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1.		Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam (wsj.com)
		487 points by dctoedt on Feb 23, 2014 \| 337 comments
2.		How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To (hbr.org)
		328 points by tmbsundar on Feb 23, 2014 \| 108 comments
3.		Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right (crackstation.net)
		249 points by axelfontaine on Feb 23, 2014 \| 148 comments
4.		Bram Moolenaar responds to Neovim (groups.google.com)
		221 points by dviola on Feb 23, 2014 \| 147 comments
5.		Yamaha's Latest Silent Brass (createdigitalmusic.com)
		209 points by jamesjyu on Feb 23, 2014 \| 32 comments
		scelerat on Feb 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic J... And so the precedent is set. This is the direction I see things going: For $70 a month from Comcast you can get Amazon, Google, and Facebook. For only $10 more a month you can add Netflix and Spotify. Want Pandora? Sorry, you'll have to switch to AT&T for that. The broadband providers are used to this type of packaged service given their history as cable television providers. It's how they make their money beyond providing simple connectivity. Their future expansion and profits are linked to their ability to create exclusivity and extract revenue based on targeted demand. I don't see any other way around this. Absent regulations prohibiting packet discrimination, I'm not sure I would do any different if I were in Comcast's shoes.
7.		Most Winning A/B Test Results are Illusory [pdf] (qubitproducts.com)
		158 points by ernopp on Feb 23, 2014 \| 83 comments
8.		Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes (righto.com)
		144 points by lelf on Feb 23, 2014 \| 20 comments
9.		Exxon CEO sues against fracking in his own backyard (forbes.com/sites/rickungar)
		147 points by ColinWright on Feb 23, 2014 \| 59 comments
10.		Xorg can now run without privilege on OpenBSD (undeadly.org)
		137 points by protomyth on Feb 23, 2014 \| 79 comments
11.		The indignity of no work (economist.com)
		133 points by benfreu on Feb 23, 2014 \| 263 comments
12.		Hacking Hacker News (joelgrus.com)
		132 points by stickhandle on Feb 23, 2014 \| 50 comments
13.		Unix koans (catb.org)
		125 points by bratfarrar on Feb 23, 2014 \| 39 comments
14.		Hipster Dev Stack (hipsterdevstack.tumblr.com)
		122 points by cviedmai on Feb 23, 2014 \| 20 comments
15.		Jan Koum promoting WhatsApp in the Flyertalk forum (2009) (flyertalk.com)
		126 points by takinola on Feb 23, 2014 \| 24 comments
16.		Gmail adding prominent 'Unsubscribe' option to marketing emails (pcworld.com)
		120 points by r0h1n on Feb 23, 2014 \| 107 comments
17.		Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language (thoughtinfection.com)
		122 points by mcscom on Feb 23, 2014 \| 85 comments
18.		Google's robots.txt (google.com)
		114 points by jrstanley on Feb 23, 2014 \| 91 comments
19.		My life in London's houseboat slums (theguardian.com)
		109 points by timw6n on Feb 23, 2014 \| 129 comments
20.		Regex Golf Part 2: Infinite Problems (ipython.org)
		107 points by z0a on Feb 23, 2014 \| 10 comments
21.		Take the Linux Filesystem Tour (tuxradar.com)
		100 points by giis on Feb 23, 2014 \| 19 comments
22.		$25 Smartphones on Firefox OS to Rock MWC (eetimes.com)
		100 points by kryptiskt on Feb 23, 2014 \| 84 comments
23.		LXC 1.0 Released (linuxcontainers.org)
		90 points by powerbook5300CS on Feb 23, 2014 \| 35 comments
24.		Prison Switcharoo (cartalk.com)
		89 points by jamessun on Feb 23, 2014 \| 73 comments
		briansmith on Feb 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple... > (it's the TLS library for Firefox and Chrome) The False Start bug in NSS that you are talking about (CVE-2013-1740) never affected a released version of Firefox; we found the bug during testing of False Start in preparation for enabling it in Firefox 26. We pushed back the enabling of False Start to Firefox 28 (which will be released next month) so that we could fix this bug first.
26.		The WhatsApp Story Challenges Some of the Valley’s Conventional Wisdom (techcrunch.com)
		91 points by ckelly on Feb 23, 2014 \| 27 comments
27.		Molecular Visualisations of DNA [video] (wehi.edu.au)
		83 points by sethbannon on Feb 23, 2014 \| 43 comments
28.		The C++ and programming books I recommend (bert-hubert.blogspot.com)
		78 points by nkurz on Feb 23, 2014 \| 50 comments
		acangiano on Feb 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Gmail adding prominent 'Unsubscribe' option to mar... This, contrary to what people might believe, is good for online marketing and for business. Here is why: * You're much better off with a list of people who actually care about your communication and your product, rather than a list of people sort of interested or downright annoyed by you, which haven't unsubscribed because they couldn't find the link. * Less disinterested subscribers means less costs to send and maintain the list (e.g., via Mailchimp or SES). * Less spam reports which hurt your email deliverability (get enough of those and you'll be booted off sites like Mailchimp). * People will have less unwanted commercial communication overall, and will be able to focus on yours (of course I'm talking about the selected group of people who are actually interested). I welcome this change, and I say this as someone who runs a site that sends 50,000+ 'newsletter' emails per week. This to me is good news.
30.		How Bad Can 1 GB Pages Be? (pvk.ca)
		72 points by jetlej on Feb 23, 2014 \| 40 comments
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