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1. Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s (theatlantic.com)
384 points by ghosh on Feb 16, 2014 | 106 comments
2. HTTP 308 Incompetence Expected (insanecoding.blogspot.com)
234 points by aw3c2 on Feb 16, 2014 | 43 comments
3. Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users?
214 points by _g2lm on Feb 16, 2014 | 153 comments
4. The Man Who Built Catan (newyorker.com)
210 points by route66 on Feb 16, 2014 | 111 comments
5. Prefer mercurial to git (lists.gnu.org)
142 points by arunc on Feb 16, 2014 | 182 comments
6. New Linux userland rootkit with anti-debugging, new backdoors and pcap hiding (blackhatlibrary.net)
142 points by adamnemecek on Feb 16, 2014 | 68 comments
7. Letter to MIT community regarding support of students behind ‘Tidbit’ (web.mit.edu)
144 points by chaz on Feb 16, 2014 | 55 comments
8. Ask HN: Where I can post my startup to get beta users?
138 points by matysanchez on Feb 16, 2014 | 37 comments
9. The Road to Virtual Reality (codinghorror.com)
133 points by dieulot on Feb 16, 2014 | 86 comments
10. Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol (openlibernet.org)
126 points by gasull on Feb 16, 2014 | 82 comments
11. Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis (slatestarcodex.com)
121 points by Nogwater on Feb 16, 2014 | 103 comments
12. Why you should move that button 3px to the left (gv.com)
119 points by axelbouaziz on Feb 16, 2014 | 160 comments
13. IMDB Top 100K Movies – Analysis in Depth, Part 1 (bugra.github.io)
114 points by lauriswtf on Feb 16, 2014 | 34 comments
14. A Case for Upserts (pocoo.org)
113 points by ash on Feb 16, 2014 | 111 comments
15. Analysis of 419,000 FlapMMO attempts (t3hz0r.com)
102 points by gcardone_ on Feb 16, 2014 | 11 comments
16. Compiling Quake 3 Virtual Machines To JavaScript (inolen.com)
100 points by mariuz on Feb 16, 2014 | 31 comments
17. Why not inherit from List? (stackoverflow.com)
92 points by rodrigocoelho on Feb 16, 2014 | 74 comments
18. The Enigma of “Blind Tom” Wiggins (blackpast.org)
91 points by gruseom on Feb 16, 2014 | 2 comments
19. Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps (comcastmyths.tumblr.com)
86 points by nathancahill on Feb 16, 2014 | 93 comments
20. Show HN: Pumpkin – An open-source HN clone (github.com/fananta)
86 points by fananta on Feb 16, 2014 | 40 comments
21. Real-time Search as a Service (algolia.com)
92 points by davidbarker on Feb 16, 2014 | 36 comments
22. Flappy Math Saga (lobe.io)
81 points by tikwidd on Feb 16, 2014 | 38 comments
23. Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed (firstlook.org)
80 points by t0dd on Feb 16, 2014 | 11 comments
24. Possible citogenesis concerning whether MtGox ever hosted an MtG trading site (wikipedia.org)
75 points by dsirijus on Feb 16, 2014 | 42 comments
25. Gestice – Unlock your Android by shaking it whilst wearing a Pebble (gestice.org)
62 points by muratmutlu on Feb 16, 2014 | 26 comments
26. Thousands of People Trying to Play the Same Game of Pokemon (dorkly.com)
61 points by jtchang on Feb 16, 2014 | 25 comments
27. Volatiles Are Miscompiled, and What to Do about It [pdf] (utah.edu)
58 points by emkemp on Feb 16, 2014 | 31 comments
28. Ask HN: Is anyone successful with the 7-minute workout so far?
56 points by 3rd3 on Feb 16, 2014 | 59 comments
29. Google acquires Israeli security startup SlickLogin (geektime.com)
64 points by ilhackernews on Feb 16, 2014 | 26 comments
30. Julia for Matlab users (sveme.org)
59 points by luu on Feb 16, 2014 | 23 comments

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