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1. Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs (extremetech.com)
748 points by lelf on Dec 27, 2014 | 400 comments
2. Slow, flexible and cheap: Six years of development to create a rubber hexagon (medium.com/dome-kit)
255 points by MichaelAO on Dec 27, 2014 | 33 comments
3. Selling to the Fortune 500, Government, and Other Lovecraftian Horrors (kalzumeus.com)
295 points by zeeshanm on Dec 26, 2014 | 62 comments
4. The Wire in HD (davidsimon.com)
292 points by danso on Dec 27, 2014 | 40 comments
5. 31C3 Streaming: Saal 1 – SD Video (ccc.de)
165 points by aestetix on Dec 27, 2014 | 34 comments
6. The Real-time Web: How to Get Millisecond Updates with REST (imvu.com)
167 points by jwatte on Dec 27, 2014 | 23 comments
7. Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?
246 points by sciguy77 on Dec 26, 2014 | 139 comments
8. How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan (talkingpointsmemo.com)
161 points by gscott on Dec 27, 2014 | 49 comments
9. Apollo 11 Flight Plan – Final [pdf] (nasa.gov)
110 points by ColinWright on Dec 27, 2014 | 23 comments
10. Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25 (code.google.com)
269 points by diafygi on Dec 27, 2014 | 194 comments
11. Functional Operating System and Security Protocol Engineering (openmirage.org)
115 points by mrry on Dec 27, 2014 | 9 comments
12. Robdns – A fast DNS server based on C10M principles (github.com/robertdavidgraham)
120 points by sanxiyn on Dec 27, 2014 | 54 comments
13. Sandy bridge, Ivy bridge, Haswell and the mess of Intel processors feature list (ilsistemista.net)
116 points by shodanshok on Dec 26, 2014 | 69 comments
14. Internal Versus External BLOBs in SQLite (sqlite.org)
96 points by raphaelj on Dec 27, 2014 | 51 comments
15. Self-Hosting Google Web Fonts (ranf.tl)
100 points by majodev on Dec 27, 2014 | 54 comments
16. Woo: Fast HTTP Server in Common Lisp (github.com/fukamachi)
100 points by momo-reina on Dec 27, 2014 | 40 comments
17. Demolished: The End of Chicago's Public Housing (npr.org)
104 points by _nullandnull_ on Dec 27, 2014 | 64 comments
18. Fernvale: An Open Hardware and Software Platform (ccc.de)
74 points by zdw on Dec 27, 2014 | 19 comments
19. Home for the holidays, and for a 20-year-old issue of PC Magazine (theverge.com)
49 points by Thevet on Dec 27, 2014 | 29 comments
20. The Software Scientist (evanmiller.org)
89 points by carljoseph on Dec 27, 2014 | 49 comments
21. Inferno OS (c2.com)
86 points by pmoriarty on Dec 27, 2014 | 48 comments
22. Show HN: Download and inline Google web fonts from the command-line (github.com/mmastrac)
64 points by mmastrac on Dec 27, 2014 | 13 comments
23. Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) (depauw.edu)
85 points by pmoriarty on Dec 26, 2014 | 22 comments
24. Binaural Sound with the Web Audio API (kaistale.com)
55 points by kabla on Dec 27, 2014 | 8 comments
25. Statisticians in World War II (economist.com)
67 points by mlla on Dec 27, 2014 | 7 comments
26. The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (lambdassociates.org)
83 points by auvi on Dec 27, 2014 | 25 comments
27. Downtown is for People (1958) (fortune.com)
65 points by wallflower on Dec 27, 2014 | 2 comments
28. When you have to wake up earlier than usual (42floors.com)
72 points by sethbannon on Dec 27, 2014 | 28 comments
29. Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages (github.com/dobiasd)
207 points by linhmtran168 on Dec 27, 2014 | 207 comments
30. Bournegol – Algol-like dialect of C used to write the original Bourne shell (schmorp.de)
50 points by carljoseph on Dec 27, 2014 | 9 comments

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