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1.Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
694 points by r721 on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 420 comments [ext]
2.Wire – Modern Communications Network (wire.com)
498 points by jkaljundi on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 402 comments [ext]
3.World's Simplest Electric Train [video] (youtube.com)
360 points by Turing_Machine on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
4. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
4.Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count (plus.google.com)
530 points by stephenheron on Dec 2, 2014 [ext] | 226 comments [ext]
5.Hacking PayPal Accounts with one click (yasserali.com)
324 points by butwhy on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
6.Why my book can be downloaded for free (plover.com)
257 points by draegtun on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
7. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 202 days ago | hide | 110 comments
7.6 GHz frequency modulated radar (hforsten.com)
261 points by paulgerhardt on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
8.Hy – A dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python (hylang.org)
313 points by colinprince on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
9.Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting (wolfram.com)
281 points by lelf on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
10. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
10.Why the data center needs an operating system (oreilly.com)
186 points by datascientist on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
11.Aliens in the Valley: The History of Reddit (mashable.com)
154 points by pulakm on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
12.Pay It Forward Design Bundle – 100% to Watsi (payitforwardbundle.com)
127 points by gracegarey on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
13. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
13.Resumes suck for hiring engineers (alinelerner.com)
224 points by slyall on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 166 comments [ext]
14.Lecture 19: Sales and Marketing – How to Talk to Investors (samaltman.com)
130 points by TheBiv on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
15.Firebug 3 and Multiprocess Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
116 points by bpierre on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
16. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 13 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
16.How the Brain Uses Glucose to Fuel Self-Control (wsj.com)
130 points by softdev12 on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 103 comments [ext]
17.Hunting Task Wabbits (medium.com/matter)
105 points by kostyk on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
18.System.Linq.Parallel Is Now Open Source (github.com/dotnet)
146 points by fekberg on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
19. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
19.Programming Modern Systems Like It Was 1984 (dadgum.com)
142 points by spiffytech on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
20.Incident Report – DDoS Attack (dnsimple.com)
146 points by alainmeier on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
21.Law school applications collapse: Get ready for schools to start closing (slate.com)
131 points by lxm on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
22. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
22.Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive (medium.com/blakeross)
224 points by primigenus on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 174 comments [ext]
23.Dürer's polyhedron: theories that explain Melencolia's crazy cube (theguardian.com)
75 points by ColinWright on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
24.Images to Text – Toronto Deep Learning Demos (toronto.edu)
75 points by benanne on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
25. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
25.Lispkit – A Lisp browser using WebKit (github.com/aeronotix)
75 points by wtbob on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
26.Lessons learned while starting an online business (grassweb.com.au)
105 points by KatRid on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
27.CPU DB, a database of processors for researchers and hobbyists (stanford.edu)
87 points by mpoloton on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
28. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
28.XRay Unreal Engine 4.5 source code (codergears.com)
63 points by cppdesign on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
29.The “Uncanny Valley” of L3 Cache Contention (bad-concurrency.blogspot.com)
86 points by r4um on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
30.GitHub blocked in Russia (translate.google.com)
170 points by uldus on Dec 3, 2014 [ext] | 171 comments [ext]
31. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 169 days ago | hide | 48 comments

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