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1.		Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced (arstechnica.com)
		944 points by ingve on March 31, 2016 \| 386 comments
2.		Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visualization platform (github.com/airbnb)
		422 points by caravel on March 31, 2016 \| 92 comments
3.		The Invisible Catastrophe: Record Methane Leak in CA (nytimes.com)
		281 points by hackuser on March 31, 2016 \| 101 comments
4.		Mono Relicensed as MIT (mono-project.com)
		364 points by Vespasian on March 31, 2016 \| 149 comments
5.		Zaha Hadid, Groundbreaking Architect, Has Died (nytimes.com)
		313 points by antr on March 31, 2016 \| 56 comments
6.		Let's Encrypt and Nginx – State of the art secure web deployment (letsecure.me)
		290 points by llambiel on March 31, 2016 \| 84 comments
7.		FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas prosecutor (abcnews.go.com)
		290 points by noarchy on March 31, 2016 \| 159 comments
8.		How to Hack an Election (bloomberg.com)
		305 points by newscasta on March 31, 2016 \| 94 comments
9.		Visual C++ for Linux Development (msdn.microsoft.com)
		271 points by taspeotis on March 30, 2016 \| 93 comments
10.		Google Shutting Down Wallet Card (google.com)
		158 points by smharris65 on March 31, 2016 \| 175 comments
11.		Super Tiny Compiler (github.com/thejameskyle)
		462 points by Stratoscope on March 31, 2016 \| 100 comments
12.		Silicon Valley Asks Mostly for Developers with Degrees (wsj.com)
		207 points by frostmatthew on March 30, 2016 \| 287 comments
13.		Druid: fast column-oriented distributed data store (druid.io)
		131 points by samueladam on March 31, 2016 \| 47 comments
14.		This should never happen (github.com/search)
		626 points by qprofyeh on March 31, 2016 \| 205 comments
15.		More Chinese Mobile UI Trends (dangrover.com)
		222 points by vincent_s on March 31, 2016 \| 31 comments
16.		Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age (nytimes.com)
		146 points by oscarwao on March 30, 2016 \| 54 comments
17.		Intel Xeon E5 v4 Review: Testing Broadwell-EP With Demanding Server Workloads (anandtech.com)
		127 points by jseliger on March 31, 2016 \| 78 comments
18.		Show HN: Expounder – A small JavaScript library for more engaging tutorials (skorokithakis.github.io)
		134 points by stavros on March 31, 2016 \| 48 comments
19.		Erdogan’s Attempt to Suppress German Satire Has the Opposite Effect (nytimes.com)
		444 points by bresc on March 31, 2016 \| 238 comments
20.		Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions (quantamagazine.org)
		218 points by digital55 on March 31, 2016 \| 39 comments
21.		Immutability is not enough (recurse.com)
		271 points by r4um on March 30, 2016 \| 123 comments
22.		What Happened When Venture Capitalists Took Over the Golden State Warriors (nytimes.com)
		102 points by rm2889 on March 31, 2016 \| 62 comments
23.		Towards Machine Intelligence by IBM Research (arxiv.org)
		111 points by laudney on March 30, 2016 \| 26 comments
24.		Algorithms as Microservices (algorithmia.com)
		93 points by gfortaine on March 30, 2016 \| 38 comments
25.		Iceland put top finance executives behind bars, but fears of cronyism remain (bloomberg.com)
		379 points by clorenzo on March 31, 2016 \| 127 comments
26.		Combine Multiple AWS Instances into a 16-GPU Monster Machine (bitfusion.io)
		140 points by Noughmad on March 31, 2016 \| 45 comments
27.		Agility Requires Safety (themacro.com)
		128 points by runesoerensen on March 31, 2016 \| 54 comments
28.		Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy? (nautil.us)
		213 points by dnetesn on March 31, 2016 \| 163 comments
29.		Using the HoloLens emulator (developer.microsoft.com)
		72 points by cjdulberger on March 31, 2016 \| 4 comments
30.		Zen Magnets Wins CPSC Case (zenmagnets.com)
		103 points by nathannecro on March 30, 2016 \| 44 comments
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