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The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (www.marco.org)

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John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review (arstechnica.com)

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Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe' (kotaku.com)

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Google Fiber (fiber.google.com)

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OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell (hueniverse.com)

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Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for real (techreport.com)

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Open-Source High-quality PDF of SICP (github.com)

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Meteor Raises $11.2M from Andreessen Horowitz (www.meteor.com)

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What's with this anti-directory structure movement? (www.osnews.com)

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Moving On (al3x.net)

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.mail app (dotmailapp.com)

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Some Lisp books (and then some) (blog.fogus.me)

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How big is the entire universe? (scienceblogs.com)

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Samsung: Apple wouldn’t have sold a single iPhone without stealing our tech (www.bgr.com)

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Paul Graham: Y Combinator Companies Have Raised Over $1 Billion (techcrunch.com)

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OS X Mountain Lion available on the Mac App Store (itunes.apple.com)

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FundersClub (YC S12) Wants To Bypass VC And Let You Invest In Startups (techcrunch.com)

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Zynga earnings miss, FB also falling (www.bloomberg.com)

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How to Ace a Startup Engineering Interview Part 1 (stdout.heyzap.com)

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Open source privacy policy for mobile apps (www.docracy.com)

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What's so special with minimalweather.com? (www.minimalweather.com)

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Daring Fireball on Mountain Lion (daringfireball.net)

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The average iOS app (daveaddey.com)

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Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to embrace Linux (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Filepicker.io web widgets - Easy DragDrop & Cloud Uploads (www.filepicker.io)

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The Making of Warcraft 1: Origin of the series & creation of multi-unit select (www.codeofhonor.com)

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Pasting Text Into Vim (stackoverflow.com)

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Did Apple Just Quietly End Development Of Safari For Windows? (techcrunch.com)

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NoSQL. YesACID. All the scale without the compromise. Without the cost. (foundationdb.com)

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ZNGA down 35% on surprise loss. (blogs.wsj.com)

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Zynga down ~40% in after hours trading (www.google.com)

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Gittip minimum raised from $0.25 to $1.00 (www.gittip.com)

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The future of nReduce (nreduce.com)

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Wikipedia would be a shambles without bots (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Why couldn't MAC addresses be used instead of IPv4|6 for networking? (serverfault.com)

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Kevin Rose reflects on Digg, the dangers of outside investors, and his legacy (gigaom.com)

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Sponsorfied (YC S12) Announces Beta to Simplify Sponsorships (techcrunch.com)

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Caltech study: how a simple design trick affects consumer choices (blog.eyequant.com)

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Of Google's First 20 Employees, How Many Are Still There? (www.forbes.com)

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Seed-DB (www.seed-db.com)

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The Apple (Used) Premium? (priceonomics.com)

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Meteor – The next Ruby-on-Rails? (www.matrixpartners.com)

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FastLZ - lightning-fast compression library (fastlz.org)

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Why you won't see hard augmented reality any time soon (blogs.valvesoftware.com)

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Feds file suit against Buckyballs, retailers ban product (www.usatoday.com)

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Olympics Ban on Personal Hotspots (techcrunch.com)

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Phusion Passenger 4.0 and Phusion Passenger Enterprise (blog.phusion.nl)

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A Gallery of Apps Powered by Parse (parse.com)

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A Strategy For The Dreaded Interview Coding Question (www.etherealbits.com)

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Mashion's Pairing Rig (matschaffer.com)

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The Day I Took Down 100,000 Web Sites (sef.kloninger.com)

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AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Did For EMail (techcrunch.com)

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San Diego: join us for SD Hacker News meetup #31 (Fri 7/27) (anyvite.com)

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Get Exec to Volunteer for Charity on your Behalf (blog.iamexec.com)

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Daeken's Blackhat paper on the security flaws in Onity locks (daeken.com)

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Simple Is Now Available To The Public, Cofounder Alex Payne Moves On (techcrunch.com)

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How to design a good native-looking WordPress Admin icon (julien-c.fr)

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Run JAVA on iOS now using this SDK - CODENAMEONE (www.codenameone.com)

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Xcode 4.4 is available (for Lion and Mountain Lion) (itunes.apple.com)

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Upgrading a Rails 2.1 app to 3.2 (slidedeck) (derwiki.tumblr.com)

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John Siracusa describes his process of writing the OS X 10.8 Review (siracusa.tumblr.com)

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Zynga's shares plunge more than 30%; Facebook stock down 7% (www.reuters.com)

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In Defense of Parenthood - new research suggests children makes you happy [pdf] (dunn.psych.ubc.ca)

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Server Configuration - Basic Security Part 7 (coffeeonthekeyboard.com)

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Our Brains See Men as Whole and Women as Parts (www.scientificamerican.com)

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Riding a Mountain Lion (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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Grubwithus Also Says “Step Away From the Device” (blog.grubwithus.com)

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Open-sourced startup marketing (www.binpress.com)

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Netflix Plunges on Guarded Outlook for New 2012 Signups (www.businessweek.com)

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Ask HN: Can single founders build successful companies? (news.ycombinator.com)

