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1.		Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award (newsoffice.mit.edu)
		528 points by assface on March 25, 2015 \| 74 comments
2.		“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” (dartlang.org)
		516 points by kasperset on March 25, 2015 \| 285 comments
3.		The User Is Drunk (theuserisdrunk.com)
		448 points by richardlitt on March 25, 2015 \| 210 comments
4.		Vim is moving to GitHub (github.com/vim)
		462 points by brunosutic on March 25, 2015 \| 179 comments
5.		A significant amount of programming is done by superstition (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		304 points by mwcampbell on March 25, 2015 \| 208 comments
6.		X86 is a high-level language (erratasec.com)
		319 points by alexcasalboni on March 25, 2015 \| 118 comments
7.		Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (msdn.com)
		267 points by mousetraps on March 25, 2015 \| 123 comments
8.		Hacker School is now the Recurse Center (recurse.com)
		184 points by vitno on March 25, 2015 \| 103 comments
9.		Intent to Implement: Pointer Events in Chrome (groups.google.com)
		137 points by shawndumas on March 25, 2015 \| 43 comments
10.		Kronos Haskell (kronosnotebook.com)
		186 points by Red_Tarsius on March 25, 2015 \| 81 comments
11.		Interview with Go’s Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani (pl-enthusiast.net)
		140 points by crawshaw on March 25, 2015 \| 107 comments
12.		How doctors choose to die (2012) (theguardian.com)
		161 points by arfliw on March 24, 2015 \| 81 comments
13.		iOS Code Samples (ioscodesamples.com)
		213 points by thatusertwo on March 25, 2015 \| 53 comments
14.		ComponentKit by Facebook: A React-Inspired View Framework for iOS (componentkit.org)
		149 points by saniul on March 25, 2015 \| 54 comments
15.		Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online (2012) (npr.org)
		78 points by benbreen on March 25, 2015 \| 13 comments
16.		‘I Would Prefer Not To’: The Origins of the White Collar Worker (longreads.com)
		103 points by pepys on March 24, 2015 \| 36 comments
17.		Introducing Messenger Platform and Businesses on Messenger (facebook.com)
		111 points by tayeed on March 25, 2015 \| 58 comments
18.		So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2006) (varnish-cache.org)
		91 points by mooreds on March 24, 2015 \| 20 comments
19.		How the New York Times keeps tragedies ad-free (parkerhiggins.net)
		179 points by warriorsfan on March 25, 2015 \| 49 comments
20.		Cross-Region Replication for Amazon S3 (amazon.com)
		80 points by simonpantzare on March 24, 2015 \| 8 comments
21.		How Super Angel Chris Sacca Burned Bridges and Crafted the Best Seed Portfolio (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)
		98 points by wj on March 25, 2015 \| 50 comments
22.		The Racket Manifesto (neu.edu)
		152 points by nickmain on March 25, 2015 \| 49 comments
23.		It'll Never Work (1997) (lhup.edu)
		99 points by rndn on March 24, 2015 \| 79 comments
24.		Classp: a “classier” way to parse (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		84 points by rey12rey on March 24, 2015 \| 18 comments
25.		NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars (nasa.gov)
		109 points by tchalla on March 25, 2015 \| 42 comments
26.		Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2 (techcrunch.com)
		110 points by sinak on March 25, 2015 \| 38 comments
27.		Destroy the soil and we all starve (theguardian.com)
		120 points by alexcasalboni on March 25, 2015 \| 78 comments
28.		Chinese Ghost Cities That Came Alive (bullionstar.com)
		78 points by superfx on March 24, 2015 \| 47 comments
29.		Mad Mike, the homeless blogger who became a millionaire overnight (theguardian.com)
		98 points by bootload on March 25, 2015 \| 40 comments
30.		The odd life of an underground orchid (earthsky.org)
		60 points by Mz on March 25, 2015 \| 23 comments
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