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1. Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind (bemyeyes.org)
827 points by khebbie on Jan 15, 2015 | 160 comments
2. Awk in 20 Minutes (ferd.ca)
504 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 15, 2015 | 85 comments
3. A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You (cpan.org)
438 points by pmoriarty on Jan 15, 2015 | 249 comments
4. Defense in Silk Road Trial Says Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pirate Roberts (vice.com)
480 points by jordn on Jan 15, 2015 | 231 comments
5. Google Glass sales halted (bbc.co.uk)
444 points by kerrsclyde on Jan 15, 2015 | 262 comments
6. How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections (eff.org)
505 points by fortmeaded on Jan 15, 2015 | 173 comments
7. Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript (github.com/yaronn)
305 points by yaronn01 on Jan 14, 2015 | 55 comments
8. Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever (jlongster.com)
378 points by jlongster on Jan 15, 2015 | 80 comments
9. But Where Do People Work in This Office? (mattblodgett.com)
502 points by strangetimes on Jan 15, 2015 | 312 comments
10. RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing (wsj.com)
205 points by dewitt on Jan 15, 2015 | 222 comments
11. Against DNSSEC (sockpuppet.org)
186 points by tptacek on Jan 15, 2015 | 144 comments
12. Show HN: C#-to-JavaScript compiler powered by Microsoft Roslyn (duoco.de)
155 points by DuoCode on Jan 15, 2015 | 96 comments
13. A Brief Overview of Deep Learning (yyue.blogspot.com)
156 points by ozansener on Jan 14, 2015 | 37 comments
14. El Capitan’s Dawn Wall Climbers Reach Top at Yosemite (nytimes.com)
166 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 14, 2015 | 93 comments
15. Activist pulls off clever Wi-Fi honeypot to protest surveillance state (arstechnica.com)
151 points by etiam on Jan 15, 2015 | 29 comments
16. Italia Startup Visa (gov.it)
212 points by qqwet on Jan 15, 2015 | 209 comments
17. 132-year-old rifle found propped against a national park tree (washingtonpost.com)
172 points by smacktoward on Jan 15, 2015 | 78 comments
18. How the Economic Machine Works (2014) (economicprinciples.org)
108 points by jeffreyrogers on Jan 14, 2015 | 41 comments
19. Data-Oriented Hash Table (reedbeta.com)
76 points by luu on Jan 15, 2015 | 9 comments
20. Inactivity 'kills more than obesity' (bbc.co.uk)
143 points by sjcsjc on Jan 15, 2015 | 122 comments
21. Show HN: Jetpack, a FreeBSD Jail/ZFS-based container runtime (github.com/3ofcoins)
96 points by mpasternacki on Jan 15, 2015 | 23 comments
22. Why we prefer founding CEOs (2010) (bhorowitz.com)
99 points by dsaw on Jan 15, 2015 | 19 comments
23. China to create $6.5B venture capital fund to support start-ups (reuters.com)
78 points by billconan on Jan 15, 2015 | 41 comments
24. Patent reform advocates are launching a ‘super-coalition’ to whack patent trolls (washingtonpost.com)
85 points by Libertatea on Jan 15, 2015 | 17 comments
25. SNB Unexpectedly Gives Up Cap on Franc, Lowers Deposit Rate (bloomberg.com)
125 points by sz4kerto on Jan 15, 2015 | 97 comments
26. Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Speed Transport Tests (techcrunch.com)
193 points by phreeza on Jan 15, 2015 | 77 comments
27. MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month (wsj.com)
85 points by gwintrob on Jan 15, 2015 | 54 comments
28. How speedy is SPDY? [pdf] (usenix.org)
70 points by ldng on Jan 15, 2015 | 25 comments
29. How private armies will remake modern warfare (economist.com)
75 points by rbanffy on Jan 14, 2015 | 64 comments
30. How automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking” (vox.com)
187 points by smacktoward on Jan 15, 2015 | 189 comments

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