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1. Facebook acquires Oculus VR (facebook.com)
1449 points by nav on March 25, 2014 | 837 comments
2. Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version (thenextweb.com)
887 points by sethbannon on March 25, 2014 | 351 comments
3. Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public (technet.com)
756 points by hornokplease on March 25, 2014 | 204 comments
4. Virtual Reality is going to change the world (notch.net)
597 points by bpierre on March 25, 2014 | 210 comments
5. Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
386 points by westonh on March 25, 2014 | 212 comments
6. We’re Fucked, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brink (a16z.com)
351 points by rajbala on March 25, 2014 | 112 comments
7. Why I like Java (plover.com)
339 points by snupples on March 25, 2014 | 425 comments
8. IRS Says Bitcoin Is Property (bloomberg.com)
345 points by rbc on March 25, 2014 | 303 comments
9. Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google (techcrunch.com)
340 points by byoogle on March 25, 2014 | 258 comments
10. Clojure 1.6 released (github.com/clojure)
335 points by Morgawr on March 25, 2014 | 170 comments
11. Oculus Joins Facebook (oculusvr.com)
289 points by kposehn on March 25, 2014 | 177 comments
12. Ask HN: Is Ryan Bates okay?
209 points by mmanfrin on March 25, 2014 | 30 comments
13. Introductions to advanced Haskell topics (haskellforall.com)
190 points by davidkellis on March 25, 2014 | 38 comments
14. Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser (sharedrop.io)
165 points by szimek on March 25, 2014 | 68 comments
15. How British satellite company Inmarsat tracked down MH370 (telegraph.co.uk)
164 points by pedrocr on March 25, 2014 | 86 comments
16. Projects that power GitHub (github.com/showcases)
164 points by waffle_ss on March 25, 2014 | 37 comments
17. Could keybase.io do for crypto what GitHub did for Git? (matthew-sinclair.com)
152 points by matthewsinclair on March 25, 2014 | 139 comments
18. Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection (nytimes.com)
147 points by samdk on March 25, 2014 | 85 comments
19. Fourier transform for dummies (math.stackexchange.com)
141 points by wfn on March 25, 2014 | 37 comments
20. Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire (arstechnica.com)
132 points by line-zero on March 25, 2014 | 211 comments
21. Mistakes we've made (hackerschool.com)
121 points by mgeraci on March 25, 2014 | 35 comments
22. The tourist map of flash drives (gnod.com)
112 points by mg on March 25, 2014 | 74 comments
23. Who Needs a Boss? (nytimes.com)
116 points by HSO on March 25, 2014 | 81 comments
24. A decentralized anonymous marketplace (stanford.edu)
114 points by posthumangr on March 25, 2014 | 66 comments
25. Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator (samaltman.com)
112 points by gatsby on March 25, 2014 | 50 comments
26. Venice votes 89% to secede from Italy (mises.org)
105 points by stefan_kendall3 on March 25, 2014 | 109 comments
27. [dupe] The Creator of 'Doom' Is Now A Facebook Employee (techcrunch.com)
106 points by antonius on March 25, 2014 | 38 comments
28. Game Programming Patterns – Bytecode (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
103 points by beef3333 on March 25, 2014 | 71 comments
29. Mylar: A platform for building secure web applications (csail.mit.edu)
101 points by gphilip on March 25, 2014 | 23 comments
30. NIST Randomness Beacon (nist.gov)
97 points by dfc on March 25, 2014 | 63 comments

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