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1.		“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS” (imgur.com)
		1284 points by shalmanese on Dec 14, 2014 \| 265 comments
2.		My Adventures with “4K” 2160p and Linux (lxer.com)
		316 points by pmoriarty on Dec 14, 2014 \| 148 comments
3.		Air Traffic Control Simulator (zlsa.github.io)
		284 points by dshankar on Dec 14, 2014 \| 84 comments
4.		A plane that will be able to fly anywhere in the world within 4 hours (sciencealert.com)
		254 points by dnetesn on Dec 14, 2014 \| 110 comments
5.		The drug revolution that no one can stop (medium.com/matter-archive)
		230 points by r721 on Dec 14, 2014 \| 116 comments
6.		Bad Microsoft (badmicrosoft.com)
		351 points by Flopsy on Dec 14, 2014 \| 224 comments
7.		Mochi – Dynamically-typed language for functional and actor-style programming (github.com/i2y)
		205 points by harel on Dec 14, 2014 \| 47 comments
8.		Small Bank in Kansas Is a Financial Testing Ground (nytimes.com)
		129 points by NaOH on Dec 13, 2014 \| 25 comments
9.		Stack Exchange for Emacs (github.com/vermiculus)
		143 points by masolino on Dec 14, 2014 \| 51 comments
10.		VRAMfs – VRAM based file system for Linux (github.com/overv)
		105 points by tudborg on Dec 14, 2014 \| 25 comments
11.		YaCy: Decentralized Web Search (yacy.net)
		105 points by chatmasta on Dec 13, 2014 \| 29 comments
12.		ODROID-C1 – Quad Core ARM Linux computer (hardkernel.com)
		133 points by joshbaptiste on Dec 14, 2014 \| 82 comments
13.		KnightOS – An open-source OS for calculators (knightos.org)
		148 points by ddevault on Dec 14, 2014 \| 20 comments
14.		CIA agents who tortured are vulnerable to prosecution in any country (cnn.com)
		221 points by rumcajz on Dec 14, 2014 \| 133 comments
15.		The Story of Apollo 17 and Why We Never Went Back to the Moon (io9.com)
		115 points by dnetesn on Dec 14, 2014 \| 85 comments
16.		Mathematical Analysis of The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Chord (kevinhouston.net)
		97 points by ColinWright on Dec 14, 2014 \| 20 comments
17.		The Intel Enigma (mondaynote.com)
		108 points by chmars on Dec 14, 2014 \| 63 comments
18.		Elliptic curve arithmetic and cryptography library in Rust (github.com/bren2010)
		65 points by bren2013 on Dec 14, 2014 \| 14 comments
19.		Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme (github.com/mwitmer)
		48 points by pmoriarty on Dec 13, 2014 \| 14 comments
20.		Lists and Lists (1996) (eblong.com)
		52 points by luu on Dec 13, 2014 \| 23 comments
21.		Show HN: Bitcoin M-of-N Multisig P2SH Transaction Builder in Go (github.com/soroushjp)
		40 points by soroushjp on Dec 14, 2014 \| 9 comments
22.		Skinny Puppy demands royalties from US govt for using their music in Guantanamo (brooklynvegan.com)
		200 points by r0h1n on Dec 14, 2014 \| 69 comments
23.		A Tutorial on Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis [pdf] (mun.ca)
		32 points by aethertap on Dec 14, 2014 \| 1 comment
24.		Using Rust to Make a Safer Interface for Yahoo’s Fast MDBM Database (erickt.github.io)
		69 points by jakub- on Dec 14, 2014 \| 6 comments
25.		Biodiversity: Life – a status report (nature.com)
		49 points by oskarpearson on Dec 14, 2014 \| 17 comments
26.		Build a Radar System with Range Sensing, Doppler, and Synthetic Aperture Imaging (ocw.mit.edu)
		56 points by jcr on Dec 14, 2014 \| 6 comments
27.		Show HN: clip – Embeddable, composable [c]ommand [l]ine [i]nterface [p]arsing (github.com/willyg302)
		26 points by willyg302 on Dec 14, 2014 \| 14 comments
28.		Old-school desktop using Debian Jessie (sohcahtoa.org.uk)
		58 points by vu3rdd on Dec 14, 2014 \| 28 comments
29.		Focusable – Set a spotlight focus on DOM element (github.com/zzarcon)
		48 points by zzarcon on Dec 14, 2014 \| 27 comments
30.		The underappreciated role of muscle in health and disease [pdf] (nutrition.org)
		67 points by fasteo on Dec 14, 2014 \| 40 comments
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