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1. Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
694 points by r721 on Dec 3, 2014 | 420 comments
2. Wire – Modern Communications Network (wire.com)
498 points by jkaljundi on Dec 3, 2014 | 402 comments
3. World's Simplest Electric Train [video] (youtube.com)
360 points by Turing_Machine on Dec 3, 2014 | 54 comments
4. Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count (plus.google.com)
530 points by stephenheron on Dec 2, 2014 | 226 comments
5. Hacking PayPal Accounts with one click (yasserali.com)
324 points by butwhy on Dec 3, 2014 | 99 comments
6. Why my book can be downloaded for free (plover.com)
257 points by draegtun on Dec 3, 2014 | 64 comments
7. 6 GHz frequency modulated radar (hforsten.com)
261 points by paulgerhardt on Dec 3, 2014 | 84 comments
8. Hy – A dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python (hylang.org)
313 points by colinprince on Dec 3, 2014 | 77 comments
9. Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting (wolfram.com)
281 points by lelf on Dec 3, 2014 | 43 comments
10. Why the data center needs an operating system (oreilly.com)
186 points by datascientist on Dec 3, 2014 | 97 comments
11. Aliens in the Valley: The History of Reddit (mashable.com)
154 points by pulakm on Dec 3, 2014 | 24 comments
12. Pay It Forward Design Bundle – 100% to Watsi (payitforwardbundle.com)
127 points by gracegarey on Dec 3, 2014 | 19 comments
13. Resumes suck for hiring engineers (alinelerner.com)
224 points by slyall on Dec 3, 2014 | 166 comments
14. Lecture 19: Sales and Marketing – How to Talk to Investors (samaltman.com)
130 points by TheBiv on Dec 3, 2014 | 25 comments
15. Firebug 3 and Multiprocess Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
116 points by bpierre on Dec 3, 2014 | 24 comments
16. How the Brain Uses Glucose to Fuel Self-Control (wsj.com)
130 points by softdev12 on Dec 3, 2014 | 103 comments
17. Hunting Task Wabbits (medium.com/matter)
105 points by kostyk on Dec 3, 2014 | 31 comments
18. System.Linq.Parallel Is Now Open Source (github.com/dotnet)
146 points by fekberg on Dec 3, 2014 | 59 comments
19. Programming Modern Systems Like It Was 1984 (dadgum.com)
142 points by spiffytech on Dec 3, 2014 | 80 comments
20. Incident Report – DDoS Attack (dnsimple.com)
146 points by alainmeier on Dec 3, 2014 | 38 comments
21. Law school applications collapse: Get ready for schools to start closing (slate.com)
131 points by lxm on Dec 3, 2014 | 126 comments
22. Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive (medium.com/blakeross)
224 points by primigenus on Dec 3, 2014 | 174 comments
23. Dürer's polyhedron: theories that explain Melencolia's crazy cube (theguardian.com)
75 points by ColinWright on Dec 3, 2014 | 9 comments
24. Images to Text – Toronto Deep Learning Demos (toronto.edu)
75 points by benanne on Dec 3, 2014 | 17 comments
25. Lispkit – A Lisp browser using WebKit (github.com/aeronotix)
75 points by wtbob on Dec 3, 2014 | 28 comments
26. Lessons learned while starting an online business (grassweb.com.au)
105 points by KatRid on Dec 3, 2014 | 17 comments
27. CPU DB, a database of processors for researchers and hobbyists (stanford.edu)
87 points by mpoloton on Dec 3, 2014 | 12 comments
28. XRay Unreal Engine 4.5 source code (codergears.com)
63 points by cppdesign on Dec 3, 2014 | 13 comments
29. The “Uncanny Valley” of L3 Cache Contention (bad-concurrency.blogspot.com)
86 points by r4um on Dec 3, 2014 | 11 comments
30. GitHub blocked in Russia (translate.google.com)
170 points by uldus on Dec 3, 2014 | 171 comments

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