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1.Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator (mondrian.io)
644 points by artursapek on Jan 24, 2014 | 92 comments
2.King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls with a Double Standard? (junkyardsam.com)
533 points by bpierre on Jan 24, 2014 | 217 comments
3.Gmail Glitch Is Causing 1000s Of Emails To Be Sent To One Man’s Hotmail Account (techcrunch.com)
299 points by coloneltcb on Jan 24, 2014 | 138 comments
4.Use SQL subqueries to count distinct 50x faster (periscope.io)
289 points by toong on Jan 24, 2014 | 98 comments
5.The hardest computer game of all time (slate.com)
276 points by tptacek on Jan 24, 2014 | 63 comments
6.Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves (nbcnews.com)
251 points by prateekj on Jan 24, 2014 | 137 comments
7.Uber rival accuses car service of dirty tactics (cnn.com)
252 points by JimWillTri on Jan 24, 2014 | 208 comments
8.Thirty Years of Mac [video] (apple.com)
242 points by lukeman on Jan 24, 2014 | 171 comments
9.Where do you find the time for side projects? (justinjackson.ca)
231 points by mijustin on Jan 24, 2014 | 130 comments
10.Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes' (nature.com)
220 points by mrfusion on Jan 24, 2014 | 139 comments
11.UK porn filter blocks League of Legends update (joystiq.com)
191 points by JacksonGariety on Jan 24, 2014 | 86 comments
12.Richard Stallman - Re: clang vs free software (gcc.gnu.org)
188 points by nickmain on Jan 24, 2014 | 328 comments

Very funny that me and my coworkers at nearly the same time opened our office doors to look into each others eyes and silently confirm that we were having the same issue.

Then we all turned around and went back into our offices to check HN to see if it was just us.

Very funny that everyone reading this did something similar. 84 points in 4 minutes.

14.Why I'm Moving My Business From San Francisco To St. Louis (needwant.com)
180 points by j0ncc on Jan 24, 2014 | 198 comments
15.This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup (ariannasimpson.com)
165 points by frankdenbow on Jan 24, 2014 | 286 comments
16.The rise of Dogecoin, the internet's hottest cryptocurrency (theage.com.au)
142 points by yitchelle on Jan 24, 2014 | 144 comments
17.JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013 (blog.mozilla.org)
141 points by quenlinlom on Jan 24, 2014 | 17 comments
18.'Revenge porn' website former owner Hunter Moore arrested (bbc.co.uk)
137 points by mercurial on Jan 24, 2014 | 73 comments

He has always been there.

"Jobs told him that Atari gave them only $700 (instead of the offered $5,000), and that Wozniak's share was thus $350. Wozniak did not learn about the actual bonus until ten years later, but said that if Jobs had told him about it and had said he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to him."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak

20.CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds" (googleusercontent.com)
138 points by sheetjs on Jan 24, 2014 | 78 comments
21.Why Dogecoin is Important (abcoin.net)
134 points by bdr on Jan 24, 2014 | 76 comments

> The short answer is: I work on side-projects whenever I have a spare moment. I sacrifice other things (watching TV, reading the newspaper, playing video games) so that I can do creative work.

This is the real answer. You do not find time, you make it.

23.JQuery 1.11 and 2.1 Released (jquery.com)
128 points by cleverjake on Jan 24, 2014 | 36 comments

Wow. This is low.

The statement is absolute bullshit too: "In this instance, the New York City team was a bit too ambitious and we'll make sure they tone down their sales tactics."

No, this is unacceptable. This sort of fraudulent behavior deserves consequences larger than "hey, stop that".

I live in NYC. The Uber app has now been banished from my phone. It's too bad the Gett app is kind of an unpolished turd.

25.Google Play Store Ratings Drop (testfairy.com)
103 points by radley on Jan 24, 2014 | 58 comments
26.Google’s Reliability Team Sat Down for an AMA Right Before Gmail Exploded (techcrunch.com)
100 points by shasa on Jan 24, 2014 | 34 comments
27.Functional Programming 101 with Haskell (blog.gja.in)
94 points by Who828 on Jan 24, 2014 | 40 comments
28.CmdrTaco's Trove (trove.com)
91 points by keveman on Jan 24, 2014 | 56 comments

Actually, Carlsen was playing for tricks (as might be reasonable when you have just 30 seconds). Bill Gates had a winning position on the 9th move. If instead of 9. Nxe5?? which allows an immediate checkmate, he had played 9. Re1!, he would have had a huge advantage. I'm an international master, and more importantly, my computer backs up my opinion.

I'm surprised Carlsen played a game with just 30 seconds on his clock; it's easy to lose in that situation since you simply don't have enough time to make more than about 30 moves. And by the way, the best player in the world at ridiculously short time controls ("bullet chess") like 1 minute for the game is Hikaru Nakamura, the top-rated American player, not Magnus Carlsen. Nakamura tends to play soundly in these time controls. Look at this video for a game where Nakamura plays against Grandmaster Max Dlugy (another bullet chess expert) with kibitzing by Grandmaster Ben Finegold: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzrap8Vtyq8

30.Macintosh 128K Teardown (ifixit.com)
88 points by kjhughes on Jan 24, 2014 | 38 comments

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