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1.		AI (samaltman.com)
		616 points by rdl on Feb 19, 2014 \| 311 comments
2.		WebGL Water (madebyevan.com)
		467 points by morphics on Feb 19, 2014 \| 131 comments
3.		The future of Fiber (fiber.google.com)
		449 points by lawdawg on Feb 19, 2014 \| 282 comments
4.		“Facebook turned me down” (2009) (twitter.com/brianacton)
		388 points by zachlatta on Feb 19, 2014 \| 191 comments
5.		Machines are better referees than humans but we’ll be sued if we use them (cam.ac.uk)
		300 points by inglesp on Feb 19, 2014 \| 61 comments
6.		Putin on the Ritz (hackerfactor.com)
		208 points by yoha on Feb 19, 2014 \| 85 comments
7.		Redesigned Python.org (python.org)
		214 points by webology on Feb 19, 2014 \| 125 comments
8.		WRT120N fprintf Stack Overflow (devttys0.com)
		189 points by pedro84 on Feb 19, 2014 \| 42 comments
9.		Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp (sequoiacapital.tumblr.com)
		195 points by benworthen on Feb 19, 2014 \| 82 comments
10.		Life of Brian (Krebs) (hackerfactor.com)
		184 points by Garbage on Feb 19, 2014 \| 50 comments
11.		Levels of Excellence (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
		182 points by martian on Feb 19, 2014 \| 44 comments
12.		How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user (includesecurity.com)
		180 points by rkudeshi on Feb 19, 2014 \| 70 comments
13.		Steve Jobs threatened Palm’s CEO, court documents reveal (pando.com)
		166 points by kome on Feb 19, 2014 \| 113 comments
14.		Making ActiveRecord 2x faster (tenderlovemaking.com)
		158 points by tenderlove on Feb 19, 2014 \| 44 comments
15.		UK Court: David Miranda Detention Legal Under Terrorism Law (firstlook.org)
		157 points by zorked on Feb 19, 2014 \| 132 comments
16.		This App Trains You to See Farther (popularmechanics.com)
		154 points by brendanlim on Feb 19, 2014 \| 72 comments
17.		Sta.li: Static Linux (sta.li)
		150 points by Xyzodiac on Feb 19, 2014 \| 98 comments
18.		Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones around the globe (ubuntu.com)
		145 points by daker on Feb 19, 2014 \| 46 comments
19.		Facebook (whatsapp.com)
		144 points by CoachRufus87 on Feb 19, 2014 \| 84 comments
20.		F.C.C. to Try Again on Net Neutrality (nytimes.com)
		135 points by 001sky on Feb 19, 2014 \| 137 comments
21.		How Microryza Acquired the Domain Experiment.com (priceonomics.com)
		138 points by irollboozers on Feb 19, 2014 \| 87 comments
22.		Never Be Intimidated (nancyhua.com)
		130 points by nancyhua on Feb 19, 2014 \| 72 comments
23.		Show HN: My side project just reached #6 on App Store music charts (itunes.apple.com)
		125 points by dinnison on Feb 19, 2014 \| 62 comments
24.		Steve Perlman's Wireless Technology Is Finally Here (businessweek.com)
		123 points by amalag on Feb 19, 2014 \| 100 comments
25.		Comparison of C/Posix standard library implementations for Linux (etalabs.net)
		110 points by galapago on Feb 19, 2014 \| 40 comments
26.		Tesla Beats In Q4 With Adjusted Revenues Of $761M (techcrunch.com)
		107 points by Splendor on Feb 19, 2014 \| 38 comments
27.		Costs of a PostgreSQL connection (hans.io)
		109 points by wlll on Feb 19, 2014 \| 59 comments
28.		The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking (newyorker.com)
		87 points by dsr12 on Feb 19, 2014 \| 104 comments
29.		Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
		88 points by Murkin on Feb 19, 2014 \| 49 comments
30.		REPL: To JSON what Excel is to CSV (repl.cc)
		87 points by spolu on Feb 19, 2014 \| 64 comments
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