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1. Emacs Rocks (emacsrocks.com)
361 points by pmoriarty on Nov 16, 2014 | 112 comments
2. Getting Better at Getting Better (newyorker.com)
236 points by juanplusjuan on Nov 16, 2014 | 76 comments
3. ChartSQL: Create Charts and Dashboards from SQL (fnordmetric.io)
271 points by paulasmuth on Nov 16, 2014 | 72 comments
4. The Beauty of LaTeX (2011) (nitens.org)
197 points by pmoriarty on Nov 16, 2014 | 128 comments
5. Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying (bloomberg.com)
138 points by jacquesm on Nov 16, 2014 | 99 comments
6. Show HN: SineRider, a game inspired by my TI-86 (sineridergame.com)
137 points by SigmaEpsilonChi on Nov 16, 2014 | 32 comments
7. Lyra: An Interactive Visualization Design Environment (washington.edu)
111 points by jcr on Nov 16, 2014 | 12 comments
8. A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf] (alvyray.com)
118 points by rinesh on Nov 16, 2014 | 64 comments
9. Nineteenth century machine that performs Fourier analysis (engineerguy.com)
86 points by Phithagoras on Nov 15, 2014 | 28 comments
10. Gravity: An orbital simulation game written in Elm (github.com/stephenbalaban)
62 points by of on Nov 15, 2014 | 22 comments
11. Still Here, Part 1: A Memoir (randi.io)
206 points by panic on Nov 16, 2014 | 210 comments
12. Somebody’s Already Using Verizon’s ID to Track Users (propublica.org)
184 points by uptown on Nov 16, 2014 | 104 comments
13. Foundations of Computational Agents (2010) (artint.info)
42 points by spw on Nov 15, 2014 | 5 comments
14. Netflix Pulls Plug on Public API (techcrunch.com)
127 points by bananaoomarang on Nov 16, 2014 | 100 comments
15. Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? (1997) (ucr.edu)
102 points by solray on Nov 16, 2014 | 86 comments
16. Receiving NOAA Weather Images with SDR (2013) (rtl-sdr.com)
63 points by ironchief on Nov 15, 2014 | 6 comments
17. Performance Tuning EC2 Instances (slideshare.net)
89 points by vinnyglennon on Nov 16, 2014 | 11 comments
18. Regular Expressions in OCaml (rgrinberg.com)
61 points by luu on Nov 16, 2014 | 2 comments
19. DieHard: An error-resistant memory allocator for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (github.com/emeryberger)
64 points by lgeek on Nov 16, 2014 | 17 comments
20. Battery Optimization for Android Apps (slideshare.net)
74 points by vinnyglennon on Nov 16, 2014 | 24 comments
21. Why Did Google Decide to Split Inbox from Gmail? (techcrunch.com)
126 points by alexbash on Nov 16, 2014 | 97 comments
22. The Masterful Marketing of the Heimlich Maneuver (psmag.com)
69 points by Thevet on Nov 16, 2014 | 35 comments
23. The Move from Linux to FreeBSD (nileshgr.com)
118 points by pmoriarty on Nov 16, 2014 | 95 comments
24. The Fastest For-In Loops in the Whole Wide Web (pointersgonewild.com)
74 points by acc00 on Nov 16, 2014 | 2 comments
25. Mind-controlled transgene expression by a wireless-powered designer cell implant (nature.com)
37 points by benbreen on Nov 16, 2014 | 10 comments
26. Resignation from the pkg-systemd maintainer team (debian.org)
195 points by deng on Nov 16, 2014 | 162 comments
27. Interview with Joe Haldeman (andrewliptak.com)
28 points by curtis on Nov 16, 2014 | 4 comments
28. Show HN: Our Bayes Impact Hackathon Project, MineData.org (minedata.org)
56 points by philip1209 on Nov 16, 2014 | 17 comments
29. Level Playing Field (mattcutts.com)
97 points by julien on Nov 16, 2014 | 72 comments
30. Japan's levitating maglev train reaches 500km/h (bbc.com)
92 points by mwc on Nov 16, 2014 | 49 comments

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