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1.		Sam Altman for President (blog.ycombinator.com)
		790 points by TheMakeA on Feb 21, 2014 \| 153 comments
2.		LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already (plus.google.com)
		320 points by robinjfisher on Feb 21, 2014 \| 177 comments
3.		Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX (github.com/sharelatex)
		276 points by jpallen on Feb 21, 2014 \| 79 comments
4.		America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998) (nytimes.com)
		239 points by ski on Feb 21, 2014 \| 140 comments
5.		Radiation-hardened quine (github.com/mame)
		231 points by epsylon on Feb 21, 2014 \| 71 comments
6.		Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science (techcrunch.com)
		242 points by uladzislau on Feb 21, 2014 \| 168 comments
7.		German tank problem (wikipedia.org)
		231 points by fortepianissimo on Feb 21, 2014 \| 83 comments
8.		It's time to break up the NSA (cnn.com)
		215 points by privong on Feb 21, 2014 \| 98 comments
9.		Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots (interfacevision.com)
		204 points by seanmcdirmid on Feb 21, 2014 \| 125 comments
10.		Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular?
		202 points by gordonguthrie on Feb 21, 2014 \| 237 comments
11.		About the security content of iOS 7.0.6 (support.apple.com)
		205 points by davepeck on Feb 21, 2014 \| 145 comments
12.		VAXen, my children, just don't... (crash.com)
		200 points by DiabloD3 on Feb 21, 2014 \| 50 comments
13.		Go Ahead, Let Your Kids Fail (bloomberg.com)
		199 points by tokenadult on Feb 21, 2014 \| 120 comments
14.		Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds (medievalists.net)
		197 points by sweedy on Feb 21, 2014 \| 102 comments
15.		My children’s book on technology raised 100k within 24 hours – here’s how (lindaliukas.tumblr.com)
		188 points by kp02 on Feb 21, 2014 \| 114 comments
16.		Synthetic Muscle Made of Fishing Line is 100 Times Stronger Than the Real Thing (popularmechanics.com)
		186 points by adventured on Feb 21, 2014 \| 62 comments
17.		Tmux 1.9 released (sourceforge.net)
		182 points by jc79 on Feb 21, 2014 \| 117 comments
18.		How much is time wrong around the world? (unipi.it)
		158 points by ot on Feb 21, 2014 \| 74 comments
19.		Kit Kat Conspiracy (2002) (everything2.com)
		147 points by eldude on Feb 21, 2014 \| 164 comments
20.		Things that cost more than Space Exploration: WhatsApp. (costsmorethanspace.tumblr.com)
		134 points by DanielleMolloy on Feb 21, 2014 \| 56 comments
21.		Show HN: I built an HTML 5 Guitar Tuner (freetuner.co)
		134 points by hoddez on Feb 21, 2014 \| 54 comments
22.		Show HN: Selfie Ticket (ticketleap.com)
		131 points by timae on Feb 21, 2014 \| 66 comments
23.		Developer depression: Isolation is the biggest problem (2012) (thenextweb.com)
		120 points by hrish2006 on Feb 21, 2014 \| 52 comments
24.		Gmaxwell's “prove how (non)-fractional your Bitcoin reserves are” scheme (iwilcox.me.uk)
		114 points by sillysaurus2 on Feb 21, 2014 \| 76 comments
25.		Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin (arstechnica.com)
		115 points by fournm on Feb 21, 2014 \| 85 comments
26.		TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple (techcrunch.com)
		107 points by coloneltcb on Feb 21, 2014 \| 49 comments
27.		Uzbl – Web interface tools which adhere to the Unix philosophy (uzbl.org)
		103 points by javanix on Feb 21, 2014 \| 50 comments
28.		What's relevant in the Ruby Universe? (omniref.com)
		101 points by timr on Feb 21, 2014 \| 9 comments
29.		Using Bootstrap the Semantic Way (ostraining.com)
		83 points by harishchouhan on Feb 21, 2014 \| 69 comments
30.		Sam Altman Taking Over As President Of Y Combinator (techcrunch.com)
		87 points by _kcn8 on Feb 21, 2014 \| 12 comments
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