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1. Introducing d3-scale (medium.com/mbostock)
328 points by Zikes on Dec 28, 2015 | 73 comments
2. When slaves and free men were shipwrecked together (economist.com)
247 points by I-M-S on Dec 28, 2015 | 131 comments
3. AVG: “Web TuneUP” extension multiple critical vulnerabilities (code.google.com)
246 points by pfg on Dec 28, 2015 | 109 comments
4. A Moss Girl’s Guide to Japanese Moss Viewing (ignition.co)
185 points by nkurz on Dec 28, 2015 | 44 comments
5. China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryption keys (betanews.com)
265 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 28, 2015 | 112 comments
6. How I Created a $350M Software Company Knowing Nothing About Software (techcrunch.com)
287 points by dangrossman on Dec 28, 2015 | 108 comments
7. Free Springer math books (gist.github.com)
322 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 28, 2015 | 68 comments
8. TLDR pages (tldr-pages.github.io)
401 points by tkfx on Dec 27, 2015 | 111 comments
9. The Bonsai Kid (craftsmanship.net)
159 points by hownottowrite on Dec 27, 2015 | 29 comments
10. Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow (otoro.net)
124 points by kogir on Dec 28, 2015 | 48 comments
11. MirrorMirror: A Raspberry Pi-Powered Magic Mirror (dylanjpierce.com)
131 points by bdz on Dec 28, 2015 | 27 comments
12. Test results for Broadwell and Skylake (agner.org)
88 points by ivank on Dec 28, 2015 | 12 comments
13. At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags (wsj.com)
131 points by samirunni on Dec 28, 2015 | 125 comments
14. How bad are things? (slatestarcodex.com)
264 points by lkrubner on Dec 27, 2015 | 118 comments
15. U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers (computerworld.com)
143 points by Futurebot on Dec 28, 2015 | 152 comments
16. 191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database (databreaches.net)
307 points by rmxt on Dec 28, 2015 | 99 comments
17. North Korea's computer operating system mirrors its political one (reuters.com)
86 points by dosshell on Dec 27, 2015 | 66 comments
18. Postgres 9.5 feature rundown (craigkerstiens.com)
191 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 27, 2015 | 18 comments
19. What is the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture? (math.harvard.edu)
33 points by subnaught on Dec 28, 2015 | 10 comments
20. Implementing a programming language in D: Lexical Analysis (felixangell.com)
85 points by felixangell1024 on Dec 28, 2015 | 21 comments
21. If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice (npr.org)
81 points by sethbannon on Dec 28, 2015 | 76 comments
22. Show HN: CodeUpStart – Learn Python/Flask by Cloning Kickstarter (codeupstart.com)
95 points by gilliant on Dec 27, 2015 | 30 comments
23. Former Columbia House insiders explain the shady math behind “8 CDs for a penny” (avclub.com)
66 points by colinprince on Dec 28, 2015 | 44 comments
24. The Pirate Book (thepiratebook.net)
118 points by zwetan on Dec 27, 2015 | 21 comments
25. Show HN: CodeHalf – Write Code Everyday, new design and new features (codehalf.com)
87 points by efexen on Dec 28, 2015 | 52 comments
26. A Letter to a Young Programmer Considering a Startup (2013) (al3x.net)
99 points by ktamura on Dec 27, 2015 | 14 comments
27. 2015: The year that Microsoft started getting the benefit of the doubt (arstechnica.com)
166 points by ingve on Dec 28, 2015 | 170 comments
28. Hashcat and oclHashcat have gone open source (hashcat.net)
81 points by Garbage on Dec 28, 2015 | 18 comments
29. Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board computers so ugly?
44 points by hexman on Dec 28, 2015 | 37 comments
30. Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (brown.edu)
68 points by rspivak on Dec 27, 2015 | 12 comments

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