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Sublime Text 2.0 Released (www.sublimetext.com)

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The Recruiter Honeypot (www.ewherry.com)

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A day in the life of a startup founder (news.ycombinator.com)

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MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL (dom.as)

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Handsontable - Excel-like table editor in HTML & jQuery (warpech.github.com)

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Bridge is a new RPC framework for building modular services (https://www.getbridge.com)

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Going Colo (blog.pinboard.in)

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Robot Hand Beats You at Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time (spectrum.ieee.org)

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What if we hired writers like we hire developers (hitesh.in)

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Skrollr - parallax scrolling for the masses (prinzhorn.github.com)

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Show HN: Avatars.io - simple API for integrating avatars into your app or site (http://avatars.io)

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Station Maps - a collection of 3D maps of London Underground/DLR stations (stations.aeracode.org)

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An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs (research.microsoft.com)

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Python 3.3.0 beta 1 released (mail.python.org)

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Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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OkCupid on Trial - 4 Month Experiment (jonmillward.com)

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Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness (www.unreadyandwilling.com)

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26 Rejection Letters for a faculty position (markchang.tumblr.com)

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Hands-on: Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (arstechnica.com)

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Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare (edition.cnn.com)

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Apple Releases Dedicated iOS Podcasts App (itunes.apple.com)

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A day in the life of a CEO (ryancarson.com)

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AeroFS/S3: Private syncing to Amazon's Cloud made easy (blog.aerofs.com)

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Dropbox disconnects Boxopus for unwanted features (blog.boxopus.com)

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Mark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers (blogs.wsj.com)

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United States Pirate Party (en.wikipedia.org)

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Create your own version of Microsoft BASIC for 6502 (www.pagetable.com)

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Write Less Code (mikegrouchy.com)

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Clever (YC S12) Launches A Twilio For Educational Data (techcrunch.com)

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Cloud9 IDE lets you code together in the Cloud. And offline. And in Ruby, PHP… (c9.io)

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Mobile Firefox: Measuring how a browser feels (blog.mozilla.org)

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Google & Stanford create a digital brain that learns to identify a human face (www.extremetech.com)

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The TSA's Dumb Air-Security Rules Are Not Based on Science (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Tuts+ Premium Account Security Compromised (notes.envato.com)

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Speedy Upgrade to Firefox for Android (blog.mozilla.org)

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My company Freshplum comes out of stealth mode to announce seed funding (YC '11) (allthingsd.com)

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Flowchart: how to retinafy your website (mir.aculo.us)

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Berlin's new 107,000 ft² startup factory (venturevillage.eu)

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Dr. Dobb's 2012 Salary Survey (www.drdobbs.com)

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Bike - phpMyAdmin replacement for geeks (webcheatsheet.com)

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Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download (developers.google.com)

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How we chose and furnished an office the Y Combinator way (blog.cloudant.com)

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The Internet is Broken, and How to Fix It (gettys.wordpress.com)

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Tech Boom Hits San Francisco Rental Prices (online.wsj.com)

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Secret messages on the web: How to do steganography in JavaScript (oakes.github.com)

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Dropbox blocks API access for Boxopus over piracy concerns (torrentfreak.com)

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Launching Google +1 Recommendations Across the Web (googleplusplatform.blogspot.com)

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Rails 4.0 Sneak Peek: Asynchronous ActionMailer (reefpoints.dockyard.com)

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New Rocket(r) Launching Soon (& why startups ain’t for the faint of heart) (blog.rocketr.com)

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Collaborating on GitHub with Subversion (github.com)

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A conversation with Bill Gates on the future of education (chronicle.com)

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Custora (YC W11) Ecommerce Analytics Debuts Update, Analyzes $10B (betakit.com)

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Show HN: Jekyll SEO script (github.com)

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Hacker irked by reincarnation (tech.blog.aknin.name)

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Three keys to pitching big companies (www.forbes.com)

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WebAudioSynth - Web browser based synthesizer application (aikelab.net)

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Fresnel lenses may help to find life in other solar systems (www.economist.com)

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Ask HN: I work in a data centre and we have to make it greener. Ideas? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Simple Statistics is stats in node.js & the browser for humans (macwright.org)

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E la Carte Hires Former OpenTable Director of Sales (pandodaily.com)

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Parse JavaScript SDK Now Supports Facebook Login (blog.parse.com)

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Thanks, but No Thanks: Passing on an 8 Figure Venture Round (www.3founders.com)

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Scientists Discover That Mars is Full of Water (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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The European Atrocity You Never Heard About (chronicle.com)

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Yet Another Sign Up (Why Isn't Open ID More Popular By Now?) (blog.amir.rachum.com)

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Diablo 3: The Blizzard sweatshop (www.extremetech.com)

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Repo.js: jQuery plugin to embed Github repos (github.com)

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SnappyTree: a WebGL-based procedural tree generation app (creativejs.com)

