| 1. | | Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released (elasticsearch.org) |
| 471 points by dakrone on Feb 12, 2014 | 136 comments |
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| 2. | | The Book of Graham (leveragedsellout.com) |
| 455 points by allworknoplay on Feb 12, 2014 | 116 comments |
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| 3. | | The Day the Internet Didn’t Fight Back (nytimes.com) |
| 386 points by petethomas on Feb 12, 2014 | 192 comments |
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| 4. | | Saying goodbye to Python (ianbicking.org) |
| 376 points by ghc on Feb 12, 2014 | 157 comments |
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| 5. | | Tell HN: My Brother Died Last Week. His Death Will Not Be In Vain (evanmrose.tumblr.com) |
| 342 points by EMRo on Feb 12, 2014 | 237 comments |
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| 6. | | Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion (npr.org) |
| 346 points by vivin on Feb 12, 2014 | 189 comments |
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| 7. | | CandySwipe Open Letter to King regarding trademark (candyswipe.com) |
| 303 points by mkenyon on Feb 12, 2014 | 65 comments |
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| 8. | | The anonymity I know (chrishateswriting.com) |
| 310 points by shasa on Feb 12, 2014 | 120 comments |
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| 9. | | Massively multiplayer online Flappy Bird (flapmmo.com) |
| 294 points by wgx on Feb 12, 2014 | 152 comments |
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| 10. | | How does Facebook disable Developer Tools? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 258 points by gedrap on Feb 12, 2014 | 86 comments |
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| 11. | | Show HN: Siri-as-a-Service Speech API (wit.ai) |
| 242 points by ar7hur on Feb 12, 2014 | 60 comments |
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| 12. | | John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar (smh.com.au) |
| 230 points by tomhoward on Feb 12, 2014 | 243 comments |
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| 13. | | How to Burn Out Programming (braegger.pw) |
| 229 points by rckclmbr on Feb 12, 2014 | 114 comments |
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| 14. | | P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume (nature.com) |
| 185 points by feelthepain on Feb 12, 2014 | 128 comments |
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| 15. | | Obama Sued by Rand Paul Over Phone Surveillance Program (bloomberg.com) |
| 163 points by T-A on Feb 12, 2014 | 93 comments |
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| 16. | | IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe as 'slaughter' and 'massive' (wraltechwire.com) |
| 148 points by giis on Feb 12, 2014 | 137 comments |
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| 17. | | [dupe] I challenged hackers to investigate me (2013) (pando.com) |
| 146 points by matthiaswh on Feb 12, 2014 | 36 comments |
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| 18. | | Why systemd is winning the init wars and other things aren't (utcc.utoronto.ca) |
| 129 points by onestone on Feb 12, 2014 | 153 comments |
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| 20. | | Rails 4 Engines (taskrabbit.com) |
| 121 points by evantahler on Feb 12, 2014 | 43 comments |
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| 21. | | Is the shared economy racist? (2drew3.com) |
| 117 points by 2drew3 on Feb 12, 2014 | 162 comments |
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| 22. | | Scaling Asana.com (asana.com) |
| 123 points by krausejj on Feb 12, 2014 | 43 comments |
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| 23. | | JQuery Notebook – A Medium-like editor wrapped inside a jQuery plugin (raphaelcruzeiro.github.io) |
| 112 points by rcruzeiro on Feb 12, 2014 | 62 comments |
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| 24. | | Clef – stop using passwords (getclef.com) |
| 114 points by charlieirish on Feb 12, 2014 | 96 comments |
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| 25. | | LocalForage: Offline Storage, Improved (hacks.mozilla.org) |
| 113 points by rnyman on Feb 12, 2014 | 20 comments |
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| 26. | | I love you (jsbin.com) |
| 104 points by morphics on Feb 12, 2014 | 32 comments |
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| 27. | | China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon (cbc.ca) |
| 102 points by mileswu on Feb 12, 2014 | 74 comments |
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| 28. | | European Commission proposes a reform to the way the Internet is managed and run (europa.eu) |
| 98 points by Hagelin on Feb 12, 2014 | 112 comments |
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But seriously, this is a nice, simple way to point out some general rules of thumb for improving writing, although I would love for it to be less proscriptive. Not every long sentence is a bad sentence, not every passive-voice sentence is a bad sentence, and not every adverb is a bad adverb.
Oh, and by the way, the copy editor in me can't help but notice that an app that's intended to help you improve your writing tells you to "Aim for 2 or less" adverbs, rather than "Aim for 2 or fewer."