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  1. This blank page takes 2 seconds and 1.2MB to load (thingsjonsnowknows.com)
    2 points 1
  2. Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community (libreboot.org)
    272 points 228
  3. Multics can run in emulation on Linux, OS X, Windows (swenson.org)
    1 points 0
  4. Devuan 1.0 (systemd-less Debian fork) hits beta (beta.devuan.org)
    5 points 1
  5. Twiddler 3 chording keyboard now available (tekgear.com)
    22 points 20
  6. Beep Boop Bitcoin: the Bitcoin Simulator (beepboopbitcoin.com)
    5 points 0
  7. Fixing a tube radio (jfloren.net)
    1 points 0
  8. 'Amazing' tops annual vote for words that should be banned (theguardian.com)
    1 points 0
  9. Ask HN: Minimally-intrusive ways to verify real name?

    I'm sketching out a system which would need to associate public keys with real names. What's the best way to verify that the person submitting a key is, in fact, named "John Smith" as he claims? I've seen credit cards…

    2 points 3
  10. Word ‘Innovate’ Said 650,000 Times At SXSW So Far (theonion.com)
    1 points -1
  11. Sandia Natl. Labs builds 300,000 Android VM testbed (share.sandia.gov)
    2 points 0
  12. Thoughts on Project Glass (jfloren.net)
    1 points 0
  13. I don’t understand .ly (and other cutesy TLDs) (jfloren.net)
    6 points 3
  14. The Go team: why gofmt uses tabs vs. spaces (youtu.be)
    2 points 0
  15. Haunts: A game done in Go (groups.google.com)
    1 points 0
  16. Google to use Coreboot for ChromeOS devices (phoronix.com)
    3 points 0
  17. Inferno running on an Android phone [Youtube] (youtube.com)
    3 points 0
  18. Plan 9 is an accepted organization for GSOC 2011... do something brilliant (google-melange.com)
    2 points 0
  19. Ron Minnich's 196-node Gumstix Overo cluster (picasaweb.google.com)
    4 points 1
  20. Ask HN: Should I buy "The Art of Computer Programming"?

    I'm a computer engineering grad student. Right now, it looks like I'll be working in OS and parallel computing research after school. With that in mind (i.e. I am not a startup type, nor do I write web pages), is TAOCP…

    4 points 5
  21. Ask HN: What's the deal with Common Lisp?

    So I'd really like to try using Common Lisp more often, but I'm having a hard time getting into it. To start with, I thought I'd install SLIME, but of course it turns out the SLIME that ships with Debian is broken, so I…

    16 points 10
  22. Ask HN: When did Vim become "the cool editor"?

    Remember back in the day, all of about 4 years ago, when men were men and all the cool kids were using Emacs? Seems like over the last few years Vim has climbed to the top of the Ruby-writing, Web 2.0-using pile, and I…

    13 points 10
  23. A narrated taste of the Plan 9 OS (vimeo.com)
    2 points 1
  24. Ask HN: Making an information site for Computer Engineers?

    I'm a computer engineering student, in my 4th year. While doing some lab work the other day, my friends and I were struck yet again by how little useful information is available to CE students online. We needed…

    18 points 10
  25. An Intro to the Plan 9 OS [video and slides] (sse.se.rit.edu)
    4 points 2