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1.		AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] (youtube.com)
		566 points by Fede_V on March 12, 2016 \| 407 comments
2.		AlphaGo shows its true strength in 3rd victory against Lee Sedol (gogameguru.com)
		271 points by luu on March 12, 2016 \| 222 comments
3.		Call for support for Lisp in WebAssembly development (gmane.org)
		223 points by patrickmay on March 11, 2016 \| 55 comments
4.		WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie Wiretap Order (nytimes.com)
		153 points by danso on March 12, 2016 \| 54 comments
5.		Facebook's new front-end server design (facebook.com)
		210 points by banderon on March 9, 2016 \| 43 comments
6.		Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016 (sciencealert.com)
		292 points by evo_9 on March 12, 2016 \| 277 comments
7.		Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come with Ubuntu preinstalled (arstechnica.com)
		345 points by bpierre on March 11, 2016 \| 235 comments
8.		Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing (siam.org)
		142 points by boromi on March 12, 2016 \| 78 comments
9.		Anti-money laundering laws and copyright laws are similar and should be revised (ito.com)
		116 points by drallison on March 12, 2016 \| 63 comments
10.		Why the Wingdings font exists (2015) (vox.com)
		76 points by tomkwok on March 12, 2016 \| 14 comments
11.		X11fs: A tool for manipulating X windows (github.com/sdhand)
		110 points by michaelmior on March 12, 2016 \| 12 comments
12.		Why Dopamine Makes People More Impulsive (knowingneurons.com)
		105 points by neurosphere on March 12, 2016 \| 39 comments
13.		With book on Go, Kernighan guides students at Princeton and beyond (princeton.edu)
		211 points by baijum on March 12, 2016 \| 64 comments
14.		Breaking homegrown crypto (kivikakk.ee)
		282 points by tdurden on March 12, 2016 \| 18 comments
15.		A technical guide to SEO (ma.ttias.be)
		239 points by dividual on March 12, 2016 \| 26 comments
16.		MyHTML – HTML Parser on Pure C with POSIX Threads Support (lexborisov.github.io)
		123 points by yxlx on March 12, 2016 \| 18 comments
17.		Ink: the scripting language behind 80 Days and Sorcery (inklestudios.com)
		110 points by Impossible on March 11, 2016 \| 18 comments
18.		Unsupervised Learning with Even Less Supervision Using Bayesian Optimization (sigopt.com)
		85 points by Zephyr314 on March 11, 2016 \| 21 comments
19.		90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine (2009) (cnn.com)
		60 points by networked on March 12, 2016 \| 38 comments
20.		Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim (github.com/ryanoasis)
		118 points by jondot on March 12, 2016 \| 23 comments
21.		Former Oculus VP of Engineering Shows Long Range VR Tracking System (roadtovr.com)
		74 points by benz145 on March 11, 2016 \| 7 comments
22.		Why the German language has so many great words (theconversation.com)
		162 points by tintinnabula on March 11, 2016 \| 158 comments
23.		Obama at SXSW: ‘Absolutist view’ on digital privacy cannot prevail (washingtonpost.com)
		212 points by eloisius on March 12, 2016 \| 399 comments
24.		Data is a Toxic Asset (schneier.com)
		180 points by interweb on March 12, 2016 \| 65 comments
25.		REM vs. EM – The Great Debate (zellwk.com)
		90 points by mmastrac on March 12, 2016 \| 25 comments
26.		[dupe] Obama, at South by Southwest, Backs Law Enforcement in Fight Over Encryption (nytimes.com)
		124 points by pcl on March 12, 2016 \| 2 comments
27.		A Micropayments Marketplace (medium.com/21)
		62 points by mgdo on March 11, 2016 \| 9 comments
28.		Jo - JSON output from a shell (github.com/jpmens)
		138 points by fcambus on March 12, 2016 \| 26 comments
29.		Clay Sculptures of Archivists Show the Human Face of Big Data (getty.edu)
		24 points by edward on March 12, 2016
30.		The Quest for the Real-Life Treasures of Atari’s Swordquest (atlasobscura.com)
		57 points by benbreen on March 12, 2016
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