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1.		FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking (washington.edu)
		637 points by jonbaer on March 18, 2016 \| 118 comments
2.		An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage (nytimes.com)
		560 points by salgernon on March 18, 2016 \| 311 comments
3.		Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
		1213 points by boren_ave11 on March 18, 2016 \| 690 comments
4.		I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
		429 points by sama on March 18, 2016 \| 725 comments
5.		Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist (nytimes.com)
		468 points by IBM on March 17, 2016 \| 359 comments
6.		Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL (stitchfix.com)
		291 points by mjohn on March 18, 2016 \| 174 comments
7.		Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups (wsj.com)
		462 points by mavelikara on March 18, 2016 \| 226 comments
8.		Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source (reuters.com)
		210 points by martinshen on March 18, 2016 \| 205 comments
9.		The 451 status code is now supported (developer.github.com)
		421 points by cujanovic on March 18, 2016 \| 77 comments
10.		I Love the U.N., but It Is Failing (nytimes.com)
		201 points by guylepage3 on March 18, 2016 \| 115 comments
11.		Atlas and Cuba (stripe.com)
		141 points by lx on March 18, 2016 \| 65 comments
12.		The Tragic Tale of Saddam Hussein's “Supergun” (bbc.com)
		133 points by rm_-rf_slash on March 18, 2016 \| 54 comments
13.		Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace (theguardian.com)
		118 points by globba22 on March 18, 2016 \| 37 comments
14.		SQLite with a Fine-Toothed Comb (regehr.org)
		162 points by jsnell on March 18, 2016 \| 17 comments
15.		Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (2013) (andrewkelley.me)
		356 points by dcschelt on March 18, 2016 \| 64 comments
16.		No More Full Table Vacuums in PostgreSQL (rhaas.blogspot.com)
		290 points by dhd415 on March 18, 2016 \| 73 comments
17.		The Global Rebellion Against “No-Skin-In-the-Game” Insiders (reason.com)
		113 points by MollyR on March 18, 2016 \| 93 comments
18.		Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API (atom.io)
		244 points by ingve on March 17, 2016 \| 172 comments
19.		That Time an SR-71 Made an Emergency Landing in Norway (jalopnik.com)
		276 points by curtis on March 18, 2016 \| 74 comments
20.		Lloyd S. Shapely, 92, Nobel Laureate and a Father of Game Theory, Has Died (nytimes.com)
		73 points by _murphys_law_ on March 18, 2016 \| 6 comments
21.		Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3 (github.com/danielmagnussons)
		178 points by emartinelli on March 18, 2016 \| 29 comments
22.		Giving up on test-first development (iansommerville.com)
		262 points by ingve on March 18, 2016 \| 219 comments
23.		Once thought safe, DDR4 memory shown to be vulnerable to “Rowhammer” (arstechnica.com)
		142 points by theandrewbailey on March 18, 2016 \| 38 comments
24.		DeepExcel – Deep learning in Excel (deepexcel.net)
		209 points by utkarshsinha on March 18, 2016 \| 31 comments
25.		How Maritime Insurance Helped Build Ancient Rome (priceonomics.com)
		58 points by pmcpinto on March 18, 2016 \| 4 comments
26.		XKCD's StackSort Implemented in a Vim Regex (robertelder.org)
		116 points by robertelder on March 17, 2016 \| 23 comments
27.		The Violin Thief (washingtonpost.com)
		55 points by tintinnabula on March 18, 2016 \| 6 comments
28.		Chatfuel (YC W16) lets publishers and anyone build bots for messaging apps (techcrunch.com)
		37 points by never-the-bride on March 18, 2016 \| 3 comments
29.		Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003) [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)
		109 points by Tomte on March 15, 2016 \| 9 comments
30.		Dropbox Shares Offered at 34% Discount in Secondary Market (buzzfeed.com)
		81 points by peeze on March 18, 2016 \| 39 comments
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