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1.		Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released (elasticsearch.org)
		471 points by dakrone on Feb 12, 2014 \| 136 comments
2.		The Book of Graham (leveragedsellout.com)
		455 points by allworknoplay on Feb 12, 2014 \| 116 comments
3.		The Day the Internet Didn’t Fight Back (nytimes.com)
		386 points by petethomas on Feb 12, 2014 \| 192 comments
4.		Saying goodbye to Python (ianbicking.org)
		376 points by ghc on Feb 12, 2014 \| 157 comments
5.		Tell HN: My Brother Died Last Week. His Death Will Not Be In Vain (evanmrose.tumblr.com)
		342 points by EMRo on Feb 12, 2014 \| 237 comments
6.		Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion (npr.org)
		346 points by vivin on Feb 12, 2014 \| 189 comments
7.		CandySwipe Open Letter to King regarding trademark (candyswipe.com)
		303 points by mkenyon on Feb 12, 2014 \| 65 comments
8.		The anonymity I know (chrishateswriting.com)
		310 points by shasa on Feb 12, 2014 \| 120 comments
9.		Massively multiplayer online Flappy Bird (flapmmo.com)
		294 points by wgx on Feb 12, 2014 \| 152 comments
10.		How does Facebook disable Developer Tools? (stackoverflow.com)
		258 points by gedrap on Feb 12, 2014 \| 86 comments
11.		Show HN: Siri-as-a-Service Speech API (wit.ai)
		242 points by ar7hur on Feb 12, 2014 \| 60 comments
12.		John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar (smh.com.au)
		230 points by tomhoward on Feb 12, 2014 \| 243 comments
13.		How to Burn Out Programming (braegger.pw)
		229 points by rckclmbr on Feb 12, 2014 \| 114 comments
14.		P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume (nature.com)
		185 points by feelthepain on Feb 12, 2014 \| 128 comments
15.		Obama Sued by Rand Paul Over Phone Surveillance Program (bloomberg.com)
		163 points by T-A on Feb 12, 2014 \| 93 comments
16.		IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe as 'slaughter' and 'massive' (wraltechwire.com)
		148 points by giis on Feb 12, 2014 \| 137 comments
17.		[dupe] I challenged hackers to investigate me (2013) (pando.com)
		146 points by matthiaswh on Feb 12, 2014 \| 36 comments
18.		Why systemd is winning the init wars and other things aren't (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		129 points by onestone on Feb 12, 2014 \| 153 comments
19.		Rails 4 Engines (taskrabbit.com)
		121 points by evantahler on Feb 12, 2014 \| 43 comments
20.		Is the shared economy racist? (2drew3.com)
		117 points by 2drew3 on Feb 12, 2014 \| 162 comments
21.		Scaling Asana.com (asana.com)
		123 points by krausejj on Feb 12, 2014 \| 43 comments
22.		JQuery Notebook – A Medium-like editor wrapped inside a jQuery plugin (raphaelcruzeiro.github.io)
		112 points by rcruzeiro on Feb 12, 2014 \| 62 comments
23.		Clef – stop using passwords (getclef.com)
		114 points by charlieirish on Feb 12, 2014 \| 96 comments
24.		LocalForage: Offline Storage, Improved (hacks.mozilla.org)
		113 points by rnyman on Feb 12, 2014 \| 20 comments
25.		I love you (jsbin.com)
		104 points by morphics on Feb 12, 2014 \| 32 comments
26.		China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon (cbc.ca)
		102 points by mileswu on Feb 12, 2014 \| 74 comments
27.		European Commission proposes a reform to the way the Internet is managed and run (europa.eu)
		98 points by Hagelin on Feb 12, 2014 \| 112 comments
28.		StackMob is shutting down (pastebin.com)
		102 points by aaronpk on Feb 12, 2014 \| 87 comments
29.		x86 is Turing-complete with no registers (mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com)
		89 points by walrus on Feb 12, 2014 \| 23 comments
30.		New Jersey slaps MIT Bitcoin hackers with subpoena (venturebeat.com)
		92 points by Kynlyn on Feb 12, 2014 \| 55 comments
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