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1.		Scans of North Korean IP Space (nknetobserver.github.io)
		372 points by djcapelis on Dec 20, 2014 \| 111 comments
2.		Bad code isn’t technical debt, it’s an unhedged call option (higherorderlogic.com)
		220 points by yummyfajitas on Dec 20, 2014 \| 100 comments
3.		Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read at Least Twice (2011) (fogus.me)
		366 points by altern8 on Dec 20, 2014 \| 66 comments
4.		A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing (nybooks.com)
		154 points by dave446 on Dec 20, 2014 \| 39 comments
5.		Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters (2007) (raganwald.com)
		141 points by olalonde on Dec 20, 2014 \| 34 comments
6.		The Tale of Studio Ghibli (economist.com)
		186 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 20, 2014 \| 59 comments
7.		Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apart (medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog)
		117 points by mazsa on Dec 20, 2014 \| 56 comments
8.		Open-sourcing OvertureJS – the JavaScript lib that powers FastMail (fastmail.com)
		181 points by robn_fastmail on Dec 19, 2014 \| 41 comments
9.		Rails 4.2 released (rubyonrails.org)
		234 points by chancancode on Dec 20, 2014 \| 51 comments
10.		Facebook blocks Russian page supporting Navalny, Putin's biggest critic (washingtonpost.com)
		178 points by geoka9 on Dec 20, 2014 \| 61 comments
11.		The Insurance Market Mystifies an Airbnb Host (nytimes.com)
		89 points by johnny99 on Dec 20, 2014 \| 44 comments
12.		Your waitress, your professor (nytimes.com)
		148 points by nvader on Dec 20, 2014 \| 140 comments
13.		Emacs as the Ultimate LaTeX Editor (piotrkazmierczak.com)
		102 points by pmoriarty on Dec 20, 2014 \| 40 comments
14.		An Offer to Sony from 2600 (2600.com)
		354 points by jamesbrewer on Dec 20, 2014 \| 190 comments
15.		Study: Chicago red light cameras provide few safety benefits (chicagotribune.com)
		79 points by greenburger on Dec 20, 2014 \| 33 comments
16.		Bitcoin Promoter Gets 2 Years for Silk Road Money Laundering (bloomberg.com)
		90 points by lxm on Dec 20, 2014 \| 45 comments
17.		Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
		131 points by jcr on Dec 20, 2014 \| 26 comments
18.		Seattle Police hackathon to redact video streams recorded by police cams (geekwire.com)
		67 points by theoutlander on Dec 20, 2014 \| 42 comments
19.		N.F.L. Playoff Simulator (nytimes.com)
		73 points by erickhill on Dec 20, 2014 \| 19 comments
20.		Performance of Python runtimes on a non-numeric scientific code (arxiv.org)
		59 points by HerrMonnezza on Dec 19, 2014 \| 11 comments
21.		State of the Specialization: Generics over primitives in Java and JVM (java.net)
		83 points by udalov on Dec 20, 2014 \| 1 comment
22.		Guido van Rossum: The Theory of Type Hinting for Python 3.5 (quip.com)
		149 points by kibwen on Dec 20, 2014 \| 53 comments
23.		Heathkit – The Electronic History Mystery (adafruit.com)
		45 points by joezydeco on Dec 20, 2014 \| 13 comments
24.		Elsevier retracting 16 papers for faked peer review (retractionwatch.com)
		56 points by tokenadult on Dec 20, 2014 \| 9 comments
25.		Tech investors plowing money into future farms (seattletimes.com)
		56 points by rl3 on Dec 19, 2014 \| 36 comments
26.		Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking (sagepub.com)
		45 points by AjJi on Dec 20, 2014 \| 22 comments
27.		ARMv7 vs. x86-64: Pathfinding benchmark of C++, D, Go, Nim, Ocaml, and more (github.com/logicchains)
		121 points by logicchains on Dec 20, 2014 \| 115 comments
28.		A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying (nytimes.com)
		70 points by juanplusjuan on Dec 20, 2014 \| 34 comments
29.		Imagining a society that isn't dominated by police (rollingstone.com)
		117 points by dollaaron on Dec 19, 2014 \| 80 comments
30.		LuaJIT Language Toolkit (github.com/franko)
		68 points by ihnorton on Dec 20, 2014 \| 15 comments
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