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1.		Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs (extremetech.com)
		748 points by lelf on Dec 27, 2014 \| 400 comments
2.		Slow, flexible and cheap: Six years of development to create a rubber hexagon (medium.com/dome-kit)
		255 points by MichaelAO on Dec 27, 2014 \| 33 comments
3.		Selling to the Fortune 500, Government, and Other Lovecraftian Horrors (kalzumeus.com)
		295 points by zeeshanm on Dec 26, 2014 \| 62 comments
4.		The Wire in HD (davidsimon.com)
		292 points by danso on Dec 27, 2014 \| 40 comments
5.		31C3 Streaming: Saal 1 – SD Video (ccc.de)
		165 points by aestetix on Dec 27, 2014 \| 34 comments
6.		The Real-time Web: How to Get Millisecond Updates with REST (imvu.com)
		167 points by jwatte on Dec 27, 2014 \| 23 comments
7.		Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?
		246 points by sciguy77 on Dec 26, 2014 \| 139 comments
8.		How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan (talkingpointsmemo.com)
		161 points by gscott on Dec 27, 2014 \| 49 comments
9.		Apollo 11 Flight Plan – Final [pdf] (nasa.gov)
		110 points by ColinWright on Dec 27, 2014 \| 23 comments
10.		Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25 (code.google.com)
		269 points by diafygi on Dec 27, 2014 \| 194 comments
11.		Functional Operating System and Security Protocol Engineering (openmirage.org)
		115 points by mrry on Dec 27, 2014 \| 9 comments
12.		Robdns – A fast DNS server based on C10M principles (github.com/robertdavidgraham)
		120 points by sanxiyn on Dec 27, 2014 \| 54 comments
13.		Sandy bridge, Ivy bridge, Haswell and the mess of Intel processors feature list (ilsistemista.net)
		116 points by shodanshok on Dec 26, 2014 \| 69 comments
14.		Internal Versus External BLOBs in SQLite (sqlite.org)
		96 points by raphaelj on Dec 27, 2014 \| 51 comments
15.		Self-Hosting Google Web Fonts (ranf.tl)
		100 points by majodev on Dec 27, 2014 \| 54 comments
16.		Woo: Fast HTTP Server in Common Lisp (github.com/fukamachi)
		100 points by momo-reina on Dec 27, 2014 \| 40 comments
17.		Demolished: The End of Chicago's Public Housing (npr.org)
		104 points by _nullandnull_ on Dec 27, 2014 \| 64 comments
18.		Fernvale: An Open Hardware and Software Platform (ccc.de)
		74 points by zdw on Dec 27, 2014 \| 19 comments
19.		Home for the holidays, and for a 20-year-old issue of PC Magazine (theverge.com)
		49 points by Thevet on Dec 27, 2014 \| 29 comments
20.		The Software Scientist (evanmiller.org)
		89 points by carljoseph on Dec 27, 2014 \| 49 comments
21.		Inferno OS (c2.com)
		86 points by pmoriarty on Dec 27, 2014 \| 48 comments
22.		Show HN: Download and inline Google web fonts from the command-line (github.com/mmastrac)
		64 points by mmastrac on Dec 27, 2014 \| 13 comments
23.		Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) (depauw.edu)
		85 points by pmoriarty on Dec 26, 2014 \| 22 comments
24.		Binaural Sound with the Web Audio API (kaistale.com)
		55 points by kabla on Dec 27, 2014 \| 8 comments
25.		Statisticians in World War II (economist.com)
		67 points by mlla on Dec 27, 2014 \| 7 comments
26.		The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (lambdassociates.org)
		83 points by auvi on Dec 27, 2014 \| 25 comments
27.		Downtown is for People (1958) (fortune.com)
		65 points by wallflower on Dec 27, 2014 \| 2 comments
28.		When you have to wake up earlier than usual (42floors.com)
		72 points by sethbannon on Dec 27, 2014 \| 28 comments
29.		Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages (github.com/dobiasd)
		207 points by linhmtran168 on Dec 27, 2014 \| 207 comments
30.		Bournegol – Algol-like dialect of C used to write the original Bourne shell (schmorp.de)
		50 points by carljoseph on Dec 27, 2014 \| 9 comments
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