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1. Sam Altman for President (blog.ycombinator.com)
790 points by TheMakeA on Feb 21, 2014 | 153 comments
2. LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already (plus.google.com)
320 points by robinjfisher on Feb 21, 2014 | 177 comments
3. Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX (github.com/sharelatex)
276 points by jpallen on Feb 21, 2014 | 79 comments
4. America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998) (nytimes.com)
239 points by ski on Feb 21, 2014 | 140 comments
5. Radiation-hardened quine (github.com/mame)
231 points by epsylon on Feb 21, 2014 | 71 comments
6. Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science (techcrunch.com)
242 points by uladzislau on Feb 21, 2014 | 168 comments
7. German tank problem (wikipedia.org)
231 points by fortepianissimo on Feb 21, 2014 | 83 comments
8. It's time to break up the NSA (cnn.com)
215 points by privong on Feb 21, 2014 | 98 comments
9. Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots (interfacevision.com)
204 points by seanmcdirmid on Feb 21, 2014 | 125 comments
10. Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular?
202 points by gordonguthrie on Feb 21, 2014 | 237 comments
11. About the security content of iOS 7.0.6 (support.apple.com)
205 points by davepeck on Feb 21, 2014 | 145 comments
12. VAXen, my children, just don't... (crash.com)
200 points by DiabloD3 on Feb 21, 2014 | 50 comments
13. Go Ahead, Let Your Kids Fail (bloomberg.com)
199 points by tokenadult on Feb 21, 2014 | 120 comments
14. Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds (medievalists.net)
197 points by sweedy on Feb 21, 2014 | 102 comments
15. My children’s book on technology raised 100k within 24 hours – here’s how (lindaliukas.tumblr.com)
188 points by kp02 on Feb 21, 2014 | 114 comments
16. Synthetic Muscle Made of Fishing Line is 100 Times Stronger Than the Real Thing (popularmechanics.com)
186 points by adventured on Feb 21, 2014 | 62 comments
17. Tmux 1.9 released (sourceforge.net)
182 points by jc79 on Feb 21, 2014 | 117 comments
18. How much is time wrong around the world? (unipi.it)
158 points by ot on Feb 21, 2014 | 74 comments
19. Kit Kat Conspiracy (2002) (everything2.com)
147 points by eldude on Feb 21, 2014 | 164 comments
20. Things that cost more than Space Exploration: WhatsApp. (costsmorethanspace.tumblr.com)
134 points by DanielleMolloy on Feb 21, 2014 | 56 comments
21. Show HN: I built an HTML 5 Guitar Tuner (freetuner.co)
134 points by hoddez on Feb 21, 2014 | 54 comments
22. Show HN: Selfie Ticket (ticketleap.com)
131 points by timae on Feb 21, 2014 | 66 comments
23. Developer depression: Isolation is the biggest problem (2012) (thenextweb.com)
120 points by hrish2006 on Feb 21, 2014 | 52 comments
24. Gmaxwell's “prove how (non)-fractional your Bitcoin reserves are” scheme (iwilcox.me.uk)
114 points by sillysaurus2 on Feb 21, 2014 | 76 comments
25. Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin (arstechnica.com)
115 points by fournm on Feb 21, 2014 | 85 comments
26. TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple (techcrunch.com)
107 points by coloneltcb on Feb 21, 2014 | 49 comments
27. Uzbl – Web interface tools which adhere to the Unix philosophy (uzbl.org)
103 points by javanix on Feb 21, 2014 | 50 comments
28. What's relevant in the Ruby Universe? (omniref.com)
101 points by timr on Feb 21, 2014 | 9 comments
29. Using Bootstrap the Semantic Way (ostraining.com)
83 points by harishchouhan on Feb 21, 2014 | 69 comments
30. Sam Altman Taking Over As President Of Y Combinator (techcrunch.com)
87 points by _kcn8 on Feb 21, 2014 | 12 comments

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