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1. Why Spotify Pays So Little (vulf.de)
613 points by kfor on March 18, 2015 | 295 comments
2. MSBuild is now open source on GitHub (msdn.com)
520 points by pauljz on March 18, 2015 | 173 comments
3. John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket” (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
402 points by tilt on March 17, 2015 | 275 comments
4. Show HN: Textures.js, SVG Patterns for Data Visualization (riccardoscalco.github.io)
404 points by ricsca on March 18, 2015 | 61 comments
5. NSF announces plan for comprehensive public access to research results (nsf.gov)
290 points by basilgohar on March 18, 2015 | 29 comments
6. YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' coffin (productionadvice.co.uk)
381 points by anigbrowl on March 18, 2015 | 128 comments
7. Planets in the Fourth Dimension (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
252 points by diego898 on March 18, 2015 | 53 comments
8. The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces (vice.com)
426 points by DiabloD3 on March 18, 2015 | 185 comments
9. AeroFS is now free up to 30 users (aerofs.com)
210 points by yurisagalov on March 18, 2015 | 135 comments
10. The 1980 Math Olympiad Program: Where are they now? (andrewgelman.com)
165 points by claywm on March 18, 2015 | 100 comments
11. Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life (gyrosco.pe)
227 points by tburger on March 18, 2015 | 115 comments
12. I Hate the News (2006) (aaronsw.com)
222 points by oskarth on March 18, 2015 | 187 comments
13. Apple iOS Hardware Assisted Screenlock Bruteforce (mdsec.co.uk)
214 points by allending on March 18, 2015 | 101 comments
14. We Buy Broken Gold (laphamsquarterly.org)
204 points by diodorus on March 18, 2015 | 194 comments
15. Spain Finds Cervantes' Tomb in Madrid (bbc.com)
118 points by antr on March 18, 2015 | 19 comments
16. Macbook screen coating issues (staingate.org)
279 points by greggman on March 18, 2015 | 180 comments
17. Analysis of DNA uncovers a rough dating scene after the advent of agriculture (psmag.com)
135 points by pepys on March 18, 2015 | 88 comments
18. Hardware Designs Should Be Free. Here’s How to Do It (wired.com)
93 points by CapitalistCartr on March 18, 2015 | 51 comments
19. Where the Real Skyscrapers Are (Hint: North Dakota) (medium.com/re-form)
118 points by tzs on March 18, 2015 | 49 comments
20. Dale – A GC-less S-expression system programming language (github.com/tomhrr)
123 points by omaranto on March 18, 2015 | 33 comments
21. Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013) (somethingsimilar.com)
100 points by ajdecon on March 18, 2015 | 7 comments
22. Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter (gatesnotes.com)
191 points by dsr12 on March 18, 2015 | 79 comments
23. Binomial Heap in OCaml (typeocaml.com)
78 points by jacksontale on March 18, 2015 | 13 comments
24. ES6 RC3 released (ecmascript.org)
105 points by jakerella86 on March 18, 2015 | 22 comments
25. Hacker Monthly will publish its final issue 12 months from now (hackermonthly.com)
168 points by Zweihander on March 18, 2015 | 74 comments
26. The Spy in the Sandbox: Practical Cache Attacks in JavaScript (arxiv.org)
85 points by aaron695 on March 18, 2015 | 4 comments
27. Why Many Smart, Low-Income Students Don't Apply to Elite Schools (npr.org)
109 points by eroo on March 17, 2015 | 81 comments
28. Pearson Under Fire for Monitoring Students’ Twitter Posts (nytimes.com)
73 points by digital55 on March 18, 2015 | 25 comments
29. Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking home over $1m? $500k?
213 points by fideloper on March 18, 2015 | 196 comments
30. Geodesic Asteroids: Classic arcade game gets correct physics (nbodyphysics.com)
55 points by musgravepeter on March 17, 2015 | 17 comments

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