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1.
US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program (senate.gov)
879 points by uptown on Dec 9, 2014 | 551 comments
2.
Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates (markshuttleworth.com)
650 points by selectnull on Dec 9, 2014 | 147 comments
3.
Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework (getskeleton.com)
598 points by hit8run on Dec 9, 2014 | 121 comments
4.
The Fatal Pinch (paulgraham.com)
480 points by _pius on Dec 8, 2014 | 198 comments
5.
Show HN: Artful for Mac (artfulmac.com)
229 points by tomkinstinch on Dec 9, 2014 | 145 comments
6.
Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline (torrentfreak.com)
375 points by jalan on Dec 9, 2014 | 167 comments
7.
Random in the wild (tedunangst.com)
173 points by donmcc on Dec 9, 2014 | 35 comments
8.
MIT students build a roller coaster in one week (monograph.io)
244 points by moeamaya on Dec 9, 2014 | 74 comments
9.
Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup (plus.google.com)
169 points by igrigorik on Dec 9, 2014 | 90 comments
10.
Reverse-engineering the new “captchaless” ReCaptcha system (github.com/recaptchareverser)
216 points by InsideReCaptcha on Dec 9, 2014 | 50 comments
11.
Should I Get a Ph.D.? (shouldigetaphd.com)
216 points by johndcook on Dec 8, 2014 | 158 comments
12.
Twitch acquires eSports pro-gaming team Evil Geniuses (goodgame.gg)
123 points by coralreef on Dec 9, 2014 | 69 comments
13.
Donald Knuth's 20th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture: (3/2)-ary Trees [video] (youtube.com)
131 points by mushishi on Dec 8, 2014 | 9 comments
14.
Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program (wired.com)
265 points by keithba on Dec 9, 2014 | 153 comments
15.
The Infamous Windows “Hello World” Program (charlespetzold.com)
134 points by johndcook on Dec 9, 2014 | 89 comments
16.
Do We Need Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems? [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
108 points by msherry on Dec 8, 2014 | 7 comments
17.
Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled (arxiv.org)
183 points by sinwave on Dec 9, 2014 | 60 comments
18.
If Eventual Consistency Seems Hard, Wait Till You Try MVCC (xaprb.com)
121 points by boynamedsue on Dec 8, 2014 | 48 comments
19.
SpamMimic: encode your message into something innocent-looking (spammimic.com)
146 points by pmoriarty on Dec 9, 2014 | 31 comments
20.
App Container Spec One Week In (coreos.com)
103 points by jzelinskie on Dec 9, 2014 | 28 comments
21.
MIT indefinitely removes online physics lectures and courses by Walter Lewin (newsoffice.mit.edu)
144 points by clarkm on Dec 8, 2014 | 136 comments
22.
The Offline Cookbook: caching and serving offline-first (jakearchibald.com)
125 points by jaffathecake on Dec 9, 2014 | 4 comments
23.
Why are deep neural networks hard to train? (neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com)
83 points by wxs on Dec 8, 2014 | 12 comments
24.
Why we should stop using Grunt and Gulp (keithcirkel.co.uk)
162 points by riobard on Dec 9, 2014 | 106 comments
25.
California drought, visualized with open data (usgs.gov)
80 points by almost_usual on Dec 8, 2014 | 16 comments
26.
Lazy Expert Syndrome (riskology.co)
220 points by LazyExpert on Dec 9, 2014 | 60 comments
27.
RMS on why Emacs lisp doesn't have namespaces (lists.gnu.org)
85 points by nosefrog on Dec 9, 2014 | 84 comments
28.
You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind (spacebar.org)
256 points by zmmz on Dec 9, 2014 | 56 comments
29.
An analysis of the Super Street Fighter IV game balance (ryuuko.cl)
92 points by yeahboats on Dec 9, 2014 | 12 comments
30.
Violating randomization standards (gmane.org)
57 points by pdw on Dec 8, 2014 | 41 comments

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