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1.		NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program? (haneycodes.net)
		1725 points by df07 on March 23, 2016 \| 854 comments
2.		I've Just Liberated My Modules (medium.com/azerbike)
		1573 points by chejazi on March 22, 2016 \| 797 comments
3.		I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS (joreteg.com)
		841 points by joeyespo on March 23, 2016 \| 502 comments
4.		Google opens access to its speech recognition API (techcrunch.com)
		605 points by jstoiko on March 23, 2016 \| 168 comments
5.		[flagged] That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people (techinasia.com)
		1078 points by nkurz on March 23, 2016 \| 567 comments
6.		Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virgin, $5B total (techcrunch.com)
		428 points by lacker on March 23, 2016 \| 165 comments
7.		What I Learned Selling a Software Business (kalzumeus.com)
		439 points by earlyresort on March 23, 2016 \| 84 comments
8.		An administrator accidentally deleted the production database (gliffy.com)
		533 points by 3stripe on March 23, 2016 \| 331 comments
9.		Julie Rubicon (facebook.com)
		784 points by ISL on March 23, 2016 \| 131 comments
10.		Red Hat becomes first open-source company to make $2B (zdnet.com)
		264 points by simonebrunozzi on March 23, 2016 \| 83 comments
11.		Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS (github.com/whyrusleeping)
		247 points by jamesdwilson on March 23, 2016 \| 43 comments
12.		HTTP/HTTPS not working inside your VM? Wait for it (rachelbythebay.com)
		364 points by jonchang on March 23, 2016 \| 78 comments
13.		PostgreSQL Parallel Aggregate (2ndquadrant.com)
		262 points by petergeoghegan on March 23, 2016 \| 45 comments
14.		Report: Apple building its own servers to prevent snooping (9to5mac.com)
		231 points by dankohn1 on March 23, 2016 \| 107 comments
15.		Intel Kills “Tick-Tock” (fool.com)
		255 points by Deinos on March 23, 2016 \| 128 comments
16.		Machine Learning in the Cloud, with TensorFlow (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
		218 points by ner0x652 on March 23, 2016 \| 14 comments
17.		YC Lessons From Two Latin Americans Who Walked Into Silicon Valley (platzi.com)
		152 points by katm on March 23, 2016 \| 37 comments
18.		Meeting People Is Easy, but Hard (yonomitt.com)
		160 points by wallflower on March 23, 2016 \| 78 comments
19.		Strong Link Found Between Dementia and Common Anticholinergic Drugs (2015) (dddmag.com)
		199 points by objections on March 23, 2016 \| 106 comments
20.		Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (umd.edu)
		240 points by khet on March 23, 2016 \| 70 comments
21.		All 60 startups that launched at Y Combinator Winter 2016 Demo Day 1 (techcrunch.com)
		175 points by BinaryIdiot on March 23, 2016 \| 86 comments
22.		Libsixel: The new standard of SIXEL development – graphics in the terminal (github.com/saitoha)
		104 points by vmorgulis on March 22, 2016 \| 20 comments
23.		TensorFlow Implementation of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (github.com/carpedm20)
		98 points by carpedm20 on March 23, 2016 \| 18 comments
24.		The text/markdown media type (ietf.org)
		152 points by treve on March 23, 2016 \| 63 comments
25.		A Statement from The Tor Project on Software Integrity and Apple (torproject.org)
		103 points by zo1 on March 22, 2016 \| 30 comments
26.		[dupe] Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC (thenextweb.com)
		378 points by Ph4nt0m on March 23, 2016 \| 237 comments
27.		Research on how to backdoor Diffie-Hellman (github.com/mimoo)
		106 points by fanf2 on March 23, 2016 \| 22 comments
28.		Sample programs in the Piet programming language (dangermouse.net)
		130 points by journeeman on March 23, 2016 \| 27 comments
29.		Exploring Rust (from C#) (nblumhardt.com)
		148 points by nercury on March 23, 2016 \| 131 comments
30.		Comodo Antivirus Forwards Emulated API Calls to the Real API During Scans (chromium.org)
		150 points by cespare on March 22, 2016 \| 35 comments
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