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1.It Is Time For Basic Income (hawkins.ventures)
608 points by mchusma on March 21, 2014 | 728 comments
2.Getting Started with Docker (serversforhackers.com)
296 points by fideloper on March 21, 2014 | 75 comments
3.Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Missing Bitcoins (wsj.com)
278 points by byoogle on March 21, 2014 | 236 comments
4.About that time Google spied on my Gmail (uncrunched.com)
248 points by uptown on March 21, 2014 | 124 comments
5.Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies (nytimes.com)
244 points by cottonseed on March 21, 2014 | 113 comments
6.Turkey blocks use of Twitter after prime minister attacks social media site (theguardian.com)
239 points by JumpCrisscross on March 21, 2014 | 119 comments
7.What You Can't Say (2004) (paulgraham.com)
191 points by Blahah on March 21, 2014 | 290 comments
8.Npm security post-mortem (npmjs.org)
188 points by IsaacSchlueter on March 21, 2014 | 63 comments
9.Why are roller coaster loops not circular? (datagenetics.com)
194 points by squeakynick on March 21, 2014 | 47 comments
10.What I've Learned From Female Founders So Far (samaltman.com)
183 points by dmnd on March 21, 2014 | 174 comments
11.Zuckerberg, Musk Invest in Artificial-Intelligence Company Vicarious (wsj.com)
175 points by pmcpinto on March 21, 2014 | 151 comments
12.How Animals See the World (nautil.us)
161 points by yread on March 21, 2014 | 32 comments
13.Microsoft Says: Come Back with a Warrant, Unless You’re Microsoft (eff.org)
142 points by rdl on March 21, 2014 | 81 comments

"Even as Washington grapples with the diplomatic and political fallout of Mr. Snowden’s leaks ..."

That statement is a perfect example of the real problem with the US government and many journalists. They don't see the actual spying as the cause of all the backlash - it's all Snowden's fault for telling the world.

15.Show HN: Real-time, top-like metrics for Nginx (github.com/lebinh)
134 points by lebinh on March 21, 2014 | 33 comments

    C:\> TWENTY48
    Loading...
    Ready.

    You are in a darkened room. On the floor in front of
    you are sixteen tiles, arranged in a grid.  The tiles
    are labelled A1, A2, A3, A4, B1 and so on up to D4.

    There is a two here, on tile A1.
    There is a two here, on tile D3.

    > GET ALL
    The numbers appear too strongly glued to the tiles.

    > INVENTORY
    You have a copy of On Lisp by Paul Graham, a thing your 
    Aunt gave you that you don't know what it is, and a 
    small leaflet.

    > READ ON LISP
    Time passes. You have a profound enlightenment experience.  
    Sadly, this does not help you win the game.
    
    > READ LEAFLET
    "WELCOME TO TWENTYFORTYEIGHT!

    TWENTYFORTYEIGHT is a game of numbers, addition and high 
    bits. In it you will explore some of the most tedious 
    territory ever seen by Hacker News readers. No computer 
    will be without one!"

    > GO LEFT
    Some numbers move, and a new number appears!

    There is a two here, on tile A1.
    There is a two here, on tile C1.
    There is a two here, on tile D1. [Footnote 6]

    > FOOTNOTE 6
    There are no footnotes.

    > GO UP
    Some numbers move, some change, and some new numbers 
    appear!

    There is a four here, on tile A1.
    There is a two here, on tile B1.
    There is a two here, on tile D4.

    >GO DOWN
    Some numbers move, and a new number appears!
    
    There is a four here, on tile C1.
    There is a two here, on tile C4.
    There is a two here, on tile D4.
    There is a two here, on tile D1.

    >PANIC
    Not surprised.

    >QUIT
    Amazed you survived this long.

    Your score is 4, out of a possible umpty squillion and six.
    Good bye!

    C:\>
    C:\>
    C:\> DEL TWENTY48.EXE
    C:\>
17.Hostile AI: You're soaking in it (omniorthogonal.blogspot.com)
130 points by mortenjorck on March 21, 2014 | 107 comments

I am borderline speechless in the face of the incomprehensible carelessness. The lack of records is amazing. The lack of accounting is amazing. The lack of professional standards is amazing. The lack of common sense is amazing.

If you'll excuse me, I have to go to the bank. I just realized that I left a million dollars in the pockets of the jeans that I just washed. I suppose I should dry them out and deposit them, along with the $100,000 I just found fallen between then cushions of my couch.

19.How Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation (2012) (hbr.org)
122 points by hype7 on March 21, 2014 | 97 comments
20.Django 1.7b1 released (djangoproject.com)
120 points by cdjk on March 21, 2014 | 44 comments
21.Framework 7 – Building native iOS apps in HTML5 (idangero.us)
106 points by hwaal on March 21, 2014 | 126 comments
22.Dragdis – Drag and drop anything anywhere (dragdis.com)
101 points by rbcoffee on March 21, 2014 | 104 comments
23.Genetic mugshot recreates faces from nothing but DNA (newscientist.com)
98 points by andlima on March 21, 2014 | 23 comments
24.Markov Networks, Monoids, and Futurama (2013) (izbicki.me)
95 points by unignorant on March 21, 2014 | 8 comments
25.Turkey Twitter users flout Erdogan ban (theguardian.com)
93 points by austenallred on March 21, 2014 | 14 comments
26.Apply dog vision to photo of Robert S. McNamara (wolframalpha.com)
93 points by vinnyglennon on March 21, 2014 | 80 comments

In case paywall is blocking the text:

TOKYO—Major bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox announced Thursday it had discovered 200,000 missing bitcoins in a wallet that the company no longer uses, reducing the total number of bitcoins still missing to 650,000 from 850,000.

"We believed there were no bitcoins left in old wallets, but found 199,999.99 bitcoins on March 7," Mt. Gox chief executive Mark Karpelès said in a document released Thursday.

Mt. Gox said it reported the discovery of the bitcoins to its lawyers on March 8, and moved the discovered bitcoins to offline storage between the March 14 and 15.

The exchange filed for court protection on Feb. 28. At the time, Mr Karpeles told a news conference it had lost 750,000 bitcoins owned by users and 100,000 held by the company, citing the possibility the bitcoins had been withdrawn without authorization.

The exchange was shut down Feb. 25.

28.iGo: a new Syntax for GoLang (igo.herokuapp.com)
98 points by DAddYE on March 21, 2014 | 91 comments
29.Get on the CSS Grid (html5rocks.com)
91 points by chrisfarms on March 21, 2014 | 45 comments
30.Weev Needs To Walk (techcrunch.com)
95 points by testrun on March 21, 2014 | 59 comments

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