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Mihai Pătraşcu 1982–2012 (rjlipton.wordpress.com)

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Why Your McD's Burger Doesn't Look Like the One in the Ad (adage.com)

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Why go out? (www.brickmag.com)

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Introducing The New IFTTT (blog.ifttt.com)

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Why I'm Doing It All Wrong (danshipper.com)

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Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than programmers? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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How Reddit's cofounders built Reddit with an army of fake accounts (www.dailydot.com)

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Show HN: action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser (www.action.io)

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Experiment: Unit testing isn't enough; You need static types, too (evanfarrer.blogspot.ca)

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This teenager is hot property in Silicon Valley (www.smh.com.au)

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EFF taking on software patent reform (http://defendinnovation.org)

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Microsoft introduces Windows Phone 8 (www.engadget.com)

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FunnyJunk lawyer to subpoena Twitter, Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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ReFiddle: Fiddle for Regexp testing (refiddle.com)

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The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web browsing (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Larry Ellison Buys Sixth Largest Hawaiian Island (hawaii.gov)

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GeoCities is not completely dead (Google Search) (www.google.com)

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Oracle accepts $0 in damages from Google, moves toward appeal (arstechnica.com)

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Secure Boot: Who will control your next computer? (fsfe.org)

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An in depth but easy to understand explanation of Naive Bayes Classifiers. (code.google.com)

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Sketchy Maps with Geometry Smoothing (mapbox.com)

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Getting root on a Sony TV (hackaday.com)

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Effective ML - Yaron Minsky (ocaml.janestreet.com)

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Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum (rationalconspiracy.com)

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Static Typing is not enough (blog.fogus.me)

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"The computer is electronic cocaine for many people" says UCLA neuroscientist (www.psmag.com)

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Programming like Kent Beck (blog.iterate.no)

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Show HN: Project Maya (news.ycombinator.com)

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Android Tablets Still Suck, And Google's Running Out Of Time To Fix Them (www.androidpolice.com)

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Build your very own UAV drone spy plane (bordelon.net)

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Why You Didn't Get the Job (jobtipsforgeeks.com)

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Work, Life And Side Projects (www.smashingmagazine.com)

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Zapier (YC S12): An IFTTT For Business Users (techcrunch.com)

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One self is not enough: why we can't let Facebook consolidate our identities (jessepollak.me)

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PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI] (www.paypal.com)

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Lanyrd no longer requires write access to your Twitter account (lanyrd.com)

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Why Big Monitoring Software Sucks (obfuscurity.com)

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Announcing Windows Phone 8 (windowsteamblog.com)

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Jack Dorsey’s 28.3% Square ownership gives him 75% control. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Peter Thiel Opens a New Venture Capital Firm (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Microryza - Grow the next generation of ideas (www.microryza.com)

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We're Not Censoring You, Just Your Computer (www.cato-at-liberty.org)

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New Crowdinvesting Rules Mean Everyone Can Play VC (betabeat.com)

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Valve: Steam for Schools (Teach with Portals) (i.joystiq.com)

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Astronomers catch asteroid near-miss on video (www.nature.com)

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On Efficiency (www.tbray.org)

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Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place (daringfireball.net)

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Comprehend releases clinical analytics in the cloud (www.comprehend.com)

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Kitty Radar - Face detection for cats in JS (github.com)

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How to Prep for a Presentation (www.informationdiet.com)

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Developer's dream come true: New MacBook Airs now support two external displays (9to5mac.com)

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Shuttleworth on Ubuntu Linux, Fedora, and the UEFI problem (www.zdnet.com)

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Padrino 0.10.7 - Reloader, JRuby, Helpers and Other Bug Fixes (www.padrinorb.com)

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What Happened to the Microsoft Monopoly? (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Rendering 16,000+ Schematics in the Cloud with RabbitMQ and PhantomJS (www.circuitlab.com)

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The JavaScript Execution Context & Stack (davidshariff.com)

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ZeroRPC for node.js (github.com)

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No Windows 8 Update for Existing WP7 Users (www.anandtech.com)

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Teardown reveals Chevy Volt's electronic secrets (edn.com)

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Show HN: rkQuery — jQuery for Riak Search, in Python (github.com)

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Root EM Using CSS3 "rem" Units for "Elastic Pixels" (jsbin.com)

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How to Code Four iOS 6 Features into Your App Today (www.kinvey.com)

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'Checkpoint of the future' takes shape at Texas airport (travel.usatoday.com)

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NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)

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I have 6.000.000 RSS articles in a DB. What can I do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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iCloud Services Down (www.apple.com)

