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1. Curl vs. Wget (haxx.se)
532 points by of on March 2, 2016 | 197 comments
2. Kofi Annan on Why It's Time to Legalize Drugs (spiegel.de)
654 points by citizensixteen on March 2, 2016 | 357 comments
3. Congress finally showed it's willing to fight the FBI on encryption (theguardian.com)
366 points by magoghm on March 2, 2016 | 73 comments
4. Nanex Gets $700k Whistleblower Award from SEC (nanex.net)
328 points by theandycamps on March 2, 2016 | 222 comments
5. Ten lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations (1997) [pdf] (toronto.edu)
338 points by JMStewy on March 2, 2016 | 118 comments
6. Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board (reuters.com)
293 points by uptown on March 2, 2016 | 189 comments
7. Slack will soon start testing voice and video chat (techcrunch.com)
221 points by coloneltcb on March 1, 2016 | 132 comments
8. Leaving Mozilla (ocallahan.org)
258 points by curtis on March 2, 2016 | 103 comments
9. I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12 (backchannel.com)
275 points by nols on March 2, 2016 | 243 comments
10. Undersea Cable System Cuts in Singapore (linode.com)
172 points by methodover on March 2, 2016 | 129 comments
11. Show HN: Sensible Bash: An attempt at saner Bash defaults (github.com/mrzool)
173 points by mrzool on March 2, 2016 | 70 comments
12. OCaml 4.03: Everything else (janestreet.com)
177 points by yminsky on March 2, 2016 | 83 comments
13. The collective insanity of the publishing industry (genedoucette.me)
204 points by suraj on March 2, 2016 | 146 comments
14. Fast Ordered Collections for Swift Using In-Memory B-Trees (github.com/lorentey)
80 points by ingve on March 1, 2016 | 7 comments
15. Why Did Ancient Europeans Just Disappear 14,500 Years Ago? (livescience.com)
93 points by diodorus on March 1, 2016 | 54 comments
16. Mozilla's Connected Devices Innovation Process: Four Projects Move Forward (blog.mozilla.org)
83 points by cpeterso on March 2, 2016 | 52 comments
17. Tantalum: WebGL Light Propagation Simulation (benedikt-bitterli.me)
98 points by obi1kenobi on March 2, 2016 | 19 comments
18. How Zenefits' Big Bet on Sales Went Wrong (buzzfeed.com)
121 points by dsr12 on March 2, 2016 | 43 comments
19. Why you probably don't need an MBA (economist.com)
228 points by reqres on March 2, 2016 | 123 comments
20. Golang dev.ssa branch merged into tip (github.com/golang)
115 points by signa11 on March 2, 2016 | 36 comments
21. Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software (arstechnica.co.uk)
335 points by empressplay on March 2, 2016 | 161 comments
22. Going Fast Slowly (varnish-cache.org)
137 points by mro on March 1, 2016 | 26 comments
23. Some ad-blockers are tracking you, shaking down publishers, and showing you ads (boingboing.net)
117 points by edward on March 2, 2016 | 91 comments
24. The Utah Teapot: Most Important Object in Computer Graphics History (nautil.us)
165 points by dnetesn on March 2, 2016 | 52 comments
25. The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good (theguardian.com)
82 points by sasvari on March 2, 2016 | 49 comments
26. A Better Pip Workflow (kennethreitz.org)
171 points by ycnews on March 2, 2016 | 84 comments
27. My Journey From Blindness to Building a Fully Conversational User Interface (medium.com/cmaury)
114 points by evanh2002 on March 2, 2016 | 41 comments
28. Play: A P2P distributed torrent site that's impossible to shut down (torrentfreak.com)
120 points by _khau on March 2, 2016 | 19 comments
29. Software Maintenance by Skeleton Crew Is an Anti-Pattern (gsa.gov)
119 points by 56quarters on March 2, 2016 | 39 comments
30. An Update on Fast Transit Routing with Transfer Patterns (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
84 points by runesoerensen on March 2, 2016 | 20 comments

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