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1.
Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles (wired.com)
946 points by vesinisa on Jan 21, 2015 | 372 comments
2.
A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs (priceonomics.com)
624 points by mhb on Jan 21, 2015 | 190 comments
3.
What is the best hard drive? (backblaze.com)
446 points by tolien on Jan 21, 2015 | 140 comments
4.
A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on AWS (airpair.com)
542 points by jkresner on Jan 21, 2015 | 129 comments
5.
Emacs Is My New Window Manager (howardism.org)
348 points by lelf on Jan 21, 2015 | 162 comments
6.
Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
401 points by striking on Jan 21, 2015 | 112 comments
7.
Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications (martyjs.org)
255 points by jfhollingworth on Jan 21, 2015 | 93 comments
8.
An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (betterexplained.com)
371 points by nkurz on Jan 21, 2015 | 51 comments
9.
An experimental real world adblock (jonathandub.in)
290 points by tstactplsignore on Jan 21, 2015 | 141 comments
10.
Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack on Tor? (theverge.com)
194 points by kryptiskt on Jan 21, 2015 | 85 comments
11.
Pgloader: A High-speed PostgreSQL Swiss Army Knife, Written in Lisp (pgloader.io)
179 points by wtbob on Jan 21, 2015 | 23 comments
12.
Show HN: Run SSH and HTTP(S) on the same port (github.com/jamescun)
165 points by jamescun on Jan 21, 2015 | 65 comments
13.
How did Einstein Think? (pitt.edu)
159 points by srsamarthyam on Jan 21, 2015 | 72 comments
14.
The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan (4chan.org)
411 points by akerl_ on Jan 21, 2015 | 288 comments
15.
The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk (nytimes.com)
150 points by Libertatea on Jan 21, 2015 | 47 comments
16.
Being a good networker pays off, but it requires skill as well as shamelessness (economist.com)
214 points by RachelF on Jan 21, 2015 | 90 comments
17.
WebVR lands in Firefox Nightly (mozvr.com)
116 points by robin_reala on Jan 20, 2015 | 31 comments
18.
Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009) (infoq.com)
118 points by _zhqs on Jan 21, 2015 | 21 comments
19.
Tuning Ruby's Global Method Cache (shopify.com)
109 points by funion on Jan 21, 2015 | 8 comments
20.
Retiring Python as a Teaching Language (dadgum.com)
280 points by xngzng on Jan 21, 2015 | 235 comments
21.
Laser-generated surface structures create extremely water-repellent metals (rochester.edu)
191 points by Zaheer on Jan 21, 2015 | 64 comments
22.
Dogs, but Not Wolves, Use Humans as Tools (scientificamerican.com)
159 points by hyp0 on Jan 21, 2015 | 73 comments
23.
Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature? (vice.com)
169 points by lxm on Jan 21, 2015 | 100 comments
24.
To Be (to.be)
146 points by of on Jan 21, 2015 | 57 comments
25.
Ethel Lang, the last Victorian, has died (theguardian.com)
71 points by pepys on Jan 20, 2015 | 20 comments
26.
Ask HN: What's the best way to write an API spec?
170 points by chrisshroba on Jan 19, 2015 | 56 comments
27.
The CERT C Secure Coding Standard (cert.org)
86 points by jfe on Jan 21, 2015 | 31 comments
28.
LibreOffice Beta Available for Android (libreoffice-from-collabora.com)
127 points by samtuke on Jan 21, 2015 | 17 comments
29.
You’ll Always Miss Being in the Basement (zachholman.com)
160 points by speg on Jan 21, 2015 | 68 comments
30.
The Apollo Saturn V LVDC circuit board (frantone.com)
55 points by carljoseph on Jan 21, 2015 | 11 comments

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