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How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism (www.schneier.com)

347 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072606 138 comments

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Show HN: Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS (www.markupwand.com)

330 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072700 125 comments

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The Sparrow Problem - the gold rush is over. (appcubby.com)

298 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072700 153 comments

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After 7 weeks, 100+ people are funding open source devs $600/wk on Gittip.com (www.gittip.com)

248 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072600 122 comments

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HN's Daeken will expose security flaw in 4m hotel room keycard locks (www.forbes.com)

245 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072600 138 comments

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Sally Ride, first American woman in space, has died at 61 (www.sallyridescience.com)

189 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072600 33 comments

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Redis Sentinel beta released (antirez.com)

188 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072503 23 comments

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Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon (www.wired.com)

183 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072506 86 comments

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Show HN: Hacker News Comments (hncomments.nathancahill.com)

179 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072603 69 comments

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Go at SoundCloud (backstage.soundcloud.com)

173 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072621 106 comments

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VMware Buys Nicira for $1.26B (bhorowitz.com)

165 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072509 51 comments

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Young Gorillas Observed Dismantling Poacher Snares (www.redorbit.com)

157 points first seen 2012072415 last seen 2012072600 47 comments

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All you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (NSFW) (www.troyhunt.com)

151 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072500 116 comments

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Machine learning for the impatient: algorithms tuning algorithms (www.aelag.com)

142 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072506 31 comments

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Long-term useful worker output is maximized near a five-day, 40-hour workweek. (www.igda.org)

127 points first seen 2012072415 last seen 2012072603 91 comments

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Tesco Discount Barcodes, Cracked (mtdevans.com)

113 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072521 92 comments

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Tiled Shadow Maps (www.jasonnall.com)

111 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072521 32 comments

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Google Begins Practically Begging You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube (betabeat.com)

110 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072503 90 comments

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Passing Pointers (blog.filepicker.io)

107 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072506 35 comments

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How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too) (lgilchrist.com)

99 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072500 103 comments

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But You Did Not Persuade Me (www.codinghorror.com)

97 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072521 13 comments

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The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale? (www.wired.com)

94 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072500 94 comments

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"therefore, starting now, waffles are now $450.00 each" (backalleywaffles.com)

92 points first seen 2012072415 last seen 2012072421 44 comments

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Yahoo returns acquired startup to founders (e27.sg)

90 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072600 27 comments

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The Prisoner's Dilemma: a summary, and new advances (bosker.wordpress.com)

85 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072600 39 comments

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Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps? (news.ycombinator.com)

82 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072415 75 comments

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Free project management templates from the US Military (kkovacs.eu)

77 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072600 9 comments

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The Fay Programming Language: Compile Haskell to JavaScript (fay-lang.org)

71 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2013010209 23 comments

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.NET 4.5 includes new garbage collector enhancements for client and server apps (blogs.msdn.com)

71 points first seen 2012072418 last seen 2012072521 25 comments

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No, you don’t need a real-time data dashboard (numeratechoir.com)

69 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072503 8 comments

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Referly (YC S12) Launches API: Now Any Site Can Have A Referral Program (techcrunch.com)

66 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072500 21 comments

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Sendy - Send Newsletters via Amazon SES (sendy.co)

61 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072500 55 comments

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Firefox 16 unprefix CSS Gradients, Animations, Transitions & Transforms (hacks.mozilla.org)

58 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072521 24 comments

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Oracle lowers the flag on Fortress language project (www.theregister.co.uk)

55 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072500 22 comments

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Show HN: Use Excel as a simple CRM (ironspread.com)

52 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072500 25 comments

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A book review written in JavaScript (www.robinsloan.com)

51 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072500 11 comments

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Hacker News Podcast is back (www.hnpod.com)

50 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072500 18 comments

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Sally Ride Passes Away (www.npr.org)

48 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072500 6 comments

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Tesla Model S review: A good first impression (money.cnn.com)

47 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072421 40 comments

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3-D Printing, robotics swing manufacturing might from China back to the U.S. (www.forbes.com)

46 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072421 47 comments

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Facebook has now a patent granted on having a user privacy settings page (patft.uspto.gov)

45 points first seen 2012072418 last seen 2012072515 20 comments

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YouTube Pushing Users Switch To Real Names (www.jimyounkin.com)

43 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072406 61 comments

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Sex, Lies and Julian Assange: 46 min of investigative journalism (www.abc.net.au)

42 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072409 31 comments

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Kaspersky: Russia's Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals (www.wired.com)

