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1. Look, no hands (looknohands.me)
698 points by jamesisaac on Dec 28, 2014 | 140 comments
2. Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security (spiegel.de)
595 points by FabianBeiner on Dec 28, 2014 | 165 comments
3. Neat Algorithms: Paxos (harry.me)
331 points by hbrundage on Dec 28, 2014 | 38 comments
4. MozJPEG 3.0 (perfplanet.com)
290 points by ssttoo on Dec 28, 2014 | 64 comments
5. List of Computer Science Courses (github.com/prakhar1989)
323 points by denismars on Dec 28, 2014 | 63 comments
6. Chrome DevTools outside of the browser (kenneth.io)
227 points by gidea on Dec 28, 2014 | 28 comments
7. That Debt from 1720? Britain’s Payment Is Coming (nytimes.com)
183 points by benbreen on Dec 28, 2014 | 132 comments
8. Masscan: Scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes (github.com/robertdavidgraham)
147 points by pmoriarty on Dec 27, 2014 | 29 comments
9. SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate [video] (ccc.de)
125 points by moe on Dec 27, 2014 | 24 comments
10. When rational thinking is correlated with intelligence the correlation is modest (scientificamerican.com)
120 points by lkrubner on Dec 27, 2014 | 83 comments
11. Save, Create and Run Your Own Pirate Bay (isohunt.to)
151 points by jacquesm on Dec 28, 2014 | 97 comments
12. The World of Linux System Calls (sysdigcloud.com)
137 points by nkurz on Dec 28, 2014 | 12 comments
13. Virtually all TV comedies, from Seinfeld to South Park, follow a simple formula (theatlantic.com)
163 points by samclemens on Dec 28, 2014 | 56 comments
14. A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013) (pomax.github.io)
114 points by davidbarker on Dec 28, 2014 | 23 comments
15. “The Great Plate Count Anomaly” that is no more (asmblog.org)
102 points by alexwg on Dec 28, 2014 | 7 comments
16. What is good running technique? (runningtechniquebook.com)
120 points by jgrodziski on Dec 28, 2014 | 55 comments
17. Patients do better when cardiologists are away at academic meetings (theincidentaleconomist.com)
104 points by lelf on Dec 27, 2014 | 50 comments
18. A tale of two’s complement (rust-lang.org)
90 points by adwn on Dec 28, 2014 | 21 comments
19. The future of jobs: The onrushing wave (economist.com)
164 points by bootload on Dec 27, 2014 | 137 comments
20. What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools? (washingtonpost.com)
154 points by wallflower on Dec 28, 2014 | 154 comments
21. Redesiging a Broken Internet: Cory Doctorow [video] (youtube.com)
69 points by getdavidhiggins on Dec 28, 2014 | 35 comments
22. Interactive Programming in C (nullprogram.com)
127 points by luu on Dec 27, 2014 | 15 comments
23. James Golick has died (twitter.com/jill380)
198 points by waffle_ss on Dec 28, 2014 | 41 comments
24. How Instacart Built Its On-Demand Grocery Delivery Service (stackshare.io)
67 points by tijs on Dec 28, 2014 | 12 comments
25. Scalatex: Type-safe, programmable documents (github.com/lihaoyi)
59 points by lihaoyi on Dec 28, 2014 | 11 comments
26. How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View (technologyreview.com)
59 points by nkurz on Dec 28, 2014 | 24 comments
27. Microservices – Not a free lunch (highscalability.com)
153 points by olalonde on Dec 28, 2014 | 84 comments
28. The Synapse Memory Doctrine Threatened? (discovermagazine.com)
51 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 28, 2014 | 8 comments
29. Psychologists Strike a Blow for Reproducibility (2013) (nature.com)
84 points by jcr on Dec 28, 2014 | 27 comments
30. Planet Ruby (planetruby.herokuapp.com)
51 points by berkes on Dec 28, 2014 | 8 comments

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