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1.Show HN: thedaywefightback.js (github.com/tfrce)
472 points by thomasfromcdnjs on Feb 5, 2014 | 135 comments
2.How to Save 90% on your S3 Bill (appneta.com)
368 points by trjordan on Feb 5, 2014 | 98 comments
3.Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (oliveremberton.com)
359 points by oliveremberton on Feb 5, 2014 | 172 comments
4.Two big announcements (37signals.com)
342 points by jboynyc on Feb 5, 2014 | 110 comments
5.Microsoft, Past and Future (daringfireball.net)
325 points by locusm on Feb 5, 2014 | 199 comments
6. [dupe] 37signals becomes Basecamp (37signals.com)
327 points by okgabr on Feb 5, 2014 | 140 comments
7.Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (1986) (programmersatwork.wordpress.com)
308 points by ohjeez on Feb 5, 2014 | 175 comments
8.The Ocean is Broken (2013) (theherald.com.au)
284 points by drone on Feb 5, 2014 | 239 comments
9.Docker 0.8: Quality, new builder features, btrfs, OSX support (docker.io)
291 points by asb on Feb 5, 2014 | 121 comments
10.“The working group should not agree to freeze whatever syntax Chrome ships” (w3.org)
282 points by cylo on Feb 5, 2014 | 207 comments
11.Torus-Earth (aleph.se)
266 points by Kutta on Feb 5, 2014 | 62 comments
12.The first congressman to battle the NSA has died (pando.com)
255 points by grovulent on Feb 5, 2014 | 32 comments
13.EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers (eff.org)
254 points by Smerity on Feb 5, 2014 | 59 comments
14.67 Signals hasn't changed a thing (67signals.com)
223 points by selamis on Feb 5, 2014 | 71 comments
15.Paypal has started banning accounts selling anything Bitcoin-related (bitcointalk.org)
208 points by scottcanoni on Feb 5, 2014 | 78 comments
16.Show HN: Codewars (codewars.com)
198 points by exolxe on Feb 5, 2014 | 121 comments
17.Microsoft is Dead (2007) (paulgraham.com)
182 points by sharjeel on Feb 5, 2014 | 182 comments
18.Nadella as Microsoft CEO: A slap in the face for Indian system (firstpost.com)
178 points by ghosh on Feb 5, 2014 | 152 comments
19.War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show (nbcnews.com)
172 points by sethbannon on Feb 5, 2014 | 66 comments
20.Urs Hölzle on Google's first data center (plus.google.com)
170 points by cramforce on Feb 5, 2014 | 39 comments
21.Your code may be elegant, but mine works (omniti.com)
164 points by mendicantB on Feb 5, 2014 | 168 comments
22.Announcing Two Scoops of Django 1.6 (pydanny.com)
156 points by jpdlla on Feb 5, 2014 | 101 comments
23.Target Hackers Broke in via HVAC Company (krebsonsecurity.com)
151 points by panarky on Feb 5, 2014 | 85 comments

Reducing software development practices down to these cute catchphrases is a bit disingenuous. If you're writing throwaway code for a client with loose constraints and a tight deadline you'll write code differently then you would when you expect to maintain a long term relationship with a client who expects a high degree of correctness. I'm tired of these trite articles espousing some cute mantra holds as if it's some universal property of software development.
25.Eureka: First Life In The Universe (npr.org)
137 points by bitsweet on Feb 5, 2014 | 54 comments

“We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.”

This is my position on the Olympics and basically all national pride. It has nothing to do with anything, there is nothing to be proud of.

No one cares when I think it, it's nice to see others say it.

27.Experiment.com Gains Big Venture Backers To Bring Crowdfunding To Science (wsj.com)
129 points by skndr on Feb 5, 2014 | 61 comments
28.Diffable, more customizable maps (github.com/blog)
122 points by Killswitch on Feb 5, 2014 | 13 comments
29.State of the Octoverse 2013 (octoverse.github.com)
121 points by hswolff on Feb 5, 2014 | 29 comments
30.Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week (2013) (silktide.com)
120 points by ColinWright on Feb 5, 2014 | 61 comments

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