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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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