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1.		Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video] (vimeo.com)
		543 points by Thevet on Nov 30, 2014 \| 121 comments
2.		Hard-won lessons about money and investing (mattcutts.com)
		366 points by sethbannon on Nov 30, 2014 \| 248 comments
3.		Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died
		429 points by milesf on Nov 30, 2014 \| 69 comments
4.		In Soviet Minecraft, server op you (manxome.org)
		196 points by Mithaldu on Nov 30, 2014 \| 63 comments
5.		Java for Everything (teamten.com)
		387 points by cousin_it on Nov 30, 2014 \| 338 comments
6.		Nobody expects CDATA sections in XML (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
		219 points by dmit on Nov 30, 2014 \| 116 comments
7.		The History of IRC (irc.org)
		163 points by pmoriarty on Nov 30, 2014 \| 90 comments
8.		How speakers make sound (animagraffs.com)
		162 points by lowglow on Nov 29, 2014 \| 17 comments
9.		What do all the controls in an aeroplane cockpit do? (quora.com)
		169 points by lisper on Nov 29, 2014 \| 36 comments
10.		How to Fight Corruption with Game Theory (thedailybeast.com)
		126 points by jim-greer on Nov 30, 2014 \| 69 comments
11.		Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18 (phoronix.com)
		133 points by harshreality on Nov 30, 2014 \| 56 comments
12.		Functional Programming Patterns (slideshare.net)
		257 points by ique on Nov 30, 2014 \| 68 comments
13.		In France, New Review of 35-Hour Workweek (nytimes.com)
		132 points by luu on Nov 30, 2014 \| 144 comments
14.		First Infocom Z-machine implemented in hardware (github.com/charcole)
		111 points by georgeoliver on Nov 30, 2014 \| 21 comments
15.		Can Mushrooms Treat Depression? (nytimes.com)
		122 points by CoffeeOnWrite on Nov 30, 2014 \| 29 comments
16.		Show HN: GitBook WebEditor (gitbook.com)
		86 points by friendcode on Nov 29, 2014 \| 15 comments
17.		An argument against call/cc (2012) (okmij.org)
		76 points by luu on Nov 30, 2014 \| 13 comments
18.		Rust borrow and lifetimes (arthurtw.github.io)
		101 points by arthurtw on Nov 30, 2014 \| 24 comments
19.		Vim.js – JavaScript port of Vim (coolwanglu.github.io)
		227 points by DrinkWater on Nov 30, 2014 \| 58 comments
20.		Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (2003) (purl.org)
		117 points by siteshwar on Nov 30, 2014 \| 55 comments
21.		Music publishers sue an ISP over piracy (arstechnica.com)
		64 points by sinak on Nov 30, 2014 \| 37 comments
22.		How electric superchargers went from fantasy to feasibility (roadandtrack.com)
		57 points by rmason on Nov 29, 2014 \| 18 comments
23.		Making Emacs Work for Me (zeekat.nl)
		110 points by pmoriarty on Nov 30, 2014 \| 28 comments
24.		Ask HN: What are your favorite scholarly papers? Why?
		135 points by danielhughes on Nov 30, 2014 \| 86 comments
25.		SwampDragon – Build real-time apps with Django (swampdragon.net)
		106 points by ilearner on Nov 30, 2014 \| 14 comments
26.		The Seven Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing Research (2012) (usenix.org)
		47 points by jcr on Nov 29, 2014 \| 17 comments
27.		Firefly Space Systems charges full-speed toward low Earth orbit (arstechnica.com)
		71 points by necubi on Nov 30, 2014 \| 16 comments
28.		Time perception, just like vision, is a construction of the brain (eagleman.com)
		111 points by ColinWright on Nov 30, 2014 \| 52 comments
29.		I quit: Miseries of an Uber driver (salon.com)
		146 points by tawman on Nov 30, 2014 \| 89 comments
30.		Discover tools and frameworks in the DevOps landscape (devopsbookmarks.com)
		80 points by johnwards on Nov 30, 2014 \| 7 comments
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