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I introduced my 5yo and 2yo to startx and xmonad. They’re DELIGHTED (changelog.complete.org)

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We will try to stop fixing bugs in PHP (bugs.php.net)

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Why do you think people are poor? (harpers.org)

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Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit (and Maybe Fun) (diegobasch.com)

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16,000 core neural net (andrew ng/jeff dean) - singularity is near (research.google.com)

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I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech (www.mrmoneymustache.com)

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Peity - Little charts for little projects (benpickles.github.com)

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Show HN: The Bastards Book of Photography (photography.bastardsbook.com)

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Twitter Completely Down (www.isup.me)

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Show HN: vi in your browser - edit files directly from Dropbox, etc (mit.edu)

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The Scam Wall Street Learned from the Mafia (www.rollingstone.com)

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Woman Who Couldn’t Be Intimidated by Citigroup Wins $31 Million (www.bloomberg.com)

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Symbolset - symbol font using clever opentype ligature hack (symbolset.com)

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Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere (www.readwriteweb.com)

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ICANN is wrong (scripting.com)

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A Tour of Go - Real examples of interfaces and concurrency (research.swtch.com)

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The Silent Majority of Experts (prog21.dadgum.com)

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Apple Founder “Woz” Visits Kim Dotcom (torrentfreak.com)

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I got burned by GroupOn. FeeFighters acquisition, three months in. (blog.gittip.com)

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7 Do’s and Don’ts for Founders (ryancarson.com)

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Women and Tech (http://womenandtech.com)

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Eric Schmidt's thoughts about Pakistan (plus.google.com)

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Why Bad Jobs-or No Jobs-Happen to Good Workers (spectrum.ieee.org)

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YC-Backed Local Marketplace App Yardsale (YC S11) Launches Nationwide (techcrunch.com)

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Number Script - A Little Language that compiles to JavaScript (github.com)

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HTML5 is not ready (www.wooga.com)

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Announcing Opa 1.0 (blog.opalang.org)

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Tour the Tomb of NASA’s First and Last Nuclear Reactor (www.wired.com)

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Wooga releases mobile HTML5 Game as Open Source (www.wooga.com)

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What do colors mean to your users (www.joehallock.com)

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Google: Introducing The Endangered Languages Project (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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Tor Project core members IAmA on reddit (www.reddit.com)

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Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for Microsoft (www.extremetech.com)

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Firebase fundraising lessons learned (blog.firebase.com)

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FastMail.FM Security Vulnerabilities (grepular.com)

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Crush the Castle developer's response to IGN's "In Defense of Game Clones" (www.jeffwofford.com)

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Yardsale App Lets You Sell Your Stuff and Meet Your Neighbors Too (www.wired.com)

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Replying to User Reviews on Google Play (android-developers.blogspot.com)

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JavaScript - "typeof" operator & null (www.kiro.me)

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Show HN: TapChat is mobile IRC done right (tapchatapp.com)

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Why I don't put my slides online (coffeeonthekeyboard.com)

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How Trip Adler Found His Idea For Scribd After Hanging Up On 1-800-ASKTRIP (www.fastcompany.com)

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Here Are No Women On StackOverflow… Or Are There? (www.banane.com)

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Stross on: why my Android tablet experience sucks (www.antipope.org)

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Test Studio for iOS - record and execute automated tests (www.tuaw.com)

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Your GitHub News Feed, Without The Mess (octofeed.heliom.ca)

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The Evolution of an Elevator Pitch (www.emergentone.com)

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Ask HN - What is the best way to reach out to Enterprise/SMB customers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Arduino-based ArduSat will run your code in space (www.extremetech.com)

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X is down (blog.jgc.org)

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Show HN: Twin Cities Transit "Where's My Bus?" (tctransit.mobi)

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ROI on T-shirts (blog.sourceninja.com)

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Vim clutch (github.com)

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What Is 'The Zone' Anyway? (martinrue.com)

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The Royal Society's report on open science (royalsociety.org)

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Nvidia Responds to F-Bomb From Linus Torvalds (www.wired.com)

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A Beekeeper's Perspective on Risk (blogs.hbr.org)

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JsDOSBox (jsdosbox.appspot.com)

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Flipboard Launches On Android, Google+, YouTube And More Localized Versions (techcrunch.com)

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How to start and run an evening event, with tips from UK tech event organisers (lanyrd.com)

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Hosting Maven Repos on Github (cemerick.com)

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Why database technology matters (damienkatz.net)

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Internet raises $150K for bullied bus monitor in one day (news.cnet.com)

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Titanium vs Phonegap vs Native application development (www.sapandiwakar.in)

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In pursuit of self-actualization (maxwendkos.com)

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How Missile Tracking Cameras Are Remaking The NBA (www.fastcodesign.com)

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The Microsoft Guide to Error Messages (msdn.microsoft.com)

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Compression algorithms explained (www.krista.cc)

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Why Women Still Can't Have It All (www.theatlantic.com)

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Facebook Valuation by Year 2003-2012 (Infographic) (plugg.io)

