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1.		Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty (dell.com)
		490 points by mikecane on Feb 9, 2014 \| 218 comments
2.		Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature (google.com)
		430 points by thejerz on Feb 9, 2014 \| 155 comments
3.		That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter (slate.com)
		284 points by selmnoo on Feb 9, 2014 \| 270 comments
4.		Flappy Bird by the Numbers (zachwill.com)
		279 points by zachwill on Feb 9, 2014 \| 143 comments
5.		The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield (aljazeera.com)
		215 points by _0nac on Feb 9, 2014 \| 107 comments
6.		When Random Isn't Random Enough: Lessons from an Online Poker Exploit (lauradhamilton.com)
		185 points by lauradhamilton on Feb 9, 2014 \| 84 comments
7.		Learning to Code vs Learning Computer Science (shkspr.mobi)
		184 points by edent on Feb 9, 2014 \| 113 comments
8.		Tex – Show off your best scientific illustration (tex.stackexchange.com)
		159 points by anuragramdasan on Feb 9, 2014 \| 22 comments
9.		Debian 7.4 Released (debian.org)
		156 points by bbzealot on Feb 9, 2014 \| 41 comments
10.		High-Speed Trading Isn't About Efficiency—It's About Cheating (theatlantic.com)
		148 points by gz5 on Feb 9, 2014 \| 112 comments
11.		Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science (qrohlf.com)
		145 points by qrohlf on Feb 9, 2014 \| 130 comments
12.		What Snow Tells Us About Creating Better Public Spaces (thisoldcity.com)
		135 points by heydenberk on Feb 9, 2014 \| 193 comments
13.		I've made an open source flappy bird clone (github.com/ellisonleao)
		128 points by ellisonleao on Feb 9, 2014 \| 84 comments
14.		French journalist "hacks" govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+ (arstechnica.com)
		123 points by Cynddl on Feb 9, 2014 \| 67 comments
15.		Broken by design: systemd (ewontfix.com)
		116 points by mmphosis on Feb 9, 2014 \| 46 comments
16.		Turkey pushes through new raft of 'draconian' Internet restrictions (theguardian.com)
		110 points by wolfgke on Feb 9, 2014 \| 40 comments
17.		Streams in Java 8 (java.net)
		94 points by bra-ket on Feb 9, 2014 \| 89 comments
18.		Contact Us (darkigloo.com)
		91 points by morphics on Feb 9, 2014 \| 40 comments
19.		Drone is a Continuous Integration platform built on Docker (github.com/drone)
		97 points by tilt on Feb 9, 2014 \| 30 comments
20.		Netflix Architect on High Availability and Lessons Learned in the Cloud (infoq.com)
		86 points by nikhilkmenon on Feb 9, 2014 \| 13 comments
21.		Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty (1980) (washingtonmonthly.com)
		84 points by acqq on Feb 9, 2014 \| 74 comments
22.		The Programming Steamroller Waits For No One (2013) (thecodist.com)
		81 points by lxm on Feb 9, 2014 \| 46 comments
23.		A Google employee's critique of the Ars Technica Android unforkable article (arstechnica.com)
		79 points by patrickaljord on Feb 9, 2014 \| 85 comments
24.		A game to learn a new language (babadum.com)
		75 points by velcro on Feb 9, 2014 \| 45 comments
25.		Books to Read in a Lifetime (amazon.com)
		71 points by acdanger on Feb 9, 2014 \| 66 comments
26.		The importance of co-founder due diligence (chrisjamieson.me)
		66 points by jordn on Feb 9, 2014 \| 28 comments
27.		The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies (truthdig.com)
		63 points by mgunes on Feb 9, 2014 \| 54 comments
28.		The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning (utexas.edu)
		67 points by luu on Feb 9, 2014 \| 7 comments
29.		SaaS Vanity Metrics (gigaom.com)
		61 points by ashrust on Feb 9, 2014 \| 6 comments
30.		Occupy leader now works for Google, wants to crowdfund private militia (pando.com)
		54 points by tommorris on Feb 9, 2014 \| 13 comments
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