hackerNews

1

Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git? (try.github.com)

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ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39 (falkvinge.net)

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A Gentle Introduction to Algorithm Complexity Analysis (discrete.gr)

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Everything you need to know about Machine Learning in 30 minutes or less (www.hilarymason.com)

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The Perfect Compliment (www.esquire.com)

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Tarsnap outage post-mortem (www.daemonology.net)

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Things I like about programming in Go (blog.jgc.org)

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Stephen Hawking lost $100 bet over Higgs boson discovery (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Another Spanking for Apple from Judge Posner (www.groklaw.net)

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Why Russia Locks Up So Many Entrepreneurs (www.bbc.co.uk)

170 points first seen 2012070518 last seen 2012070800 127 comments

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HTC wins swipe to unlock patent dispute against Apple (www.bbc.com)

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4 min Emacs screencast inspired by Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle (emacsrocks.com)

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Why IQ Breakthrough Aren't: Algernon's Law (www.gwern.net)

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How to make your own $100 bills - from the ultimate counterfeiter (www.wired.com)

145 points first seen 2012070518 last seen 2012070800 78 comments

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Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops anti-Wikipedia federated wiki (www.wired.com)

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Detexify - Draw a LaTeX symbol to look it up (detexify.kirelabs.org)

143 points first seen 2012070509 last seen 2020022006 28 comments

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Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch (www.marco.org)

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The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money (newswatch.nationalgeographic.com)

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Valve hands over its own movie-making tools to gamers (www.gizmag.com)

94 points first seen 2012070500 last seen 2012070603 27 comments

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Treating JavaScript like a 30 year old language (jeremyckahn.github.com)

93 points first seen 2012070503 last seen 2012070603 88 comments

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Try git in your browser (github.com)

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Single Dad Building Sequel To “Jetpack” Video Game He Built As A Teenager (techcrunch.com)

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Jean-Louis Gassée: Nokia should fire Elop and the board should go too (www.computing.co.uk)

79 points first seen 2012070503 last seen 2012070603 78 comments

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Replacing text in the DOM… solved? (james.padolsey.com)

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Galaxy Nexus ban remains, Apple posts $95.6M bond, Google stops selling (www.fosspatents.com)

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CSS transforms unprefixed in Firefox nightly (paulrouget.com)

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Is personal funding viable? (blog.gittip.com)

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Try It Quiet (A Brave Way to Give A Tech 'Talk') (wekeroad.com)

62 points first seen 2012070515 last seen 2012071400 30 comments

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Adobe Flash API ported to Dart (github.com)

59 points first seen 2012070512 last seen 2012070603 30 comments

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Practical functional programming in JavaScript (extralogical.net)

57 points first seen 2012070518 last seen 2012070606 37 comments

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You Cannot Correctly Represent Change Without Immutability (tapestryjava.blogspot.se)

56 points first seen 2012070503 last seen 2012070603 18 comments

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GitHub humans.txt (github.com)

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Githtml - View Html Files from Github Repos On The Fly (github.com)

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Porn producers eyeing Google's Project Glass for POV films (www.androidcentral.com)

46 points first seen 2012070500 last seen 2012070518 35 comments

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Cisco Changes Privacy Policy for Linksys Routers After Uproar (www.pcworld.com)

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Peter Sunde's (TPB) request for clemency [Google translate] (translate.google.com)

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GlaxoSmithKline Pays $3 Billion Fine (www.sciencebasedmedicine.org)

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Building a Vagrant Box for PS2 Development (mlafeldt.github.com)

36 points first seen 2012070500 last seen 2012070600 4 comments

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Javatari. First Atari 2600 emulator to allow network multiplayer, even on applet (http://javatari.org)

33 points first seen 2012070512 last seen 2012070603 14 comments

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Software patch to avoid Galaxy Nexus ban coming soon (asia.cnet.com)

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New radio blogging startup displays scrolling tutorial as homepage (http://www.phonoblaster.com)

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Russia to Create Internet Blacklist (en.rian.ru)

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Music Labels Prepare Action To Block Major BitTorrent Sites (torrentfreak.com)

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Independence (www.apptentive.com)

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Objective-C overtakes C++ to become 3rd most popular language (www.tiobe.com)

25 points first seen 2012070515 last seen 2012070600 36 comments

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Properties: The New Variables (briankardell.wordpress.com)

23 points first seen 2012070500 last seen 2012070512 6 comments

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Why I'm not excited about the Higgs Boson (kuwamoto.org)

23 points first seen 2012070512 last seen 2012070600 6 comments

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Sol on Immediate Mode GUIs (IMGUI) (sol.gfxile.net)

21 points first seen 2012070518 last seen 2012070600 15 comments

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A Review of MVC (mikepackdev.com)

