hackerNews

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To Elon Musk and the Model S: Congratulations (blogs.wsj.com)

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#BoycottApple trending on Google plus due to Galaxy Nexus ban (plus.google.com)

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Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost (news.cnet.com)

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Leap second causing Linux server crashes? (serverfault.com)

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Five interviews of with Americans, each earning five times as much as the last. (www.gq.com)

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The FFmpeg/Libav situation (blog.pkh.me)

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Chrome overtake IE - May 2012 Browsers stats (gs.statcounter.com)

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JavaScript Prototypes Made Easy (javascriptweblog.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: Best setups to avoid availability outages on AWS (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mobile is Where the Growth Is (www.avc.com)

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A rough guide to keeping your website up through catastrophic events (blog.rainforestapp.com)

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Quake 3 Source Code Review (fabiensanglard.net)

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The Geopolitics of the United States (www.stratfor.com)

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

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Introduction to Algorithms (videolectures.net)

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Ph.D. candidate's breakthrough stymied by bickering over credit (sciencecareers.sciencemag.org)

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Out of control Java processes when dealing with a leap second? (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

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If you're not going to become a professor, then why bother pursuing a Ph.D.? (pgbovine.net)

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How we spent Friday night coming back online before Instagram and others (blog.fitocracy.com)

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Protip: Write for you (coderwall.com)

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Letters of Note: I think I no how to make people or animals alive (www.lettersofnote.com)

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How earphone remotes (with play/skip buttons) work on a single wire (unix.stackexchange.com)

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US Navy X-47B Robot Fighter Jet Completes First Phase Of Testing (singularityhub.com)

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How patent protection for antibiotics creates incentives to render them useless (www.techdirt.com)

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Why supermarket tomatoes tend to taste bland (www.latimes.com)

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Ask HN: Is a starting an enterprise software startup worth the hassle? (news.ycombinator.com)

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IPython 0.13 released (ipython.org)

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Show HN: Pixate - Themeable, scalable, beautiful buttons for Android (www.pixate.com)

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The Evolution of the Web (www.evolutionoftheweb.com)

47 points first seen 2012070100 last seen 2012070203 11 comments

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Django-medusa: Rendering Django sites as static HTML (v3.mike.tig.as)

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I got curious about UTC and leap seconds so I made a graph (www.somebits.com)

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Leap second insertion causes futex to repeatedly timeout (lkml.org)

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Siri is old tech now - check out Google's solution (blog.freshte.ch)

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Woman Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth (www.nytimes.com)

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The Art Of Manipulation (techcrunch.com)

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Google+ creator: Don't call it a social network (www.cnn.com)

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Behavioral Targeting 101 (blog.targeterapp.com)

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Hard drive supplies back to pre-flood levels, but prices aren’t (arstechnica.com)

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My Friday Night With AWS (www.benjamincoe.com)

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Robert Scoble rages over Google Events spam (uncrunched.com)

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How to beta test your mobile apps (blog.appstark.com)

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Has the notion of "files" outlived its usefulness? (www.25hoursaday.com)

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Why You Need To Hire Great Developers (benlakey.com)

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Are technical certifications of any worth? (techslam.net)

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Zen & the art of startup advice (daltoncaldwell.com)

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Extending Patents for Antibiotics Creates Perverse Incentives (www.citizenvox.org)

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Interview with PacMan Game Designer Toru Iwatani (programmersatwork.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: How can I learn "advanced" data modelling for Rails? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Scientific Method, Exemplified By Palaeontology (bioteaching.wordpress.com)

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Replying to App Store reviews (mattgemmell.com)

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What are some ways I can earn online ($200-$300)? Just enough to buy a new PC. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Is "Long-Term Shareholder Value" The Answer? (www.forbes.com)

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Show HN: FeelHN - Sentiment analysis for HN comments [Stripe hackathon project] (chrome.google.com)

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Microsoft Claims it Killed the Start Button Because You Didn't Want it (www.dailytech.com)

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More iPhones are ready for Chrome Mobile than Android Phones (news.ycombinator.com)

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If authors of programming books wrote maths textbooks (cartoon image) (abstrusegoose.com)

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Steve Would Be Proud: How Apple Won The War Against Flash (techcrunch.com)

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Careful, Twitter — remember what happened to MySpace and Digg (gigaom.com)

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Can someone please explain why some people don't like RSS feeds? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Close your fucking laptop (codeulate.com)

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The Camera you have with you (www.marco.org)

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The PhD Grind, and Why Research Isn’t Like Sex (blog.regehr.org)

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Tesla CEO Predicts More Than Half of New Cars to be Electric in 20 Years (www.treehugger.com)

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Charting Every Bodily Function in Minute Detail (www.theatlantic.com)

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Easy to use GPU accelerated neural networks - Torch 7 (github.com)

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Show HN: Twilight Anti-Bright theme for Emacs & TextMate (github.com)

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Twitter: bye-bye LinkedIn, hello Facebook (www.futureofsocialnetwork.com)

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NFC Is Great, But Mobile Payments Solve A Problem That Doesn’t Exist (techcrunch.com)

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Test That Can Determine the Course of Life in China Gets a Closer Examination (www.nytimes.com)

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The Entrepreneur’s Dilemma (lesliebradshaw.tumblr.com)

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Show HN: Sweet.io An open micro-blogging platform driven by its users (http://signup.sweet.io)

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CryptAByte.com: Making cryptography (more) accessible to non-hackers (lfb.org)

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Online threat — but SWAT team raids wrong house (www.msnbc.msn.com)

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Insert coin: a look back at our favorite classic arcade games (arstechnica.com)

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Predictive data analytics is saving lives and taxpayer dollars (radar.oreilly.com)

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OMG the Internet went down - lessons learned (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: When shall we have an alternate to Google Search? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ntpd leap seocnd update may crash Linux (serverfault.com)

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New Mac Virus Discovered, Making the Rounds (apple.slashdot.org)

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The Lytro Camera: How it works (without marketing) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Chrome FINALLY Becomes Top Browser Worldwide (www.browsomatic.com)

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Yardsale - Top 125 App, Mobile Marketplace (S11) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Consumer Marketing Specialist for a Travel Startup (news.ycombinator.com)

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