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1. Reimplementing “git clone” in Haskell from the bottom up (2013) (saasen.me)
288 points by poppingtonic on Dec 7, 2014 | 39 comments
2. Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?
698 points by plinkplonk on Dec 7, 2014 | 110 comments
3. Superconductivity without cooling? (mpg.de)
191 points by Noelkd on Dec 7, 2014 | 19 comments
4. Valgrind is much more than a leak checking tool (logdown.com)
242 points by mallyvai on Dec 7, 2014 | 46 comments
5. ImageMagick, four point perspective distortion in a video (silveiraneto.net)
145 points by silveira on Dec 7, 2014 | 60 comments
6. Make your program slower with threads (brooker.co.za)
203 points by bbgm on Dec 7, 2014 | 47 comments
7. Confessions of a mortician (medium.com/matter)
127 points by uam on Dec 6, 2014 | 63 comments
8. Icdiff: side-by-side command line diffs (jefftk.com)
191 points by jefftk on Dec 7, 2014 | 53 comments
9. Please don't denigrate what a beginner is currently learning (pgbovine.net)
370 points by danso on Dec 7, 2014 | 157 comments
10. Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions (danluu.com)
185 points by luu on Dec 7, 2014 | 118 comments
11. Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez (techrepublic.com)
122 points by hoggle on Dec 6, 2014 | 16 comments
12. Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language (github.com/theberkin)
155 points by atlantique on Dec 7, 2014 | 36 comments
13. Endaga – Community Cellular Networks (endaga.com)
121 points by steeples on Dec 7, 2014 | 31 comments
14. Do Small-RAM Devices Have a Future? (2011) (regehr.org)
82 points by luu on Dec 6, 2014 | 49 comments
15. Zusie – My Relay Computer (nablaman.com)
160 points by new299 on Dec 7, 2014 | 21 comments
16. What’s happening with Secret? (gigaom.com)
85 points by lxm on Dec 7, 2014 | 50 comments
17. QEMU Advent Calendar 2014 (qemu-advent-calendar.org)
119 points by stevekemp on Dec 7, 2014 | 16 comments
18. NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter (nasa.gov)
100 points by frankydp on Dec 7, 2014 | 27 comments
19. The Return of Africa’s Strongmen (wsj.com)
40 points by tokenadult on Dec 7, 2014 | 24 comments
20. Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit (2008) (swtch.com)
46 points by frontsideair on Dec 6, 2014 | 17 comments
21. The Divine Comedy (1321) (italianstudies.org)
46 points by gizzlon on Dec 7, 2014 | 29 comments
22. The reason people burn out on open source (github.com/steveklabnik)
243 points by clukic on Dec 7, 2014 | 171 comments
23. Free Python Books (inventwithpython.com)
123 points by AlSweigart on Dec 7, 2014 | 19 comments
24. Lampsort: Leslie Lamport's Non-recursive Quicksort (bertrandmeyer.com)
93 points by mpweiher on Dec 7, 2014 | 44 comments
25. New Paypal gateway UI susceptible to spoofing (homakov.blogspot.com)
120 points by dsr12 on Dec 7, 2014 | 51 comments
26. How browsers get to know you in milliseconds (oreilly.com)
128 points by wallflower on Dec 7, 2014 | 52 comments
27. Khoisan have been the largest population throughout most of modern-human history (nature.com)
45 points by caiobegotti on Dec 7, 2014 | 8 comments
28. You can't dig upwards (evanmiller.org)
152 points by plg on Dec 7, 2014 | 144 comments
29. The High Cost of Free Parking (1997) [pdf] (uctc.net)
52 points by salmonellaeater on Dec 7, 2014 | 20 comments
30. Statistical Learning (stanford.edu)
89 points by sonabinu on Dec 7, 2014 | 9 comments

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