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1.
JS1k demo: “Highway at Night” (js1k.com)
525 points by practicalswift on Nov 23, 2014 | 98 comments
2.
Youtube-dl (rg3.github.io)
597 points by pmoriarty on Nov 23, 2014 | 169 comments
3.
A Minecraft world that has been played for 3.5 years (xandorus.com)
259 points by rocky1138 on Nov 23, 2014 | 103 comments
4.
Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship (wsj.com)
260 points by sethbannon on Nov 23, 2014 | 95 comments
5.
Why Plan 9 is not dead yet and what we can learn from it (2005) [pdf] (unm.edu)
184 points by nisa on Nov 23, 2014 | 79 comments
6.
Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance (symantec.com)
167 points by r721 on Nov 23, 2014 | 89 comments
7.
For Goldman, Government Gift from 2008 Crisis Keeps Giving (nytimes.com)
136 points by william_stranix on Nov 23, 2014 | 57 comments
8.
TinyJPG – compress JPEG files with a balance between quality and file size (tinyjpg.com)
133 points by davidbarker on Nov 22, 2014 | 30 comments
9.
V8 Moving to Git (googlesource.com)
144 points by TheHydroImpulse on Nov 23, 2014 | 44 comments
10.
DBus, FreeDesktop, and lots of madness (gentooexperimental.org)
147 points by billiob on Nov 23, 2014 | 104 comments
11.
Designing Plan 9 (1990) (cat-v.org)
94 points by jeffreyrogers on Nov 22, 2014 | 22 comments
12.
Schlieren Optics – See small changes in the index of refraction in air (youtube.com)
131 points by jetskindo on Nov 23, 2014 | 28 comments
13.
Eschewing Zshell for Emacs (howardism.org)
121 points by pmoriarty on Nov 23, 2014 | 22 comments
14.
Why Parse the User Agent? (jefftk.com)
90 points by jefftk on Nov 22, 2014 | 74 comments
15.
How to Learn Hacking (catb.org)
133 points by nvr82 on Nov 23, 2014 | 29 comments
16.
How medieval astronomers made trig tables (johndcook.com)
119 points by ColinWright on Nov 23, 2014 | 41 comments
17.
At Spain’s Door, a Welcome Mat for Entrepreneurs (nytimes.com)
64 points by ammobear on Nov 22, 2014 | 48 comments
18.
A namespace implementation for Emacs Lisp (github.com/bruce-connor)
67 points by pmoriarty on Nov 23, 2014 | 11 comments
19.
Let's put the future behind us (antipope.org)
214 points by cstross on Nov 23, 2014 | 63 comments
20.
Folds and parallelism (stanford.edu)
61 points by pmoriarty on Nov 23, 2014 | 13 comments
21.
KeyBox: A better way to SSH (sshkeybox.com)
82 points by escapologybb on Nov 23, 2014 | 55 comments
22.
Starting data analysis with R: Things I wish I'd been told (reganmian.net)
116 points by ingve on Nov 23, 2014 | 49 comments
23.
The Fuzzing Project (fuzzing-project.org)
95 points by hannob on Nov 23, 2014 | 7 comments
24.
CERN frees LHC Data (symmetrymagazine.org)
59 points by denismars on Nov 22, 2014 | 2 comments
25.
A New Approach to Aid: How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village (spiegel.de)
83 points by gasull on Nov 22, 2014 | 67 comments
26.
Guy Steele on Functional Code for Parallel Execution (2009) [video] (vimeo.com)
57 points by pmoriarty on Nov 22, 2014 | 9 comments
27.
Python IDLE Reimagined (inventwithpython.com)
66 points by ingve on Nov 23, 2014 | 29 comments
28.
PowerVR SGX code leaked (libv.livejournal.com)
77 points by seba_dos1 on Nov 23, 2014 | 27 comments
29.
Show HN: Gifify – Convert any video file to an optimized animated GIF (github.com/vvo)
48 points by vvoyer on Nov 23, 2014 | 11 comments
30.
Baidu’s Andrew Ng on Deep Learning and Innovation in Silicon Valley (wsj.com)
85 points by avgn on Nov 23, 2014 | 9 comments

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