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1. Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps (accidentalscientist.com)
433 points by jfuhrman on Dec 24, 2014 | 125 comments
2. Mozilla Research Projects (mozilla.org)
440 points by yuashizuki on Dec 24, 2014 | 92 comments
3. Atom Shell: Cross-platform desktop application shell (github.com/atom)
182 points by kartikkumar on Dec 24, 2014 | 59 comments
4. Adventures in Piano Building (medium.com/hackmancoltaire)
173 points by cevn on Dec 24, 2014 | 30 comments
5. UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video] (vimeo.com)
282 points by blkhp19 on Dec 24, 2014 | 238 comments
6. Turf – A modular GIS engine written in JavaScript (turfjs.org)
137 points by uptown on Dec 24, 2014 | 22 comments
7. The world is not falling apart: The trend lines (slate.com)
205 points by crgt on Dec 24, 2014 | 111 comments
8. Julian Assange: Why I Founded WikiLeaks (newsweek.com)
121 points by CorsairSanglot on Dec 24, 2014 | 65 comments
9. OpenSSD – Open firmware for SSDs (openssd-project.org)
164 points by uaygsfdbzf on Dec 24, 2014 | 43 comments
10. No more JavaScript frameworks (bitworking.org)
241 points by hit8run on Dec 24, 2014 | 161 comments
11. Dataframes – Julia, R, Python (ajkl.github.io)
106 points by ajinkyakale on Dec 24, 2014 | 36 comments
12. Why is everyone so busy? (economist.com)
252 points by Futurebot on Dec 24, 2014 | 213 comments
13. Slur, a decentralized, anonymous, Bitcoin-based marketplace for information (slur.io)
125 points by pervycreeper on Dec 24, 2014 | 53 comments
14. Introduction to Modern Brain-Computer Interface Design (ucsd.edu)
110 points by MichaelAO on Dec 24, 2014 | 12 comments
15. Google and Microsoft Oppose Hotels’ Effort to Block Personal Wi-Fi (wsj.com)
115 points by ademarre on Dec 24, 2014 | 51 comments
16. Intel’s e-DRAM Shows Up in the Wild (chipworksrealchips.blogspot.com)
97 points by jacquesm on Dec 24, 2014 | 17 comments
17. Bitcoin guide (stripe.com)
127 points by _noqo on Dec 24, 2014 | 35 comments
18. Linux on an 8-bit micro (2012) (dmitry.gr)
125 points by pant on Dec 24, 2014 | 44 comments
19. Computer intrusion inflicts massive damage on German steel factory (itworld.com)
123 points by Evolved on Dec 23, 2014 | 77 comments
20. What happens when a software bot goes on a darknet shopping spree? (theguardian.com)
78 points by DeltaWhy on Dec 24, 2014 | 29 comments
21. How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine (gist.github.com)
103 points by dltj on Dec 23, 2014 | 22 comments
22. Mozilla Shumway: A Flash VM and runtime written in JavaScript (github.com/mozilla)
105 points by ot on Dec 24, 2014 | 35 comments
23. We Are Built to Be Kind [video] (youtube.com)
90 points by SwellJoe on Dec 24, 2014 | 33 comments
24. In Defense of Inclusionism (2011) (gwern.net)
106 points by gchpaco on Dec 24, 2014 | 59 comments
25. Did North Korea Really Attack Sony? (schneier.com)
173 points by dozy on Dec 24, 2014 | 99 comments
26. Hologram: taking EC2 Instance Roles everywhere (adroll.com)
84 points by nnx on Dec 24, 2014 | 26 comments
27. Resurrecting the 8088 Micoprocessor (zixg.com)
68 points by tyrick on Dec 23, 2014 | 23 comments
28. Google has now ‘forgotten’ more than a quarter-million URLs (washingtonpost.com)
94 points by lelf on Dec 23, 2014 | 44 comments
29. 15-440: Distributed Systems Syllabus (cmu.edu)
126 points by krat0sprakhar on Dec 24, 2014 | 20 comments
30. The Canadian Mincome Experiment of 1974-79 (huffingtonpost.ca)
119 points by tempestn on Dec 24, 2014 | 97 comments

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