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31.
Debugging with Hypotheses (ayronwohletz.com)
30 points by nkurz on Jan 17, 2015 | 7 comments
32.
Forgot your Windows 98 password? No problem (imgur.com)
88 points by nerdhard on Jan 17, 2015 | 16 comments
33.
The number of seed rounds in 2014 fell compared to 2013 (techcrunch.com)
87 points by dmor on Jan 17, 2015 | 69 comments
34.
Study: The Effects of Line Length on Reading Online News (2008) (wichita.edu)
37 points by Audiophilip on Jan 17, 2015 | 14 comments
35.
Early British Computers (1980) (ed-thelen.org)
19 points by omnibrain on Jan 17, 2015 | 3 comments
36.
Ex-Googler: 'Tons of Engineers' Want to Leave Google (yahoo.com)
118 points by ethana on Jan 17, 2015 | 54 comments
37.
UTM Mangler (github.com/huntwelch)
30 points by smacktoward on Jan 16, 2015 | 14 comments
38.
Amid Bitcoin's Bloodbath, Silence from Silicon Valley Press (realclearmarkets.com)
102 points by lmg643 on Jan 17, 2015 | 85 comments
39.
Trolling Marketers for Profit and Pleasure (stilldrinking.org)
20 points by jeffreyrogers on Jan 17, 2015 | 15 comments
40.
Jayfor: LLVM based programming language written in C (github.com/jayfor-lang)
32 points by StylifyYourBlog on Jan 16, 2015 | 5 comments
41.
CSS Styles for cooler looking ascii-art (briankhuu.com)
32 points by mofosyne on Jan 17, 2015 | 12 comments
42.
Report of an NSA Employee about a Backdoor in the OpenSSH Daemon (2012) [pdf] (spiegel.de)
61 points by Audiophilip on Jan 17, 2015 | 20 comments
43.
 [dupe] The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007) (marktarver.com)
61 points by S4M on Jan 17, 2015 | 11 comments
44.
Flash Boys in the US Treasury Market (medium.com/jgreco)
20 points by jim_greco on Jan 17, 2015 | 17 comments
45.
Systemd can now pull and update container images from the Internet (plus.google.com)
57 points by catern on Jan 17, 2015 | 70 comments
46.
Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity Attacks (2003) (usenix.org)
13 points by xvirk on Jan 17, 2015 | 1 comment
47.
Film Chemistry: “The Alchemist in Hollywood” (1940) (youtube.com)
9 points by davidbarker on Jan 17, 2015
48.
Ask HN: If an AI had slipped into the world would we notice?
40 points by onebyone on Jan 17, 2015 | 50 comments
49.
Jacob Bernoulli’s Legacy in Mathematica (wolfram.com)
13 points by lelf on Jan 17, 2015
50.
Backroom Boys (2003) (theguardian.com)
11 points by jacquesm on Jan 17, 2015 | 2 comments
51.
Listening to the Star Wars Soundtrack in a Pygmy Village (theatlantic.com)
18 points by __Joker on Jan 17, 2015 | 1 comment
52.
BICOM: BIjective COMpressor (sympatico.ca)
8 points by theoh on Jan 17, 2015 | 2 comments
53.
Guthman Musical Instrument Competition Semi Finalists (gatech.edu)
16 points by lerch on Jan 16, 2015
54.
RFC 1925 (rfc-base.org)
12 points by markmassie on Jan 17, 2015 | 1 comment
55.
Kick Over the Scenery – Novels by Philip K. Dick (2008) (lrb.co.uk)
9 points by hownottowrite on Jan 17, 2015
56.
Rdbms-subsetter: An Open-Source Tool for Easier Database Testing (github.com/18f)
9 points by eddie_31003 on Jan 17, 2015 | 1 comment
57.
Venture Funding of U.S. Startups Last Year Was Most Since 2000 (bloomberg.com)
10 points by T-A on Jan 16, 2015 | 1 comment
58.
Refresh for a new OS, VMs as homepage backgrounds (benjojo.co.uk)
13 points by benjojo12 on Jan 17, 2015 | 3 comments
59.
At 18, I've just launched my first company (reactivefusion.co)
11 points by reactivefusion on Jan 17, 2015 | 9 comments
60.
Chernoff Faces (gnarmis.github.io)
7 points by mkempe on Jan 17, 2015 | 1 comment

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