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1.
The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value [pdf] (gmo.com)
379 points by soundsop on Dec 6, 2014 | 131 comments
2.
America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane (wired.com)
228 points by dnetesn on Dec 6, 2014 | 217 comments
3.
Ask HN: How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?
357 points by coned88 on Dec 6, 2014 | 222 comments
4.
Show HN: Code Words, a quarterly publication about programming (hackerschool.com)
181 points by nicholasjbs on Dec 5, 2014 | 71 comments
5.
Run to Stay Young (nytimes.com)
202 points by papad on Dec 5, 2014 | 116 comments
6.
Nigerian Billionaire Commits $100M for African Entrepreneurs (forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe)
189 points by nreece on Dec 6, 2014 | 44 comments
7.
The World Cracks Down on the Internet (newyorker.com)
143 points by iKenshu on Dec 6, 2014 | 24 comments
8.
IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone (ibm.com)
156 points by pranavpr on Dec 6, 2014 | 24 comments
9.
Grow Your Own Picture – Genetic Algorithms and Generative Art (chriscummins.cc)
123 points by altern8 on Dec 6, 2014 | 46 comments
10.
California drought most severe in 1,200 years, study says (latimes.com)
164 points by percept on Dec 6, 2014 | 103 comments
11.
Clean OS reinstalls with propellor (joeyh.name)
149 points by zdw on Dec 6, 2014 | 4 comments
12.
HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins (zencoder.com)
126 points by milkers on Dec 6, 2014 | 42 comments
13.
Google App Engine Java security sandbox bypasses (seclists.org)
92 points by tshtf on Dec 6, 2014 | 23 comments
14.
Shapeme – Evolve images using simulated annealing (github.com/antirez)
111 points by antirez on Dec 6, 2014 | 16 comments
15.
Fractal compression for generating resolution-independent images (1992) (books.google.com)
87 points by kibwen on Dec 5, 2014 | 35 comments
16.
A Markov chain trained on the Puppet documentation and H. P. Lovecraft (thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com)
242 points by dsl on Dec 6, 2014 | 34 comments
17.
Instacart Is Raising North of $100M at a $2B Valuation (techcrunch.com)
88 points by minimaxir on Dec 5, 2014 | 53 comments
18.
Chiral Key Found to Origin of Life (quantamagazine.org)
84 points by softdev12 on Dec 5, 2014 | 24 comments
19.
Groups and Group Convolutions (colah.github.io)
63 points by misiti3780 on Dec 6, 2014 | 4 comments
20.
über vs. Uber (nytimes.com)
131 points by mtviewdave on Dec 6, 2014 | 87 comments
21.
Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State (rollingstone.com)
74 points by pmcpinto on Dec 6, 2014 | 14 comments
22.
Pathfinding for Tower Defense (redblobgames.com)
91 points by signa11 on Dec 6, 2014 | 3 comments
23.
XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain (cat-v.org)
186 points by armenb on Dec 6, 2014 | 151 comments
24.
A planet of suburbs (economist.com)
54 points by Turukawa on Dec 6, 2014 | 45 comments
25.
Femto-Photography: Visualizing Photons in Motion at a Trillion Frames per Second (media.mit.edu)
45 points by TAM_cmlx on Dec 6, 2014 | 3 comments
26.
SurgeMQ: MQTT Message Queue at 750,000 MPS (zhen.org)
81 points by signa11 on Dec 6, 2014 | 39 comments
27.
Reading local files from Facebook's server (fixed) (josipfranjkovic.blogspot.com)
44 points by franjkovic on Dec 6, 2014 | 19 comments
28.
Safety, liveness and fault tolerance—the consensus choices (stellar.org)
66 points by soroushjp on Dec 6, 2014 | 38 comments
29.
Quantum Algorithms via Linear Algebra (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
44 points by signa11 on Dec 6, 2014 | 8 comments
30.
Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (1997) [pdf] (ubu.com)
59 points by benbreen on Dec 6, 2014 | 50 comments

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