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1.		More code review tools (github.com/blog)
		624 points by Oompa on March 15, 2016 \| 145 comments
2.		Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet (nytimes.com)
		492 points by srikar on March 15, 2016 \| 169 comments
3.		AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game (gogameguru.com)
		708 points by doppp on March 15, 2016 \| 290 comments
4.		Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism (npr.org)
		647 points by Osiris30 on March 15, 2016 \| 177 comments
5.		Show HN: Podcat – Imdb for podcasts (podcat.com)
		401 points by hijp on March 15, 2016 \| 106 comments
6.		Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8 (v8project.blogspot.com)
		394 points by AndrewDucker on March 15, 2016 \| 262 comments
7.		How Badoo Saved $1M Switching to PHP7 (badoo.com)
		253 points by DariaBo on March 14, 2016 \| 124 comments
8.		Hublin: open-source video conferencing (hubl.in)
		212 points by based2 on March 15, 2016 \| 55 comments
9.		SpoonRocket shuts down (techcrunch.com)
		176 points by tomgallard on March 15, 2016 \| 187 comments
10.		On asking job candidates to code (philcalcado.com)
		361 points by lnmx on March 15, 2016 \| 508 comments
11.		Show HN: Using Google AMP to build a Medium-style Jekyll site that loads in 65ms (github.com/ageitgey)
		279 points by ageitgey on March 15, 2016 \| 95 comments
12.		Study finds negative association between empathizing and calculation ability (nature.com)
		189 points by randomname2 on March 15, 2016 \| 71 comments
13.		Mozilla Servo alpha will be released in June (groups.google.com)
		319 points by dumindunuwan on March 14, 2016 \| 62 comments
14.		A man overrides his camera's firmware to bring rare pictures of North Korea back (m1key.me)
		449 points by jorge-d on March 15, 2016 \| 172 comments
15.		KTH and Wikipedia develop first crowdsourced speech engine (kth.se)
		154 points by conductor on March 15, 2016 \| 23 comments
16.		JSX is no longer my friend (medium.com/jador)
		200 points by tosh on March 15, 2016 \| 137 comments
17.		Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize (nature.com)
		159 points by fforflo on March 15, 2016 \| 32 comments
18.		Twenty-nine teams use same dataset, find contradicting results [pdf] (osf.io)
		172 points by alexleavitt on March 15, 2016 \| 32 comments
19.		Western Digital makes a $46, 314GB hard drive just for the Raspberry Pi (arstechnica.com)
		219 points by doppp on March 15, 2016 \| 83 comments
20.		Server and Client RCE in Git version 2.7.1 and below (seclists.org)
		139 points by breadtk on March 15, 2016 \| 29 comments
21.		Researchers say FAA is overblowing risk posed by small drones (arstechnica.com)
		98 points by pavornyoh on March 15, 2016 \| 75 comments
22.		AWS Database Migration Service (amazon.com)
		141 points by hepha1979 on March 15, 2016 \| 62 comments
23.		Intel Marrying FPGA, Beefy Broadwell for Open Compute Future (nextplatform.com)
		146 points by walterbell on March 15, 2016 \| 104 comments
24.		The Complete Guide to HTTP/2 with HAProxy and Nginx (m12.io)
		110 points by ryzy on March 15, 2016 \| 21 comments
25.		D3 heatmap representing time series data similar to GitHub's contribution chart (github.com/dkirwan)
		128 points by sebg on March 15, 2016 \| 11 comments
26.		Offline mobile maps from Mapbox (mapbox.com)
		103 points by uptown on March 15, 2016 \| 25 comments
27.		Why Pi Matters (2015) (newyorker.com)
		72 points by Osiris30 on March 15, 2016 \| 40 comments
28.		The Difficulty of Private Contact Discovery (whispersystems.org)
		134 points by matt_xyz on March 15, 2016 \| 78 comments
29.		Scala’s Types of Types (ktoso.github.io)
		120 points by ddispaltro on March 15, 2016 \| 49 comments
30.		Rationales for Swift standard library designs (github.com/apple)
		39 points by acire on March 15, 2016 \| 12 comments
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