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1. Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC (storehouse.co)
735 points by davidbarker on Jan 12, 2015 | 112 comments
2. Don't Talk to Corp Dev (paulgraham.com)
674 points by _pius on Jan 12, 2015 | 200 comments
3. KeySweeper – Arduino-based passive wireless keyboard sniffer (samy.pl)
462 points by mathetic on Jan 12, 2015 | 57 comments
4. What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers? (danluu.com)
305 points by StylifyYourBlog on Jan 12, 2015 | 71 comments
5. SQL, Scaling, and What's Unique About Postgres (citusdata.com)
253 points by spathak on Jan 12, 2015 | 23 comments
6. Duke Officials Silenced Med Student Who Reported Trouble in Anil Potti's Lab (cancerletter.com)
261 points by Fede_V on Jan 12, 2015 | 55 comments
7. Dark Sky has a new owner (forecast.io)
206 points by achariam on Jan 12, 2015 | 55 comments
8. Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD (networkfilter.blogspot.com)
264 points by fcambus on Jan 11, 2015 | 60 comments
9. Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients (techcrunch.com)
301 points by bhaumik on Jan 12, 2015 | 115 comments
10. The Scale of AWS and What It Means for the Future of the Cloud (highscalability.com)
178 points by StylifyYourBlog on Jan 12, 2015 | 58 comments
11. Lua 5.3: integers, bitwise operators, and a basic UTF-8 library (lua.org)
176 points by dottrap on Jan 12, 2015 | 60 comments
12. Motorola Moto E modifications for anti-surveillance (torproject.org)
170 points by zmanian on Jan 12, 2015 | 48 comments
13. Operating System Development in Rust (github.com/rust-lang)
160 points by krenoten on Jan 11, 2015 | 67 comments
14. Parsley: a simple language for extracting structured data from web pages (github.com/fizx)
149 points by pmoriarty on Jan 11, 2015 | 24 comments
15. Remote code execution in Asus router firmware (github.com/jduck)
125 points by martinp on Jan 12, 2015 | 41 comments
16. Why is Golang popular in China? (herman.asia)
159 points by signa11 on Jan 12, 2015 | 100 comments
17. How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you? (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
115 points by dilap on Jan 12, 2015 | 51 comments
18. Automatic server hardening framework (telekomlabs.github.io)
120 points by dewey on Jan 12, 2015 | 20 comments
19. Ask HN: Techniques for surviving a job you loathe?
128 points by trevaa on Jan 11, 2015 | 80 comments
20. Tips for Intermediate Git Users (andyjeffries.co.uk)
132 points by pmoriarty on Jan 12, 2015 | 35 comments
21. Alexander Grothendieck, the secret genius of mathematics (al3x.svbtle.com)
95 points by ar7hur on Jan 11, 2015 | 15 comments
22. Reimplementing TeX's Algorithms: Looking Back at Thirty Years of Programming (infoq.com)
91 points by sdesimone on Jan 12, 2015 | 65 comments
23. What's new in CSS Selectors 4 (grack.com)
70 points by mmastrac on Jan 12, 2015 | 21 comments
24. Writing Off the Warhol Next Door (nytimes.com)
70 points by achariam on Jan 12, 2015 | 39 comments
25. What the archives of academic job ads can tell us (jgoodwin.net)
60 points by benbreen on Jan 12, 2015 | 16 comments
26. Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations at Spotify (slideshare.net)
93 points by flying_whale on Jan 12, 2015 | 10 comments
27. Finish one thing today (finishonethingtoday.com)
246 points by jacobwyke on Jan 12, 2015 | 50 comments
28. Icono – Pure CSS icons with only one element (saeedalipoor.github.io)
139 points by Nieminen on Jan 12, 2015 | 20 comments
29. New York's Newest Skyscraper Is 32 Floors of Prefab Apartments (fastcoexist.com)
65 points by nols on Jan 12, 2015 | 26 comments
30. What Happened to Old School NLP? (languagengine.co)
91 points by psygnisfive on Jan 12, 2015 | 47 comments

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