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1.US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program (senate.gov)
879 points by uptown on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 551 comments [ext]
2.Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates (markshuttleworth.com)
650 points by selectnull on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 147 comments [ext]
3.Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework (getskeleton.com)
598 points by hit8run on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
4. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
4.The Fatal Pinch (paulgraham.com)
480 points by _pius on Dec 8, 2014 [ext] | 198 comments [ext]
5.Show HN: Artful for Mac (artfulmac.com)
229 points by tomkinstinch on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
6.Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline (torrentfreak.com)
375 points by jalan on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 167 comments [ext]
7. 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
7.Random in the wild (tedunangst.com)
173 points by donmcc on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
8.MIT students build a roller coaster in one week (monograph.io)
244 points by moeamaya on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
9.Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup (plus.google.com)
169 points by igrigorik on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
10. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
10.Reverse-engineering the new “captchaless” ReCaptcha system (github.com/recaptchareverser)
216 points by InsideReCaptcha on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
11.Should I Get a Ph.D.? (shouldigetaphd.com)
216 points by johndcook on Dec 8, 2014 [ext] | 158 comments [ext]
12.Twitch acquires eSports pro-gaming team Evil Geniuses (goodgame.gg)
123 points by coralreef on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 69 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.Donald Knuth's 20th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture: (3/2)-ary Trees [video] (youtube.com)
131 points by mushishi on Dec 8, 2014 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
14.Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program (wired.com)
265 points by keithba on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 153 comments [ext]
15.The Infamous Windows “Hello World” Program (charlespetzold.com)
134 points by johndcook on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
16. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
16.Do We Need Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems? [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
108 points by msherry on Dec 8, 2014 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
17.Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled (arxiv.org)
183 points by sinwave on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
18.If Eventual Consistency Seems Hard, Wait Till You Try MVCC (xaprb.com)
121 points by boynamedsue on Dec 8, 2014 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
19. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.SpamMimic: encode your message into something innocent-looking (spammimic.com)
146 points by pmoriarty on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
20.App Container Spec One Week In (coreos.com)
103 points by jzelinskie on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
21.MIT indefinitely removes online physics lectures and courses by Walter Lewin (newsoffice.mit.edu)
144 points by clarkm on Dec 8, 2014 [ext] | 136 comments [ext]
22. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
22.The Offline Cookbook: caching and serving offline-first (jakearchibald.com)
125 points by jaffathecake on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
23.Why are deep neural networks hard to train? (neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com)
83 points by wxs on Dec 8, 2014 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
24.Why we should stop using Grunt and Gulp (keithcirkel.co.uk)
162 points by riobard on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
25. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
25.California drought, visualized with open data (usgs.gov)
80 points by almost_usual on Dec 8, 2014 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
26.Lazy Expert Syndrome (riskology.co)
220 points by LazyExpert on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
27.RMS on why Emacs lisp doesn't have namespaces (lists.gnu.org)
85 points by nosefrog on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
28. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
28.You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind (spacebar.org)
256 points by zmmz on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
29.An analysis of the Super Street Fighter IV game balance (ryuuko.cl)
92 points by yeahboats on Dec 9, 2014 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
30.Violating randomization standards (gmane.org)
57 points by pdw on Dec 8, 2014 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
31. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments

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