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1. AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] (youtube.com)
566 points by Fede_V on March 12, 2016 | 407 comments
2. AlphaGo shows its true strength in 3rd victory against Lee Sedol (gogameguru.com)
271 points by luu on March 12, 2016 | 222 comments
3. Call for support for Lisp in WebAssembly development (gmane.org)
223 points by patrickmay on March 11, 2016 | 55 comments
4. WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie Wiretap Order (nytimes.com)
153 points by danso on March 12, 2016 | 54 comments
5. Facebook's new front-end server design (facebook.com)
210 points by banderon on March 9, 2016 | 43 comments
6. Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016 (sciencealert.com)
292 points by evo_9 on March 12, 2016 | 277 comments
7. Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come with Ubuntu preinstalled (arstechnica.com)
345 points by bpierre on March 11, 2016 | 235 comments
8. Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing (siam.org)
142 points by boromi on March 12, 2016 | 78 comments
9. Anti-money laundering laws and copyright laws are similar and should be revised (ito.com)
116 points by drallison on March 12, 2016 | 63 comments
10. Why the Wingdings font exists (2015) (vox.com)
76 points by tomkwok on March 12, 2016 | 14 comments
11. X11fs: A tool for manipulating X windows (github.com/sdhand)
110 points by michaelmior on March 12, 2016 | 12 comments
12. Why Dopamine Makes People More Impulsive (knowingneurons.com)
105 points by neurosphere on March 12, 2016 | 39 comments
13. With book on Go, Kernighan guides students at Princeton and beyond (princeton.edu)
211 points by baijum on March 12, 2016 | 64 comments
14. Breaking homegrown crypto (kivikakk.ee)
282 points by tdurden on March 12, 2016 | 18 comments
15. A technical guide to SEO (ma.ttias.be)
239 points by dividual on March 12, 2016 | 26 comments
16. MyHTML – HTML Parser on Pure C with POSIX Threads Support (lexborisov.github.io)
123 points by yxlx on March 12, 2016 | 18 comments
17. Ink: the scripting language behind 80 Days and Sorcery (inklestudios.com)
110 points by Impossible on March 11, 2016 | 18 comments
18. Unsupervised Learning with Even Less Supervision Using Bayesian Optimization (sigopt.com)
85 points by Zephyr314 on March 11, 2016 | 21 comments
19. 90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine (2009) (cnn.com)
60 points by networked on March 12, 2016 | 38 comments
20. Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim (github.com/ryanoasis)
118 points by jondot on March 12, 2016 | 23 comments
21. Former Oculus VP of Engineering Shows Long Range VR Tracking System (roadtovr.com)
74 points by benz145 on March 11, 2016 | 7 comments
22. Why the German language has so many great words (theconversation.com)
162 points by tintinnabula on March 11, 2016 | 158 comments
23. Obama at SXSW: ‘Absolutist view’ on digital privacy cannot prevail (washingtonpost.com)
212 points by eloisius on March 12, 2016 | 399 comments
24. Data is a Toxic Asset (schneier.com)
180 points by interweb on March 12, 2016 | 65 comments
25. REM vs. EM – The Great Debate (zellwk.com)
90 points by mmastrac on March 12, 2016 | 25 comments
26. [dupe] Obama, at South by Southwest, Backs Law Enforcement in Fight Over Encryption (nytimes.com)
124 points by pcl on March 12, 2016 | 2 comments
27. A Micropayments Marketplace (medium.com/21)
62 points by mgdo on March 11, 2016 | 9 comments
28. Jo - JSON output from a shell (github.com/jpmens)
138 points by fcambus on March 12, 2016 | 26 comments
29. Clay Sculptures of Archivists Show the Human Face of Big Data (getty.edu)
24 points by edward on March 12, 2016
30. The Quest for the Real-Life Treasures of Atari’s Swordquest (atlasobscura.com)
57 points by benbreen on March 12, 2016

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