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1.		Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha (rust-lang.org)
		894 points by steveklabnik on Jan 9, 2015 \| 243 comments
2.		A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn (johnskylar.com)
		629 points by timr on Jan 9, 2015 \| 393 comments
3.		ThorCon Power (thorconpower.com)
		274 points by jf on Jan 9, 2015 \| 91 comments
4.		List of University Courses for Learning Computer Science (github.com/prakhar1989)
		300 points by hising on Jan 9, 2015 \| 47 comments
5.		Code Review Checklist (fogcreek.com)
		235 points by GarethX on Jan 9, 2015 \| 56 comments
6.		Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure (azure.microsoft.com)
		166 points by deegles on Jan 9, 2015 \| 106 comments
7.		The Tough Decision to Leave the Classroom (iamjwal.com)
		308 points by washt on Jan 9, 2015 \| 260 comments
8.		Stanford to host 100-year study on artificial intelligence (stanford.edu)
		127 points by bra-ket on Jan 9, 2015 \| 38 comments
9.		Practicing Programming (2005) (sites.google.com)
		100 points by luu on Jan 9, 2015 \| 25 comments
10.		Most MS Patients Who Got Stem Cell Transplants Still in Remission Years Later (healthline.com)
		122 points by adventured on Jan 8, 2015 \| 25 comments
11.		Mathematician's anger over his unread 500-page proof (newscientist.com)
		126 points by ca98am79 on Jan 9, 2015 \| 114 comments
12.		Show HN: A modernized and annotated code companion to Paul Graham's “On Lisp” (github.com/dalekbaldwin)
		93 points by DalekBaldwin on Jan 9, 2015 \| 2 comments
13.		Design of Lisp-Based Processors Or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode (1979) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
		87 points by bootload on Jan 9, 2015 \| 46 comments
14.		Bitstamp is open for business (bitstamp.net)
		84 points by jvoorhis on Jan 9, 2015 \| 70 comments
15.		Master Concurrent Processes with core.async (braveclojure.com)
		131 points by swannodette on Jan 9, 2015 \| 17 comments
16.		Abusing CSS3's nth-child selector to invent new ones (grack.com)
		93 points by mmastrac on Jan 9, 2015 \| 43 comments
17.		What was the first personal computer? (1999) (blinkenlights.com)
		69 points by jacquesm on Jan 8, 2015 \| 27 comments
18.		Why Bitcoin Core 0.10's release notes say “…libsecp256k1 is better than…OpenSSL” (reddit.com)
		137 points by bdr on Jan 9, 2015 \| 34 comments
19.		Terrain Rendering and GUIs with WebGL (zephyrosanemos.com)
		128 points by dshankar on Jan 9, 2015 \| 47 comments
20.		The history of grep (medium.com/rualthanzauva)
		72 points by danso on Jan 9, 2015 \| 14 comments
21.		The God Login (codinghorror.com)
		219 points by robin_reala on Jan 9, 2015 \| 129 comments
22.		How Reddit Sparked a Dialogue Between Scientists and the General Public (simonowens.net)
		73 points by zabramow on Jan 8, 2015 \| 28 comments
23.		Can Simplicity Scale? (2012) (regehr.org)
		66 points by minthd on Jan 9, 2015 \| 15 comments
24.		North Korea’s Naenara Web Browser: It’s Weirder Than We Thought (whitehatsec.com)
		117 points by ivank on Jan 9, 2015 \| 48 comments
25.		Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers (krebsonsecurity.com)
		104 points by wglb on Jan 9, 2015 \| 56 comments
26.		MongoDB Is Raising Another $100M (techcrunch.com)
		93 points by aquark on Jan 9, 2015 \| 120 comments
27.		The Problem with Music (1993) (thebaffler.com)
		65 points by bootload on Jan 9, 2015 \| 48 comments
28.		What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users?
		189 points by bw00d on Jan 9, 2015 \| 101 comments
29.		OpenNTPD 5.7p1 Released (undeadly.org)
		65 points by protomyth on Jan 9, 2015 \| 11 comments
30.		How to Become a Hacker (2001) (catb.org)
		69 points by jeremynixon on Jan 9, 2015 \| 41 comments
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