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1.		The Magic of strace (chadfowler.com)
		531 points by chadfowler on Jan 31, 2014 \| 99 comments
2.		The email line that's client repellent (letsworkshop.com)
		532 points by robwilliams88 on Jan 31, 2014 \| 93 comments
3.		Boeing #12 (flightaware.com)
		355 points by beef3333 on Jan 31, 2014 \| 107 comments
4.		Show HN: We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5 (voicechatapi.com)
		303 points by dhfromkorea on Jan 31, 2014 \| 100 comments
5.		Printable True Bugs Wait Posters (natashenka.ca)
		234 points by liotier on Jan 31, 2014 \| 155 comments
6.		Breaking Madden: The Super Bowl, in which the machine bleeds to death (sbnation.com)
		240 points by edavis on Jan 31, 2014 \| 61 comments
7.		Nightwatch.js (nightwatchjs.org)
		235 points by Lazare on Jan 31, 2014 \| 48 comments
8.		Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush With Other "Candy" Games (slate.com)
		220 points by x43b on Jan 31, 2014 \| 77 comments
9.		New YC Partner Investment Policy (blog.ycombinator.com)
		219 points by jamesjyu on Jan 31, 2014 \| 100 comments
10.		OpenSSH 6.5 Released (openssh.org)
		161 points by moonboots on Jan 31, 2014 \| 42 comments
11.		Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Snowden hard drives (theguardian.com)
		157 points by rajbala on Jan 31, 2014 \| 87 comments
12.		PayPal Mafia (wikipedia.org)
		162 points by robzyb on Jan 31, 2014 \| 63 comments
13.		Ask HN: Bitcoin business unexpectedly taking off, help!
		152 points by mhluongo on Jan 31, 2014 \| 142 comments
14.		Who wants competition? Big cable tries outlawing municipal broadband in Kansas (arstechnica.com)
		156 points by jseliger on Jan 31, 2014 \| 74 comments
15.		Moz Dumps Amazon Web Services, Citing Expense and 'Lacking' Service (xconomy.com)
		150 points by rbudd on Jan 31, 2014 \| 127 comments
16.		The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer (avdi.org)
		129 points by caisah on Jan 31, 2014 \| 92 comments
17.		Patent troll CEO explains why company wants names of EFF donors (arstechnica.com)
		127 points by paulgb on Jan 31, 2014 \| 53 comments
18.		ZX Spectrum devs claim missing royalties from Elite Systems (kickstarter.com)
		116 points by wozname on Jan 31, 2014 \| 27 comments
19.		Why do credit card forms ask for Visa, Mastercard, etc.? (ux.stackexchange.com)
		120 points by jackhammer2022 on Jan 31, 2014 \| 96 comments
20.		Why Dart should learn JSON while it’s still young (maxhorstmann.net)
		108 points by Max_Horstmann on Jan 31, 2014 \| 54 comments
21.		Fallacies (nizkor.org)
		94 points by bildung on Jan 31, 2014 \| 94 comments
22.		Linux 3.4+: arbitrary write with CONFIG_X86_X32 (CVE-2014-0038) (seclists.org)
		94 points by akerl_ on Jan 31, 2014 \| 70 comments
23.		Living in retirement: Seven things I wish I could tell my 35-year-old self (theglobeandmail.com)
		82 points by kareemm on Jan 31, 2014 \| 104 comments
24.		About Ukraine (washingtonpost.com)
		85 points by blearyeyed on Jan 31, 2014 \| 93 comments
25.		Ask HN: What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a data scientist?
		82 points by dewang on Jan 31, 2014 \| 44 comments
26.		The upside to being let go by Nokia (bbc.co.uk)
		78 points by sambeau on Jan 31, 2014 \| 51 comments
27.		Strangest Programming Language Feature? (stackoverflow.com)
		74 points by jackhammer2022 on Jan 31, 2014 \| 63 comments
28.		Amazon to Raise Fees as Revenue Disappoints (nytimes.com)
		73 points by lukeqsee on Jan 31, 2014 \| 100 comments
29.		Dataset: Ten Years of NFL Plays Analyzed, Visualized, Quizzified (statwing.com)
		75 points by glaugh on Jan 31, 2014 \| 38 comments
30.		Wealth does not make you smarter (scripting.com)
		66 points by jaredsohn on Jan 31, 2014 \| 73 comments
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