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1.		A Star in a Bottle (newyorker.com)
		276 points by numlocked on Feb 24, 2014 \| 157 comments
2.		Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying (reuters.com)
		262 points by lelf on Feb 24, 2014 \| 176 comments
3.		Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (stackoverflow.com)
		260 points by marcopolis on Feb 24, 2014 \| 116 comments
4.		Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency' (jsvine.com)
		251 points by ams1 on Feb 24, 2014 \| 50 comments
5.		What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced (elezea.com)
		246 points by pascal07 on Feb 24, 2014 \| 94 comments
6.		How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive (firstlook.org)
		234 points by rdl on Feb 24, 2014 \| 139 comments
7.		Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones (engadget.com)
		230 points by wzsddtc on Feb 24, 2014 \| 188 comments
8.		Flappy Bird Ported to C64 (sos.gd)
		221 points by ForHackernews on Feb 24, 2014 \| 84 comments
9.		Comcast’s deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete (washingtonpost.com)
		215 points by adidash on Feb 24, 2014 \| 109 comments
10.		Ruby 2.1.1 is released and Ruby turns 21 (ruby-lang.org)
		217 points by petercooper on Feb 24, 2014 \| 85 comments
11.		Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat (bitcoinfoundation.org)
		214 points by olalonde on Feb 24, 2014 \| 126 comments
12.		ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud (github.com/jewel)
		190 points by urza on Feb 24, 2014 \| 52 comments
13.		Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language [video] (stephenwolfram.com)
		190 points by samolang on Feb 24, 2014 \| 71 comments
14.		Facebook Open Sources flint, a C++ linter written in D (facebook.com)
		197 points by andralex on Feb 24, 2014 \| 81 comments
15.		Rainbow Sort Visualisations (ljs.io)
		170 points by lolo_ on Feb 24, 2014 \| 51 comments
16.		Harold Ramis dies aged 69 (bbc.co.uk)
		165 points by rb2e on Feb 24, 2014 \| 42 comments
17.		Mt.Gox's tweets are all gone (twitter.com/mtgox)
		166 points by volaski on Feb 24, 2014 \| 102 comments
18.		Announcing the new Roslyn-powered .NET Framework Reference Source (hanselman.com)
		156 points by daigoba66 on Feb 24, 2014 \| 59 comments
19.		Element 14 Holding Orders Based On US Government Watch List (eevblog.com)
		149 points by suraj on Feb 24, 2014 \| 76 comments
20.		The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1999) (gamasutra.com)
		150 points by rcsorensen on Feb 24, 2014 \| 107 comments
21.		What Linux can learn from Solaris performance and vice-versa (slideshare.net)
		151 points by deirdres on Feb 24, 2014 \| 63 comments
22.		A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions (minimaxir.com)
		147 points by minimaxir on Feb 24, 2014 \| 36 comments
23.		Are Tiny Houses the Key to Fighting Homelessness? (billmoyers.com)
		136 points by yiedyie on Feb 24, 2014 \| 127 comments
24.		Why Super-Fast Internet Is Coming Super Slowly (wsj.com)
		129 points by bocalogic on Feb 24, 2014 \| 124 comments
25.		Computing 10,000X more efficiently (2010) [pdf] (media.mit.edu)
		134 points by luu on Feb 24, 2014 \| 58 comments
26.		IBM to Acquire Cloudant (ibm.com)
		137 points by davis_m on Feb 24, 2014 \| 23 comments
27.		Doctored.js – A new kind of editor (holloway.co.nz)
		125 points by holloway on Feb 24, 2014 \| 30 comments
28.		Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets (bbc.co.uk)
		124 points by piokuc on Feb 24, 2014 \| 50 comments
29.		Q – Execute SQL on text. Supports joins across files, RPM available (github.com/harelba)
		126 points by harelba on Feb 24, 2014 \| 43 comments
30.		Analytics at GitHub (johnnunemaker.com)
		125 points by janerik on Feb 24, 2014 \| 16 comments
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