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Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apart (medium.com)

117 points by mazsa on Dec 20, 2014 | 56 comments

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Is_computer_on_fire() (2000) (everything2.com)

117 points by adamnemecek on Dec 21, 2014 | 56 comments

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Show HN: Startup Fighter (startupfighter.com)

117 points by mastef on Dec 23, 2014 | 41 comments

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British Court Says Government’s Electronic Surveillance Is Legal (nytimes.com)

117 points by dnetesn on Dec 5, 2014 | 34 comments

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Inspirograph (nathanfriend.io)

117 points by WestCoastJustin on Dec 4, 2014 | 23 comments

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Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Games, Is Dead at 92 (nytimes.com)

117 points by jrlocke on Dec 7, 2014 | 15 comments

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Skiplagged sued by United and Orbitz (skiplagged.com)

116 points by elijahparker on Dec 30, 2014 | 140 comments

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Uber vs. Lyft: From The Driver’s Seat (medium.com)

116 points by gregmuender on Dec 4, 2014 | 84 comments

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Sandy bridge, Ivy bridge, Haswell and the mess of Intel processors feature list (ilsistemista.net)

116 points by shodanshok on Dec 26, 2014 | 69 comments

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Bioluminescent trees as an alternative to electric lighting (blog.suny.edu)

116 points by brahadeesh on Dec 17, 2014 | 61 comments

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The Lurker: How a Virus Hid in Our Genome for Six Million Years (2013) (phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)

116 points by Mz on Dec 12, 2014 | 35 comments

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The Philosophy of Computer Science (2013) (plato.stanford.edu)

116 points by primelens on Dec 2, 2014 | 34 comments

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Firebug 3 and Multiprocess Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)

116 points by bpierre on Dec 3, 2014 | 24 comments

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Math from Three to Seven: Chapters One and Three [pdf] (ams.org)

116 points by Mz on Dec 29, 2014 | 21 comments

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The Story of Apollo 17 and Why We Never Went Back to the Moon (io9.com)

115 points by dnetesn on Dec 14, 2014 | 85 comments

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Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?

115 points by ay1n on Dec 28, 2014 | 84 comments

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Who's Using Ada? Real-World Projects Powered by the Ada Programming Language (seas.gwu.edu)

115 points by dodders on Dec 11, 2014 | 73 comments

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Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

115 points by refrigerator on Dec 25, 2014 | 67 comments

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Amazon’s New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat (wired.com)

115 points by kevbin on Dec 4, 2014 | 54 comments

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Google and Microsoft Oppose Hotels’ Effort to Block Personal Wi-Fi (wsj.com)

115 points by ademarre on Dec 24, 2014 | 51 comments

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IBM Design Language (ibm.com)

115 points by paulojreis on Dec 15, 2014 | 43 comments

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Larry Lessig’s Long Walk (medium.com)

115 points by steven on Dec 15, 2014 | 35 comments

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Single-shot compressed photography at one hundred billion frames per second (nature.com)

115 points by mlrtime on Dec 4, 2014 | 32 comments

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DIY Exoplanet Detection with a DSLR (spectrum.ieee.org)

115 points by privong on Dec 1, 2014 | 10 comments

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Functional Operating System and Security Protocol Engineering (decks.openmirage.org)

115 points by mrry on Dec 27, 2014 | 9 comments

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Microsoft acquires Acompli (blogs.microsoft.com)

114 points by nithinr6 on Dec 1, 2014 | 66 comments

657.

A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013) (pomax.github.io)

114 points by davidbarker on Dec 28, 2014 | 23 comments

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The Shape of Rome (2013) (exurbe.com)

114 points by benbreen on Dec 1, 2014 | 11 comments

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How America Became an Economic Superpower (theatlantic.com)

113 points by tokenadult on Dec 24, 2014 | 128 comments

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Why the ‘Best Places to Work’ Often Aren’t (dealbook.nytimes.com)

113 points by frostmatthew on Dec 25, 2014 | 106 comments