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1.		Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster (aadrake.com)
		812 points by wglb on Jan 18, 2015 \| 309 comments
2.		Show HN: Adopted a dog, had no clue what meds she needed, did some research (dogmedicationdb.com)
		252 points by youngj on Jan 18, 2015 \| 73 comments
3.		How Amazon Tricks You into Thinking It Always Has the Lowest Prices (recode.net)
		288 points by xmpir on Jan 18, 2015 \| 101 comments
4.		Salary negotiations for techies (2011) (jacquesmattheij.com)
		299 points by pmoriarty on Jan 18, 2015 \| 226 comments
5.		Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (mjt.me.uk)
		206 points by ColinWright on Jan 18, 2015 \| 147 comments
6.		Conception – An experimental modern IDE written in Go (github.com/shurcool)
		215 points by baumbart on Jan 18, 2015 \| 78 comments
7.		Alligator Eggs (worrydream.com)
		158 points by jmduke on Jan 18, 2015 \| 24 comments
8.		Ask HN: How do you find freelance/contract gigs?
		275 points by eatonphil on Jan 18, 2015 \| 107 comments
9.		Getting started contributing to Rust (kmcallister.github.io)
		133 points by adamnemecek on Jan 17, 2015 \| 6 comments
10.		This American Life: Batman (thisamericanlife.org)
		135 points by noobermin on Jan 18, 2015 \| 25 comments
11.		FuzzBeed – Randomly generated BuzzFeed (fuzzzbeed.herokuapp.com)
		126 points by anubiann00b on Jan 18, 2015 \| 34 comments
12.		HTTPS Watch (httpswatch.com)
		136 points by kingkilr on Jan 18, 2015 \| 56 comments
13.		[dupe] Light captured at 100B frames per second (vice.com)
		166 points by davidbarker on Jan 18, 2015 \| 27 comments
14.		A list of cool features of Git and GitHub (github.com/tiimgreen)
		164 points by lmedinas on Jan 18, 2015 \| 24 comments
15.		Why Perl Didn't Win (outspeaking.com)
		178 points by aiurtourist on Jan 18, 2015 \| 183 comments
16.		Silicon Valley History (patrickcollison.com)
		85 points by rmason on Jan 17, 2015 \| 25 comments
17.		gettimeofday() should never be used to measure time (pp.se)
		95 points by aethertap on Jan 18, 2015 \| 41 comments
18.		Forcing code out of line in GCC and C++11 (xania.org)
		96 points by luu on Jan 18, 2015 \| 24 comments
19.		A Case Study of Toyota Unintended Acceleration and Software Safety (betterembsw.blogspot.com)
		95 points by mzehrer on Jan 17, 2015 \| 86 comments
20.		Attacks on 'Insecure' Progressive Insurace Dongle Could Spawn Road Carnage (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
		86 points by thealexknapp on Jan 18, 2015 \| 34 comments
21.		Obama Sides with Cameron in Encryption Fight (wsj.com)
		189 points by paralelogram on Jan 17, 2015 \| 141 comments
22.		RethinkDB with io.js: exploring ES6 generators and the future of JavaScript (rethinkdb.com)
		67 points by mglukhovsky on Jan 17, 2015 \| 4 comments
23.		Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video] (youtube.com)
		106 points by syswsi on Jan 18, 2015 \| 26 comments
24.		“It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (1997) (loc.gov)
		95 points by declan on Jan 18, 2015 \| 42 comments
25.		What's Stopping Me Using Java8 Lambdas – Try Debugging Them (rationaljava.com)
		57 points by xvirk on Jan 18, 2015 \| 42 comments
26.		Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (nist.gov)
		68 points by jacquesm on Jan 17, 2015 \| 4 comments
27.		Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001) (chrisdone.com)
		142 points by karshan on Jan 18, 2015 \| 116 comments
28.		Critical Vulnerability in Verizon Mobile API Compromising User Email Accounts (randywestergren.com)
		78 points by rwestergren on Jan 18, 2015 \| 16 comments
29.		What the Swiss Franc Appreciation Means (foreignpolicy.com)
		68 points by kposehn on Jan 18, 2015 \| 50 comments
30.		Web MIDI API (webaudio.github.io)
		66 points by dgellow on Jan 18, 2015 \| 17 comments
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