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1.Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator (stuffwithstuff.com)
332 points by dustinlakin on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
2.Salvatore Sanfilippo, the author of Redis: from Sicily with talent and passion (baia-network.org)
360 points by davidw on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
3.Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014 (kalzumeus.com)
391 points by JayNeely on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 153 comments [ext]
4. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
4.We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation (codeascraft.com)
293 points by kevingessner on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
5.Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses (nytimes.com)
521 points by rpicard on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 323 comments [ext]
6.Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses (nytimes.com)
373 points by jcfrei on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 190 comments [ext]
7. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
7.Cat Litter Boxes and DRM (medium.com/jorge_lo)
286 points by ds on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
8.High speed M&M sorting machine (reviewmylife.co.uk)
219 points by nbsymr on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
9.Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language (arthurtw.github.io)
325 points by arthurtw on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 174 comments [ext]
10. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 16 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
10.The Humane Representation of Thought [video] (vimeo.com)
196 points by jashkenas on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
11.JMAP – a better way to email (fastmail.com)
410 points by brongondwana on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
12.Meteor and Qt (achipa.blogspot.com)
162 points by achipa on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
13. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
13.Google Self-Driving Car Project's first vehicle prototype (plus.google.com)
229 points by justhw on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 194 comments [ext]
14.Generating code (golang.org)
156 points by dctrwatson on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
15.Rusthon – A Pythonic language that compiles to Rust and C++ (github.com/rusthon)
139 points by doublextremevil on Dec 21, 2014 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
16. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 609 days ago | hide | 15 comments
16.What's wrong with convolutional nets? [video] (techtv.mit.edu)
113 points by drewvolpe on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
17.A New Way to Reach Mars Safely, Anytime and on the Cheap (scientificamerican.com)
118 points by softdev12 on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
18.She founded SiriusXM, a religion and a biotech for starters (washingtonpost.com)
127 points by modfodder on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
19. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
19.Improving Redis CRC performance (matt.sh)
112 points by localhost on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
20.How I Got the First Paying Customers for My Startup (medium.com/jontuckerusa)
106 points by jteusa on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
21.Ask HN: What was the job market like during the dot-com crash? [ext]
189 points by MalcolmDiggs on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 155 comments [ext]
22. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
22.Schwab password policies and two factor authentication (jeremytunnell.com)
257 points by jeremyt on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
23.Buzz Aldrin: The Dark Side of the Moon (gq.com)
96 points by Thevet on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
24.Is Homo Economicus a Psychopath? (forbes.com/sites/peterubel)
112 points by jonathansizz on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
25. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
25.A Lost 1996 Interview with David Foster Wallace (medium.com/kunaljasty)
91 points by benbreen on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
26.Bitcoin adoption in 2015 (daltoncaldwell.com)
88 points by dalton on Dec 21, 2014 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
27.Ntimed – NTPD replacement (github.com/bsdphk)
89 points by 925dk on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
28. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
28.U.S. Child Study Canceled After $1.3B (bloomberg.com)
75 points by Multics on Dec 21, 2014 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
29.Visualizing TCP (2010) (swtch.com)
78 points by pmoriarty on Dec 22, 2014 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
30.Inside the Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register memory from 1970 (righto.com)
62 points by jekub on Dec 21, 2014 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
31. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments

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