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1. Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha (rust-lang.org)
894 points by steveklabnik on Jan 9, 2015 | 243 comments
2. A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn (johnskylar.com)
629 points by timr on Jan 9, 2015 | 393 comments
3. ThorCon Power (thorconpower.com)
274 points by jf on Jan 9, 2015 | 91 comments
4. List of University Courses for Learning Computer Science (github.com/prakhar1989)
300 points by hising on Jan 9, 2015 | 47 comments
5. Code Review Checklist (fogcreek.com)
235 points by GarethX on Jan 9, 2015 | 56 comments
6. Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure (microsoft.com)
166 points by deegles on Jan 9, 2015 | 106 comments
7. The Tough Decision to Leave the Classroom (iamjwal.com)
308 points by washt on Jan 9, 2015 | 260 comments
8. Stanford to host 100-year study on artificial intelligence (stanford.edu)
127 points by bra-ket on Jan 9, 2015 | 38 comments
9. Practicing Programming (2005) (sites.google.com)
100 points by luu on Jan 9, 2015 | 25 comments
10. Most MS Patients Who Got Stem Cell Transplants Still in Remission Years Later (healthline.com)
122 points by adventured on Jan 8, 2015 | 25 comments
11. Mathematician's anger over his unread 500-page proof (newscientist.com)
126 points by ca98am79 on Jan 9, 2015 | 114 comments
12. Show HN: A modernized and annotated code companion to Paul Graham's “On Lisp” (github.com/dalekbaldwin)
93 points by DalekBaldwin on Jan 9, 2015 | 2 comments
13. Design of Lisp-Based Processors Or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode (1979) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
87 points by bootload on Jan 9, 2015 | 46 comments
14. Bitstamp is open for business (bitstamp.net)
84 points by jvoorhis on Jan 9, 2015 | 70 comments
15. Master Concurrent Processes with core.async (braveclojure.com)
131 points by swannodette on Jan 9, 2015 | 17 comments
16. Abusing CSS3's nth-child selector to invent new ones (grack.com)
93 points by mmastrac on Jan 9, 2015 | 43 comments
17. What was the first personal computer? (1999) (blinkenlights.com)
69 points by jacquesm on Jan 8, 2015 | 27 comments
18. Why Bitcoin Core 0.10's release notes say “…libsecp256k1 is better than…OpenSSL” (reddit.com)
137 points by bdr on Jan 9, 2015 | 34 comments
19. Terrain Rendering and GUIs with WebGL (zephyrosanemos.com)
128 points by dshankar on Jan 9, 2015 | 47 comments
20. The history of grep (medium.com/rualthanzauva)
72 points by danso on Jan 9, 2015 | 14 comments
21. The God Login (codinghorror.com)
219 points by robin_reala on Jan 9, 2015 | 129 comments
22. How Reddit Sparked a Dialogue Between Scientists and the General Public (simonowens.net)
73 points by zabramow on Jan 8, 2015 | 28 comments
23. Can Simplicity Scale? (2012) (regehr.org)
66 points by minthd on Jan 9, 2015 | 15 comments
24. North Korea’s Naenara Web Browser: It’s Weirder Than We Thought (whitehatsec.com)
117 points by ivank on Jan 9, 2015 | 48 comments
25. Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers (krebsonsecurity.com)
104 points by wglb on Jan 9, 2015 | 56 comments
26. MongoDB Is Raising Another $100M (techcrunch.com)
93 points by aquark on Jan 9, 2015 | 120 comments
27. The Problem with Music (1993) (thebaffler.com)
65 points by bootload on Jan 9, 2015 | 48 comments
28. What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users?
189 points by bw00d on Jan 9, 2015 | 101 comments
29. OpenNTPD 5.7p1 Released (undeadly.org)
65 points by protomyth on Jan 9, 2015 | 11 comments
30. How to Become a Hacker (2001) (catb.org)
69 points by jeremynixon on Jan 9, 2015 | 41 comments

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