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1.		As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes (danlec.com)
		382 points by df07 on Feb 17, 2014 \| 72 comments
2.		[dupe] The C10M problem (robertgraham.com)
		344 points by z_ on Feb 17, 2014 \| 114 comments
3.		Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? (ux.stackexchange.com)
		326 points by attheodo on Feb 17, 2014 \| 103 comments
4.		Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge (alp.im)
		322 points by aalpbalkan on Feb 17, 2014 \| 152 comments
5.		Drawing as a programmer (gameofworlds.tumblr.com)
		295 points by cinskiy on Feb 17, 2014 \| 110 comments
6.		Why we left AngularJS (sourcegraph.com)
		296 points by route66 on Feb 17, 2014 \| 157 comments
7.		Frequency (xkcd.com)
		274 points by jaimebuelta on Feb 17, 2014 \| 82 comments
8.		Introducing Bing Code Search for C# (msdn.com)
		261 points by vwilson on Feb 17, 2014 \| 230 comments
9.		Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN?
		199 points by _vya7 on Feb 17, 2014 \| 186 comments
10.		Less Commonly Used Unix Commands (danielmiessler.com)
		188 points by danielrm26 on Feb 17, 2014 \| 92 comments
11.		My Startup, a Retrospective (rdegges.com)
		158 points by rdegges on Feb 17, 2014 \| 34 comments
12.		Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly (nytimes.com)
		141 points by hunterwalk on Feb 17, 2014 \| 33 comments
13.		Steam's VAC reads all the domains you visited (twitlonger.com)
		140 points by titlex on Feb 17, 2014 \| 86 comments
14.		TCP/IP over audio (anfractuosity.com)
		137 points by anfractuosity on Feb 17, 2014 \| 67 comments
15.		Off-the-Record Messaging Protocol v3 (cypherpunks.ca)
		133 points by dgellow on Feb 17, 2014 \| 54 comments
16.		When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees (theatlantic.com)
		126 points by bvaldivielso on Feb 17, 2014 \| 95 comments
17.		Ways to avoid using the word 'very' (writerswrite.co.za)
		121 points by geeku on Feb 17, 2014 \| 153 comments
18.		I Quit My Job To Teach People About Hardware (chrisgammell.com)
		123 points by ChrisGammell on Feb 17, 2014 \| 16 comments
19.		The fastest pulsar spins at 716Hz; its equator spins at 24% the speed of light (wikipedia.org)
		122 points by almost on Feb 17, 2014 \| 78 comments
20.		How Airbus is debugging the A350 (businessweek.com)
		122 points by hencq on Feb 17, 2014 \| 48 comments
21.		No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline (solitr.com)
		131 points by joliss on Feb 17, 2014 \| 54 comments
22.		How north ended up on top of the map (aljazeera.com)
		119 points by zvanness on Feb 17, 2014 \| 87 comments
23.		Jessica Livingston (Y Combinator) at Startup Grind 2014 (youtube.com)
		124 points by pg on Feb 17, 2014 \| 15 comments
24.		Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis? (networkworld.com)
		112 points by kenrose on Feb 17, 2014 \| 146 comments
25.		The C10K problem (kegel.com)
		112 points by luu on Feb 17, 2014 \| 55 comments
26.		New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth (indiatimes.com)
		105 points by amalag on Feb 17, 2014 \| 41 comments
27.		Early screenshots of Twitter ('06), Facebook ('05), and Tumblr ('07) (imgur.com)
		100 points by panabee on Feb 17, 2014 \| 28 comments
28.		Free static page hosting on Google App Engine in minutes (fizerkhan.com)
		95 points by fizerkhan on Feb 17, 2014 \| 63 comments
29.		Microsoft Virtual Academy (microsoftvirtualacademy.com)
		85 points by AndreyKarpov on Feb 17, 2014 \| 46 comments
30.		After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes (theconversation.com)
		85 points by srisa on Feb 17, 2014 \| 19 comments
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