hackerNews

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The Next Microsoft (www.minimallyminimal.com)

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Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon (apod.nasa.gov)

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Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails ... (www.vanityfair.com)

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Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by selling tickets himself (thenextweb.com)

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What the Fucking Fuck, Apple? - How not to respond to bug reports (www.phoboslab.org)

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Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator (www.eff.org)

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Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins (webcast.web.cern.ch)

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PHP is much better than what you think (fabien.potencier.org)

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CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson (press.web.cern.ch)

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Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown (torrentfreak.com)

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Vulnerabilities in Heroku's Build System (titanous.com)

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European Court: Used software licenses may be resold. (translate.google.com)

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MVC, MOVE - Or Simply A State Machine? (ingoschramm.tumblr.com)

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Megaupload Founder Goes From Arrest to Cult Hero (www.nytimes.com)

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PageRank Algorithm Reveals Soccer Teams' Strategies (www.technologyreview.com)

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Google Service Drops Support for Opera (planetbotch.blogspot.no)

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Beautiful Windows 8 concept (dribbble.com)

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Google Shutdowns Continue: iGoogle, Google Video, Google Mini... (techcrunch.com)

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Google Apps Loophole, Let You Access Other’s Domain Login Details (jajodia-saket.sjbn.co)

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Steve Jobs on Average vs Best Software Developers (benlakey.com)

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Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field (www.nasa.gov)

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Golang at CloudFlare (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Godel's 2nd Incompleteness Theorem Explained in Words of One Syllable (www2.kenyon.edu)

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Show HN: Autobahn - Save Time on Hacker News (vlad.github.com)

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Solve problems. Don't build ideas. (jmarbach.com)

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Binary search eliminates branch mispredictions (www.pvk.ca)

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Bitmit - Buy and sell goods with Bitcoin (www.bitmit.net)

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Parsing regular expressions with recursive descent (matt.might.net)

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Hetzner mail to customers: 1 megawatt more power due to leap second (news.ycombinator.com)

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Stanford's Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Science (mashable.com)

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LHC claims new particle discovery (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Steve Jobs The Lost Interview is on iTunes, but don’t tell anyone, okay? (www.cringely.com)

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Show HN: Build a Robot Overlord Using Node.js, Twilio, and Arduino (www.twilio.com)

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Show HN: Hulu With Me (Firefox/Chrome add-on + Node) (http://huluwith.me)

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PATCH Method for HTTP (tools.ietf.org)

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Executives who are exceptional at chess (chessbase.com)

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The Leanest Startup in Silicon Valley (www.inc.com)

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Jetpack 2 - by the creator of the original Jetpack (www.kickstarter.com)

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Hiring Employee #1 (ryancarson.com)

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Moving the needle (www.gabrielweinberg.com)

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Show HN: landing pages for iOS apps with interactive, usable demos (http://kickfolio.com)

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UN report comes up with a better way to size up nations' wealth (www.economist.com)

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Collection of 500 CSS Creations (cssdeck.com)

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Show HN: Express CDN, deliver optimized and CDN-hosted assets in Node.js (github.com)

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Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other According to Wikipedia (blog.ouseful.info)

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Spam from an Android botnet (blogs.msdn.com)

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RedisConf (redisconf.com)

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How US software ended up powering Chinese assault helicopters (arstechnica.com)

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How much does a responsive web design cost? (bradfrostweb.com)

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Another Ghost Town built by China in Angola (www.bbc.co.uk)

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35 Startups That TechCrunch Missed out on (www.startupplays.com)

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Day in the Life of a hackNY Fellow (hackny.org)

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YouTube-MP3 Fights Google With Lawyers and 220K+ Signature Petition (torrentfreak.com)

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The story you didn't know about Steve Jobs & Michael Jackson (technori.com)

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Show HN: Web startup security is failing and we're fixing it (www.scanmysite.net)

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"Wimpy cores" are coming to Facebook (gigaom.com)

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To fight piracy, Microsoft tightens MSDN and TechNet terms again (www.zdnet.com)

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Crime-Predicting Algorithm Outperforms Humans (www.technologyreview.com)

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On Starting a Startup (luigimontanez.com)

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Parse launches easy app collaboration with teammates (blog.parse.com)

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Researchers create "clickjack rootkit" for Android that hijacks apps (arstechnica.com)

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Gates: Apple may have to make a Surface-like device (news.cnet.com)

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With Kickstarter, Who Needs the National Endowment for the Arts? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Is this considered creepy in all cultures? (rt.cpan.org)

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3D-printed sugar network to help grow artificial liver (www.bbc.co.uk)

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If Used Software Can Be Sold, Why Not Used eBooks? (mikecanex.wordpress.com)

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QR Code Fatigue (www.businessweek.com)

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LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally (www.learningjar.com)

