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1.		Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind (bemyeyes.org)
		827 points by khebbie on Jan 15, 2015 \| 160 comments
2.		Awk in 20 Minutes (ferd.ca)
		504 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 15, 2015 \| 85 comments
3.		A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You (cpan.org)
		438 points by pmoriarty on Jan 15, 2015 \| 249 comments
4.		Defense in Silk Road Trial Says Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pirate Roberts (vice.com)
		480 points by jordn on Jan 15, 2015 \| 231 comments
5.		Google Glass sales halted (bbc.co.uk)
		444 points by kerrsclyde on Jan 15, 2015 \| 262 comments
6.		How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections (eff.org)
		505 points by fortmeaded on Jan 15, 2015 \| 173 comments
7.		Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript (github.com/yaronn)
		305 points by yaronn01 on Jan 14, 2015 \| 55 comments
8.		Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever (jlongster.com)
		378 points by jlongster on Jan 15, 2015 \| 80 comments
9.		But Where Do People Work in This Office? (mattblodgett.com)
		502 points by strangetimes on Jan 15, 2015 \| 312 comments
10.		RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing (wsj.com)
		205 points by dewitt on Jan 15, 2015 \| 222 comments
11.		Against DNSSEC (sockpuppet.org)
		186 points by tptacek on Jan 15, 2015 \| 144 comments
12.		Show HN: C#-to-JavaScript compiler powered by Microsoft Roslyn (duoco.de)
		155 points by DuoCode on Jan 15, 2015 \| 96 comments
13.		A Brief Overview of Deep Learning (yyue.blogspot.com)
		156 points by ozansener on Jan 14, 2015 \| 37 comments
14.		El Capitan’s Dawn Wall Climbers Reach Top at Yosemite (nytimes.com)
		166 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 14, 2015 \| 93 comments
15.		Activist pulls off clever Wi-Fi honeypot to protest surveillance state (arstechnica.com)
		151 points by etiam on Jan 15, 2015 \| 29 comments
16.		Italia Startup Visa (gov.it)
		212 points by qqwet on Jan 15, 2015 \| 209 comments
17.		132-year-old rifle found propped against a national park tree (washingtonpost.com)
		172 points by smacktoward on Jan 15, 2015 \| 78 comments
18.		How the Economic Machine Works (2014) (economicprinciples.org)
		108 points by jeffreyrogers on Jan 14, 2015 \| 41 comments
19.		Data-Oriented Hash Table (reedbeta.com)
		76 points by luu on Jan 15, 2015 \| 9 comments
20.		Inactivity 'kills more than obesity' (bbc.co.uk)
		143 points by sjcsjc on Jan 15, 2015 \| 122 comments
21.		Show HN: Jetpack, a FreeBSD Jail/ZFS-based container runtime (github.com/3ofcoins)
		96 points by mpasternacki on Jan 15, 2015 \| 23 comments
22.		Why we prefer founding CEOs (2010) (bhorowitz.com)
		99 points by dsaw on Jan 15, 2015 \| 19 comments
23.		China to create $6.5B venture capital fund to support start-ups (reuters.com)
		78 points by billconan on Jan 15, 2015 \| 41 comments
24.		Patent reform advocates are launching a ‘super-coalition’ to whack patent trolls (washingtonpost.com)
		85 points by Libertatea on Jan 15, 2015 \| 17 comments
25.		SNB Unexpectedly Gives Up Cap on Franc, Lowers Deposit Rate (bloomberg.com)
		125 points by sz4kerto on Jan 15, 2015 \| 97 comments
26.		Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Speed Transport Tests (techcrunch.com)
		193 points by phreeza on Jan 15, 2015 \| 77 comments
27.		MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month (wsj.com)
		85 points by gwintrob on Jan 15, 2015 \| 54 comments
28.		How speedy is SPDY? [pdf] (usenix.org)
		70 points by ldng on Jan 15, 2015 \| 25 comments
29.		How private armies will remake modern warfare (economist.com)
		75 points by rbanffy on Jan 14, 2015 \| 64 comments
30.		How automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking” (vox.com)
		187 points by smacktoward on Jan 15, 2015 \| 189 comments
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