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1.		MAME is now Free and Open Source Software (mamedev.org)
		580 points by Lord_Nightmare on March 4, 2016 \| 91 comments
2.		Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead (techcrunch.com)
		329 points by crsmith on March 4, 2016 \| 279 comments
3.		Biggest patent troll of 2014 gives up, drops appeal (arstechnica.com)
		223 points by imglorp on March 4, 2016 \| 62 comments
4.		Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies (locusmag.com)
		334 points by Uhhrrr on March 4, 2016 \| 134 comments
5.		SeedRamp (seedramp.com)
		200 points by endtwist on March 4, 2016 \| 94 comments
6.		H.264 is supported in WebRTC from Chrome 50 (rtc.news)
		128 points by arnaudbud on March 4, 2016 \| 45 comments
7.		Scala on LLVM (greedy.github.io)
		148 points by ddispaltro on March 4, 2016 \| 36 comments
8.		Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S. (ieee.org)
		333 points by zeveb on March 3, 2016 \| 408 comments
9.		The 1980s Media Panic Over Dungeons and Dragons (atlasobscura.com)
		162 points by samclemens on March 4, 2016 \| 130 comments
10.		My view on the current situation of Bitcoin and the Blockchain (ito.com)
		131 points by chejazi on March 4, 2016 \| 75 comments
11.		Samsung ships the world's highest capacity SSD, with 15TB of storage (computerworld.com)
		266 points by elorant on March 3, 2016 \| 140 comments
12.		Rappel: A REPL for x86, amd64, and armv7 (github.com/yrp604)
		150 points by gbarboza on March 3, 2016 \| 19 comments
13.		Limor Fried’s Artful Electronics (newyorker.com)
		155 points by dcschelt on March 4, 2016 \| 29 comments
14.		Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management buyout (computerworld.com)
		125 points by Jerry2 on March 4, 2016 \| 106 comments
15.		No Compiler – On LLVM, and writing software without a compiler (runhello.com)
		193 points by btrask on March 3, 2016 \| 71 comments
16.		Why Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Violates the First Amendment (eff.org)
		249 points by morninj on March 4, 2016 \| 109 comments
17.		The long and tangled history of Alfred E. Neuman (theparisreview.org)
		132 points by samclemens on March 3, 2016 \| 2 comments
18.		Are You Smarter Than a Quant? Questions from the MoMath Masters Contest (wsj.com)
		85 points by sonabinu on March 4, 2016 \| 48 comments
19.		We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else (codinghorror.com)
		523 points by mooreds on March 4, 2016 \| 364 comments
20.		Microservices Ending Up as a Distributed Monolith (infoq.com)
		154 points by adamnemecek on March 3, 2016 \| 51 comments
21.		Show HN: Sway, a tiling window manager and compositor for Wayland (github.com/sircmpwn)
		163 points by ddevault on March 4, 2016 \| 50 comments
22.		Swift Evolution acceptances: The big three (ericasadun.com)
		82 points by acire on March 3, 2016 \| 36 comments
23.		Tim Sweeney: Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC (theguardian.com)
		260 points by saint-loup on March 4, 2016 \| 284 comments
24.		Millions of Children at Risk as War on Lead Paint Stalls (nytimes.com)
		105 points by igonvalue on March 3, 2016 \| 58 comments
25.		Different parts of the brain work best at different ages (news.mit.edu)
		95 points by nefitty on March 3, 2016 \| 7 comments
26.		Go by Example (gobyexample.com)
		392 points by kercker on March 4, 2016 \| 72 comments
27.		Emojicode: a static, strongly typed programming language (emojicode.org)
		109 points by apo on March 3, 2016 \| 43 comments
28.		How to design a Linux kernel interface [video] (as35701.net)
		63 points by trymas on March 4, 2016 \| 5 comments
29.		Teaching kids to program in their native language (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		61 points by elangoc on March 4, 2016 \| 57 comments
30.		Bees Making Honey with Cannabis (greenrushdaily.com)
		112 points by vinchuco on March 4, 2016 \| 45 comments
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