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1. FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking (washington.edu)
637 points by jonbaer on March 18, 2016 | 118 comments
2. An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage (nytimes.com)
560 points by salgernon on March 18, 2016 | 311 comments
3. Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
1213 points by boren_ave11 on March 18, 2016 | 690 comments
4. I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
429 points by sama on March 18, 2016 | 725 comments
5. Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist (nytimes.com)
468 points by IBM on March 17, 2016 | 359 comments
6. Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL (stitchfix.com)
291 points by mjohn on March 18, 2016 | 174 comments
7. Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups (wsj.com)
462 points by mavelikara on March 18, 2016 | 226 comments
8. Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source (reuters.com)
210 points by martinshen on March 18, 2016 | 205 comments
9. The 451 status code is now supported (developer.github.com)
421 points by cujanovic on March 18, 2016 | 77 comments
10. I Love the U.N., but It Is Failing (nytimes.com)
201 points by guylepage3 on March 18, 2016 | 115 comments
11. Atlas and Cuba (stripe.com)
141 points by lx on March 18, 2016 | 65 comments
12. The Tragic Tale of Saddam Hussein's “Supergun” (bbc.com)
133 points by rm_-rf_slash on March 18, 2016 | 54 comments
13. Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace (theguardian.com)
118 points by globba22 on March 18, 2016 | 37 comments
14. SQLite with a Fine-Toothed Comb (regehr.org)
162 points by jsnell on March 18, 2016 | 17 comments
15. Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (2013) (andrewkelley.me)
356 points by dcschelt on March 18, 2016 | 64 comments
16. No More Full Table Vacuums in PostgreSQL (rhaas.blogspot.com)
290 points by dhd415 on March 18, 2016 | 73 comments
17. The Global Rebellion Against “No-Skin-In-the-Game” Insiders (reason.com)
113 points by MollyR on March 18, 2016 | 93 comments
18. Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API (atom.io)
244 points by ingve on March 17, 2016 | 172 comments
19. That Time an SR-71 Made an Emergency Landing in Norway (jalopnik.com)
276 points by curtis on March 18, 2016 | 74 comments
20. Lloyd S. Shapely, 92, Nobel Laureate and a Father of Game Theory, Has Died (nytimes.com)
73 points by _murphys_law_ on March 18, 2016 | 6 comments
21. Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3 (github.com/danielmagnussons)
178 points by emartinelli on March 18, 2016 | 29 comments
22. Giving up on test-first development (iansommerville.com)
262 points by ingve on March 18, 2016 | 219 comments
23. Once thought safe, DDR4 memory shown to be vulnerable to “Rowhammer” (arstechnica.com)
142 points by theandrewbailey on March 18, 2016 | 38 comments
24. DeepExcel – Deep learning in Excel (deepexcel.net)
209 points by utkarshsinha on March 18, 2016 | 31 comments
25. How Maritime Insurance Helped Build Ancient Rome (priceonomics.com)
58 points by pmcpinto on March 18, 2016 | 4 comments
26. XKCD's StackSort Implemented in a Vim Regex (robertelder.org)
116 points by robertelder on March 17, 2016 | 23 comments
27. The Violin Thief (washingtonpost.com)
55 points by tintinnabula on March 18, 2016 | 6 comments
28. Chatfuel (YC W16) lets publishers and anyone build bots for messaging apps (techcrunch.com)
37 points by never-the-bride on March 18, 2016 | 3 comments
29. Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003) [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)
109 points by Tomte on March 15, 2016 | 9 comments
30. Dropbox Shares Offered at 34% Discount in Secondary Market (buzzfeed.com)
81 points by peeze on March 18, 2016 | 39 comments

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