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1.		Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s (theatlantic.com)
		384 points by ghosh on Feb 16, 2014 \| 106 comments
2.		HTTP 308 Incompetence Expected (insanecoding.blogspot.com)
		234 points by aw3c2 on Feb 16, 2014 \| 43 comments
3.		Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users?
		214 points by _g2lm on Feb 16, 2014 \| 153 comments
4.		The Man Who Built Catan (newyorker.com)
		210 points by route66 on Feb 16, 2014 \| 111 comments
5.		Prefer mercurial to git (lists.gnu.org)
		142 points by arunc on Feb 16, 2014 \| 182 comments
6.		New Linux userland rootkit with anti-debugging, new backdoors and pcap hiding (blackhatlibrary.net)
		142 points by adamnemecek on Feb 16, 2014 \| 68 comments
7.		Letter to MIT community regarding support of students behind ‘Tidbit’ (web.mit.edu)
		144 points by chaz on Feb 16, 2014 \| 55 comments
8.		Ask HN: Where I can post my startup to get beta users?
		138 points by matysanchez on Feb 16, 2014 \| 37 comments
9.		The Road to Virtual Reality (codinghorror.com)
		133 points by dieulot on Feb 16, 2014 \| 86 comments
10.		Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol (openlibernet.org)
		126 points by gasull on Feb 16, 2014 \| 82 comments
11.		Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis (slatestarcodex.com)
		121 points by Nogwater on Feb 16, 2014 \| 103 comments
12.		Why you should move that button 3px to the left (gv.com)
		119 points by axelbouaziz on Feb 16, 2014 \| 160 comments
13.		IMDB Top 100K Movies – Analysis in Depth, Part 1 (bugra.github.io)
		114 points by lauriswtf on Feb 16, 2014 \| 34 comments
14.		A Case for Upserts (pocoo.org)
		113 points by ash on Feb 16, 2014 \| 111 comments
15.		Analysis of 419,000 FlapMMO attempts (t3hz0r.com)
		102 points by gcardone_ on Feb 16, 2014 \| 11 comments
16.		Compiling Quake 3 Virtual Machines To JavaScript (inolen.com)
		100 points by mariuz on Feb 16, 2014 \| 31 comments
17.		Why not inherit from List? (stackoverflow.com)
		92 points by rodrigocoelho on Feb 16, 2014 \| 74 comments
18.		The Enigma of “Blind Tom” Wiggins (blackpast.org)
		91 points by gruseom on Feb 16, 2014 \| 2 comments
19.		Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps (comcastmyths.tumblr.com)
		86 points by nathancahill on Feb 16, 2014 \| 93 comments
20.		Show HN: Pumpkin – An open-source HN clone (github.com/fananta)
		86 points by fananta on Feb 16, 2014 \| 40 comments
21.		Real-time Search as a Service (algolia.com)
		92 points by davidbarker on Feb 16, 2014 \| 36 comments
22.		Flappy Math Saga (lobe.io)
		81 points by tikwidd on Feb 16, 2014 \| 38 comments
23.		Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed (firstlook.org)
		80 points by t0dd on Feb 16, 2014 \| 11 comments
24.		Possible citogenesis concerning whether MtGox ever hosted an MtG trading site (wikipedia.org)
		75 points by dsirijus on Feb 16, 2014 \| 42 comments
25.		Gestice – Unlock your Android by shaking it whilst wearing a Pebble (gestice.org)
		62 points by muratmutlu on Feb 16, 2014 \| 26 comments
26.		Thousands of People Trying to Play the Same Game of Pokemon (dorkly.com)
		61 points by jtchang on Feb 16, 2014 \| 25 comments
27.		Volatiles Are Miscompiled, and What to Do about It [pdf] (utah.edu)
		58 points by emkemp on Feb 16, 2014 \| 31 comments
28.		Ask HN: Is anyone successful with the 7-minute workout so far?
		56 points by 3rd3 on Feb 16, 2014 \| 59 comments
29.		Google acquires Israeli security startup SlickLogin (geektime.com)
		64 points by ilhackernews on Feb 16, 2014 \| 26 comments
30.		Julia for Matlab users (sveme.org)
		59 points by luu on Feb 16, 2014 \| 23 comments
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