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Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web (http://fontbomb.ilex.ca)

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How tiny wasps cope with being smaller than amoebas (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

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Illegal Engineering (www.timhunkin.com)

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Everybody Hates Firefox Updates (evilbrainjono.net)

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A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (view source on it) (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)

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Introducing BitTorrent Torque (blog.bittorrent.com)

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Preparing Yourself for Modern JavaScript Development (www.codethinked.com)

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If You Don't Prioritize Your Life, Someone Else Will (blogs.hbr.org)

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So, That’s It For Thunderbird (techcrunch.com)

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Being a Software Architect (coderwall.com)

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Pal-V, the flying car (pal-v.com)

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Apple Removes Green Electronics Certification From Products (blogs.wsj.com)

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Bootstrap Tour: Quick and easy way to build your product tours (pushly.github.com)

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Openworm: c.elegans worm simulation (code.google.com)

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SecondLife Didn't Fail (pandodaily.com)

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The True Story of the Amazon Door-Desk (blog.glennf.com)

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Neural Network library in JavaScript (github.com)

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Show HN: 51,000 6 char domains via high freq. 2-letter combos (www.coreyballou.com)

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Show HN: I am bored of pixel art so I'm making my video game with wool. (www.ohmy.me)

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This Startup Could Literally Change The Way The Entire App Industry Works (finance.yahoo.com)

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Apple’s fix for corrupt binaries (www.marco.org)

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Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Storm (techblog.netflix.com)

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Advanced Flask Patterns (speakerdeck.com)

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Internet Access Is a Human Right, Says United Nations (mashable.com)

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Armchair scientists (pilif.github.com)

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Google Files Bill of Costs for Oracle to Pay - $4,030,669 (www.groklaw.net)

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The culture myth (brandonhays.com)

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Oracle adopts the popular R language for the enterprise and big data. (www.oracle.com)

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The True Problem With PHP (blog.ircmaxell.com)

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How We Built A Data Center With Commodity Hardware And FOSS (www.searchenabler.com)

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Warby Parker (or, Finding Broken Systems That Are Full of Money) (www.thinkhard-ly.com)

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Introducing Word Lens, for Android (blog.questvisual.com)

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Pricing psychology - 33% more beats 33% off (moneyland.time.com)

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Mars One Project: “Humans Will Live On Mars In 2023″ (techli.com)

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Multiple IP Addresses for EC2 Instances (aws.typepad.com)

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Cisco backs down, drops cloud from default router settings (blogs.cisco.com)

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Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind (www.nytimes.com)

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About 4chans current stats and infrastructure (content.4chan.org)

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Announcing Recline.JS: a Javascript library to build data apps in browser (blog.okfn.org)

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Improving Linux performance by preserving Buffer Cache State (insights.oetiker.ch)

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Face.com API shutting down (face.com)

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Powerful targeting for iOS push notifications (blog.parse.com)

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Argentina bans dollar purchases for savings (www.bloomberg.com)

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A big list of the things R can do (blog.revolutionanalytics.com)

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The Realtime Engine | Engine.IO (www.devthought.com)

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Designing Docs for Developers (trigger.io)

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Kim Dotcom Can See [Only] One File Of 22 Million Says FBI (www.stuff.co.nz)

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Samsung wins bid to sell Nexus in court (finance.yahoo.com)

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Berners-Lee: World Finally Realizes The Web Belongs To No One (www.wired.com)

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Streak (YCS11) releases Mâché: Easy Log Analysis for App Engine (blog.streak.com)

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New Data Science eBook – Free and Open-Source (datascience101.wordpress.com)

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Retina graphics for your website (http://retinajs.com)

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Node.js stream behaviour illustrated. (github.com)

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When Even Crashing Doesn’t Work (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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Circus 0.5 released (blog.ziade.org)

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Rand and Ron Paul denounce net neutrality and the public domain (boingboing.net)

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"Anonymous" Hacks Anti-Piracy Takedown Tool (torrentfreak.com)

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Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up (www.lambdal.com)

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Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL Linux loader (www.theregister.co.uk)

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The perl script that powered the Alan Turing petition (blog.jgc.org)

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The Segway Killer = Ryno (http://rynomotors.com/) (solidsmack.com)

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OpSci: URIs, indexes and RSS for 72 closed-source publishers and scraper code. (github.com)