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Why Groupon is Evil and Unsustainable (blog.grubwithus.com)

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Read your pile of books twice as fast (blogs.wsj.com)

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Parallax Wedding Invitation (jessandruss.us)

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Google X Lab proves that the Internet is really powered by cats (venturebeat.com)

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Why I read The Economist, and why you should, too (shadyacres.tumblr.com)

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Indie Game: The Irresponsible Movie (jeansnow.net)

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Crowdfunding to Solve Apple's Biggest Product Problem... Tangled Headphones (www.fundable.com)

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Testing with RSpec in the browser (rspec.codeschool.com)

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Show HN: Are you an early adopter? Compare your user IDs (built on Singly) (idego.co)

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White House Seeks IP Enforcement Feedback (www.whitehouse.gov)

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Apple granted patent for wireless charging system (mashable.com)

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Dropbox Bans BitTorrent Startup Boxopus Over Piracy Concerns (torrentfreak.com)

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Getting started with Dwarf Fortress (book) (shop.oreilly.com)

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Dropbox Bans BitTorrent Startup Boxopus Over Piracy Concerns (www.torrentfreak.com)

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Show HN: Real-time web-based collaborative open source mind mapping. (beautifulmind.io)

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Jon Fisher: selling the company should be every entrepreneur's goal (www.mercurynews.com)

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Freshplum scores $1.4M for its data-science driven analytics solution (thenextweb.com)

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An API up and running in 10mins with Grape, Heroku and 3scale (www.3scale.net)

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Eben Moglen: Time To Apply The First Law Of Robotics To Our Smartphones (www.forbes.com)

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Ready to found a startup, but my co-founder is on a temporary visa (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Please review my first app for iOS: iDeas for Writing (news.ycombinator.com)

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Minesweeper First Click: Quantity or Quality (www.datagenetics.com)

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Rally.org Cause Crowdfunding Platform Raises $7.9M of Its Own (allthingsd.com)

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University of Virginia Reinstates Ousted President (www.nytimes.com)

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Thoughts on Starting Consulting (stevekle.in)

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Ask HN: Should I and how to start meditating? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Amidst Yammers & Asanas, YC Alum Siasto Finds Revenue By ... (techcrunch.com)

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The jury is in on the Tesla Model S (compilation of video reviews) (www.treehugger.com)

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Ask HN: virtual haven co (news.ycombinator.com)

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Yahoo unit loses data for over 5000 comapnies (www.zdnetasia.com)

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Triple Buffering as a Concurrency Mechanism (remis-thoughts.blogspot.com)

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Roy - Statically typed functional language targeting Javascript [pdf] (steve.vinoski.net)

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales banned by US court (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How NatWest's IT meltdown developed (www.guardian.co.uk)

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USTR Gives MPAA Full Access To TPP Text, But Still Won't Share With Senate (www.techdirt.com)

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Building a startup - what would make a startup office cool? (blog.shopforcloud.com)

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Surviving AWS Failures with a Node.js and MongoDB Stack (www.kinvey.com)

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Mac users targeted by Orbitz (www.bbc.com)

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Apple's secret weapon : Design patents (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Ask HN: How much should startups pay per beta tester? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Internet piracy appeal fee challenged by Consumer Focus (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Myth Dispensing: The Whole 'Spotify Barely Pays Artists' Story Is Bunk (www.techdirt.com)

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You aren't smarter than the compiler (www.hanselman.com)

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Inverse Fizzbuzz = f|b|fb|f|(b|fb)f|f|(f|(b|fb)f).. (www.jasq.org)

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Show HN: Fully automated domain transfers from GoDaddy to Badger (blog.badger.com)

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Show HN: The Breezy Button, Easy Secure Printing (blog.breezy.com)

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Github uses s3 too (They are backed by Rackspace) (learnitcorrect.blogspot.com)

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How Udacity Steals Coder Methods To Engineer Class Discussion (lexilewtan.tumblr.com)

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'Patent trolls' cost other US bodies $29bn last year, says study (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The Pentagon Is Building a Reddit Knockoff (www.wired.com)

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Firefox for Android Reveals the Future of the Mobile Web (www.readwriteweb.com)

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U.S. judge issues injunction on Samsung Galaxy Tab sales (www.reuters.com)

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Looking for rockstar engineers is like playing tetris (careercarrot.wordpress.com)

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Building Memory-efficient Java Applications (www.cs.virginia.edu)

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Open webOS June Update - Community Edition released (blog.openwebosproject.org)

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Learn A Language in 90 Days (zenhabits.net)

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Introducing jimboPad (jsomers.net)

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Light Table - 24 hours later (www.chris-granger.com)

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MI5 fighting 'astonishing' level of cyber-attacks (www.bbc.co.uk)

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No free market in New York taxi apps: the little guy’s lament (blog.untogether.co.uk)