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What is a Higgs Boson? Beautifully explained by Dr.John Ellis (cdsweb.cern.ch)

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MVC may be Slowing Down Your Site (www.subbu.org)

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Linux players complain of illegitimate Diablo III bans (arstechnica.com)

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Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #15 – Thursday 12th of July 2012 (www.makeleaps.jp)

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The Most Common OAuth2 Vulnerability (homakov.blogspot.com)

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Ratio of PC to Mac Sales Narrowing to Lowest Level in Over a Decade (www.wired.com)

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How We Built eCommerceHackDay with RedisToGo + SendGrid (dev.dwolla.com)

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Ask HN: How the hell do angel and VC investments work? (news.ycombinator.com)

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CERN FAQ about significance of Higgs boson (easy read) (cdsweb.cern.ch)

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War On Standby: Do the figures actually stack up? (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Let’s just solve the file format problem (ascii.textfiles.com)

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Ask PG: has the hotness algorithm changed? Stories seem to stay longer… (news.ycombinator.com)

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Android Jelly Bean: Streaming Audio Through the USB (www.starwebworld.com)

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Ask HN: Your favourite style guide? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Caching Your Mobile App's Stored Data, Online or Offline (www.kinvey.com)

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The aerodynamic drag – type inference analogy (mergeconflict.com)

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U.S. judge rejects Samsung request to lift stay on Nexus sales (www.reuters.com)

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A New $99 Console Is Real and Different From Xbox, PlayStation and Wii (kotaku.com)

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NOAA (Officially) Denies Existence of Mermaids (news.discovery.com)

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Tell HN: I'm selling jqueryin.com to help my startup (news.ycombinator.com)

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The anti-tech startup pattern (www.isbullsh.it)

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The History of Anonymous (www.wired.com)

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Freshly-Minted Declaration of Internet Freedom Demands 'Free and Open Internet' (www.forbes.com)

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Random Crashes - debugging the leap second at FastMail (blog.fastmail.fm)

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Optimizing your Linux server for memory-based NoSQL databases (Part I) (blog.bugsense.com)

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The product process at Posterous (sachin.posterous.com)

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Take Action – Google (www.google.com)

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The Measured Man (100k TB per gram of poop) (www.theatlantic.com)

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24 Executives Who Are Exceptional At Chess (www.businessinsider.com)

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Goal: %100 Free Time (tortillasinbed.com)

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Nokia's Strange, But Likely Suitor (www.streetinsider.com)

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JSON in Postgres (blog.redfin.com)

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CERN expected to announce Higgs boson discovery tomorrow morning (www.extremetech.com)

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Different Mobile Features - Same KPI's (twitchtv.github.com)

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Why I'm finally dumping Ubuntu and switching to a Mac (mariusandra.com)

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Socialist Travel Site : ZeTrip Launches BETA (http://zetrip.com)

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What's Next for Starbucks? (timgaweco.com)

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Bill Gates’ Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC « pagetable.com Bill's comment (www.pagetable.com)

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Twitter account re-tweets public photos of peoples' debit cards (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: agreement between YC and its start-ups? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Why do people hire experience based on time instead of actuality? (news.ycombinator.com)

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GitHub notifications by audible commit messages, texts, and emails (commitbot.com)

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Things You Need to Know About Where Google Is Going Next (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Apple’s crackdown on app-ranking manipulation: Confused developers caught (venturebeat.com)

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Blekko Offers Fresher Index For SEO Purposes (searchengineland.com)

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AWS Outage Caused by Multiple Generator Failures at Single Site (www.datacenterknowledge.com)

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15 Most Popular jQuery Plugins of June 2012 (www.moretechtips.net)

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Little “Want” Button Code Foreshadows Big Things For Facebook Ecommerce (techcrunch.com)

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Mandatory updates required for chrome extensions' manifest (code.google.com)

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Google vs DuckDuckGo: Without JavaScript (www.horsesaysinternet.com)

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What do you want to be when you grow up - if you grew up backwards? (ninjasandrobots.com)

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People tend to prefer first option when given sequential choices (www.plosone.org)

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For first time ever, US seeking international limits on copyright (arstechnica.com)

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MyGengo is now Gengo (http://mygengo.com)

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IGoogle to be retired by November 2013 (support.google.com)

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Codon Security Issue and Response (blog.heroku.com)

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HTML5 Taking Over the App World? (touchlabblog.tumblr.com)

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Show HN: Githtml - Instantly View Github HTML Pages (github.com)

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Security vulnerability found in Cyberoam DPI devices (blog.torproject.org)

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Knuth-Plass Line Breaking Algorithm (en.wikipedia.org)

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Apps and autism (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Mobile hacker - 1st employee - for start-up journey (YC S2012) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Join Exec as our Recruiter [SF] (iamexec.com)

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