hackerNews

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PHP Addiction (www.marco.org)

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Introducing ccv, a modern computer vision library (libccv.org)

293 points first seen 2012063021 last seen 2012070318 53 comments

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I’m Done Developing for Twitter (restrictionisexpression.com)

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The Ph.D Grind: A Ph.D Student Memoir (www.pgbovine.net)

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Y Combinator backed Coinbase.com (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses (coinbase.com)

266 points first seen 2012063003 last seen 2021052012 280 comments

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Coding Horror: The PHP Singularity (www.codinghorror.com)

264 points first seen 2012063000 last seen 2012070112 306 comments

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Feynman: I love my wife. My wife is dead. (www.lettersofnote.com)

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AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US (http://status.aws.amazon.com)

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My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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Ask HN: What's your favorite bookmarked HN thread? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Building Your First Profitable Startup (www.layeredthoughts.com)

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If malware authors ever learn how to spell we're all screwed (www.hanselman.com)

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Why Files Exist (blog.filepicker.io)

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Apple granted preliminary sales ban of Galaxy Nexus (www.slashgear.com)

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Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes (ikamasutra.com)

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Higher-order programming in C (vedantk.tumblr.com)

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Google Chrome already No. 1 among free iOS apps (news.cnet.com)

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Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more (venturebeat.com)

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Did Twitter Just Deliver Third Party Apps A Death Blow? (idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com)

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The "Everyone gets the source code, Donations get you binaries" software model (lunduke.com)

109 points first seen 2012063009 last seen 2012070200 99 comments

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Show HN: Dashku - a real-time dashboard app, built with SocketStream (https://dashku.com)

104 points first seen 2012063000 last seen 2012070121 60 comments

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Lazy people innovate (ach.al)

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Whiteboard Alternative – The Bamboo Board (imulus.com)

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Pandas (Python data analysis tookit) version 0.8.0 released (pandas.pydata.org)

93 points first seen 2012063006 last seen 2012070203 15 comments

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Someone Stole Sherlock's 300,000 Likes (spottedsun.com)

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Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down (status.aws.amazon.com)

88 points first seen 2012063003 last seen 2012070103 93 comments

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How one hacker quit the programming life for bluer skies (www.wired.com)

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Linux grabs its single biggest win (www.techrepublic.com)

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Alexis Ohanian's Reddit Story. Heart Wrenching. (www.inc.com)

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HP said to dump Microsoft over Surface (semiaccurate.com)

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On Technical Entitlement (What it is, and why it's hurting our industry) (tessrinearson.com)

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US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm (www.networkworld.com)

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MPAA Using Megaupload Case as Backdoor SOPA, Court Hears (torrentfreak.com)

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PHP solves problems. Oh, and you can program with it too (nikic.github.com)

63 points first seen 2012063009 last seen 2012063021 84 comments

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Human brain appears to use 6-bit bytes (www.jpost.com)

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Judge grants Apple an injunction against the Galaxy Nexus (arstechnica.com)

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Twitter Continues to Restrict Access to Our Tweets (apivoice.com)

58 points first seen 2012063018 last seen 2012070203 6 comments

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Why Hipmunk Is The World's Best Travel Site (www.forbes.com)

56 points first seen 2012063018 last seen 2012070121 54 comments

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Show HN: AcademyReady helps you finish online courses, punishes you if you don't (academyready.com)

53 points first seen 2012063012 last seen 2012070121 26 comments

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Redis Sentinel design draft 1.1 (redis.io)

52 points first seen 2012063003 last seen 2012070109 21 comments

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AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US (http://status.aws.amazon.com#)

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IPhone 5 years old (mashable.com)

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Inside Google’s amazing Accessory Development Kit demo hardware (www.engadget.com)

45 points first seen 2012063003 last seen 2012070100 11 comments

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Wanted: A Light Field CEO (blog.lytro.com)

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HackerRank aims to build a fun place for programmers to hang out (http://hackerrank.com)

37 points first seen 2012063006 last seen 2012063018 47 comments

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Internet Explorer 6 as a chat server with Bridge RPC (www.getbridge.com)

37 points first seen 2012063015 last seen 2012070118 14 comments

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How incubators hurt startups (swombat.com)

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Google Glass Team: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm’ (www.wired.com)

33 points first seen 2012063009 last seen 2012070100 34 comments

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Groovy 2.0 introduces static type checking and compiling (www.h-online.com)

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Tagstand Hits 1M Actions, Launches New Tag Writer To Bring NFC To The Mainstream (techcrunch.com)