21 points first seen 2012070518 last seen 2012070603 5 comments

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HTC Phones Don’t Infringe Apple Patents, U.K. Judge Says (www.bloomberg.com)

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Acta: Controversial anti-piracy agreement rejected by EU (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Earbits Online Radio and "Promoted Spins" (www.musicthinktank.com)

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Refer.ly (YC S12) Lets You Earn Cash and Donate It To Charities (techcrunch.com)

18 points first seen 2012070512 last seen 2012070600 0 comments

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Show HN: ChatStep - Online Group Chat (https://chatstep.com)

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Gun groups up in arms about Google's new anti-firearms policy (thedc.com)

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Enabling IPv6 on Amazon EC2 (3scale.github.com)

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PHP, Python and Persuasion (lukeplant.me.uk)

10 points first seen 2012070515 last seen 2012070600 0 comments

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Ask HN: Killing a product (news.ycombinator.com)

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Introducing BigML’s Free Machine Learning Sandbox. (blog.bigml.com)

9 points first seen 2012070500 last seen 2012070506 2 comments

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Getting Reid Hoffman wrong (& right) (copy-cat.co)

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Standard model Higgs boson explained (coderwall.com)

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Ask HN: Which states loosely or don't enforce non-compete agreements? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google JavaScript Style Guide (google-styleguide.googlecode.com)

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CISCO's fw update: No torrents, no porn, and everything in their cloud (www.neowin.net)

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Investors turn entrepreneurs into insecure little teenagers (elasticsales.com)

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Heroku’s Mattt Thompson Wants to “Automate Away” Web Development (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Share Your Pain (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why This Apple Fan is Getting an Android Tablet and Not Another iPad (danr.us)

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Show HN : Mirrorin serves raw.github.com with Content-Type (github.com)

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The Ratio Of PCs To Macs Sold Has Fallen To Levels Not Seen Since The 1990s (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: Getting Paid. (news.ycombinator.com)

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CERN scientists discover new subatomic particle that could be the Higgs boson (www.reuters.com)

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Recursive Self-Improvement (lesswrong.com)

6 points first seen 2012070515 last seen 2012070600 0 comments

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Worqshop: run your Python/Ruby scripts from the iPad (worqbench.tumblr.com)

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Charlie Stross - why ebooks aren't like paper books (www.antipope.org)

5 points first seen 2012070500 last seen 2012070506 0 comments

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Quantum computing, no cooling required (news.harvard.edu)

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How we created our mobile apps in 4 weeks for Android & iOS with our existing JS (hojoki.com)

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Turner: the history of lazy functional programming: 1930-1990 (www-fp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk)

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What's new in Elixir (elixir-lang.org)

5 points first seen 2012070509 last seen 2012070512 0 comments

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Modeling real life actions for FB's Open Graph (blog.geekli.st)

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Historical day: Python has more packages than Perl (www.emilmont.net)

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Ask HN: OpenLoopz: location-aware task management - advice needed (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012070500 last seen 2012072703 3 comments

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Ask HN: Is CloudFlare hurting my SEO? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012070500 last seen 2012070500 2 comments

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Maintaining Perspective: Real Hope vs. False Hope (smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com)

4 points first seen 2012070503 last seen 2012070503 0 comments

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Heroku Status Uptime Calculation (99.28% June 2012) (devcenter.heroku.com)

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Why Functional Matters: Your white board will never be the same (blog.jessitron.com)

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Internet Scam Alert: Most "Kickstarter" Projects Just Useless Crap (www.youtube.com)

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CERN scientists inexplicably present Higgs boson findings in Comic Sans (www.theverge.com)

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Show HN: Listener Approved - Reddit for music all in node.js (http://ListenerApproved.com)

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GMC-4: 4-bit microcomputer (demin.ws)

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Practicing Ruby manuscripts archive now on Github (github.com)

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Emacs Rocks Episode 11 - swank-js (emacsrocks.com)

4 points first seen 2012070512 last seen 2012070512 0 comments

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AltSQL - a better MySQL shell (ewaters.github.com)

4 points first seen 2012070512 last seen 2012070512 0 comments

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Apple patents head-mounted display (www.chicagotribune.com)

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3 Apple Patents Invalidated (www.theverge.com)

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Better SAAS Pricing Strategies (www.zaru.co)

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Bill Gates on Charlie Rose (July 2, 2012) (www.charlierose.com)

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The Morality of Manipulation (www.nirandfar.com)

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Code Style Guide for the English Language, by William Strunk Jr. (www.bartleby.com)

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Google threatening youtube-mp3 (www.youtube-mp3.org)

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Cloud Pricing: An *aaS Backwards Ecosystem (thenextweb.com)

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Google changes URL for Analytics Privacy Overview, breaks 2K backlinks (productforums.google.com)

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Seeking a UI/UX Designer (YCS12) (news.ycombinator.com)

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