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1.		On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to NSA’s PRISM (daringfireball.net)
		257 points by dieulot on Feb 22, 2014 \| 140 comments
2.		This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All Small Businesses (sfgate.com)
		248 points by warrenmar on Feb 22, 2014 \| 125 comments
3.		Show HN: Google Music for Mac (kbhomes.github.io)
		193 points by kbhomes on Feb 22, 2014 \| 99 comments
4.		Applications open for the summer 2014 YC batch (ycombinator.com)
		172 points by pg on Feb 22, 2014 \| 89 comments
5.		How to Get a Job at Google (nytimes.com)
		166 points by dannynemer on Feb 22, 2014 \| 162 comments
6.		Here is a thing that happened (dashes.com)
		148 points by zdw on Feb 22, 2014 \| 106 comments
7.		Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected (slate.com)
		128 points by zvanness on Feb 22, 2014 \| 162 comments
8.		I'm completely demotivated to work; what can I do?
		124 points by iyra72 on Feb 22, 2014 \| 130 comments
9.		A recreation of the first level of Super Mario Bros. in Python (github.com/justinmeister)
		124 points by cacois on Feb 22, 2014 \| 54 comments
10.		Show HN: Check if your browser is vulnerable to the Apple SSL bug (gotofail.com)
		118 points by cantfindmypass on Feb 22, 2014 \| 68 comments
11.		Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows (arstechnica.com)
		116 points by pedrocr on Feb 22, 2014 \| 119 comments
12.		How Google missed the boat (scripting.com)
		108 points by queensnake on Feb 22, 2014 \| 107 comments
13.		Microsoft killed my Pappy (hanselman.com)
		97 points by donniefitz2 on Feb 22, 2014 \| 153 comments
14.		A Geometric Review of Linear Algebra [pdf] (nyu.edu)
		100 points by ivansavz on Feb 22, 2014 \| 27 comments
15.		The world’s fastest VP9 decoder: ffvp9 (gnome.org)
		96 points by ux on Feb 22, 2014 \| 12 comments
16.		"We are getting 100 new registrations every second." (twitter.com/telegram)
		91 points by antr on Feb 22, 2014 \| 47 comments
17.		Don't Give Money to Fancy Colleges (slate.com)
		85 points by jseliger on Feb 22, 2014 \| 71 comments
18.		WhatsApp is down (techcrunch.com)
		89 points by okgabr on Feb 22, 2014 \| 90 comments
19.		FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (rtfm.net)
		90 points by profquail on Feb 22, 2014 \| 56 comments
20.		Let's scaffold a Web App (yeoman.io)
		76 points by tilt on Feb 22, 2014 \| 26 comments
21.		Google search for “blink html” (google.com)
		81 points by Tegran on Feb 22, 2014 \| 36 comments
22.		In Memory of Jim Weirich [video] (confreaks.com)
		74 points by ericmathison on Feb 22, 2014 \| 5 comments
23.		A fish that can steer its tank around the room (youtube.com)
		69 points by AtomicOrbital on Feb 22, 2014 \| 28 comments
24.		Parliament expels Ukraine president, protesters seize his compound (chicagotribune.com)
		66 points by lettergram on Feb 22, 2014 \| 38 comments
25.		Blind signatures for Bitcoin to secure BTC storage (oleganza.com)
		66 points by oleganza on Feb 22, 2014 \| 27 comments
26.		College considers basing president’s salary off that of cleaning staff (washingtonpost.com)
		61 points by voidlogic on Feb 22, 2014 \| 44 comments
27.		Never judge a programmer by their commit history (mehdi-khalili.com)
		59 points by MehdiKhalili on Feb 22, 2014 \| 69 comments
28.		A simple way to validate your startup idea (justinjackson.ca)
		58 points by dieulot on Feb 22, 2014 \| 16 comments
29.		Hedge funds are increasingly outbidding VCs on hot deals like Snapchat and Box (techcrunch.com)
		55 points by amitkumar01 on Feb 22, 2014 \| 7 comments
30.		Zuckerberg’s Data Stance Faces Privacy Backlash in Europe (bloomberg.com)
		55 points by T-A on Feb 22, 2014
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