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1.		Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary (time.com)
		624 points by caiobegotti on March 11, 2014 \| 410 comments
2.		Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out (rollingstone.com)
		570 points by johns on March 11, 2014 \| 228 comments
3.		Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress (nytimes.com)
		449 points by 001sky on March 11, 2014 \| 192 comments
4.		Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly (getpopcornti.me)
		421 points by hussfelt on March 11, 2014 \| 373 comments
5.		Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough (domenkozar.com)
		362 points by iElectric2 on March 11, 2014 \| 203 comments
6.		How to create 2D visibility/shadow effects for your game (ncase.github.io)
		305 points by ncasenmare on March 11, 2014 \| 45 comments
7.		Any Android app can read your WhatsApp database (bosschert.nl)
		267 points by mathias on March 11, 2014 \| 131 comments
8.		Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) (pragdave.me)
		261 points by ternaryoperator on March 11, 2014 \| 114 comments
9.		Direct3D to OpenGL abstraction layer (github.com/valvesoftware)
		247 points by weslly on March 11, 2014 \| 106 comments
10.		Stanford bioengineer develops a 50-cent paper microscope (stanford.edu)
		224 points by ph0rque on March 11, 2014 \| 58 comments
11.		Evicted in San Francisco (priceonomics.com)
		227 points by shmeedogg on March 11, 2014 \| 252 comments
12.		Crytek jumps on Steam Machine hype train, announces Linux support (arstechnica.com)
		206 points by guardian5x on March 11, 2014 \| 64 comments
		kosei on March 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scar... Reminds me of the old Gabe Newell (Valve founder) quote: "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem... If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
14.		Stream Torrents Instantly From XBMC (xbmc.org)
		184 points by steeve on March 11, 2014 \| 41 comments
15.		The C.I.A. Torture Cover-Up (nytimes.com)
		193 points by r0h1n on March 11, 2014 \| 57 comments
16.		Incubators are Bullshit (craftsmanfounder.com)
		185 points by cardmagic on March 11, 2014 \| 93 comments
17.		Clojure to die for (cjohansen.no)
		173 points by cryptolect on March 11, 2014 \| 73 comments
		chimeracoder on March 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Con... This hypocrisy makes me physically sick. Feinstein has been one of the biggest apologists[0] for violations of civil liberties, government surveillance, and (both) executive and judicial overreach. Suddenly, the tables are turned on her (however briefly) and she's not so happy with the way it feels. Call me a cynic, but I'll wait to feel sorry for her until she actually backtracks on all of these despicable practices. [0] Actually, I don't think it's even fair to say that - she's been a downright advocate of a whole number of nasty practices.
19.		HTML Command Line Utilities (w3.org)
		153 points by TheZenPsycho on March 11, 2014 \| 33 comments
20.		Ideas We'd Like to Fund (rockhealth.com)
		157 points by mahlie on March 11, 2014 \| 54 comments
21.		Massive Twitter Botnet (cryptome.org)
		158 points by conductor on March 11, 2014 \| 69 comments
22.		Microsoft reveals its server designs and releases open source code (arstechnica.com)
		141 points by DiabloD3 on March 11, 2014 \| 51 comments
23.		[dupe] Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers (washingtonpost.com)
		151 points by pachydermic on March 11, 2014 \| 68 comments
		uptown on March 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out "Then he hit a button, and Flappy Bird disappeared. When I ask him why he did it, he answers with the same conviction that led him to create the game. 'I'm master of my own fate,' he says. 'Independent thinker.'" Good for him. The world needs more people with this attitude.
25.		How times have changed for PostgreSQL (opensource.com)
		135 points by davidw on March 11, 2014 \| 100 comments
26.		My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Cheap (theatlantic.com)
		123 points by jseliger on March 11, 2014 \| 138 comments
27.		What I learned about online-to-offline (justinkan.com)
		118 points by randall on March 11, 2014 \| 13 comments
28.		Habits of a Happy Node Hacker (heroku.com)
		119 points by craigkerstiens on March 11, 2014 \| 28 comments
29.		Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? (kernel.org)
		122 points by conductor on March 11, 2014 \| 26 comments
30.		Microservices (martinfowler.com)
		119 points by johns on March 11, 2014 \| 53 comments
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