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1.Academic Torrents (academictorrents.com)
448 points by yinghang on Jan 30, 2014 | 63 comments
2.Introducing Paper (facebook.com)
313 points by coolsank on Jan 30, 2014 | 275 comments
3.Interactive SICP (xuanji.appspot.com)
262 points by zodiac on Jan 30, 2014 | 31 comments
4.Bootstrap 3.1 released (github.com/twbs)
268 points by rayshan on Jan 30, 2014 | 129 comments
5.Python Idioms [pdf] (safehammad.com)
237 points by benn_88 on Jan 30, 2014 | 124 comments
6.A 33-Year-Old NPR Story Convinced Me Google Glass Will Stop Looking So Dorky (onthemedia.org)
226 points by sethbannon on Jan 30, 2014 | 200 comments
7.Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to Drink (propublica.org)
224 points by nherment on Jan 30, 2014 | 209 comments
8.You will probably need jQuery (gist.github.com)
222 points by vladikoff on Jan 30, 2014 | 77 comments
9.We are not normal people (justinjackson.ca)
210 points by libovness on Jan 30, 2014 | 133 comments
10.Zynga Lays Off 15% of Its Workforce (techcrunch.com)
214 points by pje on Jan 30, 2014 | 87 comments
11.How To Become Uber Productive While Working For Yourself (impossiblehq.com)
196 points by joelrunyon on Jan 30, 2014 | 90 comments
12.PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twitter Username Hacker (thenextweb.com)
177 points by fraqed on Jan 30, 2014 | 124 comments
13.Machine Learning in JavaScript (burakkanber.com)
169 points by xd on Jan 30, 2014 | 49 comments
14.4 million songs on Spotify have never been played. Let’s change that (forgotify.com)
170 points by henryaj on Jan 30, 2014 | 86 comments

No, please no. If size is an issue for some reason or you want to have no dependencies you can use something like http://zeptojs.com/ and just embed everything in one minified file. If you do things right only the functions you are actually using will get placed in there as well.

Do not reinvent the wheel to solve problems that can't be solved in much cleaner and nicer ways. Managing dependencies can be annoying, but we all bite the bullet for a very good reason, because reusing solid well tested code is a good thing.

16.Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO (bloomberg.com)
163 points by slckfielder08 on Jan 30, 2014 | 128 comments
17.What's in my iOS toolbox? (edsancha.com)
159 points by kumarski on Jan 30, 2014 | 35 comments
18.Ruby 2.1: Out-of-Band GC (tmm1.net)
139 points by gerjomarty on Jan 30, 2014 | 27 comments
19.Show HN: Unbabel API – Human Corrected Machine Translation (unbabel.com)
143 points by vasco_ on Jan 30, 2014 | 65 comments
20.So Singletons are bad, then what? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
130 points by tcgv on Jan 30, 2014 | 156 comments

  For example, in eastern Wyoming, an analysis showed that 
  it would cost half a million dollars to construct a water 
  well into deep, but high-quality aquifer reserves. That, 
  plus an untested assumption that all the deep layers 
  below it could only contain poor-quality water, led 
  regulators to allow a uranium mine to inject more than 
  200,000 gallons of toxic and radioactive waste every day 
  into the underground reservoirs.
WHAT THE FUCK
22.Screw your standing desk. How about squatting? (bitehype.com)
125 points by freshfey on Jan 30, 2014 | 105 comments
23.A List Apart's Pattern Library (alistapart.com)
117 points by duck on Jan 30, 2014 | 12 comments
24.Markdown source for Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (github.com/jagregory)
112 points by kar1181 on Jan 30, 2014 | 30 comments
25.In Cryptography, Advances in Program Obfuscation (simonsfoundation.org)
107 points by digital55 on Jan 30, 2014 | 47 comments
26.How to compile with continuations (might.net)
107 points by ColinWright on Jan 30, 2014 | 27 comments
27.GitHub Security Bug Bounty (github.com/blog)
118 points by mastahyeti on Jan 30, 2014 | 37 comments
28.Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M (techcrunch.com)
109 points by antr on Jan 30, 2014 | 93 comments
29. [dupe] A Brief And Mostly Wrong History Of Programming Languages (james-iry.blogspot.com)
101 points by signa11 on Jan 30, 2014 | 22 comments

Man, that video, typical marketing bullshit. First scene shows a guy writing on a typewriter, next scene shows someone hanging up Polaroid pictures. Seriously? Show me why this app is useful and why I need it, instead of trying to lull me into a world that doesn't exist.

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