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Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have to Solve a Puzzle (betabeat.com)

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Safari Vs Chrome iOS JavaScript Benchmark (pastebin.com)

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Netflix is down (http://Netflix.com)

25 points first seen 2012063015 last seen 2012070106 11 comments

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The Heroku Pricing Gap + Add-on Fever (blog.bryanlanders.com)

25 points first seen 2012063018 last seen 2012063021 5 comments

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Why I'm an Entrepreneur (maxlynch.com)

24 points first seen 2012063006 last seen 2012070103 14 comments

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Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos (chronicle.com)

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Ask HN: Please review my StartUp (news.ycombinator.com)

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Nearly 50,000 People Ask Why The Government Is Seizing Their Digital Files (www.techdirt.com)

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RIM Apparently Not Interested In Switching To Windows Phone (www.forbes.com)

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Show HN: Bugsnag - Exception tracking app with open source plugins (https://bugsnag.com)

19 points first seen 2012063009 last seen 2012070103 10 comments

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Ad Biz Claims It Must Disregard User Privacy to Safeguard "Cybersecurity" (www.eff.org)

19 points first seen 2012063009 last seen 2012070100 6 comments

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Predictions.txt (dcurt.is)

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Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.) (news.ycombinator.com)

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GWT 2.5 RC is here (googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com)

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Infographics are broken. We can do better. (erickschonfeld.com)

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Google is slowly cracking "open" iOS (www.virtualpants.com)

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Ask HN: What music instrument do you play? (news.ycombinator.com)

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PHP's Share-Nothing Architecture (2004) (zef.me)

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Sorry, but your customers don't care if you're sorry. (www.uservoice.com)

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How I Predicted Pebble Backers with 98% Accuracy (blog.custora.com)

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Delivering a consistent Twitter experience (dev.twitter.com)

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Why I added a "Peson to Blame" field to our bug tracking system (news.ycombinator.com)

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What is Google Nexus 7's Business Model? (www.slate.com)

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How would you write a program that utilizes 10,000 cores? (upthere.com)

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My first program was binary search (melitamihaljevic.blogspot.com)

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What development stack are you using? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Web Components Github Org (webcomponents.github.com)

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Hackerrank.com sends passwords in the clear (gist.github.com)

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Comic that explores some of the USA's problems (www.dailykos.com)

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India set to unveil path-breaking test for diabetes [1 test = 3.5 Cents ] (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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Paul Graham Endorses Bitcoin (www.privateinternetaccess.com)

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A 25 line Python keylogger for OS X (gist.github.com)

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Ask HN: Initial feedback - imageoverflow.com (news.ycombinator.com)

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Waffles: command-line tools for machine learning, data mining, and more (http://waffles.sourceforge.net)

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Etsy of Asia raises 1.5million (techcrunch.com)

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'An Abomination': What's The Problem With Secondary Markets? (onforb.es)

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Court rules in Apple's favor, Galaxy Nexus sales banned in US (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: Guides to things surrounding app development like hosting, taxes, etc.? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: I created a Padmapper clone to promote my startup (maps.kissr.com)

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How "The Angel" helped 15,000 people steal broadband (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Best hardware for Ubuntu? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What are you Majoring in? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Anything that you want built from 2 Java programmers free of charge? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apple Siri beta vs Google Search on Jelly Bean (www.youtube.com)

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Solve the eCommerce Hack Day programming challenge to get a free ticket (www.ecommercehackday.com)

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Google confirms Chrome bug is causing crashes on latest MacBook Air (arstechnica.com)

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Cisco Pushing 'Cloud Connect' Router Firmware, Allows Web History Tracking (tech.slashdot.org)

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Is Quora Driving Away All Its Best Users? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: PathScrollbarMenu - A Javascript, Path inspired scrollbar menu (news.ycombinator.com)

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Don’t Be Afraid of Imperfection (codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com)

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2600hz launches Kazoo, an Open-Source, distributed API based telephony platform. (blog.2600hz.com)

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Ask HN: Best Way To Present Your Freelance Business (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apple granted pre-trial injunction against Galaxy Nexus (www.reuters.com)

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Ask HN: What should I know about submitting a paid app to the Chrome Web Store? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Preview for GitHub Markup - need some feedback (dfilimonov.com)

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App prototypes, what do they mean? (news.ycombinator.com)

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'For a Donation of 3,000 Euros, Every Greek Can Buy Freedom' (www.spiegel.de)

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Will Carbon Capture Be Ready on Time? (www.technologyreview.com)