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When startups compete, no one wins (ataussig.com)

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Bringing Like to Mobile (developers.facebook.com)

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Opa Developer Challenge (opalang.org)

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Business Model Canvas for User Experience (grasshopperherder.com)

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Scientists share their baffled reactions on the science in Prometheus (www.forbes.com)

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Scaling Continuous Integration: How We Cut Test Time by 77% (www.crashlytics.com)

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The Automatic CSS Inliner Tool (beaker.mailchimp.com)

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The Wander Postcard Project (aka the best designed startup blog) (blog.onwander.com)

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The ethics of recycling content: Jonah Lehrer accused of self-plagiarism (arstechnica.com)

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My Startup Isn't Profitable and I'm Not Upset (blog.doddcaldwell.com)

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Always Swim Downstream (uncrunched.com)

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New toy for Kagglers - Your team's own Splunk server (blog.kaggle.com)

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Do computers have a constitutional right to free speech? (www.nytimes.com)

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What lengths did Microsoft go to keep the Surface a secret? (www.extremetech.com)

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The patent minefield is already patented. (www.triplepointrobotics.com)

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LinkedIn class action lawsuit over passwords (www.scribd.com)

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What happened with the Hacker News podcast? (news.ycombinator.com)

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China warns its rare earth reserves are declining (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Support for C, C++ native code in Windows Phone 8 (thenextweb.com)

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Curious how bitcoin works? Bitfloor founder spells it out on video ( 28:08) (5in5nyc.com)

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From the Pitching Stage to the Seed Stage (blog.keen.io)

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Microsoft Surface tablet freezes during presentation (www.youtube.com)

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Hacking Foursquare: Taking over the White House...from North Carolina (chronline.posterous.com)

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Using Heroku buildpacks with Stackato (Cloud Foundry-based PaaS software) (www.activestate.com)

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Ask HN: How important is it to stuff your CV into one page? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Being Useful (gitkid.com)

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Out of this world kickstarter campaign (www.planetaryresources.com)

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Tell HN: FlirtTape is now HipTape. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Rare Photo of Bee Sting Wins Award for UC Davis Photographer (techtodayshow.com)

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How FaceBook Polices Itself (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

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Why are we able to share any Facebook photo by copying its URL (news.ycombinator.com)

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Old Mars Spacecraft May Recover from Glitch at Red Planet (www.space.com)

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Why do so many job postings on HN not mention the company name? (news.ycombinator.com)

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GitHub Pages Update (github.com)

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IPhone Rendered in Pure CSS (codepen.io)

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LinkedIn sued for $5 million over data breach (www.reuters.com)

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Python 3: time to get on or get off. (news.ycombinator.com)

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New Samsung Galaxy S III burns into flames, melts through casing. (www.engadget.com)

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Relative sizes of 786 Extra solar Planets (xkcd.com)

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Brilliant teaser video for the JavaZone java conference (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: How do you create a Silicon Valley? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Why does this search not work? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: is there a torrent-like protocol for websites? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What is the best video hosting solution for a small startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Android stick turns any TV to smart TV (with android) (www.pandawill.com)

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Wikipedia understands unicode in URLs (e.g., ☕) (en.wikipedia.org)

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Dan Ariely on Hacking Human Behavior - Good Life Project (http://www.goodlifeproject.com)

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LayerVault introduces Activity Feed. (layervault.tumblr.com)

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Preventing Stack Overflow Attacks (www.drdobbs.com)

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Adobe Max canceled for 2012 (max.adobe.com)

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Show HN: My company's new turn based strategy game for Android (news.ycombinator.com)

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This is the MagSafe to MagSafe 2 adapter (www.onefoottsunami.com)

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Changemakrs From Strange And Not So Strange Places (www.killerstartups.com)

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Greplin reinvents itself as Cue, organizes your Internet life (gigaom.com)

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Vim command to convert variable into spec let(:var) (coderwall.com)

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How Not to Apply for a Job (joshsymonds.com)

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IPhone done entirely in CSS3 (codepen.io)

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Facebook Shifts Its Approach to Payments (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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SockJS vs Socket.IO - Benchmarked (blog.pythonanywhere.com)

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Tory MP Louise Mensch launches rival to Twitter (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Indian ISPs Unblock BitTorrent Sites After Appeal (torrentfreak.com)

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Why should I be using TeX for graphics? Comparing graphics tools. (latex-community.org)

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Configuring Hadoop on EC2 (cloud.dzone.com)

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Microsoft unveils IE 10 for Windows Phone, very similar to the desktop (www.engadget.com)