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1.		Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
		376 points by hvo on March 26, 2016 \| 257 comments
2.		Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens (research.microsoft.com)
		423 points by Impossible on March 26, 2016 \| 109 comments
3.		Patent that cost Microsoft millions gets invalidated (arstechnica.com)
		137 points by ingve on March 26, 2016 \| 84 comments
4.		The Deadly Consequences of Solitary with a Cellmate (themarshallproject.org)
		223 points by miiiiiike on March 25, 2016 \| 132 comments
5.		A history of the Amiga, part 9: The Video Toaster (arstechnica.co.uk)
		130 points by robin_reala on March 26, 2016 \| 56 comments
6.		ODROID-C2 Compared to Raspberry Pi 3 and Orange Pi Plus (jeffgeerling.com)
		127 points by geerlingguy on March 24, 2016 \| 86 comments
7.		Vulnerability #319816 – npm fails to restrict the actions of malicious packages (cert.org)
		279 points by sebastianmck on March 26, 2016 \| 130 comments
8.		The cost of a system call [pdf] (cmu.edu)
		126 points by caustic on March 26, 2016 \| 24 comments
9.		Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to do about it (brookings.edu)
		290 points by walterbell on March 26, 2016 \| 320 comments
10.		US contractor fined $3.1M for outsourcing work to India (sakshipost.com)
		172 points by known on March 26, 2016 \| 59 comments
11.		Defold: 2D Game Engine by King.com (defold.com)
		135 points by winterismute on March 24, 2016 \| 87 comments
12.		SCAMP Robot Can Climb Straight Up Walls (ieee.org)
		100 points by defied on March 24, 2016 \| 3 comments
13.		Too many medical trials move the goalposts. A new initiative aims to change that (economist.com)
		64 points by annapowellsmith on March 24, 2016 \| 11 comments
14.		Understanding Growth, Part 1 (strongtowns.org)
		65 points by vilda on March 25, 2016 \| 16 comments
15.		Caradoc – a PDF parser and validator written in OCaml (github.com/anssi-fr)
		133 points by ingve on March 26, 2016 \| 6 comments
16.		The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations (runspired.com)
		306 points by twapi on March 26, 2016 \| 220 comments
17.		Space Yourself (2015) (smashingmagazine.com)
		68 points by aorth on March 25, 2016 \| 9 comments
18.		Water treatment plant hacked, chemical mix changed for tap supplies (theregister.co.uk)
		145 points by bifrost on March 25, 2016 \| 54 comments
19.		Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System (red-lang.org)
		131 points by zzp on March 26, 2016 \| 44 comments
20.		CSVJSON – Self Rise of an Online Tool (medium.com/martindrapeau)
		75 points by martin_drapeau on March 24, 2016 \| 35 comments
21.		Origami and Programming (medium.com/amitzur)
		69 points by amitzur on March 25, 2016 \| 14 comments
22.		Show HN: Pytrader – trade cryoptocurrencies automatically with machine learning (github.com/owocki)
		103 points by ksowocki on March 26, 2016 \| 41 comments
23.		Why Lisp is now an acceptable scripting language (tunes.org)
		149 points by wtbob on March 26, 2016 \| 125 comments
24.		The Rete Matching Algorithm (2002) (drdobbs.com)
		66 points by ohaikbai on March 26, 2016 \| 21 comments
25.		Magic Numbers of Amazon Web Services: 386209384616 (medium.com/vitoc)
		49 points by vitoc on March 25, 2016 \| 4 comments
26.		“What Went Right and What Went Wrong”: Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Gamedev (research.microsoft.com)
		95 points by winterismute on March 26, 2016 \| 49 comments
27.		Clariphy targets 400Gbps with new 16nm DSP silicon (lightwaveonline.com)
		36 points by bifrost on March 24, 2016 \| 8 comments
28.		Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance (eff.org)
		170 points by Garbage on March 26, 2016 \| 61 comments
29.		GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks (galliumos.org)
		141 points by milankragujevic on March 26, 2016 \| 74 comments
30.		Interview with Matt Might (pl-enthusiast.net)
		106 points by michaelsbradley on March 26, 2016 \| 13 comments
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