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1171.

Stop the autoconf insanity – Why we need a new build system (2003) (freecode.com)

55 points by ahomescu1 on Feb 11, 2014 | 83 comments

1172.

Investors want Microsoft’s new CEO to kill Xbox, Bing and Surface (washingtonpost.com)

55 points by mafuyu on Feb 10, 2014 | 76 comments

1173.

One-Ring Phone Scam on the Rise (concord.bbb.org)

55 points by d4vlx on Feb 2, 2014 | 63 comments

1174.

Packt Publishing ebooks free today with DOTDEBOOKFREE promo code ()

55 points by eik3_de on Feb 26, 2014 | 58 comments

1175.

Blocking Google and Facebook using Ad Block Plus and Ghostery (leaseweblabs.com)

55 points by maus80 on Feb 17, 2014 | 49 comments

1176.

Comcast locks value customers out of Sochi streams (gigaom.com)

55 points by doctorshady on Feb 10, 2014 | 43 comments

1177.

An experiment-driven guide to Perl (matt.might.net)

55 points by sea6ear on Feb 11, 2014 | 43 comments

1178.

UBook – Markdown for eBooks (ubook.info)

55 points by ubook on Feb 8, 2014 | 37 comments

1179.

People in your organization that grow legacy code (zeroturnaround.com)

55 points by radcortez on Feb 24, 2014 | 34 comments

1180.

Linux Containers, Docker, and Security (slideshare.net)

55 points by sylvainkalache on Feb 1, 2014 | 26 comments

1181.

'git lg' instead of the default 'git log' (fredkschott.com)

55 points by fks on Feb 24, 2014 | 23 comments

1182.

Crowdhoster becomes CrowdtiltOpen, launches out of private beta (open.crowdtilt.com)

55 points by garry on Feb 21, 2014 | 18 comments

1183.

Why Startups Fail: An Analysis of Post-Mortems (2011) (foundersblock.com)

55 points by ColinWright on Feb 15, 2014 | 17 comments

1184.

NSA Official Warned About Threat 17 Years Before Snowden (bloomberg.com)

55 points by T-A on Feb 21, 2014 | 14 comments

1185.

Build your own Buffer App service – a weekend hack (farhan.org)

55 points by alienfluid on Feb 1, 2014 | 9 comments

1186.

Hedge funds are increasingly outbidding VCs on hot deals like Snapchat and Box (techcrunch.com)

55 points by amitkumar01 on Feb 22, 2014 | 7 comments

1187.

The First book with printed page numbers (ilovetypography.com)

55 points by vinothshankaran on Feb 25, 2014 | 4 comments

1188.

Zuckerberg’s Data Stance Faces Privacy Backlash in Europe (bloomberg.com)

55 points by T-A on Feb 22, 2014 | 0 comments

1189.

Why I Tried To Kill Myself at Penn (pennmentalhealth.tumblr.com)

54 points by optul on Feb 12, 2014 | 73 comments

1190.

Valve DNS privacy flap exposes the murky world of cheat prevention (arstechnica.com)

54 points by ghosh on Feb 18, 2014 | 70 comments

1191.

America’s labour market has suffered permanent harm (economist.com)

54 points by dataminer on Feb 14, 2014 | 69 comments

1192.

Statement on Mt. Gox (antonopoulos.com)

54 points by trendspotter on Feb 25, 2014 | 50 comments

1193.

How Snapchat is Missing Out on $1.5M in Revenue Each Day (blog.namomedia.com)

54 points by sftueni on Feb 10, 2014 | 49 comments

1194.

Spark web server (github.com)

54 points by rif on Feb 12, 2014 | 49 comments

1195.

Top Startups Built on Docker (blog.ctl-c.io)

54 points by cardmagic on Feb 5, 2014 | 36 comments

1196.

The troubled history of the Bitcoin exchange MtGox (anders.io)

54 points by nilssonanders on Feb 12, 2014 | 36 comments

1197.

How YC Companies Found Employee #1 (blog.yesgraph.com)

54 points by ivankirigin on Feb 17, 2014 | 35 comments

1198.

Vue.js: JavaScript MVVM made simple (vuejs.org)

54 points by EvanYou on Feb 3, 2014 | 26 comments

1199.

Eventjoy (YC W14) Is A One-Stop Shop For Organizing Events (techcrunch.com)

54 points by kevin on Feb 18, 2014 | 23 comments

1200.

Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously (bbc.co.uk)

54 points by toksaitov on Feb 18, 2014 | 18 comments