hackerNews

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How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail (www.slate.com)

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A Drupal developer is dying, and needs your support (aaronwinborn.com)

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Some things I've learnt about programming (blog.jgc.org)

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John Resig: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Update (ejohn.org)

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Ouya Breaks Kickstarter Records (www.kickstarter.com)

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Introducing Mozilla Persona An Identity System for the Web (www.mozilla.org)

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Use OSX Finder Quicklook (Spacebar) to preview all plain text files (coderwall.com)

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Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law (www.schneier.com)

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Pay Too Much for everything (allentucker.com)

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[x-post from reddit] User was handed $50 and an encrypted note (www.reddit.com)

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DHH: "if you're not signed up for the Vooza beta yet, you're so f*cking behind" (vooza.com)

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Census Bureau's American FactFinder software cost taxpayers $33.3 million (www.wmhartnett.com)

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Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha (tapbots.com)

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Viacom pulls “The Daily Show” offline as a result of contract dispute (arstechnica.com)

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I was sued for libel under an unjust law (www.nature.com)

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Being a Solo Founder of a 24x7 Hosted Web Application (garrettdimon.com)

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ZeroCater (YCw11) is Feeding Silicon Valley (online.wsj.com)

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HP Memristors Will Reinvent Computer Memory "by 2014" (www.wired.com)

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Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes (www.mahdiyusuf.com)

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Meetings.io (YC W11) now has screen sharing and file sharing built in. (lifehacker.com)

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Court Recognizes DMCA Safe Harbor in Universal v Grooveshark Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)

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Woman's call to end video game misogyny sparks vicious online attacks (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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NYC Just Converted 10 Payphones into Free WiFi Hotspots (thenextweb.com)

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Show HN: Evertracker - My First Real Side Project (blog.danielna.com)

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A web-based interface for dev-op tasks across remote servers using SSH (www.kickstarter.com)

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Gccgo in GCC 4.7.1 (blog.golang.org)

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Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America (postmasculine.com)

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An events space and a design studio for Hacker Dojo (www.kickstarter.com)

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An idea for Github to make more money (umairashraf.me)

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Google+ users can now use Hangouts on iPhone, iPad (www.digitaltrends.com)

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Confirmed: Mountain Lion sends some 64-bit Macs gently into that good night (arstechnica.com)

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Kicksend partners with Walgreens for 1hr photo printing from your iPhone (blog.kicksend.com)

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The Caves of Clojure: Part 3.3 (stevelosh.com)

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Guy builds particle accelerator in kitchen (pstevensonkeating.co.uk)

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Make Chrome Less Distracting with Vimium (and These Settings) (lifehacker.com)

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Hackers expose 453,000 credentials allegedly taken from Yahoo service (arstechnica.com)

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Google's Nexus 7 discovered to have Smart Cover-like magnetic sensor (www.engadget.com)

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Show HN: Hipmob is Olark for mobile apps. (Live support chat, now on Android) (http://www.hipmob.com)

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Serverless PhantomJS with IronWorker (blog.iron.io)

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Facebook Groups Start Showing Exactly Who Saw Each Post (newsroom.fb.com)

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Better cancelation flows (kylewritescode.com)

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Russian Duma adopts 'site blacklist' bill (www.rt.com)

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I'm an Engineer for Facebook and am helping build a Facebook office in NYC. AMA (www.reddit.com)

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Hashable is shutting down (techcrunch.com)

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It’s Time To Stop Blaming Internet Explorer (www.smashingmagazine.com)

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The Definitive Guide To Facebook For Musicians (and anyone using Facebook Pages) (www.hypebot.com)

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The Difference Between Business Development and Sales (iamvictorio.us)

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Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS (developers.facebook.com)

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Using HTML as the Media Type for your API (codeartisan.blogspot.co.uk)

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WSJ: Amazon Testing Smartphone (one37.net)

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The iPad's 'Ultimate Typing Accessory' Is A Dud (www.forbes.com)

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We already use Wi-Fi more than cellular; Why not continue the trend? (www.gigaom.com)

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Where to watch Mars Curiosity Landing Online (spaceindustrynews.com)

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Show HN: Create a portfolio of the mobile apps you've built (http://tapfame.com)

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Ideas are fragile (natari.us)

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Luis von Ahn (creator of CAPTCHA and Duolingo) Reddit AMA (www.reddit.com)

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A day in the life of a Code for America fellow (codeforamerica.org)

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PostgreSQL Common Table Expressions and LedgerSMB (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)

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Harvard Med Students follow the money & reveal faculty ties to Pharmaceuticals (www.thrivemovement.com)

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Jellybeans for (almost) everyone -- Google releases Android 4.1 source code (www.networkworld.com)

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Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck (news.cnet.com)

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Rod Johnson leaving SpringSource/VMware (blog.springsource.org)

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Businesses can't use the word "olympic" because of congress (www.philly.com)

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Is your startup constantly zig-zagging? (like mine) (hippoland.tumblr.com)

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The Subtle Genius Of Google+ For iPad: Popular Posts Appear Bigger (techcrunch.com)

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Learnings from Our Private & Public Beta Phase (teamblog.supportbee.com)

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The DHS's latest airport security device: Terahertz laser scanners (www.extremetech.com)

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Groupon moves headquarters to Berlin (German, English summary) (netzwertig.com)

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Open-source Ouya gaming platform killing it on Kickstarter (news.cnet.com)

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The attack of TaskRabbit clones (e27.sg)

