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Mousetrap: Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript (craig.is)

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Judge Posner: "It's not clear that we really need patents in most industries" (www.chicagotribune.com)

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ACLU launches phone app to help motorists secretly record police stops (www.autoblog.com)

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Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder (www.iorad.com)

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The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling (pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Patent troll stalks travel site Hipmunk (gigaom.com)

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Machine Learning Video Library - Learning From Data (Abu-Mostafa) (work.caltech.edu)

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The Stupidity of Computers (nplusonemag.com)

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Another year of Clojure (spootnik.org)

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Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson' (www.ubuntuvibes.com)

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Why working from home leads to smaller raises, fewer promotions (sloanreview.mit.edu)

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So You Want to Be a Security Expert (www.schneier.com)

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Hacker Hostel (www.nytimes.com)

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A large, bloated JS framework with an unintuitive syntax and very few features (github.com)

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Sqlmap: Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool (sqlmap.org)

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How Facebook Ships Code (framethink.wordpress.com)

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WikiLeaks says it has obtained 2.4 million emails from Syria (www.washingtonpost.com)

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ESR: Cisco provides a lesson (esr.ibiblio.org)

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Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace (http://www.quicklychat.com)

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Singularity U, or Singularity Woo? (www.skepticblog.org)

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'Unprecedented' discovery could propel quantum computers to reality (www.thebunsenburner.com)

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Tell HN: How 2 devs got 1 million monthly actives with no social/viral tools (news.ycombinator.com)

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Fred Wilson: My New Nexus 7" (www.avc.com)

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BitTorrent usage increases in Europe, following the blockade of The Pirate Bay (www.extremetech.com)

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First case of malware in the Apple App Store. (www.securelist.com)

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Is lying becoming a business model? (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Colorjoe - A Scaleable Color Picker (No Images) (bebraw.github.com)

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LeanMarket (YC S12) brings real-time bidding display ads to the masses (techcrunch.com)

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Salted Password Hashing - Doing it Right (crackstation.net)

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Historical Chip Pricing now on Octopart (octopart.com)

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Delight.io (YC W10) Lets Developers See What Beta Users Are Doing In Their Apps (www.techcrunch.com)

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Double amputee cleared to race in the Olympics (www.engadget.com)

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Samsung profits surge 79% boosted by smartphone sales (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Stop worrying about Time To First Byte (TTFB) (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Google Glass: Apple Granted Patent for Head-Mounted Display (www.wired.com)

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Why the Higgs Boson Discovery Is Disappointing (www.theatlantic.com)

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"Don't f***ing trim the copy" (jessepollak.me)

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StackOverflow Man Remakes Net One Answer at a TIme (www.wired.com)

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Rocket Launch Numbers – Bridge (YC W11) Signs Up 1,000 Developers in First Day (techcrunch.com)

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Applying 5 Whys To Amazon EC2 Outage (www.somic.org)

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Six-ish Months of eBook Sales: Riak Handbook (www.paperplanes.de)

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Git checkout and see (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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Google's Algorithms for Talent (online.wsj.com)

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Principles For Successful Web Apps by Fred Wilson (app.arcticfoxtv.com)

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Show HN: Filter through all your FB friend's relationships - my weekend project (relationbook.me)

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On Extensions, Userscripts, and Archivers (content.4chan.org)

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Has insect detective Timothy Paine uncovered a case of biological sabotage? (failuremag.com)

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Prismatic Team Page (getprismatic.com)

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Puzzling outcomes in A/B testing (glinden.blogspot.co.uk)

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Is Sebastian Thrun's Udacity the future of higher education? (edition.cnn.com)

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Hamster - Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection classes for Ruby (github.com)

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Is Kanban the New Scrum? (www.infoq.com)

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Native C/C++ Like Performance For Java Object Serialisation (mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com)

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Unified Dropdown Menu: One Menu to Rule All Links (uxmovement.com)

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So Pythonistas, you want to get rid of the GIL... (functional-orbitz.blogspot.se)

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Total bankers: Twitter and LinkedIn's cynical API play (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Functional View and Controller Testing with RubyMotion (blog.rubymotion.com)

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The case for a 7.8” iPad (castirony.com)

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Android smartphones 'used for botnet', researchers say (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Where is that blog post that describes each AWS tier? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apple Sued Again in China, This Time Over Siri Patent Infringement (thenextweb.com)

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Listen to Everyone, Then Make Up Your Own Mind (Ridejoy Fundraising Lessons) (www.jasonshen.com)

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Githtml for Chrome and Firefox (ryt.github.com)

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Munchery Is Trying to Reinvent The Personal Chef, And Early Signs Are Promising (techcrunch.com)

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Research suggests that more money makes people act less human. (nymag.com)

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Why don't users want to see adverts they might be interested in? (ux.stackexchange.com)

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37signals kills: Backpack, Tada, Writeboard. You must PAY for all products now. (37signals.com)

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Vayable in the NYTimes -- Click Here for an Offbeat Experience (travel.nytimes.com)

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15 Years of Booking Travel Online: What’s Next? (teddy.is)

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Microsoft Moves from Followership to Leadership (www.forbes.com)