39 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2013041518 7 comments

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Writing Performant Scala (www.sumologic.com)

38 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072500 17 comments

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Mom Hacks Into School Computer, Changes Her Kids' Grades (newsfeed.time.com)

37 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072421 28 comments

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Neurosurgeons barred from human research after experimental infections (blogs.nature.com)

37 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072503 13 comments

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Is C/C++ worth it? (lemire.me)

36 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072421 49 comments

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Introducing Customer Acqusition as a Service: Referly API & Shopping (refer.ly)

35 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072500 15 comments

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HTML5 Tutorials for Keeping Your Design Skills Tight (www.noupe.com)

35 points first seen 2012072415 last seen 2012072500 0 comments

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Zerigo DNS services down for 6+ hours due to massive DDoS (zerigostatus.com)

34 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072406 51 comments

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OpenNews: Why Develop in the Newsroom? (sinker.tumblr.com)

34 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072421 18 comments

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Desant - Open source landing pages system (desantapp.com)

34 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072500 8 comments

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Spring Dependency Injection Styles – Why I love Java based configuration (blog.codecentric.de)

31 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072418 14 comments

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Kickstarter Fulfillment & Product: A story of dogfood and data validation (fredbenenson.com)

31 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072500 5 comments

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Functional programming is a ghetto (blog.jelastic.com)

31 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072503 15 comments

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Europe Joins The Talent Wars (techcrunch.com)

31 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072509 17 comments

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Show HN: HTML5 Canvas diagramming, a quiet beta release of our library, GoJS (gojs.net)

29 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072421 13 comments

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Understanding long funnel analytics (behind the scenes of a book launch) (leananalyticsbook.com)

27 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072421 3 comments

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Open-source HTML5 toolset aims to enable richer Web apps (www.arstechnica.com)

27 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072421 5 comments

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Ask HN: What tech problems would you glady pay $25 a month for a SAAS solution? (news.ycombinator.com)

24 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012080106 31 comments

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Seth Shostak From SETI: We WILL Find Aliens In Space (singularityhub.com)

23 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072406 19 comments

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An Amazon Education (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

23 points first seen 2012072415 last seen 2012072500 4 comments

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Democratizing the Cloud - Here Comes Native OpenStack Support for Juju (www.jorgecastro.org)

21 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072421 2 comments

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Microgrid Keeps the Power Local, Cheap, and Reliable (www.technologyreview.com)

21 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072418 11 comments

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The Value of Nonverbal Communication (blog.meetings.io)

18 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072421 7 comments

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First Issue Of GIMP Magazine Coming (www.muktware.com)

16 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072406 12 comments

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Make Your Users Do the Work (www.nirandfar.com)

16 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072421 2 comments

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Why Apple Is A Great Marketer (www.forbes.com)

16 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072506 4 comments

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Dead Trigger for Android free due to high piracy rates (www.osnews.com)

14 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072406 14 comments

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Indian Operator Bharti Airtel wants a slice of Google and Facebook's revenue pie (thenextweb.com)

14 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072503 7 comments

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Ask HN: Anyone making living writing Linux desktop applications? (news.ycombinator.com)

13 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072409 4 comments

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Hipmunk launches first paid feature: Hipmunk business class (techcrunch.com)

13 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072418 0 comments

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Americans get wiser with age. Japanese are wise from the start (www.economist.com)

13 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072421 0 comments

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Patent holder NTP reaches settlement with "pretty much" everybody (arstechnica.com)

12 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072421 2 comments

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Ask HN: Are there non-english programming languages and what do they look like? (news.ycombinator.com)

12 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012080803 0 comments

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Show HN: Relaunched Accthub: backend platform for mobile developers (leftnode.com)

11 points first seen 2012072400 last seen 2012072412 7 comments

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Can the Terms of the GPL Prevent GNU/Linux being used for War? (www.freesoftwaremagazine.com)

11 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072503 16 comments

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Referly (YC S12) Debuts API to Let Any Company Create a Social Referral Program (betakit.com)

10 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072409 0 comments

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Ask HN: What are your 5 essentials news source, daily? (news.ycombinator.com)

10 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012080803 23 comments

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What else is there in Python? (blog.amir.rachum.com)

10 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072421 2 comments

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Using a Message Queue vs Background Processing. (www.mikeperham.com)

10 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072503 7 comments

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Alleged UK File-Sharers Better Armed and Ready To Fight Ben Dover (torrentfreak.com)

