hackerNews

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What Twitter could have been (daltoncaldwell.com)

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Anonymous Publishing is Dead (cryptome.org)

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The busy trap (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Interface Design with a Homeless person (www.delian.io)

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Lisp Hackers: Peter Seibel (interview) (lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com.au)

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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (July 2012) (news.ycombinator.com)

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As crops rot, millions go hungry in India (uk.reuters.com)

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Flask 0.9 codename Camapri released today (github.com)

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GNU Make in Detail for Beginners (www.linuxforu.com)

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Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read (jasonevanish.com)

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Ryan Carson: Living outside America (ryancarson.com)

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Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe (code.google.com)

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Apple patent: Method and apparatus for executing program code (patft1.uspto.gov)

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Stephen Hawking on time travel, M-theory, and extra terrestrial life (arstechnica.com)

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Repo.js (darcyclarke.me)

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Emacs IPython Notebook (tkf.github.com)

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Speak Out Against Copyright Holders Destroying True Property Rights (www.techdirt.com)

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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2012) (news.ycombinator.com)

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PHP Bug #18556 : Setting locale to 'tr_TR' lowercases class names (bugs.php.net)

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Getting to know Android 4.1, Part 1 - The Basics (www.androidpolice.com)

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Show HN: Flutter HP Redesign + Play/Pause Spotify, WMP via Gesture on Windows7 (https://flutterapp.com)

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Catch-22: Tech Blogging As a Woman (codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com)

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Nanoporous Graphene Could Outperform Best Desalination Techniques (www.wateronline.com)

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To truck, barter and exchange? On the nature of Valve’s social economies (blogs.valvesoftware.com)

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Writing Desktop Class Applications in JavaScript (sandofsky.com)

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Erlang port protocol for Python (erlport.org)

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Nice HTML5/GLSL explosion demo (www.clicktorelease.com)

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Show HN: Scribble - Simple Markdown Wikis (www.tryscribble.com)

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Facebook Not Feeling Friendly With Nasdaq (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Calling PHP functions with named parameters (blog.creapptives.com)

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Google's Project Glass Lets Technology Slip Into the Background (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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China blocks access to Bloomberg sites (www.bbc.com)

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Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots (http://www.weavrs.com)

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Sci-fi policing: L.A. police predicting crime before it occurs (www.sfgate.com)

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America is wooing foreign tourists for the first time (www.economist.com)

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Handling the London Waterloo rush hour on Twitter (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Amazon Knows How Many Times You Read that Sex Scene, You Pervert (betabeat.com)

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Lazy lists in Lua and eliminating tail-calls with continuations (osa1.net)

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Life after the personal computer (www.cringely.com)

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Show HN: RaterLater - A plugin that actually gets users to share on Facebook (http://raterlater.com)

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A Simple SqlAlchemy 0.7 / 0.8 Tutorial (www.blog.pythonlibrary.org)

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Google Censors Guns, Ammo & Accessories from Shopping Results (www.guns.com)

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The Purity of Running (www.wizgig.com)

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Scala, Functional Programming and Play 2.0 (www.infoq.com)

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A Solution to the Twitter API Problem (www.novaspivack.com)

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Study: Patent Trolls Cost Companies $29 Billion Last Year (www.theatlantic.com)

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First look at India's 2nd-generation, USD $40 tablet (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Play2 Simple HTTP API (gist.github.com)

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Unbluring web font icons: Response to GitHub's Octicons post (bens.me.uk)

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Should we Boycott Apple For the Sake of Innovation? (techpp.com)

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Never Use Source Control GUIs (late.am)

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Can Dogs Really Show Empathy Towards Humans? (www.economist.com)

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Secret of productivity (www.leithart.com)

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How to create a Runner Game for mobile with EaselJS (indiegamr.com)

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Why Google Chrome on iOS stands a chance (blog.cleartrip.com)

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Learning your first programming language (www.singhrahul.com)

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CashU, Liberty Reserve and OKPay Step Aside - For VPN Sales, Bitcoin Rules (www.privateinternetaccess.com)

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Lipstick Effect - Women Try to Increase Attractiveness in Recessions (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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CERN thinks they have found the Higgs Boson (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Higgs boson particle has been discovered (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Ask HN: I'm a PHP developer, should I learn Rails or Django? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What are your intra-price plan conversion rates? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: SweatTrack, an iOS app to easily track your work outs. (itunes.apple.com)

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Feynman Nobel Lecture "The Development of the Space-Time View of QED" (www.nobelprize.org)

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Codebender: An online Arduino IDE (codebender.cc)

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The Codeless Code - Tales to make wiser programmers. (thecodelesscode.com)

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Help us find an international name for our startup (news.ycombinator.com)

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"No reasonable expectation of privacy" for cellphones (propublica.org)

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Mom, Dad, This Playground’s for You (www.nytimes.com)

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Don't Break the Chain (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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PHP’s hidden strength (rc3.org)

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Ask HN: Your experience with a 'lesser known' incubator? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Version controlling The New York Times. (www.nytimes.com)

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Stop Redesigning... Rapidly Evolve Your Design (martinizer.com)

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"How Do I Get C Namespaces?" and "How do I get Python Slices in C?" (blog.808inorganic.com)

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Graphene Can Improve Desalination Efficiency by Several Orders of Magnitude (www.geekosystem.com)

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Show HN: My first iphone app was accepted (elfga.com)

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Africa On the Rise (www.nytimes.com)

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The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence (www.americanscientist.org)

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Judge Dismisses Apple/Motorola Patent Case - TheStreet.com (news.google.com)

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PowerShell Web Access: What could possibly go wrong? (labofapenetrationtester.blogspot.in)

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Why I Love Code Reviews (code.dblock.org)

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Ask HN: How should a 17 year old go about getting seed funding? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why performance will help Google steal cloud customers from Amazon (gigaom.com)

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Are you entitled to Grandfathered pricing? (jmlite.tumblr.com)

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Uber to add hybrid vehicles on July 4, which will bring fares down (www.nytimes.com)

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Working asynchronously (blog.vivekhaldar.com)

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Ask HN: books on critical thinking, analysis and creativity/innovation ? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Is it ethically right to copy an idea of a big company or a startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Making your own SparsContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1e Autoencoder (unsupervized learning): Andrew Ng's tutorial (www.stanford.edu)

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RIM Is Hurting, But It’s Not Dead Just Yet (techcrunch.com)

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