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1. As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes (danlec.com)
382 points by df07 on Feb 17, 2014 | 72 comments
2. [dupe] The C10M problem (robertgraham.com)
344 points by z_ on Feb 17, 2014 | 114 comments
3. Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? (ux.stackexchange.com)
326 points by attheodo on Feb 17, 2014 | 103 comments
4. Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge (alp.im)
322 points by aalpbalkan on Feb 17, 2014 | 152 comments
5. Drawing as a programmer (gameofworlds.tumblr.com)
295 points by cinskiy on Feb 17, 2014 | 110 comments
6. Why we left AngularJS (sourcegraph.com)
296 points by route66 on Feb 17, 2014 | 157 comments
7. Frequency (xkcd.com)
274 points by jaimebuelta on Feb 17, 2014 | 82 comments
8. Introducing Bing Code Search for C# (msdn.com)
261 points by vwilson on Feb 17, 2014 | 230 comments
9. Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN?
199 points by _vya7 on Feb 17, 2014 | 186 comments
10. Less Commonly Used Unix Commands (danielmiessler.com)
188 points by danielrm26 on Feb 17, 2014 | 92 comments
11. My Startup, a Retrospective (rdegges.com)
158 points by rdegges on Feb 17, 2014 | 34 comments
12. Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly (nytimes.com)
141 points by hunterwalk on Feb 17, 2014 | 33 comments
13. Steam's VAC reads all the domains you visited (twitlonger.com)
140 points by titlex on Feb 17, 2014 | 86 comments
14. TCP/IP over audio (anfractuosity.com)
137 points by anfractuosity on Feb 17, 2014 | 67 comments
15. Off-the-Record Messaging Protocol v3 (cypherpunks.ca)
133 points by dgellow on Feb 17, 2014 | 54 comments
16. When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees (theatlantic.com)
126 points by bvaldivielso on Feb 17, 2014 | 95 comments
17. Ways to avoid using the word 'very' (writerswrite.co.za)
121 points by geeku on Feb 17, 2014 | 153 comments
18. I Quit My Job To Teach People About Hardware (chrisgammell.com)
123 points by ChrisGammell on Feb 17, 2014 | 16 comments
19. The fastest pulsar spins at 716Hz; its equator spins at 24% the speed of light (wikipedia.org)
122 points by almost on Feb 17, 2014 | 78 comments
20. How Airbus is debugging the A350 (businessweek.com)
122 points by hencq on Feb 17, 2014 | 48 comments
21. No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline (solitr.com)
131 points by joliss on Feb 17, 2014 | 54 comments
22. How north ended up on top of the map (aljazeera.com)
119 points by zvanness on Feb 17, 2014 | 87 comments
23. Jessica Livingston (Y Combinator) at Startup Grind 2014 (youtube.com)
124 points by pg on Feb 17, 2014 | 15 comments
24. Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis? (networkworld.com)
112 points by kenrose on Feb 17, 2014 | 146 comments
25. The C10K problem (kegel.com)
112 points by luu on Feb 17, 2014 | 55 comments
26. New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth (indiatimes.com)
105 points by amalag on Feb 17, 2014 | 41 comments
27. Early screenshots of Twitter ('06), Facebook ('05), and Tumblr ('07) (imgur.com)
100 points by panabee on Feb 17, 2014 | 28 comments
28. Free static page hosting on Google App Engine in minutes (fizerkhan.com)
95 points by fizerkhan on Feb 17, 2014 | 63 comments
29. Microsoft Virtual Academy (microsoftvirtualacademy.com)
85 points by AndreyKarpov on Feb 17, 2014 | 46 comments
30. After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes (theconversation.com)
85 points by srisa on Feb 17, 2014 | 19 comments

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