9 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072500 0 comments

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Before Your Start-Up Goes to Boot Camp, Read This (blogs.wsj.com)

8 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072418 0 comments

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How a biologist was hired by a tech startup (euphonious-intuition.com)

7 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072412 0 comments

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How b-tree database indexes work and how to tell if they are efficient (www.mattfleming.com)

7 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072415 0 comments

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WIKISPEED, first car-maker in the world to accept Bitcoin (wikispeed.com)

7 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072415 0 comments

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Are Indian High Schoolers Manning Your IBM Help Desk? (www.cringely.com)

7 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072418 2 comments

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Ask HN: What is the minimum level of experience needed for a web developer? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072418 15 comments

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Ask HN: Suggestions for a 14-yr old software-developer-in-training? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072406 7 comments

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X-Ray scans your Android device for unpatched vulnerabilities (http://www.xray.io)

6 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072403 14 comments

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The coolest 3d map (www.cutetown.net)

6 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012073106 0 comments

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38 Studios Business Postmortem (www.bostonmagazine.com)

6 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072418 0 comments

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Intel developers visit Valve: The zombies cometh... (www.paranormal-entertainment.com)

6 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072418 0 comments

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Cisco: 50 Billion Connected Devices by 2020 (www.cisco.com)

6 points first seen 2012072415 last seen 2012072421 0 comments

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Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device (www.nytimes.com)

6 points first seen 2012072418 last seen 2012072418 0 comments

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Does flash photography really damage art? The persistence of a myth. (www.imaging-resource.com)

5 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072412 5 comments

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Asana, Peter Thiel, and Founders Fund (blog.asana.com)

5 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072409 0 comments

81

Show HN: Compose Together - Real Time Jam Sessions (compose.tranzient.info)

5 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072409 2 comments

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The Singularity is Near movie now available (store.singularity.com)

5 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072415 0 comments

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Need PCs to teach kids programming (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072409 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What's the largest (LOC or traffic) Rails 3 site? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012072418 last seen 2012072418 4 comments

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Show HN: Get a perfect elevator pitch (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072403 0 comments

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WorkMonk Steals Rdio's Website Design (workmonk.com)

4 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072406 3 comments

82

Show HN: What happens when my day job is boring as hell: Move My Web (mmw.elis.ws)

4 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072409 2 comments

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Anthrax has hit Glasgow: the story of a desperate hunt for its source (www.wired.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072409 0 comments

0

It's the UX/UI, stupid. (itayadam.posterous.com)

4 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072406 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Does anyone use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature on Google search? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072406 3 comments

0

Ask HN: Review my startup, This & That (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072406 4 comments

74

Let’s Convince the Media to Stop Stereotyping Hackers as Criminals (joshaidan.tumblr.com)

4 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072415 2 comments

81

Deploy a web app in one step (tempi.re)

4 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072412 0 comments

83

Comparing Factor with Lisp (missingfaktor.blogspot.in)

4 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072412 3 comments

79

Infographic: Hacking Cheap Rent in SF: Live with Three Roommates to Save 54% (blog.livelovely.com)

4 points first seen 2012072409 last seen 2012072415 0 comments

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A lack of sales focus will destroy you - see why this startup is killing it (www.attendly.com)

4 points first seen 2012072412 last seen 2012072418 3 comments

0

NetworkedBlogs Releases Panorama News Reader (techcrunch.com)

4 points first seen 2012072418 last seen 2012072418 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How do I get people to try my (free) service? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012072421 last seen 2012072421 2 comments

0

Cofounder is now calling himself a founder post acquisition (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072403 8 comments

0

Ask HN: How to get my Kickstarter in front of the right people? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072403 2 comments

0

Google halts new orders for 16GB Nexus 7 (www.guardian.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072403 0 comments

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How to get my Kickstarter in front of the right people? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072403 2 comments

0

On why Indians do not buy online (www.pluggd.in)

3 points first seen 2012072403 last seen 2012072403 2 comments

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Former McDonald’s Honchos Take On Sustainable Cuisine (www.wired.com)

3 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072409 0 comments

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Square Exec Downplays PayPal Merger Talk (www.americanbanker.com)

3 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072406 0 comments

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How I Learned to Stop Getting Distracted and Love Productivity (www.stentontoledo.com)

3 points first seen 2012072406 last seen 2012072406 0 comments

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WSJ mangles history to argue government didn't launch the Internet (arstechnica.com)

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Developers: request for complaints (blog.ometer.com)