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1.		SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls (github.com/mackyle)
		792 points by DaGardner on March 13, 2015 \| 108 comments
2.		Balanced payments is shutting down (balancedpayments.com)
		384 points by dynabros on March 13, 2015 \| 172 comments
3.		Things I've learned about writing software after 12 years (medium.com/landongn)
		298 points by landongn on March 13, 2015 \| 118 comments
4.		Lucene: The Good Parts (parsely.com)
		172 points by pixelmonkey on March 13, 2015 \| 16 comments
5.		Moog Schematics (moogfoundation.org)
		154 points by happyscrappy on March 13, 2015 \| 18 comments
6.		Paul Kalanithi, writer and neurosurgeon, dies at 37 (stanford.edu)
		360 points by milkcircle on March 13, 2015 \| 33 comments
7.		GitHub's Game Off is back (github.com/blog)
		157 points by espadrine on March 13, 2015 \| 34 comments
8.		A success story for Haxe (nadako.tumblr.com)
		153 points by curtis on March 13, 2015 \| 64 comments
9.		Konrad Zuse: Nearly the German Turing (linuxvoice.com)
		133 points by nkurz on March 13, 2015 \| 33 comments
10.		Zero (mathworld.wolfram.com)
		171 points by makmanalp on March 13, 2015 \| 18 comments
11.		“Sierra… well, it was the poor victim of a hostile takeover by criminals” (nodontdie.com)
		326 points by kevbin on March 13, 2015 \| 111 comments
12.		How Apple Makes the Watch (atomicdelights.com)
		274 points by dshankar on March 13, 2015 \| 116 comments
13.		Fidor Bank API (fidor.de)
		139 points by edward on March 13, 2015 \| 48 comments
14.		Tardigrades are so tough, they can survive outer space (bbc.com)
		227 points by wasi0013 on March 13, 2015 \| 84 comments
15.		How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else (wired.com)
		233 points by Libertatea on March 12, 2015 \| 87 comments
16.		Mapping Your Music Collection (christianpeccei.com)
		99 points by rbanffy on March 13, 2015 \| 22 comments
17.		DigitalGlobe: 30cm satellite imagery (digitalglobe.com)
		98 points by lelf on March 13, 2015 \| 36 comments
18.		Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book (perl.org)
		322 points by Ovid on March 13, 2015 \| 117 comments
19.		Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System (nytimes.com)
		200 points by brkumar on March 13, 2015 \| 94 comments
20.		Announcing Spark 1.3 (databricks.com)
		103 points by rxin on March 13, 2015 \| 23 comments
21.		Klib: A standalone and lightweight glib (github.com/attractivechaos)
		70 points by luu on March 13, 2015 \| 16 comments
22.		Julian Assange case: Sweden offers to question him in UK (bbc.co.uk)
		217 points by joosters on March 13, 2015 \| 177 comments
23.		A self-fueled liquid metal motor (newscientist.com)
		80 points by freefrancisco on March 13, 2015 \| 11 comments
24.		Deep Convolutional Inverse Graphics Network (willwhitney.github.io)
		107 points by tejask on March 13, 2015 \| 22 comments
25.		The Specialists: Franklin Barbecue (luckypeach.com)
		55 points by davidw on March 13, 2015 \| 26 comments
26.		Gosrc.org: Go documentation site (sourcegraph.com)
		59 points by gnocchi on March 13, 2015 \| 8 comments
27.		HGST gets closer to shipping 10TB HDD (zdnet.com)
		89 points by tanglesome on March 13, 2015 \| 64 comments
28.		The Heart-Stopping Climbs of Alex Honnold (nytimes.com)
		123 points by samclemens on March 13, 2015 \| 68 comments
29.		Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list (github.com/rubygems)
		223 points by jcn on March 13, 2015 \| 152 comments
30.		How the sugar industry shaped key government research about your teeth (washingtonpost.com)
		149 points by ern on March 13, 2015 \| 54 comments
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