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1.		Curl vs. Wget (haxx.se)
		532 points by of on March 2, 2016 \| 197 comments
2.		Kofi Annan on Why It's Time to Legalize Drugs (spiegel.de)
		654 points by citizensixteen on March 2, 2016 \| 357 comments
3.		Congress finally showed it's willing to fight the FBI on encryption (theguardian.com)
		366 points by magoghm on March 2, 2016 \| 73 comments
4.		Nanex Gets $700k Whistleblower Award from SEC (nanex.net)
		328 points by theandycamps on March 2, 2016 \| 222 comments
5.		Ten lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations (1997) [pdf] (toronto.edu)
		338 points by JMStewy on March 2, 2016 \| 118 comments
6.		Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board (reuters.com)
		293 points by uptown on March 2, 2016 \| 189 comments
7.		Slack will soon start testing voice and video chat (techcrunch.com)
		221 points by coloneltcb on March 1, 2016 \| 132 comments
8.		Leaving Mozilla (ocallahan.org)
		258 points by curtis on March 2, 2016 \| 103 comments
9.		I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12 (backchannel.com)
		275 points by nols on March 2, 2016 \| 243 comments
10.		Undersea Cable System Cuts in Singapore (linode.com)
		172 points by methodover on March 2, 2016 \| 129 comments
11.		Show HN: Sensible Bash: An attempt at saner Bash defaults (github.com/mrzool)
		173 points by mrzool on March 2, 2016 \| 70 comments
12.		OCaml 4.03: Everything else (janestreet.com)
		177 points by yminsky on March 2, 2016 \| 83 comments
13.		The collective insanity of the publishing industry (genedoucette.me)
		204 points by suraj on March 2, 2016 \| 146 comments
14.		Fast Ordered Collections for Swift Using In-Memory B-Trees (github.com/lorentey)
		80 points by ingve on March 1, 2016 \| 7 comments
15.		Why Did Ancient Europeans Just Disappear 14,500 Years Ago? (livescience.com)
		93 points by diodorus on March 1, 2016 \| 54 comments
16.		Mozilla's Connected Devices Innovation Process: Four Projects Move Forward (blog.mozilla.org)
		83 points by cpeterso on March 2, 2016 \| 52 comments
17.		Tantalum: WebGL Light Propagation Simulation (benedikt-bitterli.me)
		98 points by obi1kenobi on March 2, 2016 \| 19 comments
18.		How Zenefits' Big Bet on Sales Went Wrong (buzzfeed.com)
		121 points by dsr12 on March 2, 2016 \| 43 comments
19.		Why you probably don't need an MBA (economist.com)
		228 points by reqres on March 2, 2016 \| 123 comments
20.		Golang dev.ssa branch merged into tip (github.com/golang)
		115 points by signa11 on March 2, 2016 \| 36 comments
21.		Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software (arstechnica.co.uk)
		335 points by empressplay on March 2, 2016 \| 161 comments
22.		Going Fast Slowly (varnish-cache.org)
		137 points by mro on March 1, 2016 \| 26 comments
23.		Some ad-blockers are tracking you, shaking down publishers, and showing you ads (boingboing.net)
		117 points by edward on March 2, 2016 \| 91 comments
24.		The Utah Teapot: Most Important Object in Computer Graphics History (nautil.us)
		165 points by dnetesn on March 2, 2016 \| 52 comments
25.		The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good (theguardian.com)
		82 points by sasvari on March 2, 2016 \| 49 comments
26.		A Better Pip Workflow (kennethreitz.org)
		171 points by ycnews on March 2, 2016 \| 84 comments
27.		My Journey From Blindness to Building a Fully Conversational User Interface (medium.com/cmaury)
		114 points by evanh2002 on March 2, 2016 \| 41 comments
28.		Play: A P2P distributed torrent site that's impossible to shut down (torrentfreak.com)
		120 points by _khau on March 2, 2016 \| 19 comments
29.		Software Maintenance by Skeleton Crew Is an Anti-Pattern (gsa.gov)
		119 points by 56quarters on March 2, 2016 \| 39 comments
30.		An Update on Fast Transit Routing with Transfer Patterns (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
		84 points by runesoerensen on March 2, 2016 \| 20 comments
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