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31.		Hypercard – Way Too Early (avc.com)
		82 points by shawndumas on Feb 21, 2014 \| 54 comments
32.		Can We Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia? (antipope.org)
		79 points by ulysses on Feb 21, 2014 \| 76 comments
33.		CRS-3 Falcon 9 first stage to sport legs and attempt soft splashdown (nasaspaceflight.com)
		76 points by jccooper on Feb 21, 2014 \| 18 comments
34.		Rarely known C++ constructs (part 1): Function try blocks (szelei.me)
		76 points by sztomi on Feb 21, 2014 \| 39 comments
35.		Christine: The World's Most Modular PC Design (razerzone.com)
		69 points by bado on Feb 21, 2014 \| 59 comments
36.		Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency (gist.github.com)
		75 points by bdb on Feb 21, 2014 \| 68 comments
37.		The broken-down grace of Bill Murray (thedissolve.com)
		71 points by passepartout on Feb 21, 2014 \| 26 comments
38.		Cryptographic obfuscation and 'unhackable' software (cryptographyengineering.com)
		66 points by clarkm on Feb 21, 2014 \| 25 comments
39.		Building a Decision Tree in Python from Postgres data (garysieling.com)
		63 points by garysieling on Feb 21, 2014 \| 1 comment
40.		A simple distributed algorithm for small idempotent information (antirez.com)
		59 points by janerik on Feb 21, 2014 \| 14 comments
41.		Jolla Phone News: Sailfish OS for Android Devices (reviewjolla.blogspot.de)
		56 points by bergie on Feb 21, 2014 \| 24 comments
42.		Gmail is a Usability Nightmare (moron4hire.tumblr.com)
		56 points by moron4hire on Feb 21, 2014 \| 56 comments
43.		42 (YC W14) Brings Big Data to Brick-and-Mortar Retailers (techcrunch.com)
		61 points by nickporter on Feb 21, 2014 \| 10 comments
44.		Gobble (YC W14) Automates Your Dinner With A Subscription Meal Delivery Service (techcrunch.com)
		58 points by ooshma on Feb 21, 2014 \| 29 comments
45.		NSA Official Warned About Threat 17 Years Before Snowden (bloomberg.com)
		55 points by T-A on Feb 21, 2014 \| 14 comments
46.		Time travellers: please don’t kill Adolf Hitler (theguardian.com)
		52 points by ColinWright on Feb 21, 2014 \| 82 comments
47.		Crowdhoster becomes CrowdtiltOpen, launches out of private beta (crowdtilt.com)
		55 points by garry on Feb 21, 2014 \| 18 comments
48.		Bitcoin security model: trust by computation (oreilly.com)
		51 points by Garbage on Feb 21, 2014 \| 32 comments
49.		Bitcoin Builder: Trade “MtGox” BTC and “Real” BTC (and back) (bitcoinbuilder.com)
		48 points by shayanbahal on Feb 21, 2014 \| 57 comments
50.		Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor
		46 points by nathanstitt on Feb 21, 2014 \| 27 comments
51.		Magical Square Root Implementation In Quake III by Carmack (codemaestro.com)
		42 points by geeku on Feb 21, 2014 \| 17 comments
52.		Creativity: Music to my ears – Free online course from Stanford (novoed.com)
		41 points by aufreak3 on Feb 21, 2014
53.		Important BufferBox Update (bufferbox.com)
		40 points by aren55555 on Feb 21, 2014 \| 17 comments
54.		Utah Teapot (wikipedia.org)
		41 points by jlas on Feb 21, 2014 \| 17 comments
55.		Wanted: Awesome HTML5 app ports for Firefox OS and the Open Web (hacks.mozilla.org)
		34 points by bpierre on Feb 21, 2014 \| 15 comments
56.		Bitcoin’s Value Falls 10% as Faltering Mt.Gox Exchange Continues to Implode (techcrunch.com)
		33 points by JacobH on Feb 21, 2014 \| 53 comments
57.		The FCC’s Plan to Reboot Net Neutrality Might Transform Municipal Broadband (slate.com)
		32 points by RougeFemme on Feb 21, 2014 \| 6 comments
58.		Ask HN: do you use App.net?
		32 points by sarhus on Feb 21, 2014 \| 47 comments
59.		Iraq offers $17,200 reward for killing jihadists (bbc.co.uk)
		32 points by ankitoberoi on Feb 21, 2014 \| 27 comments
60.		WhatsApp (ritholtz.com)
		30 points by Kopion on Feb 21, 2014 \| 18 comments
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