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1.
India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin (techdirt.com)
796 points by peter123 on Dec 31, 2014 | 298 comments
2.
The CPAN Pull Request Challenge (perl.org)
192 points by eperoumal on Dec 31, 2014 | 47 comments
3.
Ruby talks of 2014 (przemekmroczek.com)
160 points by lackoftactics on Dec 31, 2014 | 24 comments
4.
A Magician’s Best Trick: Revealing a Basic Human Bias (wsj.com)
220 points by anigbrowl on Dec 31, 2014 | 63 comments
5.
The End of Gangs (psmag.com)
172 points by ern on Dec 31, 2014 | 50 comments
6.
Static Linux (sta.li)
154 points by joseflavio on Dec 31, 2014 | 57 comments
7.
The two cultures of mathematics and biology (liorpachter.wordpress.com)
126 points by Fede_V on Dec 31, 2014 | 69 comments
8.
Why Deleting Sensitive Information from GitHub Doesn't Save You (jordan-wright.github.io)
313 points by jwcrux on Dec 31, 2014 | 82 comments
9.
MRI Developers Don't Use RubySpec and It's Hurting Ruby (rubini.us)
291 points by jc00ke on Dec 31, 2014 | 112 comments
10.
Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust (sec.gov)
155 points by markmassie on Dec 31, 2014 | 98 comments
11.
New Solar Power Material Converts 90 Percent of Captured Light into Heat (ucsd.edu)
165 points by lelf on Dec 31, 2014 | 89 comments
12.
Veteran's Hospital LSD Testing (1956) [video] (youtube.com)
182 points by Abundnce10 on Dec 30, 2014 | 84 comments
13.
Junction design in the Netherlands [video] (youtube.com)
91 points by bane on Dec 31, 2014 | 41 comments
14.
Programming Computer Vision with Python (programmingcomputervision.com)
118 points by danso on Dec 30, 2014 | 13 comments
15.
Arctic Fibre Project to Link Japan and U.K (ieee.org)
75 points by mmastrac on Dec 31, 2014 | 22 comments
16.
This year in side projects (ianww.com)
136 points by typpo on Dec 30, 2014 | 21 comments
17.
Why Sweden Has So Few Road Deaths (economist.com)
110 points by sethbannon on Dec 31, 2014 | 244 comments
18.
Eventual Consistency in Concurrent Data Structures (belliottsmith.com)
74 points by patrickMc on Dec 31, 2014 | 6 comments
19.
Line drawing on a grid (redblobgames.com)
127 points by mbostock on Dec 31, 2014 | 21 comments
20.
Scaling CloudFlare's Massive WAF (scalescale.com)
68 points by mxpxrocks10 on Dec 31, 2014 | 20 comments
21.
The Man Who Invented Scotch Tape (priceonomics.com)
107 points by ryan_j_naughton on Dec 31, 2014 | 27 comments
22.
Rr records nondeterministic executions and debugs them deterministically (rr-project.org)
91 points by jcr on Dec 31, 2014 | 9 comments
23.
“I can't stop comparing everything to Black Mirror” (theverge.com)
192 points by fearfulsymmetry on Dec 31, 2014 | 61 comments
24.
The wreck of the Kulluk (nytimes.com)
59 points by ilamont on Dec 31, 2014 | 14 comments
25.
The Rise of the 1099 Economy: More Americans Are Becoming Their Own Bosses (forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin)
62 points by edward on Dec 31, 2014 | 45 comments
26.
What happens to your bike after it’s stolen (seattlemet.com)
75 points by bootload on Dec 31, 2014 | 84 comments
27.
How Surround Sound for Headphones Works (hajo.me)
97 points by vinhnx on Dec 31, 2014 | 31 comments
28.
NixOS 14.12 released (uu.nl)
135 points by iElectric2 on Dec 31, 2014 | 31 comments
29.
Porting a Ray Tracer to Rust, Part 1 (willusher.io)
73 points by adamnemecek on Dec 31, 2014 | 39 comments
30.
F# 2014 – A Retrospective and Call to Action (reedcopsey.com)
86 points by plurby on Dec 31, 2014 | 43 comments

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