hackerNews

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Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses (arstechnica.com)

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We know what you're doing (www.weknowwhatyouredoing.com)

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Light Table Playground is released (www.chris-granger.com)

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FuckItJS: Runs your javascript code whether your compiler likes it or not. (github.com)

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YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team" (www.reddit.com)

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The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights (www.nytimes.com)

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Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out (blog.nodejs.org)

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EU Commissioner Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By EU Parliament (www.techdirt.com)

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Louis CK selling tickets to latest tour exclusively on his site (buy.louisck.net)

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The fanless heatsink: Silent, dust-immune, and almost ready for prime time (www.extremetech.com)

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Brackets: The Open Source Code Editor for the Web | Brackets (blog.brackets.io)

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Introducing Prose: A Content Editor for GitHub (developmentseed.org)

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NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js (novus.github.com)

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Orbitz shows costlier hotel options to Mac users (online.wsj.com)

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Apple Quietly Pulls Claims of Virus Immunity (www.pcworld.com)

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Facebook Changed Everyone's Email to Facebook.com; Here's How to Fix It (lifehacker.com)

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Sonic.net CEO: We Delete User Logs After Two Weeks. Your ISP Should, Too. (www.forbes.com)

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Jeff Bezos Taught Me When to Quit (www.chrisfharvey.com)

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Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer (www.microsoft.com)

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How Google's Marissa Mayer Prevents Burnout (www.entrepreneur.com)

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A Stroll Through the Craigslist-Crusher Startup Graveyard (amandapeyton.com)

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'Malthusianisms': it's hard/scarce because if it weren't, we'd make it so (www.scottaaronson.com)

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"X-" deprecated for HTTP headers (tools.ietf.org)

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Asgard: Web-based Cloud Management and Deployment from Netflix (techblog.netflix.com)

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Scientists crack RSA SecurID 800 tokens, steal cryptographic keys (arstechnica.com)

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Facebook changes everyone's listed emails to 'Facebook.com' (www.chicagotribune.com)

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Here's what's new in C11, the new C standard (blog.smartbear.com)

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Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? (www.newyorker.com)

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Ask HN: How do you sell yourself as a new freelancer to clients? (news.ycombinator.com)

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BlackOps Plastics (Opaque to the eye, see-through for cameras) (qwonn.com)

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Show HN: I'm a composer. My startup provides affordable music for game devs. (luckylionstudios.com)

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The Newbie Guide to Common Lisp (ghostopera.org)

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'Twisted' wireless OAM beams carry 2.5 terabits per second (www.extremetech.com)

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What is Modern Perl (www.josetteorama.com)

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In Honor of Alan Turing: A message from the sponsor (www.linux-magazine.com)

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Rentobo (YC S11) Helps Landlords Fill Apartments (rento.bo)

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ESR: Abusing Alan Turing (esr.ibiblio.org)

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How Do Plants Know Which Way Is Up And Which Way Is Down? (www.npr.org)

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Show HN: Weekend project, Political Screaming Match (Node,Socket.io,Twilio API) (politicalscreamingmatch.com)

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How a Tech Non-Profit Became the Hottest Ticket in Silicon Valley (www.wired.com)

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Padmapper to replenish listings with Padlister (blog.padmapper.com)

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Build Lego onto a Google Map (in Google Chrome) (www.buildwithchrome.com)

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RBS IT cockup: This sort of thing can destroy a bank, normally (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Oracle v. Google: a preview of what Oracle will argue on appeal (www.groklaw.net)

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Aussie telco sends user data to US to build web filter (www.scmagazine.com.au)

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No-man’s land on the road to bootstrapping a start-up (www.thisux.com)

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Sonic.net CEO: We Delete User Logs After Two Weeks. Your ISP Should, Too. (www.forbes.com)

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Scrolls - Notch, Mojang's latest game (scrolls.com)

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The Linux Kernel - Structure Analysis (ernstsson.net)

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The Ubuntu App Showdown (developer.ubuntu.com)

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Most Startups Die Before Launching, Some Die After (http://www.valleyofdeath.biz)

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My journey to the International Olympiad in Informatics (sirupsen.com)

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Freicoin: bitcoin-like currency from the Occupy movement (www.indiegogo.com)

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Brain Waves Lift Me Higher (www.nytimes.com)

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Kicksend Practices Part I – Backend & Web (blog.kicksend.com)

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On Android, Garbage Collection Can Kill You (www.war-worlds.com)

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HTML Entity Character Lookup (leftlogic.com)

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Facebook Names Sheryl Sandberg to Its Board of Directors (newsroom.fb.com)

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Why the integrated approach to mobile devices is winning - Chris Dixon (cdixon.org)

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Reasons Why the Amazon Associates Affiliate Program Is Highly Underrated (technicalblogging.com)

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St. Louis Gives $50K (equity free) To Startups [video] (techli.com)

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Facebook Quietly Releases ‘Find Friends Nearby,’ Then Quietly Pulls It (www.wired.com)

