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1. A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building (californiasunday.com)
673 points by samclemens on Jan 5, 2015 | 177 comments
2. Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles (stephendiehl.com)
472 points by tenslisi on Jan 5, 2015 | 47 comments
3. Kyoto taxi drivers reduce robberies by 50 percent by doing nothing (rocketnews24.com)
364 points by mef on Jan 4, 2015 | 145 comments
4. Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance (nytimes.com)
270 points by forgotAgain on Jan 5, 2015 | 132 comments
5. A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015 (obspm.fr)
203 points by TheSwordsman on Jan 5, 2015 | 109 comments
6. Show HN: WordsAPI (wordsapi.com)
263 points by impostervt on Jan 5, 2015 | 75 comments
7. The 2014 Panic Report (panic.com)
210 points by jmduke on Jan 5, 2015 | 44 comments
8. How Software in Half of NYC Cabs Generates $5.2M a Year in Extra Tips (iquantny.tumblr.com)
268 points by iquantny on Jan 5, 2015 | 218 comments
9. Corman Lisp sources are now available (xach.com)
178 points by lispm on Jan 5, 2015 | 27 comments
10. Introducing Google Cast for audio (chrome.blogspot.com)
232 points by Navarr on Jan 5, 2015 | 166 comments
11. Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013) (plosone.org)
187 points by officialjunk on Jan 5, 2015 | 56 comments
12. Wit.ai (YC W14) Is Joining Facebook (wit.ai)
217 points by ar7hur on Jan 5, 2015 | 50 comments
13. Apple has lost the functional high ground (marco.org)
453 points by milen on Jan 5, 2015 | 325 comments
14. Pokémon plays Twitch: How a robot got IRC running on an unmodified SNES (arstechnica.com)
160 points by minimaxir on Jan 5, 2015 | 27 comments
15. Disneyland with the Death Penalty (1993) (wired.com)
125 points by kurren on Jan 5, 2015 | 71 comments
16. Now available: auto-scaling PostgreSQL deployments (compose.io)
139 points by mrkurt on Jan 5, 2015 | 46 comments
17. Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades (2012) (wired.com)
104 points by entangld on Jan 5, 2015 | 28 comments
18. FlickSurfer – a way to find Netflix gems (flicksurfer.com)
124 points by trashymctrash on Jan 4, 2015 | 56 comments
19. Georgia Tech Student Indicted in UGA Hack (nytimes.com)
98 points by dsugarman on Jan 5, 2015 | 54 comments
20. BLOKK – A font for clients who don't understand lorem ipsum (blokkfont.com)
214 points by Garbage on Jan 5, 2015 | 65 comments
21. Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition (battlecode.org)
98 points by dvorak42 on Jan 5, 2015 | 23 comments
22. Bitstamp Accounts Frozen
190 points by TwoFactor on Jan 5, 2015 | 107 comments
23. When a Cartoonist Landed in L.A. County Jail, She Drew What She Saw (laweekly.com)
186 points by Mz on Jan 4, 2015 | 112 comments
24. The future of work: There’s an app for that (economist.com)
84 points by wallflower on Jan 5, 2015 | 21 comments
25. On El Capitan’s Dawn Wall, Climb Thought to Be Toughest Progresses Slowly (nytimes.com)
100 points by wallflower on Jan 5, 2015 | 40 comments
26. Gallery of animations that explain math ideas (wikipedia.org)
79 points by mihau on Jan 4, 2015 | 1 comment
27. Denthor's Graphics Tutorials: Why I am a Programmer (alfie.wtf)
89 points by alfiedotwtf on Jan 5, 2015 | 59 comments
28. Almost No Patented Discoveries Get Used (wired.com)
179 points by Libertatea on Jan 5, 2015 | 129 comments
29. What Is Aging? Most Scientists Still Get It Wrong (scienceblog.com)
197 points by sjcsjc on Jan 5, 2015 | 130 comments
30. What most young programmers need to learn (joostdevblog.blogspot.com)
203 points by GarethX on Jan 5, 2015 | 106 comments

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