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1. Quake on an oscilloscope (lofibucket.com)
859 points by markmassie on Dec 29, 2014 | 70 comments
2. Software engineers should write (shubhro.com)
318 points by shbhrsaha on Dec 29, 2014 | 159 comments
3. The best things and stuff of 2014 (fogus.me)
314 points by untothebreach on Dec 29, 2014 | 26 comments
4. Gmail blocked in China (reuters.com)
261 points by brandonheato on Dec 29, 2014 | 179 comments
5. William Gibson: How I wrote Neuromancer (theguardian.com)
227 points by _pius on Dec 29, 2014 | 91 comments
6. From Gongkai to Open Source (bunniestudios.com)
192 points by kentlyons on Dec 28, 2014 | 23 comments
7. The Benefits of Being Cold (theatlantic.com)
247 points by lxm on Dec 29, 2014 | 176 comments
8. Julia is awesome, but.. (danluu.com)
178 points by mfsch on Dec 29, 2014 | 66 comments
9. Nim Programming Language Tutorial (nim-lang.org)
136 points by j-b on Dec 29, 2014 | 31 comments
10. Everything we know Google is working on for the new year (arstechnica.com)
141 points by sciurus on Dec 29, 2014 | 72 comments
11. My OpenBSD Story (michaelwlucas.com)
144 points by wmat on Dec 28, 2014 | 32 comments
12. Copy protection scheme that was used for Dungeon Master on Atari ST and Amiga (dmweb.free.fr)
163 points by bigbugbag on Dec 29, 2014 | 109 comments
13. Math from Three to Seven: Chapters One and Three [pdf] (ams.org)
116 points by Mz on Dec 29, 2014 | 21 comments
14. King of Clickbait (newyorker.com)
120 points by lambtron on Dec 29, 2014 | 54 comments
15. A Gentle Introduction to Data Compression (bertolami.com)
109 points by ramen2387 on Dec 29, 2014 | 15 comments
16. Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released (nim-lang.org)
199 points by def- on Dec 29, 2014 | 140 comments
17. Diary of a little girl in old New York (1919) (archive.org)
90 points by mcenedella on Dec 29, 2014 | 15 comments
18. Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures (endrift.com)
161 points by jpfau on Dec 29, 2014 | 26 comments
19. Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat (vikparuchuri.com)
100 points by vikp on Dec 29, 2014 | 46 comments
20. If you're using YYYY in your JVM service or %G in anything, fix it now
228 points by pinaceae on Dec 29, 2014 | 73 comments
21. Things which aren't magic – Flask and app.route (ains.co)
160 points by StylifyYourBlog on Dec 29, 2014 | 33 comments
22. Who Is Watching You? (medium.com/backchannel)
131 points by r0h1n on Dec 29, 2014 | 20 comments
23. How Paul Graham Is Wrong (ma.tt)
301 points by kaws on Dec 29, 2014 | 198 comments
24. The New Computer Chess World Champion (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
78 points by bdr on Dec 29, 2014 | 22 comments
25. Introduction to Microcontrollers (2007) [pdf] (tuwien.ac.at)
79 points by cinquemb on Dec 29, 2014 | 5 comments
26. OpenELEC 5.0 (openelec.tv)
109 points by forlorn on Dec 29, 2014 | 33 comments
27. Show HN: New Hacker News web client (ernews.info)
128 points by antouank on Dec 29, 2014 | 81 comments
28. Some gripes about nacl (tedunangst.com)
81 points by zdw on Dec 29, 2014 | 44 comments
29. The Implications of Facebook Indexing a Trillion Posts (techcrunch.com)
89 points by testrun on Dec 29, 2014 | 30 comments
30. Blimps Protecting Washington, D.C (fastcompany.com)
57 points by dnetesn on Dec 29, 2014 | 47 comments

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