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Google's Project Glass - it's not for the young (notes.kateva.org)

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What to do when someone copies your startup (pandodaily.com)

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Why I don’t use Google+ (as a woman) (marjarine.wordpress.com)

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Air France crash 'due to pilot & technical failure' (Final report on 2009 crash) (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Using Basecamp to build the Basecamp calendar (37signals.com)

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Mistakes to Avoid as a Lean Startup (uxceo.com)

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Court in OWS Twitter Case Gets it Wrong Again (www.eff.org)

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Firefox cross domain font issue (logicalfriday.com)

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Show HN: Hosted Graphite service (with statsd integration) (www.hostedgraphite.com)

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Automate or Perish (www.technologyreview.com)

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Join us next week for NFTE Launch: help mentor aspiring entrepreneurs (www.humbledmba.com)

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The rotten heart of finance (www.economist.com)

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YouTube-mp3 Situation update (www.youtube-mp3.org)

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Find out who voted *for* ACTA (www.votewatch.eu)

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Architects Need a Pragmatic Software Development Process (www.javacodegeeks.com)

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Judge who shelved Apple trial says patent system out of sync (www.reuters.com)

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Ask HN: I am forced to write awful code What do I do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Does anyone use comments any more? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Silicon Valley CEOs pay little mind to shareholder rights (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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A One Man Army On a Mission To Destroy The Cyberlocker Market (torrentfreak.com)

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The Best Google Features You’re Probably Not Using (lifehacker.com)

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Dark matter is the thread connecting galaxy clusters (arstechnica.com)

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I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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Five years after the iPhone, carriers are the biggest threat to innovation (www.theverge.com)

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Announcing The Google Analytics App for Android (analytics.blogspot.com)

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How software-defined radio could revolutionize wireless (arstechnica.com)

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Using iOS push notifications to provide "push this page to your iPhone" (lanyrd.com)

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Facebook Working on New Features for Huge Social Commerce Push (mashable.com)

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Online user experience should not be an afterthought... (cousinwil.posterous.com)

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Installing/Compiling iPhone apps without a MAC (nickalchemist.wordpress.com)

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If Hackers Didn't Exist, Governments Would Have to Invent Them (www.theatlantic.com)

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Apple Says it Has Fixed Server Bug Led to Crashing Apps (allthingsd.com)

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Visualizing Logdata With Logstash, Statsd and Graphite (blog.pkhamre.com)

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We have a funded startup but no product (news.ycombinator.com)

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When Hadoop isn’t fast enough: The Argument for Storm (blog.nodeable.com)

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A Moment for Particle Physics: The End of a 40-Year Story? (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

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Little Bits: The Lego Block of Electronics (community.littlebits.cc)

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Cory Doctorow: Music: The Internet’s Original Sin (www.locusmag.com)

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Is '10' a magical number or I am missing something? (math.stackexchange.com)

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Getting Started with Node.js and Express 3 (www.joezimjs.com)

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FairPlay DRM May Be To Blame For Widespread iOS & Mac App Crashes (techcrunch.com)

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Api Design: Fail Fast (fernandezpablo85.github.com)

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Tech journalists: take my tech test (blog.tommorris.org)

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On being an introvert at big conferences (aaronhockley.com)

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Security Analysis and Decryption of FileVault 2 (libfvde) (eprint.iacr.org)

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Ask HN: How many of you are working on eCommerce idea vs SaaS? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How much equity to give to developer (pseudo-founding)? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to bootstrap in The Valley/San Francisco for 3 months (news.ycombinator.com)

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Seedrs Goes Live To Help Crowdfund The Gap In Idea-Stage Investing (techcrunch.com)

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Wikipedia Deletion Reviews (www.donarmstrong.com)

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RubyConf Argentina's Call For Papers is open (rubyconfargentina.org)

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Spychips - Tech paranoia or fact? (http://www.spychips.com)

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Japan's atomic disaster caused by "collusion": panel report (mobile.reuters.com)

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Former France Telecom CEO indicted over 35 suicides (gigaom.com)

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Commodore OS Vision (www.commodoreusa.net)

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Technology Makes Car-Pooling Safer and Easier (www.nytimes.com)

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Using Redis as a Frontend Cache for WordPress (www.jimwestergren.com)

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Picture of A Single Atom's Shadow (www.popsci.com)

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Another Domino Falls in the LIBOR Banking Scam: Royal Bank of Scotland (www.rollingstone.com)

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Peer-to-peer message-passing to deal with overloaded cell phone networks? (www.morearty.com)

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Startups Acquiring Startups for Equity (spider.io)

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Young Brains Lack Skills for Sharing (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Could Oracle ruling lead to used e-book, music sales? Maybe. (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: API-only startups? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Analyzing DNS Logs Using Splunk (www.stratumsecurity.com)

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Javascript Green Threads (blog.avd.io)

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Developers: Check out the brand-new ZURB Foundation (write.visualcake.org)

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Free or cheap tools for startups (blog.rewindy.com)

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YC backed Nowbox releases Delight to remotely capture user interaction on iOS. (www.techcrunch.com)