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1.		I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society (nymag.com)
		323 points by siromoney on Feb 18, 2014 \| 103 comments
2.		Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide (ledracapital.com)
		293 points by user_235711 on Feb 18, 2014 \| 315 comments
3.		Game Theory: How 70,000 Pokemon Players Sabotage Themselves (minimaxir.com)
		289 points by minimaxir on Feb 18, 2014 \| 69 comments
4.		Snowden Documents Reveal Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks (firstlook.org)
		273 points by ibsathish on Feb 18, 2014 \| 81 comments
5.		Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with stack overflows? (embeddedgurus.com)
		267 points by nuriaion on Feb 18, 2014 \| 140 comments
6.		There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (smithsonianmag.com)
		259 points by spking on Feb 18, 2014 \| 103 comments
7.		Complaint-Driven Development (codinghorror.com)
		243 points by dieulot on Feb 18, 2014 \| 70 comments
8.		Irrational Games (Bioshock Infinite) is shutting down (irrationalgames.com)
		239 points by piratebroadcast on Feb 18, 2014 \| 139 comments
9.		A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work (matthaeuskrenn.com)
		199 points by matthaeus on Feb 18, 2014 \| 159 comments
10.		How The Guardian successfully moved its domain to theguardian.com (theguardian.com)
		150 points by malditojavi on Feb 18, 2014 \| 53 comments
11.		Show HN: An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machine Learning (aylien.com)
		153 points by parsabg on Feb 18, 2014 \| 69 comments
12.		Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it (phusion.github.io)
		147 points by jballanc on Feb 18, 2014 \| 90 comments
13.		Why we love Scala at Coursera (coursera.org)
		134 points by saeta on Feb 18, 2014 \| 180 comments
14.		Video Processing at Dropbox (dropbox.com)
		129 points by lowe on Feb 18, 2014 \| 28 comments
15.		The Erlang Shell (medium.com/p)
		127 points by strmpnk on Feb 18, 2014 \| 60 comments
16.		KitKat will make your SD Card useless (plus.google.com)
		114 points by radley on Feb 18, 2014 \| 127 comments
17.		Darwin's Children Drew All Over the “On The Origin of Species” Manuscript (theappendix.net)
		110 points by wallflower on Feb 18, 2014 \| 43 comments
18.		At least 9 reported dead, more than 100 injured near Ukraine's parliament (kyivpost.com)
		100 points by emhart on Feb 18, 2014 \| 43 comments
19.		Gabe Newell: Valve, VAC, and trust (reddit.com)
		99 points by cyanbane on Feb 18, 2014 \| 24 comments
20.		Cluster-Level Container Deployment with Fleet (coreos.com)
		108 points by robszumski on Feb 18, 2014 \| 16 comments
21.		Automated deployment with Docker – lessons learnt (hiddentao.com)
		89 points by goblin89 on Feb 18, 2014 \| 11 comments
22.		Li Ka-Shing teaches you how to buy a car and house in 5 years (therealsingapore.com)
		86 points by swohns on Feb 18, 2014 \| 80 comments
23.		Therac-25 (wikipedia.org)
		84 points by markmassie on Feb 18, 2014 \| 77 comments
24.		Java SE 8 Date and Time (oracle.com)
		84 points by javinpaul on Feb 18, 2014 \| 88 comments
25.		REPL to any browser in the cloud (github.com/cloudup)
		82 points by woloski on Feb 18, 2014 \| 11 comments
26.		A Simple Pair Programming Setup with SSH and Tmux (collectiveidea.com)
		82 points by trestrantham on Feb 18, 2014 \| 19 comments
27.		Offer HN: Improve and show your skills by working with a NPO/NGO
		76 points by professorTuring on Feb 18, 2014 \| 17 comments
28.		Rails XSS vulnerability in number formatting (CVE-2014-0081) (groups.google.com)
		78 points by bensedat on Feb 18, 2014 \| 23 comments
29.		US Navy ready to deploy laser for first time (apnews.com)
		74 points by Varcht on Feb 18, 2014 \| 75 comments
30.		Abacus (YC W14) Wants to Make Expense Reports Obsolete (techcrunch.com)
		71 points by tgoldberg on Feb 18, 2014 \| 28 comments
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