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1.
New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for Cyber Battle (spiegel.de)
463 points by zmanian on Jan 17, 2015 | 273 comments
2.
“What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?” (github.com/alex)
491 points by xvirk on Jan 16, 2015 | 129 comments
3.
What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed? (stackoverflow.com)
314 points by luu on Jan 16, 2015 | 155 comments
4.
Arch Linux on MacBook Pro Retina 2014 (loicpefferkorn.net)
235 points by loicp on Jan 17, 2015 | 145 comments
5.
Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Processed (petapixel.com)
255 points by benbreen on Jan 17, 2015 | 125 comments
6.
Open Data Structures (opendatastructures.org)
220 points by xvirk on Jan 17, 2015 | 20 comments
7.
The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google (medium.com/funny-stuff)
283 points by JacobAldridge on Jan 17, 2015 | 117 comments
8.
Robert Morris: All About Programming (paulgraham.com)
173 points by avsaro on Jan 17, 2015 | 49 comments
9.
‘Soft’ Artificial Intelligence Is Suddenly Everywhere (wsj.com)
124 points by jonbaer on Jan 17, 2015 | 56 comments
10.
Students Gain Access to Files on Admission to Stanford (nytimes.com)
128 points by jhull on Jan 17, 2015 | 94 comments
11.
The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer (modernperlbooks.com)
147 points by pmoriarty on Jan 17, 2015 | 114 comments
12.
So you want to abolish time zones (qntm.org)
159 points by subleq on Jan 17, 2015 | 124 comments
13.
Wireless lossless digital audio (latentlaboratories.com)
94 points by miander on Jan 17, 2015 | 22 comments
14.
Flag – Print ads on the back of people’s free photos (fl.ag)
73 points by davidbarker on Jan 16, 2015 | 29 comments
15.
DNA Lounge Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge (dnalounge.com)
76 points by jcr on Jan 17, 2015 | 13 comments
16.
Trading a Real Market: What the Swiss National Bank Taught Retail Traders (mechanicalforex.com)
93 points by ca98am79 on Jan 17, 2015 | 74 comments
17.
From Object Algebras to Finally Tagless Interpreters (oleksandrmanzyuk.wordpress.com)
76 points by lelf on Jan 17, 2015 | 16 comments
18.
The Weird Science of Naming New Products (nytimes.com)
65 points by samclemens on Jan 17, 2015 | 15 comments
19.
Servo: Building a Parallel Browser [video] (youtube.com)
100 points by adamnemecek on Jan 16, 2015 | 25 comments
20.
Asset Forfeiture and the Cycle of Electronic Surveillance Funding (eff.org)
70 points by DiabloD3 on Jan 17, 2015 | 1 comment
21.
How to mod a toaster to control PC games [video] (youtube.com)
58 points by kissgyorgy on Jan 17, 2015 | 14 comments
22.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980) (dartmouth.edu)
66 points by efm on Jan 17, 2015 | 37 comments
23.
Bootstrapping a Compiler (combinatorylogic.wordpress.com)
42 points by wglb on Jan 17, 2015 | 15 comments
24.
A few About boxes from vintage Mac applications (systemfolder.wordpress.com)
46 points by kposehn on Jan 17, 2015 | 13 comments
25.
Republican net neutrality bill would gut FCC’s authority over broadband (arstechnica.com)
112 points by sinak on Jan 17, 2015 | 42 comments
26.
Zipcar vs. Car2Go (seattletransitblog.com)
41 points by deegles on Jan 16, 2015 | 17 comments
27.
A workshop on monads with C++14 (github.com/joaquintides)
44 points by adamnemecek on Jan 17, 2015 | 7 comments
28.
Bitcoin – The Magic of Mining (economist.com)
47 points by mgertner on Jan 17, 2015 | 37 comments
29.
Padonkaffsky jargon (wikipedia.org)
36 points by Thevet on Jan 17, 2015 | 4 comments
30.
Unit Vector Math for 3D Graphics (2001) (jmargolin.com)
36 points by fmax30 on Jan 17, 2015 | 1 comment

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