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1981.

Microbes discovered by deepest marine drill analysed (bbc.co.uk)

27 points by grahamel on Dec 16, 2014 | 0 comments

1982.

Framed by Forensics (aeon.co)

27 points by hotgoldminer on Dec 18, 2014 | 0 comments

1983.

The Cloud Conspiracy 2008-2014 [video] (media.ccc.de)

27 points by alecco on Dec 31, 2014 | 0 comments

1984.

Designing a study to see if “the 10x programmer” is a real thing (andrewgelman.com)

26 points by chrismealy on Dec 5, 2014 | 48 comments

1985.

Toyota Embraces Fuel-Cell Cars for Post-Gasoline Future (businessweek.com)

26 points by gopi on Dec 19, 2014 | 41 comments

1986.

How did we come to be so certain that closed borders are our salvation? (2013) (openborders.info)

26 points by trextrex on Dec 27, 2014 | 27 comments

1987.

Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art (soundviz.com)

26 points by tylerdavis on Dec 10, 2014 | 26 comments

1988.

Empirical Analysis of Programming Language Adoption [pdf] (2013) (sns.cs.princeton.edu)

26 points by Multics on Dec 6, 2014 | 20 comments

1989.

Show HN: clip – Embeddable, composable [c]ommand [l]ine [i]nterface [p]arsing (github.com)

26 points by willyg302 on Dec 14, 2014 | 14 comments

1990.

Show HN: Text “carols” to 907.312.1412 for Christmas carol lyrics ()

26 points by gregorymichael on Dec 19, 2014 | 13 comments

1991.

Phoenix: A highly connected web framework (phoenixframework.org)

26 points by Scramblejams on Dec 4, 2014 | 10 comments

1992.

Are we consistent yet? Eventual consistency of cloud object stores (github.com)

26 points by SwellJoe on Dec 24, 2014 | 10 comments

1993.

The Age of Asteroids (newyorker.com)

26 points by iKenshu on Dec 12, 2014 | 9 comments

1994.

Take Away Harvard’s Nonprofit Status (nymag.com)

26 points by boh on Dec 12, 2014 | 9 comments

1995.

Show HN: Emacs image editing via imgix (github.com)

26 points by jacktasia on Dec 31, 2014 | 9 comments

1996.

How not to run an A/B test (2010) (evanmiller.org)

26 points by neya on Dec 26, 2014 | 8 comments

1997.

Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence (econtalk.org)

26 points by EconTalker on Dec 1, 2014 | 7 comments

1998.

Don't Hire Cheap Hackers – write simple programs yourself (cyrusstoller.com)

26 points by luu on Dec 9, 2014 | 7 comments

1999.

A First Guile Script (logicgrimoire.wordpress.com)

26 points by pmoriarty on Dec 29, 2014 | 7 comments

2000.

On demand presto cluster with mesos, marathon and docker (github.com)

26 points by florianleibert on Dec 5, 2014 | 6 comments

2001.

How data from the Kepler Space Telescope is changing the Drake equation (medium.com)

26 points by k4jh on Dec 11, 2014 | 6 comments

2002.

The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win (wired.com)

26 points by mr_golyadkin on Dec 30, 2014 | 6 comments

2003.

Show HN: RiQ – An Arduino based robot with a tablet based programming interface (riq.edventureslab.com)

26 points by curiousphil on Dec 14, 2014 | 4 comments

2004.

Obama Says Sony 'Made a Mistake' Canceling Film (wsj.com)

26 points by maibaum on Dec 19, 2014 | 4 comments

2005.

CSS Box Alignment Level 3 Updated (css3.info)

26 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 20, 2014 | 4 comments

2006.

The Rise of AdBlock Reveals a Serious Problem in the Advertising Ecosystem (mondaynote.com)

26 points by LaSombra on Dec 8, 2014 | 3 comments

2007.

Arcade Games: Hacking, Emulation, Preservation (youtube.com)

26 points by silsha on Dec 13, 2014 | 3 comments

2008.

Catnip: its uses and effects, past and present (1990) [pdf] (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

26 points by Vigier on Dec 21, 2014 | 3 comments

2009.

Ferranti Mark II programming manual, A.M.Turing (1950) [pdf] (archive.computerhistory.org)

26 points by ash on Dec 26, 2014 | 3 comments

2010.

“Nearly 25000 allocations are made for every keystroke in [Chrome's] Omnibox” (groups.google.com)

26 points by dustingetz on Dec 5, 2014 | 2 comments