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What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of? (www.reddit.com)

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Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change. (ryandetzel.com)

350 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071721 130 comments

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How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly (www.blurity.com)

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Show HN: BrainTripping - language model comedy (www.matt.is)

276 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012071606 41 comments

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Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem (www.slate.com)

210 points first seen 2012071418 last seen 2012071700 173 comments

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Show HN: Collections, a fast multiple-account Google Docs client for Mac (http://beta.collections.me)

188 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071621 95 comments

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Facebook Didn't Kill Digg, Reddit Did (www.forbes.com)

184 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071606 117 comments

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Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass (toshl.com)

181 points first seen 2012071412 last seen 2012071621 89 comments

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Dalton Caldwell: Announcing an audacious proposal (daltoncaldwell.com)

158 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071606 50 comments

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Logins are Dead, and Mobile Killed Them (github.com)

157 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012071606 121 comments

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Apple is back on EPEAT (www.apple.com)

152 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071600 168 comments

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Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM (morepypy.blogspot.com)

151 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071606 66 comments

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App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform (join.app.net)

151 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071606 69 comments

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Super-resolution from a single image (www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il)

143 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2015102006 41 comments

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Build New Games (buildnewgames.com)

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DIY B&B (www.washingtonmonthly.com)

112 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071503 182 comments

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App Store in-app purchasing circumvented (9to5mac.com)

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Apple sent takedown letters to retailers (venturebeat.com)

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Bitcoinica MtGox account compromised (bitcointalk.org)

95 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012071512 103 comments

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TaskRabbit hack brings In-N-Out delivery to San Francisco for $10 (www.burgerto.me)

81 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012073018 54 comments

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That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker. (www.nytimes.com)

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The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They Obey the Speed Limit (www.slate.com)

69 points first seen 2012071418 last seen 2012071506 117 comments

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HN: Please fix the "More" link. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Patent Troll sues Facebook, Amazon and others for using Hadoop (gigaom.com)

66 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071603 31 comments

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Show HN: We Just Re-Launched BurningManRides.com for 2012 (burningmanrides.com)

60 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071603 18 comments

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NFC Stickers Make Smartphones Smarter (www.businessweek.com)

57 points first seen 2012071412 last seen 2012071603 16 comments

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Why Our Elites Stink (www.nytimes.com)

55 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012071421 68 comments

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Bilingual brain boost: Two tongues, two minds. By Catherine de Lange (ronbarak.tumblr.com)

54 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071512 38 comments

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WebKit sorts JS arrays using Selection Sort (trac.webkit.org)

49 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071421 39 comments

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ICFP Contest 2012: Started 30 Minutes ago, but you can still enter (icfpcontest2012.wordpress.com)

46 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071512 5 comments

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German security experts find major flaw in credit card terminals (arstechnica.com)

45 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071600 11 comments

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

44 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071506 16 comments

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US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Will Roll Out Gradually (torrentfreak.com)

44 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071600 19 comments

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Square for Fundraising (squareup.com)

42 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071600 12 comments

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The Education of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason (www.businessweek.com)

40 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012071512 12 comments

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The Zencoder guide to closed captioning for web, mobile, and connected TV (blog.zencoder.com)

38 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071521 0 comments

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In Dieting, Magic Isn’t a Substitute for Science (www.nytimes.com)

37 points first seen 2012071421 last seen 2012071503 45 comments

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How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving PyLadies (hynek.me)

36 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012071418 38 comments

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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (www.varnish-cache.org)

36 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012120206 3 comments

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New Japanese Copyright Law Doesn’t Seem To Make Any Sense (falkvinge.net)

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Judge blasts colleagues for defying SCOTUS, allowing financial patent (arstechnica.com)

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Drag and Drop programming for Node.js (noflojs.org)

35 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071500 20 comments

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Free Chrome CDs in Best Buy (plus.google.com)

34 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071506 20 comments

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How to Make a Metamaterial that Expands Under Pressure and Contracts In Tension (www.technologyreview.com)

34 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071600 23 comments

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Secrets at Apple's Core [Entire Talk] (ecorner.stanford.edu)

33 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071512 12 comments

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The UX of HTML5 (www.cxpartners.co.uk)

31 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071500 8 comments

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AFIncrementalStore: Core Data with AFNetworking, Done Right (github.com)

31 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071512 11 comments

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Announcing core.memoize version 0.5.2 for Clojure (blog.fogus.me)

31 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071512 0 comments

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NFC Stickers Make Smartphones Smarter (www.businessweek.com)

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Stephen Wolfram | I Like to Build Alien Artifacts (theeuropean-magazine.com)

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Referly Announces Collections, Product Search & Private Referrals (blog.refer.ly)

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Now we’re not even allowed to link to the Olympics website? (blog.indexoncensorship.org)

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CRMs Are Not Sales Software (elasticsales.com)

25 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071503 14 comments

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After Digg, What's Next In News Aggregation (blogs.wsj.com)

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How Amazon Can Disrupt Smartphones and Take Apple & Google to School (www.xconomy.com)

23 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071421 20 comments

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Referly Homepage Simplification Retrospective (blog.refer.ly)

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Android sales "trouncing" Apple since release of iPhone 4 (www.foxnews.com)

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Zed's new Lamson licence: yank the rug at any time. (github.com)

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LibreOffice for Android advances, document viewer is on the way (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: What's Your Favorite API Developer Portal? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Let's Make a Deal (www.bankofengland.co.uk)

