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1.		Farewell, Dr. Dobb's (drdobbs.com)
		1029 points by andrewbinstock on Dec 16, 2014 \| 320 comments
2.		Good News You May Have Missed in 2014 (gatesnotes.com)
		656 points by prajjwal on Dec 15, 2014 \| 114 comments
3.		Android: I don't need your permission (danlew.net)
		540 points by dopkew on Dec 16, 2014 \| 183 comments
4.		Fun with your friend's Facebook and Tinder sessions (robertheaton.com)
		488 points by aitskovi on Dec 16, 2014 \| 55 comments
5.		Post mortem of my one game a month (usebox.net)
		273 points by reidrac on Dec 16, 2014 \| 65 comments
6.		BPG Image Comparison (xooyoozoo.github.io)
		357 points by rayshan on Dec 16, 2014 \| 123 comments
7.		Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance (eff.org)
		233 points by pwg on Dec 16, 2014 \| 104 comments
8.		The most popular web sites every year since 1996 (washingtonpost.com)
		233 points by brandonhall on Dec 16, 2014 \| 102 comments
9.		Bitcoin Developer Guide (bitcoin.org)
		247 points by dollaaron on Dec 16, 2014 \| 71 comments
10.		The FBI Used the Web’s Favorite Hacking Tool to Unmask Tor Users (wired.com)
		182 points by dnetesn on Dec 16, 2014 \| 55 comments
11.		Millennium Falcon's SFX Demonstrated by Sound Designer Ben Burtt (1980) [video] (youtube.com)
		163 points by shawndumas on Dec 16, 2014 \| 20 comments
12.		Amazon's Jeff Bezos on profits, failure, succession, big bets (businessinsider.com)
		176 points by davidw on Dec 16, 2014 \| 38 comments
13.		You Don't Need JQuery (garstasio.com)
		240 points by upheaval7276 on Dec 16, 2014 \| 192 comments
14.		Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap (magicleap.com)
		251 points by carloscm on Dec 16, 2014 \| 162 comments
15.		Introducing Libscore: A PageRank for JavaScript Libraries (medium.com/shapiro)
		118 points by applecore on Dec 16, 2014 \| 32 comments
16.		Our 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off (backblaze.com)
		204 points by ehPReth on Dec 15, 2014 \| 85 comments
17.		NASA’s $349M monument to its drift (washingtonpost.com)
		176 points by wallflower on Dec 16, 2014 \| 87 comments
18.		Confidentiality at FastMail (fastmail.com)
		136 points by brongondwana on Dec 15, 2014 \| 53 comments
19.		A redesign of the Django websites (djangoproject.com)
		258 points by olasitarska on Dec 16, 2014 \| 97 comments
20.		Clever (YC S12) Gets $30M to Become the Login Layer for Education Apps (techcrunch.com)
		93 points by sethbannon on Dec 16, 2014 \| 27 comments
21.		New Zealand’s crusade to rid itself of mammals (newyorker.com)
		124 points by fennecfoxen on Dec 16, 2014 \| 90 comments
22.		Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations (bloomberg.com)
		186 points by coloneltcb on Dec 16, 2014 \| 176 comments
23.		Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU (mattkeeter.com)
		89 points by mkeeter on Dec 15, 2014 \| 18 comments
24.		Christmas Carol and other eigenvectors (evelinag.com)
		69 points by spiffytech on Dec 15, 2014 \| 5 comments
25.		New York Magazine's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up (observer.com)
		226 points by ColinWright on Dec 16, 2014 \| 132 comments
26.		Larry Lessig’s Long Walk (medium.com/backchannel)
		115 points by steven on Dec 15, 2014 \| 35 comments
27.		Before Detroit Can Move On, It Needs to Upgrade from Windows XP (fivethirtyeight.com)
		71 points by ryan_j_naughton on Dec 15, 2014 \| 46 comments
28.		UNSW researchers set record in solar energy efficiency (unsw.edu.au)
		104 points by lxm on Dec 16, 2014 \| 32 comments
29.		Student Doodles from the Middle Ages (studio360.org)
		92 points by benbreen on Dec 16, 2014 \| 8 comments
30.		Bit Twiddling Hacks (2005) (stanford.edu)
		50 points by thealphanerd on Dec 15, 2014 \| 6 comments
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