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1. GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide (theguardian.com)
1122 points by callum85 on Feb 27, 2014 | 304 comments
2. We Have Luxurious Jobs but We Are Not Aware of It (gedrap.me)
473 points by gedrap on Feb 27, 2014 | 299 comments
3. To close or not to close – Void HTML elements (colorglare.com)
358 points by enyo on Feb 27, 2014 | 158 comments
4. Yanukovych leaks (yanukovychleaks.org)
321 points by mxfh on Feb 27, 2014 | 87 comments
5. Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll? (scrollsample.appspot.com)
296 points by jonshariat on Feb 27, 2014 | 164 comments
6. Obama's Trauma Team: Inside the Nightmare Launch of HealthCare.Gov (time.com)
235 points by Realskeptic on Feb 27, 2014 | 255 comments
7. Vagrant Share (vagrantup.com)
230 points by smathieu on Feb 27, 2014 | 46 comments
8. Apple Explains How Secure iMessage Is (techcrunch.com)
202 points by prateekj on Feb 27, 2014 | 120 comments
9. German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock (gebloggendings.wordpress.com)
191 points by ttaubert on Feb 27, 2014 | 140 comments
10. Testing at Airbnb (airbnb.com)
197 points by hoverkraft on Feb 27, 2014 | 55 comments
11. How to intentionally get denied entry into the United States? (travel.stackexchange.com)
175 points by nsaparanoid on Feb 27, 2014 | 165 comments
12. Flask API – Browsable Web APIs for Flask (flaskapi.org)
171 points by tomchristie on Feb 27, 2014 | 48 comments
13. Privacy Protects Bothersome People (2013) (martinfowler.com)
165 points by happyscrappy on Feb 27, 2014 | 86 comments
14. C++17: I See a Monad in Your Future (bartoszmilewski.com)
153 points by adamnemecek on Feb 27, 2014 | 165 comments
15. A message from Lawrence Lessig [video] (socallinuxexpo.org)
146 points by irabinovitch1 on Feb 27, 2014 | 39 comments
16. 500 days – the longest streak on GitHub? (github.com/sferik)
125 points by Irene on Feb 27, 2014 | 72 comments
17. Fashions in Shaving and Trimming of the Beard, 1842-1972 [pdf] (uvm.edu)
124 points by mxfh on Feb 27, 2014 | 37 comments
18. Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate It in Any Way (wsj.com)
125 points by rajbala on Feb 27, 2014 | 108 comments
19. Why is Atom closed source? (atom.io)
126 points by zeckalpha on Feb 27, 2014 | 107 comments
20. In Praise of Perl 5 (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)
125 points by Mithaldu on Feb 27, 2014 | 119 comments
21. Freelance or job? (pastebin.com)
118 points by anupshinde on Feb 27, 2014 | 92 comments
22. Touch Mathematics – Trigonometry (touchmathematics.org)
117 points by kjhughes on Feb 27, 2014 | 27 comments
23. How I Judge the Quality of Documentation (ericholscher.com)
123 points by craigkerstiens on Feb 27, 2014 | 73 comments
24. T-Mobile Turns An Industry On Its Ear (nytimes.com)
115 points by davmre on Feb 27, 2014 | 80 comments
25. [dupe] Beautiful visualization of wind currents on Earth (nullschool.net)
115 points by ebahnx on Feb 27, 2014 | 34 comments
26. Micron Automata Processor – A Brief Introduction (shareholder.com)
111 points by crb002 on Feb 27, 2014 | 50 comments
27. Bringing Peer-to-Peer Streaming to the World. (swirl-project.org)
106 points by sreeix on Feb 27, 2014 | 52 comments
28. The Final Goxing (two-bit-idiot.tumblr.com)
105 points by pmorici on Feb 27, 2014 | 90 comments
29. PostgreSQL Prefers the Scenic Route (linuxinsider.com)
98 points by RADeg on Feb 27, 2014 | 16 comments
30. Google won’t bring Fiber to San Francisco (pando.com)
103 points by a_taylor on Feb 27, 2014 | 90 comments

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