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1. Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster (aadrake.com)
812 points by wglb on Jan 18, 2015 | 309 comments
2. Show HN: Adopted a dog, had no clue what meds she needed, did some research (dogmedicationdb.com)
252 points by youngj on Jan 18, 2015 | 73 comments
3. How Amazon Tricks You into Thinking It Always Has the Lowest Prices (recode.net)
288 points by xmpir on Jan 18, 2015 | 101 comments
4. Salary negotiations for techies (2011) (jacquesmattheij.com)
299 points by pmoriarty on Jan 18, 2015 | 226 comments
5. Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (mjt.me.uk)
206 points by ColinWright on Jan 18, 2015 | 147 comments
6. Conception – An experimental modern IDE written in Go (github.com/shurcool)
215 points by baumbart on Jan 18, 2015 | 78 comments
7. Alligator Eggs (worrydream.com)
158 points by jmduke on Jan 18, 2015 | 24 comments
8. Ask HN: How do you find freelance/contract gigs?
275 points by eatonphil on Jan 18, 2015 | 107 comments
9. Getting started contributing to Rust (kmcallister.github.io)
133 points by adamnemecek on Jan 17, 2015 | 6 comments
10. This American Life: Batman (thisamericanlife.org)
135 points by noobermin on Jan 18, 2015 | 25 comments
11. FuzzBeed – Randomly generated BuzzFeed (fuzzzbeed.herokuapp.com)
126 points by anubiann00b on Jan 18, 2015 | 34 comments
12. HTTPS Watch (httpswatch.com)
136 points by kingkilr on Jan 18, 2015 | 56 comments
13. [dupe] Light captured at 100B frames per second (vice.com)
166 points by davidbarker on Jan 18, 2015 | 27 comments
14. A list of cool features of Git and GitHub (github.com/tiimgreen)
164 points by lmedinas on Jan 18, 2015 | 24 comments
15. Why Perl Didn't Win (outspeaking.com)
178 points by aiurtourist on Jan 18, 2015 | 183 comments
16. Silicon Valley History (patrickcollison.com)
85 points by rmason on Jan 17, 2015 | 25 comments
17. gettimeofday() should never be used to measure time (pp.se)
95 points by aethertap on Jan 18, 2015 | 41 comments
18. Forcing code out of line in GCC and C++11 (xania.org)
96 points by luu on Jan 18, 2015 | 24 comments
19. A Case Study of Toyota Unintended Acceleration and Software Safety (betterembsw.blogspot.com)
95 points by mzehrer on Jan 17, 2015 | 86 comments
20. Attacks on 'Insecure' Progressive Insurace Dongle Could Spawn Road Carnage (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
86 points by thealexknapp on Jan 18, 2015 | 34 comments
21. Obama Sides with Cameron in Encryption Fight (wsj.com)
189 points by paralelogram on Jan 17, 2015 | 141 comments
22. RethinkDB with io.js: exploring ES6 generators and the future of JavaScript (rethinkdb.com)
67 points by mglukhovsky on Jan 17, 2015 | 4 comments
23. Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video] (youtube.com)
106 points by syswsi on Jan 18, 2015 | 26 comments
24. “It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (1997) (loc.gov)
95 points by declan on Jan 18, 2015 | 42 comments
25. What's Stopping Me Using Java8 Lambdas – Try Debugging Them (rationaljava.com)
57 points by xvirk on Jan 18, 2015 | 42 comments
26. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (nist.gov)
68 points by jacquesm on Jan 17, 2015 | 4 comments
27. Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001) (chrisdone.com)
142 points by karshan on Jan 18, 2015 | 116 comments
28. Critical Vulnerability in Verizon Mobile API Compromising User Email Accounts (randywestergren.com)
78 points by rwestergren on Jan 18, 2015 | 16 comments
29. What the Swiss Franc Appreciation Means (foreignpolicy.com)
68 points by kposehn on Jan 18, 2015 | 50 comments
30. Web MIDI API (webaudio.github.io)
66 points by dgellow on Jan 18, 2015 | 17 comments

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