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Facebook doing MITM attack on your email. (blog.gerv.net)

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The Alternative World Drug Report (www.countthecosts.org)

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Lulzsec: UK men plead guilty to hacking charges (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: My nights and weekends project based on openstreetmaps (besttravelapp.org)

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In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning (www.nytimes.com)

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Bruce Sterling talks about Alan Turing (www.wired.com)

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How SSDs conquered mobile devices and modern OSes (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Movie Recommendations for several people to watch together (foundd.com)

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What the hell is an information architect? (blog.controlgroup.com)

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Microsoft is starting to pivot (www.tnl.net)

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Facebook Marketing Down to the Core – 4 Factors of Post Optimization (blog.getpostrocket.com)

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Thinkfuse team joins salesforce.com (blog.thinkfuse.com)

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Get Rid of That Code Smell – Primitive Obsession (solnic.eu)

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How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis (www.foreignpolicy.com)

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The Anatomy of Sales or How Andrew Warner Became Our First Paying Customer (zapier.com)

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Eric Raymond eats at the "Alan Turing" buffet (jng.imagine27.com)

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Error 451: This Page Has Been Burned (www.webmonkey.com)

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Less is exponentially more (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

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ZeroMQ - Disconnects are Good for You (lucumr.pocoo.org)

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No to Nuclear Power (reason.com)

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Math learning software and other technology are hurting education (www.slate.com)

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Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile (www.cs.utexas.edu)

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When scientists become hedge fund managers (ftalphaville.ft.com)

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Backup Box Makes Switching Between Cloud Storage Services Easy (techcrunch.com)

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Mojolicious 3.0 released: Perl real-time web framework (blog.kraih.com)

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Show HN: my small open source web app written entirely in Clojure (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Bank of America quietly steals your money (news.ycombinator.com)

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Eric Schmidt on Israel and its high-tech industry (plus.google.com)

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Tell HN: 49% of iOS apps are free, 25% are $0.99 (news.ycombinator.com)

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Retina Images in Webkit (coderwall.com)

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Better Visibility Into Partition Transfers In Riak 1.2 (basho.com)

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Rim: What the hell happened (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Show HN: A 3D First-Person Shooter in WebGL in 24 hours (icecreamyou.github.com)

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"LinkedIn will become the MySpace of hiring" (venturevillage.eu)

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Apple retail employees respond to NYT’s profile (9to5mac.com)

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Haskell performance: yes, it’s worth looking at the small stuff (www.serpentine.com)

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Letters between Gene Roddenberry and Isaac Asimov (www.lettersofnote.com)

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Tragic, unforgettable, classic (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: why isn't YC a reality tv show? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Juniper Networks to use Scala and Akka (Typesafe) (gigaom.com)

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Show HN: How HN's upvote link works (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What is my app missing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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With 3D camera and depth sensors, any object can be touch-enabled (www.springwise.com)

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Does Crowd Funding Really Work, Or Is It Becoming Over-Saturated? (www.craigagranoff.com)

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SPDY & Secure Proxy Support in Google Chrome (www.igvita.com)

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Microsoft buys enterprise-oriented social startup Yammer for $1.2 billion (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: A fast way to view Show HN (showhackernews.herokuapp.com)

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Ask HN: Why is HN laid out with tables? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: User innovation with APIs (blog.elastic.io)

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Show HN: Matt's DOM Utils—a modular HTML DOM library with wide browser support (www.fortybelow.ca)

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The Future of UI design (adamldavis.com)

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Monadic vs Imperative code in ruby (gist.github.com)

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Javascript: Keeping It Classy (codeascraft.etsy.com)

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What entrepreneurs can learn from Nigerian email scammers (venturebeat.com)

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How Notehub was built entirely in Clojure (notehub.org)

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Ask HN: What's your LOC-to-Developer Ratio? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Founders Never Sleep (gregario.us)

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Ask HN: How much to spend on marketing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Startup Weekend - How can I add value? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Making A Easy-To-Setup $50 Linux Multi-Seat Computer (www.phoronix.com)

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An Introduction to Bayesian Inference (architects.dzone.com)

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Ask HN: How to handle external net access from freely available site? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Facebook changes everyone's listed emails to 'Facebook.com' (www.latimes.com)

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Berkeley Study: For MBAs, Happiness Isn’t About the Money (techcrunch.com)

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Box brings OneCloud to Android with 50 launch partners (thenextweb.com)

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TechRadar's user database compromised (news.ycombinator.com)

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Microsoft: We Won't Build Own Windows Phones (www.informationweek.com)

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Show HN: Advanced Penetration Testing Software (www.advancedpentest.com)

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KadOH-based Distributed/P2P Twitter Clone (twitter.kadoh.fr.nf)

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Auto Updating Comments (github.com)

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Paging & Ranking With Large Offsets: MongoDB vs Redis vs PostgreSQL (openmymind.net)

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Orbitz experiments with showing Mac users higher prices (webcache.googleusercontent.com)