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Matter.js – A 2D rigid body physics engine for the web (brm.io)
545 points by brbcoding on Jan 19, 2015 | 62 comments
2.
The Best Entrepreneur I Know (donpottinger.net)
312 points by strukturedkaos on Jan 19, 2015 | 60 comments
3.
Python Tips and Traps (airpair.com)
201 points by ryan_sb on Jan 19, 2015 | 45 comments
4.
Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2 (amazon.com)
167 points by tshtf on Jan 19, 2015 | 49 comments
5.
I think I've solved the Haskell records problem (nikita-volkov.github.io)
224 points by nikita-volkov on Jan 18, 2015 | 101 comments
6.
Slow-motion video of raindrops reveals how rain gets its distinctive smell (washingtonpost.com)
159 points by prateekj on Jan 19, 2015 | 20 comments
7.
N.S.A. Tapped into North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack, Officials Say (nytimes.com)
213 points by sciurus on Jan 19, 2015 | 149 comments
8.
The Groovy project is looking for a new home (glaforge.appspot.com)
130 points by varmais on Jan 19, 2015 | 68 comments
9.
SPARTAN: Procedural Tile Generator (pnjeffries.itch.io)
167 points by jsnell on Jan 18, 2015 | 15 comments
10.
LZHAM – Lossless compression with faster decompression than LZMA (code.google.com)
137 points by Arkanosis on Jan 19, 2015 | 36 comments
11.
Apple Software Quality Questions (mondaynote.com)
191 points by ingve on Jan 18, 2015 | 147 comments
12.
Fred's ImageMagick Scripts (fmwconcepts.com)
132 points by of on Jan 19, 2015 | 13 comments
13.
Shellfire – A repository of namespaced, composable shell function libraries (github.com/shellfire-dev)
123 points by raphcohn on Jan 19, 2015 | 27 comments
14.
Path Tracing 3D Fractals (hvidtfeldts.net)
171 points by arunc on Jan 19, 2015 | 17 comments
15.
The Whole Haystack: The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records (newyorker.com)
247 points by djoldman on Jan 19, 2015 | 162 comments
16.
Pets Allowed: Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn’t be? (newyorker.com)
176 points by wallflower on Jan 18, 2015 | 180 comments
17.
Lightbot: A simple programming game (lightbot.com)
127 points by abraham_s on Jan 19, 2015 | 28 comments
18.
Hacked. A Short Story (kukuruku.co)
147 points by skazka16 on Jan 19, 2015 | 46 comments
19.
An Analysis of Minecraft-like Engines (2012) (0fps.net)
81 points by galapago on Jan 18, 2015 | 13 comments
20.
QBasic game programming (balau82.wordpress.com)
74 points by StylifyYourBlog on Jan 19, 2015 | 34 comments
21.
Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others (nytimes.com)
119 points by HillRat on Jan 19, 2015 | 89 comments
22.
Hex Invaders (hexinvaders.com)
66 points by adamnemecek on Jan 19, 2015 | 16 comments
23.
Show HN: The Silicon C++14 Web Framework (github.com/matt-42)
140 points by matt42 on Jan 19, 2015 | 37 comments
24.
Node.js and io.js – Very different in performance (geekregator.com)
171 points by mschoebel on Jan 19, 2015 | 45 comments
25.
Photons that travel in free space slower than the speed of light (arxiv.org)
58 points by mwc on Jan 19, 2015 | 10 comments
26.
Striking parallels between mathematics and software engineering (oreilly.com)
78 points by datascientist on Jan 19, 2015 | 33 comments
27.
How We Failed at OpenStack (packet.net)
113 points by jsnell on Jan 19, 2015 | 57 comments
28.
Why Kim Dotcom hasn’t been extradited 3 years after the US smashed Megaupload (arstechnica.com)
95 points by thursdayb on Jan 19, 2015 | 36 comments
29.
Rome people publish a map of drug dealers to fight narcotraffic (google.com)
49 points by particolaro on Jan 18, 2015 | 30 comments
30.
Genetic Algorithm Walkers (rednuht.org)
122 points by clukic on Jan 19, 2015 | 74 comments

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