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1. Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty (dell.com)
490 points by mikecane on Feb 9, 2014 | 218 comments
2. Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature (google.com)
430 points by thejerz on Feb 9, 2014 | 155 comments
3. That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter (slate.com)
284 points by selmnoo on Feb 9, 2014 | 270 comments
4. Flappy Bird by the Numbers (zachwill.com)
279 points by zachwill on Feb 9, 2014 | 143 comments
5. The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield (aljazeera.com)
215 points by _0nac on Feb 9, 2014 | 107 comments
6. When Random Isn't Random Enough: Lessons from an Online Poker Exploit (lauradhamilton.com)
185 points by lauradhamilton on Feb 9, 2014 | 84 comments
7. Learning to Code vs Learning Computer Science (shkspr.mobi)
184 points by edent on Feb 9, 2014 | 113 comments
8. Tex – Show off your best scientific illustration (tex.stackexchange.com)
159 points by anuragramdasan on Feb 9, 2014 | 22 comments
9. Debian 7.4 Released (debian.org)
156 points by bbzealot on Feb 9, 2014 | 41 comments
10. High-Speed Trading Isn't About Efficiency—It's About Cheating (theatlantic.com)
148 points by gz5 on Feb 9, 2014 | 112 comments
11. Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science (qrohlf.com)
145 points by qrohlf on Feb 9, 2014 | 130 comments
12. What Snow Tells Us About Creating Better Public Spaces (thisoldcity.com)
135 points by heydenberk on Feb 9, 2014 | 193 comments
13. I've made an open source flappy bird clone (github.com/ellisonleao)
128 points by ellisonleao on Feb 9, 2014 | 84 comments
14. French journalist "hacks" govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+ (arstechnica.com)
123 points by Cynddl on Feb 9, 2014 | 67 comments
15. Broken by design: systemd (ewontfix.com)
116 points by mmphosis on Feb 9, 2014 | 46 comments
16. Turkey pushes through new raft of 'draconian' Internet restrictions (theguardian.com)
110 points by wolfgke on Feb 9, 2014 | 40 comments
17. Streams in Java 8 (java.net)
94 points by bra-ket on Feb 9, 2014 | 89 comments
18. Contact Us (darkigloo.com)
91 points by morphics on Feb 9, 2014 | 40 comments
19. Drone is a Continuous Integration platform built on Docker (github.com/drone)
97 points by tilt on Feb 9, 2014 | 30 comments
20. Netflix Architect on High Availability and Lessons Learned in the Cloud (infoq.com)
86 points by nikhilkmenon on Feb 9, 2014 | 13 comments
21. Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty (1980) (washingtonmonthly.com)
84 points by acqq on Feb 9, 2014 | 74 comments
22. The Programming Steamroller Waits For No One (2013) (thecodist.com)
81 points by lxm on Feb 9, 2014 | 46 comments
23. A Google employee's critique of the Ars Technica Android unforkable article (arstechnica.com)
79 points by patrickaljord on Feb 9, 2014 | 85 comments
24. A game to learn a new language (babadum.com)
75 points by velcro on Feb 9, 2014 | 45 comments
25. Books to Read in a Lifetime (amazon.com)
71 points by acdanger on Feb 9, 2014 | 66 comments
26. The importance of co-founder due diligence (chrisjamieson.me)
66 points by jordn on Feb 9, 2014 | 28 comments
27. The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies (truthdig.com)
63 points by mgunes on Feb 9, 2014 | 54 comments
28. The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning (utexas.edu)
67 points by luu on Feb 9, 2014 | 7 comments
29. SaaS Vanity Metrics (gigaom.com)
61 points by ashrust on Feb 9, 2014 | 6 comments
30. Occupy leader now works for Google, wants to crowdfund private militia (pando.com)
54 points by tommorris on Feb 9, 2014 | 13 comments

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