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1.		Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary (time.com)
		624 points by caiobegotti on March 11, 2014 \| 410 comments
2.		Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out (rollingstone.com)
		570 points by johns on March 11, 2014 \| 228 comments
3.		Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress (nytimes.com)
		449 points by 001sky on March 11, 2014 \| 192 comments
4.		Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly (getpopcornti.me)
		421 points by hussfelt on March 11, 2014 \| 373 comments
5.		Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough (domenkozar.com)
		362 points by iElectric2 on March 11, 2014 \| 203 comments
6.		How to create 2D visibility/shadow effects for your game (ncase.github.io)
		305 points by ncasenmare on March 11, 2014 \| 45 comments
7.		Any Android app can read your WhatsApp database (bosschert.nl)
		267 points by mathias on March 11, 2014 \| 131 comments
8.		Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) (pragdave.me)
		261 points by ternaryoperator on March 11, 2014 \| 114 comments
9.		Direct3D to OpenGL abstraction layer (github.com/valvesoftware)
		247 points by weslly on March 11, 2014 \| 106 comments
10.		Stanford bioengineer develops a 50-cent paper microscope (stanford.edu)
		224 points by ph0rque on March 11, 2014 \| 58 comments
11.		Evicted in San Francisco (priceonomics.com)
		227 points by shmeedogg on March 11, 2014 \| 252 comments
12.		Crytek jumps on Steam Machine hype train, announces Linux support (arstechnica.com)
		206 points by guardian5x on March 11, 2014 \| 64 comments
13.		Stream Torrents Instantly From XBMC (xbmc.org)
		184 points by steeve on March 11, 2014 \| 41 comments
14.		The C.I.A. Torture Cover-Up (nytimes.com)
		193 points by r0h1n on March 11, 2014 \| 57 comments
15.		Incubators are Bullshit (craftsmanfounder.com)
		185 points by cardmagic on March 11, 2014 \| 93 comments
16.		Clojure to die for (cjohansen.no)
		173 points by cryptolect on March 11, 2014 \| 73 comments
17.		HTML Command Line Utilities (w3.org)
		153 points by TheZenPsycho on March 11, 2014 \| 33 comments
18.		Ideas We'd Like to Fund (rockhealth.com)
		157 points by mahlie on March 11, 2014 \| 54 comments
19.		Massive Twitter Botnet (cryptome.org)
		158 points by conductor on March 11, 2014 \| 69 comments
20.		Microsoft reveals its server designs and releases open source code (arstechnica.com)
		141 points by DiabloD3 on March 11, 2014 \| 51 comments
21.		[dupe] Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers (washingtonpost.com)
		151 points by pachydermic on March 11, 2014 \| 68 comments
22.		How times have changed for PostgreSQL (opensource.com)
		135 points by davidw on March 11, 2014 \| 100 comments
23.		My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Cheap (theatlantic.com)
		123 points by jseliger on March 11, 2014 \| 138 comments
24.		What I learned about online-to-offline (justinkan.com)
		118 points by randall on March 11, 2014 \| 13 comments
25.		Habits of a Happy Node Hacker (heroku.com)
		119 points by craigkerstiens on March 11, 2014 \| 28 comments
26.		Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? (kernel.org)
		122 points by conductor on March 11, 2014 \| 26 comments
27.		Microservices (martinfowler.com)
		119 points by johns on March 11, 2014 \| 53 comments
28.		Sales for Hackers (stormpath.com)
		119 points by jamest on March 11, 2014 \| 22 comments
29.		How we validated our SaaS product without building it (sendwithus.com)
		120 points by bvanvugt on March 11, 2014 \| 67 comments
30.		Writing OOP using OOP (raganwald.com)
		105 points by kapilkaisare on March 11, 2014 \| 26 comments
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