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1.		How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry (baekdal.com)
		829 points by seivan on Feb 1, 2014 \| 524 comments
2.		Microsoft please clean your store of junk (postach.io)
		346 points by sardorbek on Feb 1, 2014 \| 110 comments
3.		Big changes to Erlang (joearms.github.io)
		325 points by waffle_ss on Feb 1, 2014 \| 133 comments
4.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
		299 points by whoishiring on Feb 1, 2014 \| 381 comments
5.		We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer (nytimes.com)
		260 points by uladzislau on Feb 1, 2014 \| 155 comments
6.		School ditches rules and loses bullies (tvnz.co.nz)
		253 points by luu on Feb 1, 2014 \| 108 comments
7.		Honest Android Games (honestandroidgames.com)
		230 points by shawndumas on Feb 1, 2014 \| 67 comments
8.		Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol (righto.com)
		229 points by kens on Feb 1, 2014 \| 26 comments
9.		The Only Interview Question That Matters (inc.com)
		199 points by engassa on Feb 1, 2014 \| 173 comments
10.		Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On (parkerrr.com)
		164 points by ifrins on Feb 1, 2014 \| 172 comments
11.		Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs (whereby.com)
		149 points by ecthiender on Feb 1, 2014 \| 73 comments
12.		Fixing Windows 8 (2013) (jaymachalani.com)
		145 points by JoshGlazebrook on Feb 1, 2014 \| 104 comments
13.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014)
		128 points by whoishiring on Feb 1, 2014 \| 160 comments
14.		Ask HN: Best IRC channels?
		125 points by dakrisht on Feb 1, 2014 \| 91 comments
15.		Belgian professor in cryptography hacked (standaard.be)
		106 points by 1337biz on Feb 1, 2014 \| 28 comments
16.		Microsoft backs off on Metro (computerworld.com)
		100 points by tanglesome on Feb 1, 2014 \| 113 comments
17.		Why Bloom filters work the way they do (2012) (michaelnielsen.org)
		99 points by BIackSwan on Feb 1, 2014 \| 6 comments
18.		Mailpile Alpha Release: Shipping Bits and Atoms (mailpile.is)
		91 points by yuvadam on Feb 1, 2014 \| 45 comments
19.		China’s Deceptively Weak (and Dangerous) Military (thediplomat.com)
		82 points by fortepianissimo on Feb 1, 2014 \| 101 comments
20.		Partial Application in JavaScript using bind() (passy.svbtle.com)
		76 points by ch0wn on Feb 1, 2014 \| 38 comments
21.		The best todo list app for any developer (coderwall.com)
		71 points by PostingWithPSP on Feb 1, 2014 \| 64 comments
22.		OpenHatch – Find open source projects to contribute to; find mentors (openhatch.org)
		69 points by sedeki on Feb 1, 2014 \| 21 comments
23.		Objective-Smalltalk (github.com/mpw)
		68 points by jcla1 on Feb 1, 2014 \| 67 comments
24.		Reinventing Explanation (michaelnielsen.org)
		68 points by bentoner on Feb 1, 2014 \| 10 comments
25.		Ask PG: What is the best non-computer hack ever described in a YC application?
		63 points by networked on Feb 1, 2014
26.		Workers bought sugar from supermarket to slow cement flood on Victoria Line (standard.co.uk)
		64 points by raphar on Feb 1, 2014 \| 39 comments
27.		Show HN: Why sign a NDA when you can just pinky swear instead? (pinky-swear.herokuapp.com)
		63 points by mjhea0 on Feb 1, 2014 \| 35 comments
28.		Through a Face Scanner Darkly (newyorker.com)
		51 points by bmac27 on Feb 1, 2014 \| 39 comments
29.		As Argentine Peso Falters, President Keeps a Low Profile (nytimes.com)
		50 points by wslh on Feb 1, 2014 \| 55 comments
30.		Build your own Buffer App service – a weekend hack (farhan.org)
		55 points by alienfluid on Feb 1, 2014 \| 9 comments
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