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On the redundancy of C99's restrict (blog.frama-c.com)

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Why don’t we drink other animals’ milk? (www.slate.com)

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LZ4 a very fast lossless compression algorithm (code.google.com)

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Ask HN: How should I deal with a clone of my site? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Startup Success Theory: Choose Short Men (moz.com)

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Google Scientific Calculator (Voice-Enabled 34-Button Calculator) (www.google.com)

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Show HN: Hipmob for iPhone - add live chat to your iPhone app (www.hipmob.com)

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.NET Just Got Some Iron Behind It (blog.iron.io)

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Show HN: I made a Klout killer in 2 weeks (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google, eBay, Amazon, Facebook back new lobbying group (www.reuters.com)

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Andreessen Horowitz Invests $11.2 Million In Meteor (techcrunch.com)

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Introducing the MapBox JavaScript API (mapbox.com)

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Gmail Tap (www.gmail.com)

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RAID is dead. Is it? (storagemojo.com)

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Looking For Leaders In All The Wrong Places (www.javacodegeeks.com)

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VCs' Strange, Instinctual Need to Replace Founders (blogs.hbr.org)

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Zynga to launch real-money gambling online games in 2013 (venturebeat.com)

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HTML Canvas Deep dive book open sourced (hudson.joshy.org:9001)

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How are SSDs Changing Architectures? (highscalability.com)

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Plant an idea inside your best client's head Inception style. (duskic.com)

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11 year old dodges airport security and flies without boarding pass or passport (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Entrepreneurs Have Control When Things Work, VCs Have Control When They Don't (www.avc.com)

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Ask HN: Is it okay if your startup is based on external APIs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Backblaze raises $5 million; Why we took funding after 5 years of bootstrapping (blog.backblaze.com)

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The State of Hiring (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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UI Design search engine (ui-cloud.com)

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Google opens code for building interactive experiences in physical spaces (arstechnica.com)

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Symantec CEO Enrique Salem steps down effective immediately (www.symantec.com)

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Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption? (www.usnews.com)

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Ask HN: We are launching our first service today - any advice? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Help me hack Fibromyalgia to Assuage my Gf's Pain (www.transtartup.blogspot.com)

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Cardboard and tape (ninjasandrobots.com)

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CPSC bans sale of BuckyBalls (www.reuters.com)

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Truth In Erroring: IETF Proposal Includes New 451 Censorship Error Code (www.techdirt.com)

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Making of Grimrock: Rapid Programming (www.grimrock.net)

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Peter Norvig on The History and Future of Technological Change (2007) (itc.conversationsnetwork.org)

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Meteor raises $11.2M (meteor.com)

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A subscription model could have saved Sparrow (yonasbe.tumblr.com)

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IOS vs. Android Development: Where Are The Jobs? (blog.bestvendor.com)

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On Client Components for Web Apps (tagneto.blogspot.ca)

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Show HN: Ignite. Code, compile and share, all in real time web editor. (ignite.io)

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Gender Games: Olympic Sex Test (www.slate.com)

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Zynga Slashes Outlook, Denting Its Stock and Facebook's (www.nytimes.com)

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How To Quit Your 9-To-5 To Work On Your Startup (techli.com)

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Ridiculousness of Venture Capital Advice (babblingvc.typepad.com)

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Java flaws increasingly targeted by attackers, researchers say (www.computerworld.com)

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Facebook & HTC Releasing Phone (www.bloomberg.com)

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Is there a copy of you reading this article? (Max Tegmark) (space.mit.edu)

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Have A Wake For Failed Startups (www.feld.com)

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Floating point gotchas: Trick for computing log(1+x) (www.johndcook.com)

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The most important question I've ever been asked (www.jaynathan.org)

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No, Really, Some of My Best Friends Are Data Scientists - Cosma Shalizi (cscs.umich.edu)

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Your Startup is Doomed (www.tomscott.com)

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Storm: Distributed and Fault-tolerant Real-time Computation (www.infoq.com)

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Mountain Lion's new file system (informationarchitects.net)

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Thanks, Groupon: NEA closes monster $2.6B fund (gigaom.com)

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Scala: laziness, unapply magic, null checks (www.sumologic.com)

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Ask HN: First YC IPO: Airbnb or Dropbox or Other (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What format of startup founder interview is most valuable to you? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Age of Excellence - by Jason Calcanis (www.launch.co)

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Aspen: Python Web Framework with Simplates (aspen.io)

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New York Times drops BlackBerry app (www.reuters.com)

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Two creative girls, one fun app. What do you think? (www.hitchme.co)

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Introduction to Linux on Windows Azure (www.windowsazure.com)

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The Facebook Typeface (e2open.org)

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Share more moments, see more moments: Path 2.5 (blog.path.com)

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How to motivate co-workers to write unit tests? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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15 Tips To Tackling ‘Coders Block’ And Being More Productive (discovr.info)

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C++ Systems Hacker as Employee #1 in YC Startup (W12) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Yardsale - Mobile Marketplace, Seeking iOS/Rails Engineers (YC S11) (news.ycombinator.com)

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