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1. I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society (nymag.com)
323 points by siromoney on Feb 18, 2014 | 103 comments
2. Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide (ledracapital.com)
293 points by user_235711 on Feb 18, 2014 | 315 comments
3. Game Theory: How 70,000 Pokemon Players Sabotage Themselves (minimaxir.com)
289 points by minimaxir on Feb 18, 2014 | 69 comments
4. Snowden Documents Reveal Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks (firstlook.org)
273 points by ibsathish on Feb 18, 2014 | 81 comments
5. Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with stack overflows? (embeddedgurus.com)
267 points by nuriaion on Feb 18, 2014 | 140 comments
6. There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (smithsonianmag.com)
259 points by spking on Feb 18, 2014 | 103 comments
7. Complaint-Driven Development (codinghorror.com)
243 points by dieulot on Feb 18, 2014 | 70 comments
8. Irrational Games (Bioshock Infinite) is shutting down (irrationalgames.com)
239 points by piratebroadcast on Feb 18, 2014 | 139 comments
9. A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work (matthaeuskrenn.com)
199 points by matthaeus on Feb 18, 2014 | 159 comments
10. How The Guardian successfully moved its domain to theguardian.com (theguardian.com)
150 points by malditojavi on Feb 18, 2014 | 53 comments
11. Show HN: An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machine Learning (aylien.com)
153 points by parsabg on Feb 18, 2014 | 69 comments
12. Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it (phusion.github.io)
147 points by jballanc on Feb 18, 2014 | 90 comments
13. Why we love Scala at Coursera (coursera.org)
134 points by saeta on Feb 18, 2014 | 180 comments
14. Video Processing at Dropbox (dropbox.com)
129 points by lowe on Feb 18, 2014 | 28 comments
15. The Erlang Shell (medium.com/p)
127 points by strmpnk on Feb 18, 2014 | 60 comments
16. KitKat will make your SD Card useless (plus.google.com)
114 points by radley on Feb 18, 2014 | 127 comments
17. Darwin's Children Drew All Over the “On The Origin of Species” Manuscript (theappendix.net)
110 points by wallflower on Feb 18, 2014 | 43 comments
18. At least 9 reported dead, more than 100 injured near Ukraine's parliament (kyivpost.com)
100 points by emhart on Feb 18, 2014 | 43 comments
19. Gabe Newell: Valve, VAC, and trust (reddit.com)
99 points by cyanbane on Feb 18, 2014 | 24 comments
20. Cluster-Level Container Deployment with Fleet (coreos.com)
108 points by robszumski on Feb 18, 2014 | 16 comments
21. Automated deployment with Docker – lessons learnt (hiddentao.com)
89 points by goblin89 on Feb 18, 2014 | 11 comments
22. Li Ka-Shing teaches you how to buy a car and house in 5 years (therealsingapore.com)
86 points by swohns on Feb 18, 2014 | 80 comments
23. Therac-25 (wikipedia.org)
84 points by markmassie on Feb 18, 2014 | 77 comments
24. Java SE 8 Date and Time (oracle.com)
84 points by javinpaul on Feb 18, 2014 | 88 comments
25. REPL to any browser in the cloud (github.com/cloudup)
82 points by woloski on Feb 18, 2014 | 11 comments
26. A Simple Pair Programming Setup with SSH and Tmux (collectiveidea.com)
82 points by trestrantham on Feb 18, 2014 | 19 comments
27. Offer HN: Improve and show your skills by working with a NPO/NGO
76 points by professorTuring on Feb 18, 2014 | 17 comments
28. Rails XSS vulnerability in number formatting (CVE-2014-0081) (groups.google.com)
78 points by bensedat on Feb 18, 2014 | 23 comments
29. US Navy ready to deploy laser for first time (apnews.com)
74 points by Varcht on Feb 18, 2014 | 75 comments
30. Abacus (YC W14) Wants to Make Expense Reports Obsolete (techcrunch.com)
71 points by tgoldberg on Feb 18, 2014 | 28 comments

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