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1.		Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites (twitter.com/mattcutts)
		428 points by adamlj on Feb 28, 2014 \| 118 comments
2.		Python Best Practice Patterns (stevenloria.com)
		311 points by abeinstein on Feb 28, 2014 \| 94 comments
3.		How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone realizes (akbars.net)
		281 points by followben on Feb 28, 2014 \| 114 comments
4.		Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection (wsj.com)
		279 points by adidash on Feb 28, 2014 \| 277 comments
5.		Ten Years of Coding Horror (codinghorror.com)
		264 points by sathyabhat on Feb 28, 2014 \| 41 comments
6.		Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web browser (paradoxxxzero.github.io)
		256 points by p4bl0 on Feb 28, 2014 \| 85 comments
7.		Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits Picked by Its Users (techcrunch.com)
		232 points by ruchir_21hj on Feb 28, 2014 \| 212 comments
8.		Ask HN: Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox?
		218 points by pmcpinto on Feb 28, 2014 \| 195 comments
9.		Npm's Self-Signed Certificate is No More (npmjs.org)
		215 points by rcconf on Feb 28, 2014 \| 128 comments
10.		The incredible stock-picking ability of SEC employees (washingtonpost.com)
		206 points by jasonwatkinspdx on Feb 28, 2014 \| 97 comments
11.		How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation (kingsreview.co.uk)
		206 points by iswanghao on Feb 28, 2014 \| 55 comments
12.		A tcpdump tutorial and primer (danielmiessler.com)
		194 points by danielrm26 on Feb 28, 2014 \| 30 comments
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15.		Why Reddit moderators are “censoring” Glenn Greenwald’s latest (salon.com)
		185 points by DocFeind on Feb 28, 2014 \| 167 comments
16.		Buttercoin – US-based Bitcoin exchange (buttercoin.com)
		163 points by Irishsteve on Feb 28, 2014 \| 138 comments
17.		Npmjs.org moderated one of my comments regarding their outage today (robcolbert.com)
		161 points by fragmede on Feb 28, 2014 \| 77 comments
18.		Unicode support in MySQL is... (codeka.com.au)
		157 points by codeka on Feb 28, 2014 \| 107 comments
19.		Fig – Fast, isolated development environments using Docker (github.com/orchardup)
		157 points by bcjordan on Feb 28, 2014 \| 22 comments
20.		'Godfather' of Helvetica font, Mike Parker, dies at 84 (cnn.com)
		152 points by 51Cards on Feb 28, 2014 \| 45 comments
21.		A collection of Unix terminal/console/curses tools (kkovacs.eu)
		149 points by tsudot on Feb 28, 2014 \| 49 comments
22.		Poll:please ignore, checking bug
		134 points by justplay on Feb 28, 2014 \| 32 comments
23.		Atom: Now with pair programming (atom.io)
		144 points by jamest on Feb 28, 2014 \| 44 comments
24.		Working shorter hours may also be good for your health (economist.com)
		131 points by dynofuz on Feb 28, 2014 \| 64 comments
25.		TypeScript included with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (msdn.com)
		127 points by techbubble on Feb 28, 2014 \| 107 comments
26.		A critical look at Atom.io (jelveh.me)
		132 points by kumarski on Feb 28, 2014 \| 82 comments
		Oculus on Feb 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection To all the HN members who lost a lot of money in this closing, remember the community is here for you. Don't do anything too rash and if you need someone to talk to, myself and most other people would be happy to lend an ear.
28.		TLS Symmetric Crypto (imperialviolet.org)
		110 points by conductor on Feb 28, 2014 \| 15 comments
		madaxe_again on Feb 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Why Reddit moderators are “censoring” Glenn Greenw... Highly relevant here would be the GCHQ/NSA slides on the topic of how they've infiltrated positions of power (i.e. moderation) in online communities - reddit is specifically cited. It's all about FUD, discrediting, and censorship on fallacious grounds. It would not surprise me to learn that BipolarBear0 is a plant. It would also not surprise me to learn that he's a pedantic basement-dweller, but I don't think, given what we've learned, it's conspiratorial or paranoid to suppose that this is governmental control. It's perfectly feasible.
30.		Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security (theguardian.com)
		85 points by hornokplease on Feb 28, 2014 \| 43 comments
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