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Where are you on the global fat scale? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Inside Google’s Fascinating Stash of 10,000 Indoor Maps (www.wired.com)

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Skeleton: A CoffeeScript Node.js Project Generator (github.com)

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Pushing OxyContin addicts to heroin reveals ‘utter failure’ of drug war (www.rawstory.com)

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Ridejoy is Giving Away Two Tickets to Burning Man 2012 (boingboing.net)

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Microsoft's ill-chosen magic constants (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

16 points first seen 2012071415 last seen 2012071500 11 comments

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Sorry Brewster, no millions for you. Now, delete my account. (thenextweb.com)

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Vinod Khosla: Maintain the Silicon Valley Vision (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

13 points first seen 2012071412 last seen 2012080900 5 comments

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Even in losing, how Digg won (gigaom.com)

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Drop out of school or study English. That's how you win at Javascript. (byfat.xxx)

11 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071409 4 comments

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Why NonExperts are Better at Disruptive Innovation (singularityhub.com)

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Learn HTML & CSS in one easy to use guide. (learn.shayhowe.com)

10 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071406 0 comments

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Anti-Powerpoint Party (www.anti-powerpoint-party.com)

10 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071612 3 comments

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Amazing Lisp Books living again in Clojure (juliangamble.com)

9 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2013052503 4 comments

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Fundraising Post-Mortem (fndrs.net)

9 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071415 3 comments

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Ask HN: Is their a site that exists purely of ideas for websites, apps, etc? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Waist-to-Tallness Ratio May Measure Risk Better Than Body Mass Index (2005) (www.webmd.com)

9 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071406 5 comments

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History Lesson: What PHP coding was like in 1996 (www.reddit.com)

9 points first seen 2012071412 last seen 2012071500 0 comments

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Show HN: Send a text message, get your friends' location back (http://tehula.com)

8 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012071609 13 comments

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Apple backs down: Macs will stay EPEAT certified (gigaom.com)

8 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071406 0 comments

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The Real History of the '@' reply on Twitter (log.maniacalrage.net)

8 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071406 0 comments

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PyPy Status Blog: Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM (morepypy.blogspot.de)

8 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071421 0 comments

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Did you know programming started as a mainly female profession (www.2ality.com)

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Javascript-Generated Ambient Drone (requires Chrome) (matt-diamond.com)

7 points first seen 2012071418 last seen 2012071503 0 comments

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Writing a flippable book using CSS Regions and 3D transforms (updates.html5rocks.com)

6 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071403 2 comments

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Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM (morepypy.blogspot.com)

6 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071418 0 comments

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Do you practice? (ninjasandrobots.com)

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Side Projects Kill (fr.anc.is)

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Blood types in Japanese culture (en.wikipedia.org)

5 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012071406 2 comments

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The Caves of Clojure part 5: Stationary Monsters (stevelosh.com)

5 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012071406 0 comments

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Researcher seeks solution to mystery of 20-year-old self-deleting poem (news.yahoo.com)

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Great softwares in Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby. How? By learning the fundamentals. (lists.usenix.org)

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Ask HN: What are the "Best Practices" you generally follow? Here is mine. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Lehman Comes Back From the Dead (www.businessweek.com)

5 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071412 0 comments

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New 'Warp' Trojan Poses As A Network Router (www.darkreading.com)

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Brewster’s Address Book App Briefly Exposes Ashton Kutcher’s Private Data (www.techcrunch.com)

5 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071412 0 comments

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On Git Workflow and General Style (blog.poteland.com)

5 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071412 0 comments

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You want missionaries, not mercenaries - Vinod Khosla (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Ubuntu and the dangers of collectivism (www.politicsweb.co.za)

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Fake sarnie shop's big fake Likes leaves Facebook looking flaky (www.theregister.co.uk)

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How Crowdsourcing Saves Time and Money (www.killerstartups.com)

4 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071403 0 comments

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How Apple's iCould datacenter got build (gigaom.com)

4 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071400 0 comments

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Stop Giving Advice (adii.me)

4 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071403 0 comments

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Interactive Tutorial of the Sequent Calculus (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

4 points first seen 2012071403 last seen 2012071403 0 comments

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The big venture capital mistake (www.venturecompany.com)

4 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071406 0 comments

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Show HN: My MVP - Viidya - Etsy for Videos (www.viidya.com)

4 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071409 8 comments

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The Copyright Alerts System, "Six Strikes," gets delayed. (www.dailydot.com)

4 points first seen 2012071406 last seen 2012071409 0 comments

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Correlations between political leanings and your online activities (www.theatlantic.com)

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Kevin Rose: Digg Failed Because ‘Social Media Grew Up’ (blogs.wsj.com)

4 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071412 0 comments

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Trick Gives iPhone Owners Free Access to Paid Content Inside Apps (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071412 0 comments

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The 5 Commandments of REST (skillcrush.com)

4 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071412 0 comments

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Jennifer Pahlka, Code For America founder Reddit AMA (www.reddit.com)

4 points first seen 2012071409 last seen 2012071412 0 comments

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Android Hits 51.8% Market Share In the U.S. (mashable.com)

4 points first seen 2012071415 last seen 2012071418 0 comments

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Fireside Chat with Elon Musk (pandodaily.com)

3 points first seen 2012071400 last seen 2012071400 0 comments

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Abstract Persistence Logic (jasonroelofs.com)