.		PHP7 Gains Scalar Type Hints (php.net)
		150 points by pbowyer on March 16, 2015 \| 143 comments
17.		Inside the Mad, Mad World of TripAdvisor (outsideonline.com)
		112 points by khc on March 15, 2015 \| 31 comments
18.		MuJS: an embeddable JavaScript interpreter (mujs.com)
		100 points by Fenume on March 16, 2015 \| 56 comments
19.		Show HN: Moltin – eCommerce Back End as a Service (moltin.com)
		116 points by AJSturrock on March 16, 2015 \| 49 comments
20.		Is your satellite link oscillating? Improving goodput using network coding (apnic.net)
		69 points by gunkaaa on March 15, 2015 \| 14 comments
21.		Was 2015 Boston's worst winter yet? (web.mit.edu)
		99 points by brk on March 16, 2015 \| 43 comments
22.		ReadMe (YC W15) Creates Crisp Documentation for Developers Using Your APIs (techcrunch.com)
		115 points by gkoberger on March 16, 2015 \| 46 comments
23.		Stanford study shows success of different programming styles in CS class (stanford.edu)
		156 points by kornish on March 16, 2015 \| 51 comments
24.		Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging (techcrunch.com)
		97 points by Skrypt on March 16, 2015 \| 30 comments
25.		Internet Cafe Refugees – Japan's Disposable Workers (disposableworkers.com)
		126 points by doppp on March 16, 2015 \| 61 comments
26.		Freedom of the Press: Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (1945) (iprimus.com.au)
		93 points by primroot on March 16, 2015 \| 8 comments
27.		An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and Its De-Stigmatization [pdf] (jeremygreenwood.net)
		86 points by nkurz on March 16, 2015 \| 60 comments
28.		Deploy based on the planet alignments (github.com/lhartikk)
		134 points by edofic on March 16, 2015 \| 45 comments
29.		Life Lessons from Machine Learning (outlookzen.wordpress.com)
		121 points by nkurz on March 16, 2015 \| 33 comments
30.		Incuriosity Will Kill Your Infrastructure (yellerapp.com)
		97 points by luu on March 16, 2015 \| 29 comments
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