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1.The Egg (2009) (galactanet.com)
450 points by mickgiles on Feb 8, 2014 | 153 comments
2.Show HN: JS library to make your website instant
426 points by dieulot on Feb 8, 2014 | 174 comments
3.Bitcoin Ponzi scheme (ponzi.io)
326 points by runn1ng on Feb 8, 2014 | 286 comments
Software, application development
235 points | parent
5.Debian committee members vote for systemd as init system (debian.org)
233 points by waffle_ss on Feb 8, 2014 | 146 comments
6.Total security in a PostgreSQL database (ibm.com)
218 points by amirmansour on Feb 8, 2014 | 58 comments
7.Your Progress As A Programmer Is All Up To You (thecodist.com)
206 points by ks on Feb 8, 2014 | 65 comments
8.Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore" (twitter.com/dongatory)
209 points by adriancooney on Feb 8, 2014 | 180 comments
9.Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable. (arstechnica.com)
178 points by AndrewDucker on Feb 8, 2014 | 207 comments
10.OWASP Cheat Sheet Series (owasp.org)
168 points by aburan28 on Feb 8, 2014 | 27 comments
11.Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts (blog.mozilla.org)
173 points by ibsathish on Feb 8, 2014 | 59 comments
12.ICE/ISEE-3 to return to an Earth no longer capable of speaking to it (planetary.org)
162 points by rmason on Feb 8, 2014 | 65 comments
13.Every line of code is always documented (uniqpath.com)
158 points by jessaustin on Feb 8, 2014 | 101 comments
14.Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (1986) (nasa.gov)
135 points by umanwizard on Feb 8, 2014 | 79 comments
15.80s Typography in CSS (codepen.io)
117 points by benoitg on Feb 8, 2014 | 25 comments
16.Show HN: Automatic VPN Generator – Protect Yourself at Sochi and Starbucks (tinfoilsecurity.com)
125 points by borski on Feb 8, 2014 | 70 comments
17.JZed.js – The functional JQuery alternative (github.com/zedshaw)
100 points by SEMW on Feb 8, 2014 | 97 comments
18.Huge chimpanzee population thriving in remote Congo forest (theguardian.com)
99 points by nsns on Feb 8, 2014 | 11 comments

There was 2 or 3 cases I regret about. The rest of my work is alright and responsible, no?
20.Gitbucket – The easily installable Github clone powered by Scala (github.com/takezoe)
98 points by shawndumas on Feb 8, 2014 | 43 comments
21.Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A (nytimes.com)
95 points by ColinWright on Feb 8, 2014 | 48 comments
22.German Court Says Domain Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website (thedomains.com)
91 points by JungleNavigator on Feb 8, 2014 | 53 comments
23.How I Optimize Myself (danrodriguez.me)
89 points by operand on Feb 8, 2014 | 31 comments
24.A Better Firefox Sync (blog.mozilla.org)
87 points by lelf on Feb 8, 2014 | 33 comments
Marketing, business, startups, entrepreneurship
80 points | parent
26.Unsung Hero of the Nuclear Age (slate.com)
79 points by _pius on Feb 8, 2014 | 36 comments
27.FOSDEM 2014 – First videos are online (fosdem.org)
78 points by babawere on Feb 8, 2014 | 13 comments
28.Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup (codecombat.com)
80 points by dreeves on Feb 8, 2014 | 34 comments
29.New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery (theguardian.com)
75 points by semiel on Feb 8, 2014 | 23 comments
30.Why Mt. Gox, the World’s First Bitcoin Exchange, is Dying (coindesk.com)
69 points by beniaminmincu on Feb 8, 2014 | 40 comments

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