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1. Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam (wsj.com)
487 points by dctoedt on Feb 23, 2014 | 337 comments
2. How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To (hbr.org)
328 points by tmbsundar on Feb 23, 2014 | 108 comments
3. Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right (crackstation.net)
249 points by axelfontaine on Feb 23, 2014 | 148 comments
4. Bram Moolenaar responds to Neovim (groups.google.com)
221 points by dviola on Feb 23, 2014 | 147 comments
5. Yamaha's Latest Silent Brass (createdigitalmusic.com)
209 points by jamesjyu on Feb 23, 2014 | 32 comments
6. Most Winning A/B Test Results are Illusory [pdf] (qubitproducts.com)
158 points by ernopp on Feb 23, 2014 | 83 comments
7. Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes (righto.com)
144 points by lelf on Feb 23, 2014 | 20 comments
8. Exxon CEO sues against fracking in his own backyard (forbes.com/sites/rickungar)
147 points by ColinWright on Feb 23, 2014 | 59 comments
9. Xorg can now run without privilege on OpenBSD (undeadly.org)
137 points by protomyth on Feb 23, 2014 | 79 comments
10. The indignity of no work (economist.com)
133 points by benfreu on Feb 23, 2014 | 263 comments
11. Hacking Hacker News (joelgrus.com)
132 points by stickhandle on Feb 23, 2014 | 50 comments
12. Unix koans (catb.org)
125 points by bratfarrar on Feb 23, 2014 | 39 comments
13. Hipster Dev Stack (hipsterdevstack.tumblr.com)
122 points by cviedmai on Feb 23, 2014 | 20 comments
14. Jan Koum promoting WhatsApp in the Flyertalk forum (2009) (flyertalk.com)
126 points by takinola on Feb 23, 2014 | 24 comments
15. Gmail adding prominent 'Unsubscribe' option to marketing emails (pcworld.com)
120 points by r0h1n on Feb 23, 2014 | 107 comments
16. Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language (thoughtinfection.com)
122 points by mcscom on Feb 23, 2014 | 85 comments
17. Google's robots.txt (google.com)
114 points by jrstanley on Feb 23, 2014 | 91 comments
18. My life in London's houseboat slums (theguardian.com)
109 points by timw6n on Feb 23, 2014 | 129 comments
19. Regex Golf Part 2: Infinite Problems (ipython.org)
107 points by z0a on Feb 23, 2014 | 10 comments
20. Take the Linux Filesystem Tour (tuxradar.com)
100 points by giis on Feb 23, 2014 | 19 comments
21. $25 Smartphones on Firefox OS to Rock MWC (eetimes.com)
100 points by kryptiskt on Feb 23, 2014 | 84 comments
22. LXC 1.0 Released (linuxcontainers.org)
90 points by powerbook5300CS on Feb 23, 2014 | 35 comments
23. Prison Switcharoo (cartalk.com)
89 points by jamessun on Feb 23, 2014 | 73 comments
24. The WhatsApp Story Challenges Some of the Valley’s Conventional Wisdom (techcrunch.com)
91 points by ckelly on Feb 23, 2014 | 27 comments
25. Molecular Visualisations of DNA [video] (wehi.edu.au)
83 points by sethbannon on Feb 23, 2014 | 43 comments
26. The C++ and programming books I recommend (bert-hubert.blogspot.com)
78 points by nkurz on Feb 23, 2014 | 50 comments
27. How Bad Can 1 GB Pages Be? (pvk.ca)
72 points by jetlej on Feb 23, 2014 | 40 comments
28. Apple promises fix 'very soon' for Macs with failed encryption (reuters.com)
73 points by Varcht on Feb 23, 2014 | 67 comments
29. Air Hockey Robot – a 3D printer hack (blogspot.com.es)
70 points by joshwa on Feb 23, 2014 | 4 comments
30. Misleading Graph Generator (yrden.de)
68 points by gulbrandr on Feb 23, 2014 | 35 comments

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