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1. Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat (bloomberg.com)
830 points by doener on March 17, 2016 | 387 comments
2. A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case (wired.com)
795 points by runesoerensen on March 17, 2016 | 164 comments
3. Facebook is the new Excel (alexmuir.com)
565 points by AlexMuir on March 17, 2016 | 250 comments
4. Tcpdump is amazing (jvns.ca)
567 points by ingve on March 17, 2016 | 102 comments
5. Real-Time Django: Get Started with Django Channels (heroku.com)
304 points by joeyespo on March 17, 2016 | 114 comments
6. What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo (googleblog.blogspot.com)
259 points by Eldorado on March 16, 2016 | 74 comments
7. Unmasking Startup L. Jackson (bloomberg.com)
357 points by jackgavigan on March 17, 2016 | 87 comments
8. US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code (zdnet.com)
204 points by tshtf on March 17, 2016 | 38 comments
9. The birth of Baghdad was a landmark for world civilisation (theguardian.com)
177 points by pepys on March 17, 2016 | 45 comments
10. Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development (github.com/rvirding)
312 points by vdaniuk on March 17, 2016 | 91 comments
11. The Single Piece of JavaScript on HN (watchandcode.com)
272 points by qasar on March 17, 2016 | 186 comments
12. Elements of Clojure (elementsofclojure.com)
199 points by ingve on March 17, 2016 | 43 comments
13. Evidence that Alzheimer’s ‘lost memories’ may one day be recoverable (washingtonpost.com)
135 points by daegloe on March 17, 2016 | 20 comments
14. ProtonMail's encrypted email is now available to all (engadget.com)
163 points by rdl on March 17, 2016 | 108 comments
15. The Clipper Chip (wikipedia.org)
244 points by jacquesm on March 16, 2016 | 39 comments
16. Limitless Worker Surveillance (ssrn.com)
120 points by boh on March 17, 2016 | 44 comments
17. Stargate Physics 101: A comedy about the importance of software testing (archiveofourown.org)
334 points by gwern on March 16, 2016 | 67 comments
18. Walt Whitman's Letter for a Dying Soldier to His Wife Discovered (npr.org)
77 points by samclemens on March 16, 2016 | 9 comments
19. Feathers 2.0 – a minimalist real-time JavaScript framework (feathersjs.com)
202 points by daffl on March 15, 2016 | 81 comments
20. Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineering (medium.com/rtotheohan)
210 points by rohankshir on March 16, 2016 | 125 comments
21. Type hints – a mediocre programmer's reaction (2015) (python.org)
106 points by ingve on March 17, 2016 | 54 comments
22. Illegal Math (prakashvenkat.com)
201 points by colinprince on March 17, 2016 | 100 comments
23. 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results (stackoverflow.com)
318 points by sambrand on March 17, 2016 | 168 comments
24. Jobs Involving Routine Tasks Aren't Growing (stlouisfed.org)
133 points by sebgr on March 16, 2016 | 111 comments
25. Twitter kills TweetDeck for Windows, automates log-ins for TweetDeck users (techcrunch.com)
80 points by protomyth on March 17, 2016 | 47 comments
26. The Law is Clear: The FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite its OS (backchannel.com)
266 points by Osiris30 on March 17, 2016 | 98 comments
27. Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis (bloomberg.com)
162 points by lxm on March 17, 2016 | 160 comments
28. A Typical Day in a Blockchain-Enabled World Circa 2030 (blockchainfutureslab.wordpress.com)
88 points by elemeno on March 17, 2016 | 35 comments
29. Spacecraft Fire Experiment I (nasa.gov)
69 points by ourmandave on March 16, 2016 | 9 comments
30. Making a Go program 70% faster by avoiding common mistakes (fmpwizard.com)
147 points by numo16 on March 17, 2016 | 66 comments

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