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1.		Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam (wsj.com)
		487 points by dctoedt on Feb 23, 2014 \| 337 comments
2.		How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To (hbr.org)
		328 points by tmbsundar on Feb 23, 2014 \| 108 comments
3.		Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right (crackstation.net)
		249 points by axelfontaine on Feb 23, 2014 \| 148 comments
4.		Bram Moolenaar responds to Neovim (groups.google.com)
		221 points by dviola on Feb 23, 2014 \| 147 comments
5.		Yamaha's Latest Silent Brass (createdigitalmusic.com)
		209 points by jamesjyu on Feb 23, 2014 \| 32 comments
6.		Most Winning A/B Test Results are Illusory [pdf] (qubitproducts.com)
		158 points by ernopp on Feb 23, 2014 \| 83 comments
7.		Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes (righto.com)
		144 points by lelf on Feb 23, 2014 \| 20 comments
8.		Exxon CEO sues against fracking in his own backyard (forbes.com/sites/rickungar)
		147 points by ColinWright on Feb 23, 2014 \| 59 comments
9.		Xorg can now run without privilege on OpenBSD (undeadly.org)
		137 points by protomyth on Feb 23, 2014 \| 79 comments
10.		The indignity of no work (economist.com)
		133 points by benfreu on Feb 23, 2014 \| 263 comments
11.		Hacking Hacker News (joelgrus.com)
		132 points by stickhandle on Feb 23, 2014 \| 50 comments
12.		Unix koans (catb.org)
		125 points by bratfarrar on Feb 23, 2014 \| 39 comments
13.		Hipster Dev Stack (hipsterdevstack.tumblr.com)
		122 points by cviedmai on Feb 23, 2014 \| 20 comments
14.		Jan Koum promoting WhatsApp in the Flyertalk forum (2009) (flyertalk.com)
		126 points by takinola on Feb 23, 2014 \| 24 comments
15.		Gmail adding prominent 'Unsubscribe' option to marketing emails (pcworld.com)
		120 points by r0h1n on Feb 23, 2014 \| 107 comments
16.		Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language (thoughtinfection.com)
		122 points by mcscom on Feb 23, 2014 \| 85 comments
17.		Google's robots.txt (google.com)
		114 points by jrstanley on Feb 23, 2014 \| 91 comments
18.		My life in London's houseboat slums (theguardian.com)
		109 points by timw6n on Feb 23, 2014 \| 129 comments
19.		Regex Golf Part 2: Infinite Problems (ipython.org)
		107 points by z0a on Feb 23, 2014 \| 10 comments
20.		Take the Linux Filesystem Tour (tuxradar.com)
		100 points by giis on Feb 23, 2014 \| 19 comments
21.		$25 Smartphones on Firefox OS to Rock MWC (eetimes.com)
		100 points by kryptiskt on Feb 23, 2014 \| 84 comments
22.		LXC 1.0 Released (linuxcontainers.org)
		90 points by powerbook5300CS on Feb 23, 2014 \| 35 comments
23.		Prison Switcharoo (cartalk.com)
		89 points by jamessun on Feb 23, 2014 \| 73 comments
24.		The WhatsApp Story Challenges Some of the Valley’s Conventional Wisdom (techcrunch.com)
		91 points by ckelly on Feb 23, 2014 \| 27 comments
25.		Molecular Visualisations of DNA [video] (wehi.edu.au)
		83 points by sethbannon on Feb 23, 2014 \| 43 comments
26.		The C++ and programming books I recommend (bert-hubert.blogspot.com)
		78 points by nkurz on Feb 23, 2014 \| 50 comments
27.		How Bad Can 1 GB Pages Be? (pvk.ca)
		72 points by jetlej on Feb 23, 2014 \| 40 comments
28.		Apple promises fix 'very soon' for Macs with failed encryption (reuters.com)
		73 points by Varcht on Feb 23, 2014 \| 67 comments
29.		Air Hockey Robot – a 3D printer hack (blogspot.com.es)
		70 points by joshwa on Feb 23, 2014 \| 4 comments
30.		Misleading Graph Generator (yrden.de)
		68 points by gulbrandr on Feb 23, 2014 \| 35 comments
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