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1.		Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter (eff.org)
		700 points by sinak on Jan 24, 2015 \| 105 comments
2.		The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics (sleuthsayers.org)
		404 points by wallflower on Jan 24, 2015 \| 216 comments
3.		Open Food Facts – A free food products database (openfoodfacts.org)
		381 points by teolemon on Jan 24, 2015 \| 93 comments
4.		LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006) (wired.com)
		215 points by pmoriarty on Jan 24, 2015 \| 215 comments
5.		Purism Aims to Build a Philosophically Pure Laptop (techcrunch.com)
		200 points by ogcricket on Jan 24, 2015 \| 140 comments
6.		Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
		201 points by xvirk on Jan 24, 2015 \| 50 comments
7.		Code, Eval, Play, Loop – Common Lisp OpenGL Environment (github.com/cbaggers)
		139 points by _zhqs on Jan 24, 2015 \| 18 comments
8.		Know When to Run: The Story Behind the Xmas Kings Cross Problems (londonreconnections.com)
		119 points by lelf on Jan 24, 2015 \| 13 comments
9.		Day in the Life of a Google Manager (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
		179 points by Nimi on Jan 23, 2015 \| 87 comments
10.		Tough Times on the Road to StarCraft (codeofhonor.com)
		165 points by striking on Jan 24, 2015 \| 64 comments
11.		Octothorpe (99percentinvisible.org)
		126 points by jessaustin on Jan 24, 2015 \| 13 comments
12.		The hazards of too much stuff (bbc.co.uk)
		116 points by m-i-l on Jan 24, 2015 \| 56 comments
13.		Built on Sand: Singapore and the New State of Risk (harvarddesignmagazine.org)
		96 points by hboon on Jan 24, 2015 \| 11 comments
14.		Why Small Businesses Are Starting to Win Again (newyorker.com)
		93 points by ohjeez on Jan 24, 2015 \| 40 comments
15.		Making graphene affordable (tudelft.nl)
		130 points by Rafert on Jan 24, 2015 \| 4 comments
16.		Comparing Message Queue Architectures on AWS (forter.com)
		87 points by itaifrenkel on Jan 24, 2015 \| 42 comments
17.		Hipster Logo Generator (hipsterlogogenerator.com)
		183 points by DiabloD3 on Jan 24, 2015 \| 42 comments
18.		The Deep Mind of Demis Hassabis (medium.com/backchannel)
		60 points by sinwave on Jan 23, 2015 \| 13 comments
19.		Genetic brainfuck programming (github.com/r0nk)
		56 points by r00nk on Jan 23, 2015 \| 28 comments
20.		Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix [video] (youtube.com)
		56 points by pmoriarty on Jan 24, 2015 \| 8 comments
21.		Ask HN: Where to Register a Company When Being a Traveling Digital Nomad?
		151 points by dnohr on Jan 24, 2015 \| 82 comments
22.		When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid' (theatlantic.com)
		198 points by lelf on Jan 24, 2015 \| 232 comments
23.		Google legal may force developers to take down the Keyczar crypto library (groups.google.com)
		76 points by ayrx on Jan 24, 2015 \| 13 comments
24.		Why I Am Not a Maker (theatlantic.com)
		128 points by Tarrosion on Jan 23, 2015 \| 97 comments
25.		Science by democracy doesn’t work (medium.com/starts-with-a-bang)
		72 points by Red_Tarsius on Jan 24, 2015 \| 62 comments
26.		The Myth of the Megabyte Bitcoin Block (hashingit.com)
		42 points by ca98am79 on Jan 24, 2015 \| 4 comments
27.		Ask HN: All of you working with Big Data, what is your Data?
		117 points by sysk on Jan 24, 2015 \| 94 comments
28.		Graydon Hoare on Rust 1.0.0-alpha (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
		89 points by steveklabnik on Jan 24, 2015 \| 27 comments
29.		Back to the iPhone 5S (technologynotes.net)
		156 points by mpweiher on Jan 24, 2015 \| 114 comments
30.		Undocumented Twitter APIs [pdf] (seriot.ch)
		43 points by beefburger on Jan 24, 2015 \| 8 comments
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