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1.		Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC (storehouse.co)
		735 points by davidbarker on Jan 12, 2015 \| 112 comments
2.		Don't Talk to Corp Dev (paulgraham.com)
		674 points by _pius on Jan 12, 2015 \| 200 comments
3.		KeySweeper – Arduino-based passive wireless keyboard sniffer (samy.pl)
		462 points by mathetic on Jan 12, 2015 \| 57 comments
4.		What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers? (danluu.com)
		305 points by StylifyYourBlog on Jan 12, 2015 \| 71 comments
5.		SQL, Scaling, and What's Unique About Postgres (citusdata.com)
		253 points by spathak on Jan 12, 2015 \| 23 comments
6.		Duke Officials Silenced Med Student Who Reported Trouble in Anil Potti's Lab (cancerletter.com)
		261 points by Fede_V on Jan 12, 2015 \| 55 comments
7.		Dark Sky has a new owner (forecast.io)
		206 points by achariam on Jan 12, 2015 \| 55 comments
8.		Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD (networkfilter.blogspot.com)
		264 points by fcambus on Jan 11, 2015 \| 60 comments
9.		Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients (techcrunch.com)
		301 points by bhaumik on Jan 12, 2015 \| 115 comments
10.		The Scale of AWS and What It Means for the Future of the Cloud (highscalability.com)
		178 points by StylifyYourBlog on Jan 12, 2015 \| 58 comments
11.		Lua 5.3: integers, bitwise operators, and a basic UTF-8 library (lua.org)
		176 points by dottrap on Jan 12, 2015 \| 60 comments
12.		Motorola Moto E modifications for anti-surveillance (torproject.org)
		170 points by zmanian on Jan 12, 2015 \| 48 comments
13.		Operating System Development in Rust (github.com/rust-lang)
		160 points by krenoten on Jan 11, 2015 \| 67 comments
14.		Parsley: a simple language for extracting structured data from web pages (github.com/fizx)
		149 points by pmoriarty on Jan 11, 2015 \| 24 comments
15.		Remote code execution in Asus router firmware (github.com/jduck)
		125 points by martinp on Jan 12, 2015 \| 41 comments
16.		Why is Golang popular in China? (herman.asia)
		159 points by signa11 on Jan 12, 2015 \| 100 comments
17.		How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you? (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
		115 points by dilap on Jan 12, 2015 \| 51 comments
18.		Automatic server hardening framework (telekomlabs.github.io)
		120 points by dewey on Jan 12, 2015 \| 20 comments
19.		Ask HN: Techniques for surviving a job you loathe?
		128 points by trevaa on Jan 11, 2015 \| 80 comments
20.		Tips for Intermediate Git Users (andyjeffries.co.uk)
		132 points by pmoriarty on Jan 12, 2015 \| 35 comments
21.		Alexander Grothendieck, the secret genius of mathematics (al3x.svbtle.com)
		95 points by ar7hur on Jan 11, 2015 \| 15 comments
22.		Reimplementing TeX's Algorithms: Looking Back at Thirty Years of Programming (infoq.com)
		91 points by sdesimone on Jan 12, 2015 \| 65 comments
23.		What's new in CSS Selectors 4 (grack.com)
		70 points by mmastrac on Jan 12, 2015 \| 21 comments
24.		Writing Off the Warhol Next Door (nytimes.com)
		70 points by achariam on Jan 12, 2015 \| 39 comments
25.		What the archives of academic job ads can tell us (jgoodwin.net)
		60 points by benbreen on Jan 12, 2015 \| 16 comments
26.		Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations at Spotify (slideshare.net)
		93 points by flying_whale on Jan 12, 2015 \| 10 comments
27.		Finish one thing today (finishonethingtoday.com)
		246 points by jacobwyke on Jan 12, 2015 \| 50 comments
28.		Icono – Pure CSS icons with only one element (saeedalipoor.github.io)
		139 points by Nieminen on Jan 12, 2015 \| 20 comments
29.		New York's Newest Skyscraper Is 32 Floors of Prefab Apartments (fastcoexist.com)
		65 points by nols on Jan 12, 2015 \| 26 comments
30.		What Happened to Old School NLP? (languagengine.co)
		91 points by psygnisfive on Jan 12, 2015 \| 47 comments
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