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391.

Copy protection scheme that was used for Dungeon Master on Atari ST and Amiga (dmweb.free.fr)

163 points by bigbugbag on Dec 29, 2014 | 109 comments

392.

Eric Schmidt's book is wrong about how Google works (venturebeat.com)

163 points by mandeepj on Dec 1, 2014 | 87 comments

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Virtually all TV comedies, from Seinfeld to South Park, follow a simple formula (theatlantic.com)

163 points by samclemens on Dec 28, 2014 | 56 comments

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Hidden Costs That Engineers Ignore (theeffectiveengineer.com)

163 points by gsands on Dec 31, 2014 | 41 comments

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Millennium Falcon's SFX Demonstrated by Sound Designer Ben Burtt (1980) [video] (youtube.com)

163 points by shawndumas on Dec 16, 2014 | 20 comments

396.

Why we should stop using Grunt and Gulp (blog.keithcirkel.co.uk)

162 points by riobard on Dec 9, 2014 | 106 comments

397.

Meteor and Qt (achipa.blogspot.com)

162 points by achipa on Dec 22, 2014 | 41 comments

398.

NSA Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans (businessweek.com)

162 points by vermontdevil on Dec 25, 2014 | 41 comments

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Air Fares 101 – Why do fares change all the time? (cheapair.com)

161 points by ZeljkoS on Dec 15, 2014 | 186 comments

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The Death of Agile [video] (thoughtworks.com)

161 points by StylifyYourBlog on Dec 26, 2014 | 107 comments

401.

A New Physics Theory of Life (quantamagazine.org)

161 points by epenn on Dec 15, 2014 | 94 comments

402.

How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan (talkingpointsmemo.com)

161 points by gscott on Dec 27, 2014 | 49 comments

403.

Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures (endrift.com)

161 points by jpfau on Dec 29, 2014 | 26 comments

404.

He Understood Not Only What We Did but What We Were Supposed to Do (1986) (articles.latimes.com)

161 points by NaOH on Dec 25, 2014 | 10 comments

405.

The largest vessel the world has ever seen (bbc.co.uk)

160 points by sjcsjc on Dec 17, 2014 | 96 comments

406.

JavaScript Equality Table (dorey.github.io)

160 points by antoinec on Dec 26, 2014 | 73 comments

407.

HockeyApp Joins Microsoft (hockeyapp.net)

160 points by davidbarker on Dec 11, 2014 | 64 comments

408.

Things which aren't magic – Flask and app.route (ains.co)

160 points by StylifyYourBlog on Dec 29, 2014 | 33 comments

409.

Ruby talks of 2014 (przemekmroczek.com)

160 points by lackoftactics on Dec 31, 2014 | 24 comments

410.

Zusie – My Relay Computer (nablaman.com)

160 points by new299 on Dec 7, 2014 | 21 comments

411.

Why batteries both thrill and terrify the U.S. utility industry (bloomberg.com)

159 points by dotluis on Dec 5, 2014 | 190 comments

412.

MDBM – High-speed database (yahooeng.tumblr.com)

159 points by threepointone on Dec 11, 2014 | 111 comments

413.

DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding (businesswire.com)

159 points by denis1 on Dec 12, 2014 | 99 comments

414.

Memcpy vs. memmove (tedunangst.com)

158 points by luu on Dec 1, 2014 | 60 comments

415.

Illinois General Assembly passes bill to ban citizens from recording police (illinoispolicy.org)

158 points by benktbyte on Dec 9, 2014 | 52 comments

416.

France Says It Will Ban Uber’s Low-Cost Service in New Year (nytimes.com)

157 points by MaxQuentero on Dec 15, 2014 | 138 comments

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PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads (pathgather.github.io)