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1231.

Scientists Think They Have Found the 'Sunstone' Vikings Used to Navigate (businessinsider.com)

52 points by triplesec on Feb 8, 2014 | 13 comments

1232.

DDoS on FreeDNS and Default DNS v2 (status.namecheap.com)

52 points by migmartri on Feb 20, 2014 | 13 comments

1233.

Automate Your Home With Your Own Personal SkyNet (wired.com)

52 points by jamesbritt on Feb 17, 2014 | 11 comments

1234.

An Interview with John Foreman, Chief Data Scientist at MailChimp (chartio.com)

52 points by thingsilearned on Feb 7, 2014 | 4 comments

1235.

Show HN: MealSquares, our whole food Soylent alternative (mealsquares.com)

51 points by nazgulnarsil on Feb 27, 2014 | 86 comments

1236.

The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (2006) (slate.com)

51 points by pje on Feb 9, 2014 | 56 comments

1237.

We are moving into the quantitative finance industry (fpcomplete.com)

51 points by radmuzom on Feb 4, 2014 | 51 comments

1238.

Facebook launches employee ferry service from SF (blog.sfgate.com)

51 points by jfb on Feb 13, 2014 | 47 comments

1239.

Facebook Stock Falls 5% in After-Hours Trading Following WhatsApp Announcement (techcrunch.com)

51 points by ghayes on Feb 19, 2014 | 42 comments

1240.

Through a Face Scanner Darkly (newyorker.com)

51 points by bmac27 on Feb 1, 2014 | 39 comments

1241.

Bitcoin security model: trust by computation (radar.oreilly.com)

51 points by Garbage on Feb 21, 2014 | 32 comments

1242.

Programming Laws and Reality: Do We Know What We Think We Know? (drdobbs.com)

51 points by alok-g on Feb 19, 2014 | 19 comments

1243.

American Aqueduct: The Great California Water Saga (theatlantic.com)

51 points by r0h1n on Feb 26, 2014 | 18 comments

1244.

Telecom firms mine for gold in big data despite privacy concerns (reuters.com)

51 points by DiabloD3 on Feb 23, 2014 | 17 comments

1245.

RSA protests by DEF CON organizations, Code Pink draw ire (news.cnet.com)

51 points by RougeFemme on Feb 27, 2014 | 14 comments

1246.

Data Visualization with JavaScript (sathomas.me)

51 points by ig1 on Feb 4, 2014 | 12 comments

1247.

Defunct Soviet reconnaissance satellite may hit Earth today (n2yo.com)

51 points by ColinWright on Feb 16, 2014 | 12 comments

1248.

Parkinson's Law of Triviality (en.wikipedia.org)

51 points by ultimatedelman on Feb 3, 2014 | 11 comments

1249.

The Optical Mouse (1981) [pdf] (bitsavers.trailing-edge.com)

51 points by dangelov on Feb 26, 2014 | 11 comments

1250.

Swiss police: Screen in Tesla cars is too large (google.com)

50 points by chmars on Feb 4, 2014 | 61 comments

1251.

Hitlist, a Smart Flight Finder That Saves You Money by Telling You When To Fly (techcrunch.com)

50 points by geverett on Feb 10, 2014 | 57 comments

1252.

4 Wordpress sites, 1 server – great performance on Digital Ocean with Nginx (lukespear.co.uk)

50 points by luxpir on Feb 13, 2014 | 56 comments

1253.

As Argentine Peso Falters, President Keeps a Low Profile (nytimes.com)

50 points by wslh on Feb 1, 2014 | 55 comments

1254.

Etcd 0.3.0 – Improved Cluster Discovery, API Enhancements and Windows Support (coreos.com)

50 points by polvi on Feb 8, 2014 | 47 comments

1255.

Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Says App 'Gone Forever' (forbes.com)

50 points by dnqthao on Feb 11, 2014 | 41 comments

1256.

Paramount Afraid Tweeted Stills of ‘Top Gun’ Compete With Actual Movie (techcrunch.com)

50 points by gnicholas on Feb 26, 2014 | 41 comments

1257.

Group Matchmaking Startup The Dating Ring (YC W14) Launches In San Francisco (techcrunch.com)

50 points by laurenkay on Feb 13, 2014 | 40 comments

1258.

Nothing But A Bunch of Boobs (micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com)

50 points by Mz on Feb 8, 2014 | 38 comments

1259.

Linux local root exploit for CVE-2014-0038 (github.com)

50 points by res0nat0r on Feb 3, 2014 | 33 comments

1260.

Old Arctic Ice Is Disappearing, and Taking the Rest of the Ice With It (slate.com)

50 points by ra88it on Feb 20, 2014 | 32 comments