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1.		A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building (californiasunday.com)
		673 points by samclemens on Jan 5, 2015 \| 177 comments
2.		Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles (stephendiehl.com)
		472 points by tenslisi on Jan 5, 2015 \| 47 comments
3.		Kyoto taxi drivers reduce robberies by 50 percent by doing nothing (rocketnews24.com)
		364 points by mef on Jan 4, 2015 \| 145 comments
4.		Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance (nytimes.com)
		270 points by forgotAgain on Jan 5, 2015 \| 132 comments
5.		A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015 (obspm.fr)
		203 points by TheSwordsman on Jan 5, 2015 \| 109 comments
6.		Show HN: WordsAPI (wordsapi.com)
		263 points by impostervt on Jan 5, 2015 \| 75 comments
7.		The 2014 Panic Report (panic.com)
		210 points by jmduke on Jan 5, 2015 \| 44 comments
8.		How Software in Half of NYC Cabs Generates $5.2M a Year in Extra Tips (iquantny.tumblr.com)
		268 points by iquantny on Jan 5, 2015 \| 218 comments
9.		Corman Lisp sources are now available (xach.com)
		178 points by _19qg on Jan 5, 2015 \| 27 comments
10.		Introducing Google Cast for audio (chrome.blogspot.com)
		232 points by Navarr on Jan 5, 2015 \| 166 comments
11.		Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013) (plosone.org)
		187 points by officialjunk on Jan 5, 2015 \| 56 comments
12.		Wit.ai (YC W14) Is Joining Facebook (wit.ai)
		217 points by ar7hur on Jan 5, 2015 \| 50 comments
13.		Apple has lost the functional high ground (marco.org)
		453 points by milen on Jan 5, 2015 \| 325 comments
14.		Pokémon plays Twitch: How a robot got IRC running on an unmodified SNES (arstechnica.com)
		160 points by minimaxir on Jan 5, 2015 \| 27 comments
15.		Disneyland with the Death Penalty (1993) (wired.com)
		125 points by kurren on Jan 5, 2015 \| 71 comments
16.		Now available: auto-scaling PostgreSQL deployments (compose.io)
		139 points by mrkurt on Jan 5, 2015 \| 46 comments
17.		Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades (2012) (wired.com)
		104 points by entangld on Jan 5, 2015 \| 28 comments
18.		FlickSurfer – a way to find Netflix gems (flicksurfer.com)
		124 points by trashymctrash on Jan 4, 2015 \| 56 comments
19.		Georgia Tech Student Indicted in UGA Hack (nytimes.com)
		98 points by dsugarman on Jan 5, 2015 \| 54 comments
20.		BLOKK – A font for clients who don't understand lorem ipsum (blokkfont.com)
		214 points by Garbage on Jan 5, 2015 \| 65 comments
21.		Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition (battlecode.org)
		98 points by dvorak42 on Jan 5, 2015 \| 23 comments
22.		Bitstamp Accounts Frozen
		190 points by TwoFactor on Jan 5, 2015 \| 107 comments
23.		When a Cartoonist Landed in L.A. County Jail, She Drew What She Saw (laweekly.com)
		186 points by Mz on Jan 4, 2015 \| 112 comments
24.		The future of work: There’s an app for that (economist.com)
		84 points by wallflower on Jan 5, 2015 \| 21 comments
25.		On El Capitan’s Dawn Wall, Climb Thought to Be Toughest Progresses Slowly (nytimes.com)
		100 points by wallflower on Jan 5, 2015 \| 40 comments
26.		Gallery of animations that explain math ideas (wikipedia.org)
		79 points by mihau on Jan 4, 2015 \| 1 comment
27.		Denthor's Graphics Tutorials: Why I am a Programmer (alfie.wtf)
		89 points by alfiedotwtf on Jan 5, 2015 \| 59 comments
28.		Almost No Patented Discoveries Get Used (wired.com)
		179 points by Libertatea on Jan 5, 2015 \| 129 comments
29.		What Is Aging? Most Scientists Still Get It Wrong (scienceblog.com)
		197 points by sjcsjc on Jan 5, 2015 \| 130 comments
30.		What most young programmers need to learn (joostdevblog.blogspot.com)
		203 points by GarethX on Jan 5, 2015 \| 106 comments
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