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1.
Jenga Pistol (woodgears.ca)
278 points by antr on Dec 24, 2014 | 24 comments
2.
Merry Christmas to HN
502 points by lateguy on Dec 25, 2014 | 110 comments
3.
Show HN: Initial release of H2O, and why HTTPD performance will matter in 2015 (kazuhooku.com)
251 points by kazuho on Dec 25, 2014 | 83 comments
4.
Why we love repetition in music (aeon.co)
169 points by adamzerner on Dec 25, 2014 | 53 comments
5.
The Tears of Donald Knuth (acm.org)
180 points by mrry on Dec 25, 2014 | 55 comments
6.
Ruby 2.2.0 Released (ruby-lang.org)
327 points by kokonotu on Dec 25, 2014 | 72 comments
7.
The Fermi Paradox (waitbutwhy.com)
223 points by itamarb on Dec 25, 2014 | 165 comments
8.
Mozilla and KDDI Launch First Firefox OS Smartphone in Japan (blog.mozilla.org)
146 points by prajjwal on Dec 25, 2014 | 62 comments
9.
Virgin births in animals are no longer rare (bbc.com)
213 points by SwellJoe on Dec 25, 2014 | 122 comments
10.
He Understood Not Only What We Did but What We Were Supposed to Do (1986) (latimes.com)
161 points by NaOH on Dec 25, 2014 | 10 comments
11.
Each New Boot a Miracle – DOSBOX in the Browser (textfiles.com)
111 points by ingve on Dec 24, 2014 | 19 comments
12.
JavaScript Internationalization API (hacks.mozilla.org)
93 points by Garbage on Dec 25, 2014 | 27 comments
13.
Intrusive lists in Doom 3 (gpfault.net)
148 points by liquidmetal on Dec 25, 2014 | 66 comments
14.
A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System (2001) (cam.ac.uk)
88 points by poppingtonic on Dec 25, 2014 | 28 comments
15.
Roaring bitmaps: A better compressed bitset (roaringbitmap.org)
76 points by SwellJoe on Dec 25, 2014 | 11 comments
16.
Getting Started with Elm (pragmaticstudio.com)
86 points by corysama on Dec 24, 2014 | 14 comments
17.
The Rise and Fall of Industrial Research Labs (acm.org)
71 points by yorp on Dec 25, 2014 | 24 comments
18.
Gobot: A framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things (gobot.io)
103 points by SwellJoe on Dec 24, 2014 | 18 comments
19.
I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them (silent700.blogspot.com)
90 points by salgernon on Dec 25, 2014 | 30 comments
20.
NSA Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans (businessweek.com)
162 points by vermontdevil on Dec 25, 2014 | 41 comments
21.
Six Pictures of Paradise (nautil.us)
70 points by dnetesn on Dec 25, 2014 | 16 comments
22.
Julia by Example (scolvin.com)
93 points by alixaxel on Dec 25, 2014 | 11 comments
23.
Spreading a little Christmas job-hunting hope
139 points by throwawaybcporn on Dec 25, 2014 | 79 comments
24.
How America Became an Economic Superpower (theatlantic.com)
113 points by tokenadult on Dec 24, 2014 | 128 comments
25.
20 Years of Impulse Tracker, Part 4 – full source code (roartindon.blogspot.com)
65 points by bane on Dec 25, 2014 | 9 comments
26.
Web Encryption Gets Stronger and More Widespread: 2014 in Review (eff.org)
76 points by erkose on Dec 25, 2014 | 10 comments
27.
PHP CommonMark (github.com/thephpleague)
54 points by aleem on Dec 25, 2014 | 20 comments
28.
Show HN: Orthogami – Turn voxel models into foldable papercraft (github.com/mikolalysenko)
49 points by 33a on Dec 25, 2014 | 6 comments
29.
In Naples, Gift of Coffee to Strangers Never Seen (nytimes.com)
65 points by juanplusjuan on Dec 25, 2014 | 19 comments
30.
Music Visualizer – Using Python and Numpy for DSP (yager.io)
49 points by wyager on Dec 24, 2014 | 8 comments

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