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1.Deleting any Facebook album (7xter.com)
506 points by compbio on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
2.Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams (sdelements.github.io)
350 points by hhaidar on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
3.0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1 (0hn0.com)
345 points by m0rph3v5 on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
4. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
4.Enough's enough: Contract teaching at a Canadian University (medium.com/andrewr_physics)
358 points by nous on Feb 11, 2015 [ext] | 177 comments [ext]
5.How Chris McCandless Died: An Update (newyorker.com)
311 points by bkudria on Feb 11, 2015 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
6.Rat Park (wikipedia.org)
258 points by happyscrappy on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
7. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
7.Memrefuting (scottaaronson.com)
178 points by wglb on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
8.Expedia Buys Orbitz for $1.6B in Cash (techcrunch.com)
161 points by frankacter on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
9.Principal component analysis explained visually (setosa.io)
187 points by vicapow on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
10. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
10.Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) (michaelnielsen.org)
196 points by jgrodziski on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
11.Http2 explained (haxx.se)
180 points by antouank on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
12.The Black Magic of Java Method Dispatch (shipilev.net)
130 points by luu on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
13. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.A regular expression to check for prime numbers (noulakaz.net)
192 points by Moyamo on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
14.Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, Not Places (lowtechmagazine.com)
146 points by stonlyb on Feb 11, 2015 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
15.Dark Patterns: Inside the interfaces designed to trick you (theverge.com)
164 points by Evolved on Feb 11, 2015 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
16. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
16.New Tesla battery could power your home, and maybe the electric grid too (washingtonpost.com)
288 points by Libertatea on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 251 comments [ext]
17.An Opinionated Clojure CQRS/ES Using Onyx, Datomic, DynamoDB, Kafka (yuppiechef.github.io)
111 points by CmdrDats on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
18.Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses (nytimes.com)
135 points by greenburger on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 298 comments [ext]
19. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
19.Apple's New Market (stratechery.com)
129 points by chmars on Feb 11, 2015 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
20.How Canadian Spies Infiltrated the Internet's Core (vice.com)
114 points by sarahnaomi on Feb 11, 2015 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
21.How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life (nytimes.com)
401 points by veeti on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 569 comments [ext]
22. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
22.An Introduction to the Central Limit Theorem (atomicobject.com)
97 points by StylifyYourBlog on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
23.Japan's Oldest Businesses Have Survived for More Than 1,000 Years (theatlantic.com)
100 points by Thevet on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
24.A blog engine written and proven in Coq (clarus.me)
185 points by jcurbo on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
25. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
25.The Rewards of Creating a Programming Language (mikedrivendevelopment.blogspot.com)
148 points by StylifyYourBlog on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
26.Grafana 2.0 Alpha (grafana.org)
111 points by louis-paul on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
27.GoJS: Interactive Diagrams for the Web (gojs.net)
92 points by luu on Feb 11, 2015 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
28. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
28.An Introduction on How to Make Beautiful Charts with R and ggplot2 (minimaxir.com)
87 points by minimaxir on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
29.GnuPG 2.1.2 released (gnupg.org)
188 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Feb 12, 2015 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
30.How HHVM Uses Modern C++ for Fun and Profit (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
73 points by StylifyYourBlog on Feb 11, 2015 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
31. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments

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