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1. Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear (hemingwayapp.com)
1040 points by jmngomes on Feb 12, 2014 | 327 comments
2. Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released (elasticsearch.org)
471 points by dakrone on Feb 12, 2014 | 136 comments
3. The Book of Graham (leveragedsellout.com)
455 points by allworknoplay on Feb 12, 2014 | 116 comments
4. The Day the Internet Didn’t Fight Back (nytimes.com)
386 points by petethomas on Feb 12, 2014 | 192 comments
5. Saying goodbye to Python (ianbicking.org)
376 points by ghc on Feb 12, 2014 | 157 comments
6. Tell HN: My Brother Died Last Week. His Death Will Not Be In Vain (evanmrose.tumblr.com)
342 points by EMRo on Feb 12, 2014 | 237 comments
7. Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion (npr.org)
346 points by vivin on Feb 12, 2014 | 189 comments
8. CandySwipe Open Letter to King regarding trademark (candyswipe.com)
303 points by mkenyon on Feb 12, 2014 | 65 comments
9. The anonymity I know (chrishateswriting.com)
310 points by shasa on Feb 12, 2014 | 120 comments
10. Massively multiplayer online Flappy Bird (flapmmo.com)
294 points by wgx on Feb 12, 2014 | 152 comments
11. How does Facebook disable Developer Tools? (stackoverflow.com)
258 points by gedrap on Feb 12, 2014 | 86 comments
12. Show HN: Siri-as-a-Service Speech API (wit.ai)
242 points by ar7hur on Feb 12, 2014 | 60 comments
13. John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar (smh.com.au)
230 points by tomhoward on Feb 12, 2014 | 243 comments
14. How to Burn Out Programming (braegger.pw)
229 points by rckclmbr on Feb 12, 2014 | 114 comments
15. P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume (nature.com)
185 points by feelthepain on Feb 12, 2014 | 128 comments
16. Obama Sued by Rand Paul Over Phone Surveillance Program (bloomberg.com)
163 points by T-A on Feb 12, 2014 | 93 comments
17. IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe as 'slaughter' and 'massive' (wraltechwire.com)
148 points by giis on Feb 12, 2014 | 137 comments
18. [dupe] I challenged hackers to investigate me (2013) (pando.com)
146 points by matthiaswh on Feb 12, 2014 | 36 comments
19. Why systemd is winning the init wars and other things aren't (utcc.utoronto.ca)
129 points by onestone on Feb 12, 2014 | 153 comments
20. Rails 4 Engines (taskrabbit.com)
121 points by evantahler on Feb 12, 2014 | 43 comments
21. Is the shared economy racist? (2drew3.com)
117 points by 2drew3 on Feb 12, 2014 | 162 comments
22. Scaling Asana.com (asana.com)
123 points by krausejj on Feb 12, 2014 | 43 comments
23. JQuery Notebook – A Medium-like editor wrapped inside a jQuery plugin (raphaelcruzeiro.github.io)
112 points by rcruzeiro on Feb 12, 2014 | 62 comments
24. Clef – stop using passwords (getclef.com)
114 points by charlieirish on Feb 12, 2014 | 96 comments
25. LocalForage: Offline Storage, Improved (hacks.mozilla.org)
113 points by rnyman on Feb 12, 2014 | 20 comments
26. I love you (jsbin.com)
104 points by morphics on Feb 12, 2014 | 32 comments
27. China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon (cbc.ca)
102 points by mileswu on Feb 12, 2014 | 74 comments
28. European Commission proposes a reform to the way the Internet is managed and run (europa.eu)
98 points by Hagelin on Feb 12, 2014 | 112 comments
29. StackMob is shutting down (pastebin.com)
102 points by aaronpk on Feb 12, 2014 | 87 comments
30. x86 is Turing-complete with no registers (mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com)
89 points by walrus on Feb 12, 2014 | 23 comments

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