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1.FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality (wired.com)
1275 points by Libertatea on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 424 comments [ext]
2.A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics (medium.com/warrenhenning)
419 points by hecubus on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 222 comments [ext]
3.Testosterone is the drug of the future (fusion.net)
341 points by mparramon on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 296 comments [ext]
4. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
4.Microsoft Acquires Calendar App Sunrise for North of $100M (techcrunch.com)
288 points by jonas21 on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
5.How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web (arstechnica.com)
266 points by akrymski on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
6.PyPy 2.5.0 released (morepypy.blogspot.com)
297 points by cyber1 on Feb 3, 2015 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
7. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard (vikingcodeschool.com)
314 points by vike27 on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 258 comments [ext]
8.Prometheus: An open-source service monitoring system and time series database (prometheus.io)
287 points by jjwiseman on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
9.A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL (perl.org)
174 points by i_cannot_hack on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
10. The Three Jobs Every Startup Career Eventually Demands ()
133 points by dtx7003 279 days ago | hide | 57 comments
10.Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts (bloomberg.com)
292 points by DavidChouinard on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 278 comments [ext]
11.Animated Bézier Curves (jasondavies.com)
142 points by davidbarker on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
12.Non-blocking UI's with interface previews (callumhart.com)
170 points by callum_hart on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
13. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 13 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
13.UK to allow babies from three people (bbc.com)
172 points by jcrei on Feb 3, 2015 [ext] | 159 comments [ext]
14.Soviet Cosmonauts Carried a Shotgun into Space (medium.com/war-is-boring)
151 points by vinnyglennon on Feb 3, 2015 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
15.Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) (dougseven.com)
207 points by strzalek on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
16. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
16.Hard Drive Data Sets (backblaze.com)
193 points by epistasis on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
17.How a HyperLogLog works (opensourceconnections.com)
117 points by softwaredoug on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
18.Yahoo open-sources Kafka Manager for Kafka cluster management (yahooeng.tumblr.com)
92 points by fangjin on Feb 3, 2015 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
19. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
19.At 90, She's Designing Tech for Aging Boomers (npr.org)
109 points by shahocean on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
20.Earth Primer (earthprimer.com)
170 points by dluan on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
21..Trashes, .fseventsd, and .Spotlight-V100 (hostilefork.com)
89 points by pmoriarty on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
22. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
22.JVM implementation challenges: Why the future is hard but worth it [pdf] (java.net)
98 points by pron on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
23.Laravel 5 released (laravel-news.com)
217 points by pyprism on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
24.Alibaba begins drone delivery trials in China (bbc.co.uk)
152 points by edward on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
25. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
25.How FEMA Uses Waffle House to Measure Disasters (wabe.org)
85 points by jcater on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
26.Changes to the FreeBSD Support Model (freebsd.org)
66 points by emaste on Feb 3, 2015 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
27.Matrix – An Open Standard for Decentralised Persistent Communication (matrix.org)
102 points by reinhardt1053 on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
28. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.Matrix Digital Rain – Written in GopherJS (tidwall.github.io)
58 points by tidwall on Feb 3, 2015 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
29.Why Nadella's Second Year as Microsoft CEO Will Be a Lot Harder (bloomberg.com)
103 points by william_stranix on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
30.Paradoxes That Threaten to Tear Modern Cosmology Apart (medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog)
86 points by gmays on Feb 4, 2015 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
31. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments

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