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1. Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs (techcrunch.com)
1129 points by vassvdm on Feb 19, 2014 | 802 comments
2. AI (samaltman.com)
616 points by rdl on Feb 19, 2014 | 311 comments
3. WebGL Water (madebyevan.com)
467 points by morphics on Feb 19, 2014 | 131 comments
4. The future of Fiber (fiber.google.com)
449 points by lawdawg on Feb 19, 2014 | 282 comments
5. “Facebook turned me down” (2009) (twitter.com/brianacton)
388 points by zachlatta on Feb 19, 2014 | 191 comments
6. Machines are better referees than humans but we’ll be sued if we use them (cam.ac.uk)
300 points by inglesp on Feb 19, 2014 | 61 comments
7. Putin on the Ritz (hackerfactor.com)
208 points by yoha on Feb 19, 2014 | 85 comments
8. Redesigned Python.org (python.org)
214 points by webology on Feb 19, 2014 | 125 comments
9. WRT120N fprintf Stack Overflow (devttys0.com)
189 points by pedro84 on Feb 19, 2014 | 42 comments
10. Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp (sequoiacapital.tumblr.com)
195 points by benworthen on Feb 19, 2014 | 82 comments
11. Life of Brian (Krebs) (hackerfactor.com)
184 points by Garbage on Feb 19, 2014 | 50 comments
12. Levels of Excellence (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
182 points by martian on Feb 19, 2014 | 44 comments
13. How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user (includesecurity.com)
180 points by rkudeshi on Feb 19, 2014 | 70 comments
14. Steve Jobs threatened Palm’s CEO, court documents reveal (pando.com)
166 points by kome on Feb 19, 2014 | 113 comments
15. Making ActiveRecord 2x faster (tenderlovemaking.com)
158 points by tenderlove on Feb 19, 2014 | 44 comments
16. UK Court: David Miranda Detention Legal Under Terrorism Law (firstlook.org)
157 points by zorked on Feb 19, 2014 | 132 comments
17. This App Trains You to See Farther (popularmechanics.com)
154 points by brendanlim on Feb 19, 2014 | 72 comments
18. Sta.li: Static Linux (sta.li)
150 points by Xyzodiac on Feb 19, 2014 | 98 comments
19. Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones around the globe (ubuntu.com)
145 points by daker on Feb 19, 2014 | 46 comments
20. Facebook (whatsapp.com)
144 points by CoachRufus87 on Feb 19, 2014 | 84 comments
21. F.C.C. to Try Again on Net Neutrality (nytimes.com)
135 points by 001sky on Feb 19, 2014 | 137 comments
22. How Microryza Acquired the Domain Experiment.com (priceonomics.com)
138 points by irollboozers on Feb 19, 2014 | 87 comments
23. Never Be Intimidated (nancyhua.com)
130 points by nancyhua on Feb 19, 2014 | 72 comments
24. Show HN: My side project just reached #6 on App Store music charts (itunes.apple.com)
125 points by dinnison on Feb 19, 2014 | 62 comments
25. Steve Perlman's Wireless Technology Is Finally Here (businessweek.com)
123 points by amalag on Feb 19, 2014 | 100 comments
26. Comparison of C/Posix standard library implementations for Linux (etalabs.net)
110 points by galapago on Feb 19, 2014 | 40 comments
27. Tesla Beats In Q4 With Adjusted Revenues Of $761M (techcrunch.com)
107 points by Splendor on Feb 19, 2014 | 38 comments
28. Costs of a PostgreSQL connection (hans.io)
109 points by wlll on Feb 19, 2014 | 59 comments
29. The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking (newyorker.com)
87 points by dsr12 on Feb 19, 2014 | 104 comments
30. Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
88 points by Murkin on Feb 19, 2014 | 49 comments

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