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1.
EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional (eff.org)
808 points by etr71115 on Dec 18, 2014 | 169 comments
2.
PostgreSQL 9.4 Released (postgresql.org)
744 points by petercooper on Dec 18, 2014 | 188 comments
3.
Git client vulnerability announced (github.com/blog)
818 points by polemic on Dec 18, 2014 | 177 comments
4.
The pitch deck that helped us get an $865M valuation (mixpanel.com)
301 points by suhail on Dec 18, 2014 | 79 comments
5.
Amazon Unveils One-Hour Delivery Service (wsj.com)
288 points by spew on Dec 18, 2014 | 157 comments
6.
German researchers discover flaw that could let anyone listen to cell calls (washingtonpost.com)
311 points by haakon on Dec 18, 2014 | 137 comments
7.
Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X (ianyh.com)
246 points by xj9 on Dec 18, 2014 | 105 comments
8.
A Japanese inn owned by the same family for 1,300 years [video] (vimeo.com)
256 points by Thevet on Dec 18, 2014 | 70 comments
9.
Show HN: Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps (github.com/voog)
215 points by olla on Dec 18, 2014 | 45 comments
10.
Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea (marcrogers.org)
388 points by rdl on Dec 18, 2014 | 198 comments
11.
Content, Forever (tinysubversions.com)
119 points by danso on Dec 18, 2014 | 24 comments
12.
Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $65M to Build Predictive Data Tech (wsj.com)
136 points by lightcatcher on Dec 18, 2014 | 27 comments
13.
The inventor of the SR-71's rules for project management (wikipedia.org)
126 points by valarauca1 on Dec 18, 2014 | 56 comments
14.
The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking (danluu.com)
166 points by nicholasjbs on Dec 18, 2014 | 106 comments
15.
Revisiting the “Cookieless Domain” Recommendation (jonathanklein.net)
145 points by luu on Dec 18, 2014 | 66 comments
16.
Reaction to the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' (vice.com)
231 points by wglb on Dec 18, 2014 | 100 comments
17.
Notable Books of 2014 (nytimes.com)
122 points by dollaaron on Dec 18, 2014 | 16 comments
18.
Extracting My Data from the Microsoft Band (jeffhuang.com)
95 points by lazyjeff on Dec 18, 2014 | 30 comments
19.
USBdriveby – Exploiting USB in Style (samy.pl)
100 points by _pcwg on Dec 17, 2014 | 24 comments
20.
How We Email Hardware to Space (medium.com/backchannel)
109 points by steven on Dec 18, 2014 | 34 comments
21.
Female Founders Conference 2015 applications are open (blog.ycombinator.com)
102 points by katm on Dec 18, 2014 | 74 comments
22.
Snowdrift.coop: Funding for free projects (lwn.net)
127 points by signa11 on Dec 18, 2014 | 24 comments
23.
Using Freenet (bluishcoder.co.nz)
128 points by doublec on Dec 18, 2014 | 22 comments
24.
Teardown of the Microsoft Band (sparkfun.com)
76 points by schappim on Dec 17, 2014 | 23 comments
25.
How Pipedrive went from 0 to 10,000 paying customers in SaaS (purde.net)
212 points by standrews on Dec 18, 2014 | 62 comments
26.
Multidimensional analysis of plot arcs in thousands of TV and movie scripts (sappingattention.blogspot.com)
103 points by jvmiert on Dec 18, 2014 | 17 comments
27.
Intercal: The Worst Programming Language Ever [video] (skillsmatter.com)
121 points by sidcool on Dec 18, 2014 | 77 comments
28.
The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule (nytimes.com)
70 points by benbreen on Dec 18, 2014 | 24 comments
29.
DeepSpeech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition (arxiv.org)
79 points by cbcase on Dec 18, 2014 | 22 comments
30.
The Story of Siri, by its founder [video] (wit.ai)
75 points by ar7hur on Dec 18, 2014 | 15 comments

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