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1.
The French way of cancer treatment (reuters.com)
285 points by MaysonL on Feb 15, 2014 | 196 comments
2.
Hacking Flappy Bird with Machine Learning (sarvagyavaish.github.io)
243 points by sarvagyavaish on Feb 15, 2014 | 51 comments
3.
What did Persona get right? Why did Persona fail to gain wide adoption? (wiki.mozilla.org)
233 points by cpeterso on Feb 15, 2014 | 146 comments
4.
Important Kickstarter Security Notice (kickstarter.com)
210 points by citricsquid on Feb 15, 2014 | 196 comments
5.
Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format (github.com/bup)
186 points by tekacs on Feb 15, 2014 | 61 comments
6.
Why I Dropped Out Of YC (wikichen.is)
186 points by daniellegeva on Feb 15, 2014 | 146 comments
7.
Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking, study says (latimes.com)
162 points by arjn on Feb 15, 2014 | 147 comments
8.
Why Loneliness Matters in the Social Age (wikichen.is)
161 points by PakG1 on Feb 15, 2014 | 57 comments
9.
Disney Accelerator (disneyaccelerator.com)
161 points by nickmain on Feb 15, 2014 | 50 comments
10.
Was Y Combinator Worth It? (techcrunch.com)
142 points by chengyinliu on Feb 15, 2014 | 55 comments
11.
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Zina Lahr (outsideonline.com)
119 points by keithflower on Feb 15, 2014 | 10 comments
12.
95% of climate models agree: the observations must be wrong (drroyspencer.com)
111 points by Tycho on Feb 15, 2014 | 153 comments
13.
Show HN: Sublimall, SublimeText synchronized (sublimall.org)
108 points by Socketubs on Feb 15, 2014 | 58 comments
14.
PostgreSQL 9.4 – What I was hoping for (craigkerstiens.com)
112 points by craigkerstiens on Feb 15, 2014 | 40 comments
15.
Git 1.9 Release Notes (raw.github.com)
104 points by rjzzleep on Feb 15, 2014 | 34 comments
16.
Ding.io (ding.io)
94 points by markmassie on Feb 15, 2014 | 66 comments
17.
Is the Universe a Simulation? (nytimes.com)
96 points by danso on Feb 15, 2014 | 136 comments
18.
The New Normal: 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks (krebsonsecurity.com)
93 points by Smerity on Feb 15, 2014 | 48 comments
19.
Anybody else hating web fonts lately?
89 points by throwaway420 on Feb 15, 2014 | 72 comments
20.
Apple Removes Shadow DOM from Safari (webkit.org)
90 points by vjeux on Feb 15, 2014 | 67 comments
21.
The world's smallest and fastest classical JavaScript inheritance pattern (github.com/javascript)
91 points by codecurve on Feb 15, 2014 | 54 comments
22.
Notes on Discrete Mathematics [pdf] (vidcat.org)
89 points by symisc_devel on Feb 15, 2014 | 29 comments
23.
AppleDoesntGiveAFuckAboutSecurity iTunes Evil Plugin Proof of Concept (put.as)
85 points by mafuyu on Feb 15, 2014 | 49 comments
24.
Polish clinics: Another kind of health tourism (2013) (economist.com)
87 points by cturner on Feb 15, 2014 | 44 comments
25.
Comcast vs. the Cord Cutters (nytimes.com)
83 points by antr on Feb 15, 2014 | 117 comments
26.
Windows 8.1 forces the user to interact in a way that doesn’t work (user.wordpress.com)
84 points by hanifbbz on Feb 15, 2014 | 77 comments
27.
Facebook made my teenager into an ad (theguardian.com)
81 points by cl8ton on Feb 15, 2014 | 82 comments
28.
Show HN: It's Popcorn Time - Stream movies using node-webkit and backbone (getpopcornti.me)
78 points by dperalta on Feb 15, 2014 | 31 comments
29.
Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm (nytimes.com)
73 points by mudil on Feb 15, 2014 | 17 comments
30.
Bitcoin withdrawals are once again fully automated (bitstamp.net)
80 points by coconutrandom on Feb 15, 2014 | 31 comments

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