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From itch to scratched: Google Hangout permalink (blog.singly.com)

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Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck (news.cnet.com)

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Samsung all but guarantees no one will update to Android 4.0 (www.geek.com)

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Disruptive: uBeam Lands $750K To Let You Charge Gadgets Without Plugs (techcrunch.com)

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Stop Building Apps and Start Building Behaviors (www.nirandfar.com)

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Opening links in Chrome for iOS (developers.google.com)

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Empowering Email (www.omarshammas.com)

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AnyPerk (YC W12) partners with DISH Network (blog.anyperk.com)

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API Rate Limit Kung-Fu: How API Providers should set rate limits (www.3scale.net)

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Long-term cooling trend found in northern European climate (www.wired.co.uk)

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6 Numbers from Facebook Insights That Actually Matter (blog.getpostrocket.com)

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What If Teens Prefer Twitter to Facebook? (adage.com)

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California county plans to seize underwater mortgages. Resell for profit. (agbeat.com)

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Make Us Do Pushups (and wear a Banana Suit) For Your Vote (blog.fetchnotes.com)

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Download Tweetbot for Mac (tapbots.com)

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Google Ventures invests $5M in Virtual Currency Startup Pocket Change (techcrunch.com)

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Kickstarter for scriptable USB RGB LED (www.kickstarter.com)

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Ask HN: Why don't you write functional tests? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Tiny Wings 2.0 free update is now live. (itunes.apple.com)

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A striking experiment shows how you can run on quicksand (arstechnica.com)

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The Worst Mistake You Can Make as an Intern (surajjain.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: How do you decide which skills to list on a resume? (news.ycombinator.com)

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I will build your MVP (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Favorite API (news.ycombinator.com)

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Vevo founder warns Google: Sweeten deal or we'll go elsewhere (www.latimes.com)

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Ask HN: What Windows 8 Metro apps are you working on? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Magnus Rose presents DRIFT, The Image Inspiration Engine (http://drift.io)

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Announcing minitest-rails (blowmage.com)

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Super Neat Product Tutorial Website / Software (www.kera.io)

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Hacker News Kansai (West Japan) First Ever Meetup - Saturday 14th in Kyoto (news.ycombinator.com)

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Allocation Sinking Optimization (wiki.luajit.org)

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Unix Fragmentation 2.0: Android (nathancampos.me)

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The Good Fight (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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Heroku posts follow-up to June 30th outage (status.heroku.com)

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It’s time to stop blaming Internet Explorer (www.nczonline.net)

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Yahoo hacked, 400,000+ plaintext credentials posted online (thenextweb.com)

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Ask HN: How do you make productive friendships? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Florida accused of concealing worst tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years (www.rawstory.com)

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If you are reading HN because you are bored at work you need to try this (plus.google.com)

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Planetary Resources Announces Agreement with Virgin Galactic (www.planetaryresources.com)

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TapTax - Australian tax returns from your iPhone (taptax.com.au)

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Remember when we all learned to program on our Ti83s (github.com)

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Scaling Cheddar (samsoff.es)

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Show HN: mustwatch.it - I'm a To-do list for your Videos (www.mustwatch.it)

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Would anyone even notice if search engines only indexed the top million sites? (www.milliontall.com)

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Self help: try positive action, not positive thinking (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Formspring Hacked - 420,000 Passwords Leaked (www.securityweek.com)

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Functional Programming in Java from a Scala Addict (coderwall.com)

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Facebook Groups Start Showing Exactly Who Saw Each Post (techcrunch.com)

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What is your company's policy on engineers attending conferences? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Is Groupon Good for Retailers? (hbswk.hbs.edu)

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Ask HN: Do you find solutions moments after asking for help? (news.ycombinator.com)

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

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Anonymizer web service with Node.js (pxl.gg)

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Hitting the HN Frontpage: A Case Study with Traffic Stats from WPEngine (wpengine.com)

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Ask HN: An editor that let's me write without distraction (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Erosion of Creative Freedom? The Battle over Publicity Rights (www.gamasutra.com)

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Programming in Paradise (quotidianventures.com)

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Dropbox rewards early Pro members by stopping their bills (www.engadget.com)

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Student wants a bit of direction (news.ycombinator.com)

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Building Wordpress apps with Cloud9 IDE and Heroku (glamour.tweakblogs.net)

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Show HN: Do nothing and help charity - the most worthwhile PC app ever? (www.youtube.com)

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control (online.wsj.com)

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New project management service launched. Ask for feedback (http://pragmatic.ly)

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Charity Engine: Make money for charity with your computer idle time (www.charityengine.com)

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Duolingo's CEO, Luis von Ahn, will be doing a reddit AMA today at 2pm EST. (twitter.com)

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Will Facebook generate more revenue than Google? (www.quora.com)

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Why VCs Peak Late (www.kernelmag.com)

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Killing a Library (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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Storyteller: Create A Website With Content From (Virtually) Anywhere (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: WrittenWorld.org: Write On A Map (writtenworld.org)

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Aereo Wins in Preliminary Injunction (online.wsj.com)

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Comic Con Photos #SDCC (slidechute.com)

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Hashable is Shutting Down (news.ycombinator.com)

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Judge Says Aereo, a TV Streaming Service, May Continue (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Ask: What API is missing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Great Introduction to Microeconomics (emlab.berkeley.edu)

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PHP FIG (www.php-fig.org)

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Normalized Google Distance (en.wikipedia.org)

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Humanity is calling. Will you answer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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