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1. How to Pass a Programming Interview (triplebyte.com)
1020 points by runesoerensen on March 8, 2016 | 552 comments
2. CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs (github.com/cocoapods)
826 points by jergason on March 8, 2016 | 308 comments
3. One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent (aclu.org)
759 points by danielsiders on March 8, 2016 | 254 comments
4. How I could have hacked any Facebook account (anandpraka.sh)
443 points by phwd on March 7, 2016 | 159 comments
5. Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support (microsoft.com)
297 points by brettcannon on March 8, 2016 | 185 comments
6. Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates (eff.org)
443 points by thejosh on March 8, 2016 | 152 comments
7. Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust (github.com/autumnai)
379 points by mjhirn on March 8, 2016 | 49 comments
8. A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015) (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
332 points by hoffmannesque on March 8, 2016 | 97 comments
9. Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance (nytimes.com)
288 points by igonvalue on March 8, 2016 | 169 comments
10. FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessing NSA data on Americans (theguardian.com)
269 points by spiralpolitik on March 8, 2016 | 36 comments
11. Pencil: A Microframework Inspired by Flask for Rust (fengsp.github.io)
231 points by fsp on March 8, 2016 | 57 comments
12. The ETF Files: How the U.S. government inadvertently launched a $3T industry (bloomberg.com)
123 points by tinkerrr on March 7, 2016 | 41 comments
13. LLVM 3.8 Release Notes (llvm.org)
150 points by bla2 on March 8, 2016 | 43 comments
14. Is this prime? (isthisprime.com)
216 points by jameshart on March 8, 2016 | 123 comments
15. Hidden motors for road bikes (cyclingtips.com)
179 points by soundsop on March 8, 2016 | 143 comments
16. Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking RSA Encryption (ieee.org)
123 points by mhb on March 7, 2016 | 81 comments
17. Paul Klee's Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Presenting His Bauhaus Teachings (openculture.com)
163 points by fforflo on March 4, 2016 | 7 comments
18. Stevia: Human-readable auto-layout in code (github.com/s4cha)
125 points by sachadso on March 7, 2016 | 59 comments
19. Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop (randomascii.wordpress.com)
197 points by dezgeg on March 8, 2016 | 74 comments
20. The Sad State of the Backbone Ecosystem (benmccormick.org)
124 points by ben336 on March 7, 2016 | 62 comments
21. Xterm(1) now UTF-8 by default on OpenBSD (undeadly.org)
149 points by protomyth on March 8, 2016 | 137 comments
22. Collective Memory Discovered in Bacteria (sciencedaily.com)
137 points by nikolay on March 7, 2016 | 55 comments
23. Python Patterns (2013) (taoofmac.com)
165 points by dedalus on March 7, 2016 | 45 comments
24. Theranos Ran Tests Despite Quality Problems (wsj.com)
145 points by Asparagirl on March 8, 2016 | 65 comments
25. Temps, Consultants, and the Rise of the Precarious Economy (iasc-culture.org)
82 points by Dowwie on March 7, 2016 | 25 comments
26. The connection between modern slavery and ecological disaster (longreads.com)
240 points by duracell999 on March 8, 2016 | 171 comments
27. Getting Started with rkt (codeship.com)
110 points by philips on March 7, 2016 | 19 comments
28. Maths in Science – an interview with Don Knuth (2015) (authenticinquirymaths.blogspot.com)
96 points by mjs on March 7, 2016 | 12 comments
29. How cancer cells fuel their growth (news.mit.edu)
163 points by ner0x652 on March 8, 2016 | 77 comments
30. Seven Hanged: The Book That Started World War One (bbc.co.uk)
79 points by Turukawa on March 7, 2016 | 61 comments

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