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Announcing WP Stack, a Deployment System for Professional WordPress Sites (www.knewton.com)

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Amazon Is Reportedly Working On A Smartphone (techcrunch.com)

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Terraforming of Mars (en.wikipedia.org)

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Real-life Avatar: The first mind-controlled robot surrogate (www.extremetech.com)

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A very annoying Android scenario- On Right-Left Standards in Product Design (modern-products.tumblr.com)

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Aftermath of the Pirate Bay trial: Peter Sundes plea in his own words (falkvinge.net)

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BitTorrent Releases Torque Web Api (http://torque.bittorrent.com)

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Yeah for Independent Judges Going After Software Patents (continuations.com)

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ShowHN: Emacs in the browser with dropbox, gdrive, github, etc. (brettcvz.github.com)

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This is what online harassment looks like (www.newstatesman.com)

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20,000 Mobile Apps Use Technology from Parse (www.businessinsider.com)

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Functional programming: A step backward (www.javaworld.com)

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The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math (www.theatlantic.com)

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Tim O’Reilly: Google’s got problems (gigaom.com)

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Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Even Known" (thediplomat.com)

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Security Disclosure Policy Best Practices (titanous.com)

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Anything you can do, I can do meta (www.technologyreview.com)

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Index Shows iOS Programming Language Now In Top 3 As Mobile Development Booms (techcrunch.com)

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Thunderbird: Stability and Community Innovation (blog.lizardwrangler.com)

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Open Data Creates Accountability (sunlightfoundation.com)

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Salesforce’s Former Head Of Social Preps A New Enterprise Social Media Startup (techcrunch.com)

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LIBOR scandal - world banks caught manipulating interest rates (www.wimp.com)

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Ask HN: How do I improve my programming/engineering skills (news.ycombinator.com)

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What do you guys think of my new site? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Gmail migration? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Comparison of machine learning classifiers for medium-sized data (part 2) (blog.explainmydata.com)

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Show HN: If Google owned Twitter, what would the Android Twitter app look like? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What's your SaaS stack recommendation? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Review my startup, camonduty.com (news.ycombinator.com)

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I built my blog on websockets (http://mkeas.org)

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Yahoo and Facebook Sign Deal To Cross-License Their Entire Patent Portfolios (techcrunch.com)

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Skillcrush, a community-driven, fun way to learn new tech skills (skillcrush.com)

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Yahoo and Facebook Strike Patent Peace Deal (allthingsd.com)

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Stunning Progress in Technology Brings The Death of Unskilled Labor (singularityhub.com)

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Machine Learning on Rails with Ruby (blog.bigml.com)

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Federal Circuit Grants Samsung A Temporary Stay On The Galaxy Nexus Injunction (www.droiddog.com)

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Datomic Whitepaper (datomic.com)

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Opera Labs with SPDY released (my.opera.com)

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Fatalities from venomous and nonvenomous animals in USA (1999-2007) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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Facebook invests in Asia Pacific Gateway underwater Internet cable (www.bbc.com)

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Amazon said to be planning new smartphone to compete with iPhone, Android (www.bloomberg.com)

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Listen more than you decide (ninjasandrobots.com)

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Ask HN: App Store Devs, are you guys still motivated? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Simpler Search (blog.twitter.com)

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Graphing the history of philosophy (drunks-and-lampposts.com)

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When in doubt, think in a foreign language (blog.seungho.me)

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Mozilla Halts Developing Thunderbird (www.browsomatic.com)

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Food Poisoning's Hidden Legacy (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Don't Distract New Programmers with OOP (prog21.dadgum.com)

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Continuous Development with Trello (melvinmt.com)

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Show HN: our new store page. Any feedback/suggestions? (www.scirra.com)

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2 Guys Who Want to Teach the World to Code (www.inc.com)

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The Nifty MiniDrive (Micro SD drive solution for MacBooks) (www.kickstarter.com)

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Court: Cops May Text You From Your Drug Dealer's iPhone To Bust You (www.forbes.com)

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You're a Startup Founder, There Will Be Blood (www.zurb.com)

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Not a bug: phpversion('extension_name') returns false (bugs.php.net)

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Serving 1.4 Billion Requests per Month With Wordpress For Less Than $10 (supersoju.com)