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"Existential threats don’t scare us. We’re librarians." (nowviskie.org)

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Announcing Vault: safer passwords for the web (blog.jcoglan.com)

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Twitter: Today’s turbulence explained (blog.twitter.com)

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Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks (http://Promotioner.com)

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Ask HN: Is there a site where people share bootstrapped stories? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Benefits of Arbitrary Questions (jackg.org)

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Tumblr. "Full Disclosure" or Why I Hate Reporting (homakov.blogspot.com)

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How ruby Parses and compiles your code (patshaughnessy.net)

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Jumping Off A Burning Platform: Nokia Knew It Was Stuck On WP7 When It Signed On (techcrunch.com)

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The Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment (www.codinghorror.com)

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Got A Theory, Build A "5-Ton" Prototype to Prove It (www.zurb.com)

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The Internet’s most hated man (arstechnica.com)

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Lessons Learned: First 6 Months Running a Software Consultancy (reefpoints.dockyard.com)

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Facebook now lets users edit mistakes in old comments | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)

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Yardsale - San Francisco’s Marketplace App Goes National (pandodaily.com)

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Ask HN: Would salted passwords have helped LinkedIn? Should we still use them? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Facebook’s uniques in the United States are slipping (thenextweb.com)

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Payoff for Efficient Cars Takes Years (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Where does one find a remarkable designer co-founder? (news.ycombinator.com)

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BlackBerry is winning the SDK race (www.raizlabs.com)

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Building websites with science (codeascraft.etsy.com)

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Making the Transition from Development to Design (somerandomdude.com)

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The Cult of TED (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Confirmed: Android 4.1 is Jelly Bean (www.theverge.com)

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Ratchet - WebSockets for PHP (socketo.me)

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The Sandia Cooler: A totally new CPU heatsink design that's 30% more efficient (icrontic.com)

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Startup Delusion and Embracing the Schlep (pandodaily.com)

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TED: Peter Norvig: The 100,000 student classroom (www.ted.com)

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Ask HN: Math major wanting to get into programming quickly (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Do you think Ubuntu has lost its way (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why Women Still Can’t Have It All (www.theatlantic.com)

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The NTP Pool needs more servers (news.ntppool.org)

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What Happens When We Turn the World's Most Famous Robot Test on Ourselves? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: Freelancers - Get Leads for Gigs in your inbox daily. (http://www.leadsriver.com)

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Twitter 'Cascaded Bug' Novelty Account Suspended (mashable.com)

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Why SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011 (arstechnica.com)

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Is Nvidia abandoning OpenCL? (forums.developer.nvidia.com)

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The Art of Not Writing Code (cjroth.com)

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How about a unified alliance of websites refusing to support old browsers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How good startups do performance appraisal? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Guide to understanding the introverted (jpg) (img.pr0gramm.com)

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Google's Hybrid Approach to Research (cacm.acm.org)

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New Thunderbolt Drobo Mini (www.drobo.com)

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UN doesn’t want to take over Internet, does want to help telcos profit (arstechnica.com)

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Tech/Fashion start up in current YC S12 batch looking for lead web developer (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN : As an Early Employee | Equity vs ESOP? and how much? (news.ycombinator.com)

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ACTA rejected by committee in crucial blow before final EU Parliament vote (www.rt.com)

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Startup Metrics Worth Obsessing Over (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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Tweeting effect on follower growth (www.gabrielweinberg.com)

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A Cascaded Bug Brought Twitter to Its Knees (www.wired.com)

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Paul Buchheit's LiPo battery caught fire last night and burned up home office (www.facebook.com)

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Microsoft Is the Most Exciting Company in Tech, Hands Down (gizmodo.com)

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Lispyscript is Javascript with a Lisp syntax (github.com)

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FDA: Software Failures Responsible for 24% Of All Medical Device Recalls (threatpost.com)

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Breaches Of 2012 (www.darkreading.com)

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Microsoft Is the Most Exciting Company in Tech, Hands Down (gizmodo.com)

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Sure, Microsoft's Surface announcement was vaporous. No surprise there. (techland.time.com)

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Flipboard on Android (www.engadget.com)

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Has the FeeFighters Samurai gateway been shuttered? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Secret military mini-shuttle lands in California (www.reuters.com)

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A Turing Machine built out of lego (vimeo.com)

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Pirate Bay Founders File Appeals With Human Rights Court (torrentfreak.com)

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The Value of Experience (sachagreif.com)

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New Sydney, Australia Location for Amazon Route 53 (aws.amazon.com)

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Microsoft Surface & Internet Explorer Presentation Epic Fail [video] (www.robgonda.com)

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Why do we still live with Twitter maxlength anxiety? (www.jasimabasheer.com)

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 Review: Mobile App Development, the HTML 5 Way (www.pcworld.com)

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Heroku Invoice Security follow-up (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How many domains do you own? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Your experiences with Nootropics? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Could Facebook become the new PayPal? (news.ycombinator.com)

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JavaScript Framework qooxdoo 2.0 now for website, mobile, desktop and server (news.qooxdoo.org)