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1.
How You Know (paulgraham.com)
686 points by _pius on Dec 15, 2014 | 257 comments
2.
Map the Banks (mapthebanks.com)
323 points by chippy on Dec 15, 2014 | 96 comments
3.
Underactuated Rotor for Simple Micro Air Vehicles (modlabupenn.org)
253 points by command_tab on Dec 15, 2014 | 81 comments
4.
Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use (newyorker.com)
218 points by ezhil on Dec 15, 2014 | 89 comments
5.
Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation (graemereynolds.wordpress.com)
489 points by Jare on Dec 15, 2014 | 172 comments
6.
Programming and Programming Languages (brown.edu)
256 points by xearl on Dec 15, 2014 | 63 comments
7.
Half the papers at NIPS would be rejected if the review process were rerun (mrtz.org)
141 points by urish on Dec 15, 2014 | 49 comments
8.
Moonjs: Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator (svtsim.com)
129 points by davidbarker on Dec 15, 2014 | 14 comments
9.
Emacs Major Mode for Sequence Diagrams (github.com/josteink)
136 points by signa11 on Dec 15, 2014 | 22 comments
10.
Coq: The world’s best macro assembler? (2013) [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)
187 points by dezgeg on Dec 15, 2014 | 61 comments
11.
Evolutionary couplings between files reveal poor software design choices (ergoso.me)
242 points by armish on Dec 15, 2014 | 82 comments
12.
How GPUs Work (virginia.edu)
200 points by luu on Dec 15, 2014 | 53 comments
13.
For my final project I built a sous-vide immersion cooker (cba.mit.edu)
194 points by arbesfeld on Dec 15, 2014 | 137 comments
14.
An experimental, automatically generated set of AWS clients in Go (github.com/stripe)
153 points by bowsky on Dec 15, 2014 | 44 comments
15.
A New Physics Theory of Life (quantamagazine.org)
161 points by epenn on Dec 15, 2014 | 94 comments
16.
Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac (duetdisplay.com)
182 points by bauerpl on Dec 15, 2014 | 112 comments
17.
MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security Final Projects (csail.mit.edu)
118 points by jlrubin on Dec 15, 2014 | 28 comments
18.
Show HN: Phantom JS interactive editor (ozaur.com)
120 points by jakozaur on Dec 15, 2014 | 39 comments
19.
Advanced programming languages (2009) (might.net)
91 points by swah on Dec 14, 2014 | 39 comments
20.
Are Christmas Lights in Series or Parallel? (wired.com)
96 points by dnetesn on Dec 15, 2014 | 50 comments
21.
Comparing Rust and C++ (kukuruku.co)
170 points by skazka16 on Dec 15, 2014 | 133 comments
22.
Pinboard's New Pricing Policy (blog.pinboard.in)
173 points by hboon on Dec 15, 2014 | 82 comments
23.
Home Computers Behind the Iron Curtain (hackaday.com)
94 points by desdiv on Dec 15, 2014 | 20 comments
24.
How to Write a Spelling Corrector (norvig.com)
90 points by lpsz on Dec 14, 2014 | 20 comments
25.
Air Fares 101 – Why do fares change all the time? (cheapair.com)
161 points by ZeljkoS on Dec 15, 2014 | 186 comments
26.
Hipku – encode any IP address as a haiku (gabrielmartin.net)
143 points by gabemart on Dec 15, 2014 | 35 comments
27.
Effectively Managing Memory at Gmail Scale (html5rocks.com)
134 points by geobourazanas on Dec 15, 2014 | 49 comments
28.
Why buffered writes are sometimes stalled (yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com)
69 points by sciurus on Dec 15, 2014 | 14 comments
29.
ARrgh: a newcomer's angry guide to R (2013) (tim-smith.us)
76 points by nkurz on Dec 14, 2014 | 37 comments
30.
The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia (arstechnica.com)
69 points by raphaelj on Dec 14, 2014 | 43 comments

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