hackerNews

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Google Fiber Plans & Pricing (fiber.google.com)

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Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous (talsraviv.com)

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What I Learned From Increasing My Prices (www.extendslogic.com)

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The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance (www.marco.org)

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Gnome: Staring into the abyss (blogs.gnome.org)

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Why Do Startups Do This? (asymptomatic.net)

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Anyone know why the Yelp offices have TSA-quality security? (chriszf.posterous.com)

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1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 (www.writersofthefuture.com)

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Show HN Music for Geeks and Nerds. Learn music with programming and math (ebook) (http://musicforgeeksandnerds.com)

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Get A Job: The Craigslist Experiment (thoughtcatalog.com)

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Twitter has a new look (twitter.com)

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First glider discovered in a cellular automata on an aperiodic tiling (plus.google.com)

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Economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband (gigaom.com)

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The IPS LCD Revolution (www.codinghorror.com)

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Brightcove Acquires Zencoder (YC W10) (blog.zencoder.com)

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Google Handwrite (techcrunch.com)

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Go is boring (aeronotix.pl)

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Zynga Insiders Who Cashed Out Before The Stock Crashed (finance.yahoo.com)

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Two More Patients HIV-Free After Bone Marrow Transplants (abcnews.go.com)

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Google Talk is down (www.google.com)

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GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, breaks existing scripts (bugs.debian.org)

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Show HN: BinaryJS, Streaming realtime binary data to your web browser (http://binaryjs.com)

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The Fast Fourier Transform (jeremykun.wordpress.com)

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Changing My Mind On Microsoft (brontecapital.blogspot.com)

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The Minecraft API Is Now On Github (github.com)

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Gunsmith Uses 3D Printer To Make A Rifle (www.webpronews.com)

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R.I.P Andre Hedrick (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Vint Cerf responds to revisionist WSJ editorial on Internet origins (news.cnet.com)

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Introducing Anypic: an open source clone of Instagram (parse.com)

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R3, a map-reduce engine with python and redis (heynemann.github.com)

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The Humble Music Bundle (www.humblebundle.com)

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We need a better web, not an open Twitter (blog.superfeedr.com)

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Ask HN: What are app developers buisness models? (news.ycombinator.com)

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GDrive finally comes to Linux thanks to insynchq.com (forums.insynchq.com)

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Vayable (YC S12) adds worldwide payments and concierge service (techcrunch.com)

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Twitter Shuts Off “Find Friends” Feature For Instagram (techcrunch.com)

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Official Android writing style guide (developer.android.com)

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Rails version 3.2.7 has been released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

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Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time. (blog.bu.mp)

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Issues (blog.jgc.org)

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Isometric text with CSS3 (www.midwinter-dg.com)

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Can't somebody fix the "Unknown or expired link" bug? (news.ycombinator.com)

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UK man convicted for sending "menacing" tweet wins appeal (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Open sourcing the “quilt” view for iOS (blog.1000memories.com)

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Darpa has come up with a way to put out fires with sound waves (www.noisemademedoit.com)

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RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping (torrentfreak.com)

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Show HN: Anypic, an open source Instagram clone (http://anypic.org)

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Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns (www.slideshare.net)

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2 month hackathon on a remote tropical island (comehackwithus.com)

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Server statistics in Excel with Python (mit.edu)

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Jonathan Schwartz: Oracle bungled its chance at mobile Java (news.cnet.com)

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Ask HN: How good are freelance programming sites? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Learn to code in 8 weeks with Bloc, an online bootcamp for would-be developers (venturebeat.com)

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Create beautiful photo sites from your phone with Popset (W12) (www.popset.com)

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Betable claims to give developers 6-month lead on Zynga for real-money gambling (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Growth Hacking, Email and Mullets (blog.mailgun.net)

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Facebook Q2 2012 Earnings (investor.fb.com)

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Femtocells now outnumber cell towers (opensignalmaps.com)

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Your public IP address, via Google Search (www.google.com)

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Cross-browser add-ons are a reality with Trigger.io (Zemanta example) (trigger.io)

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Are functional languages inherently slow? (flyingfrogblog.blogspot.co.uk)

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Smart Time Ago: a new JS lib to update relative timestamps more efficiently (blog.pragmatic.ly)

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Interview with Mailgun (YC W11) CEO Ev Kontsevoy (howtowriteabusinessplan.com)

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Robot-Installed Solar Panels Cut Costs by 50% (spectrum.ieee.org)

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The Education I wish I Had (lukethomas.com)

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How I hacked my brain with Adderall: a cautionary tale (www.theverge.com)

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Bump's New App Flock Creates Shared Photo Albums With Friends (techcrunch.com)

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Twitter is down (status.twitter.com)

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Git tricks: stash (bytbox.net)

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Phusion Passenger Enterprise: Live IRB Console and Deployment Error Resistance (blog.phusion.nl)

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How the Galaxy In-Memory Data Grid Maintains Data Consistency (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

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Amazon Net Income Plunges 96%, Shares Follow (techcrunch.com)

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CSS From Photoshop Layers in Real-Time (www.kickstarter.com)

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The App Design Handbook + Time-lapse Design Video (nathanbarry.com)

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In other news : Twitter / Error (twitter.com)

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The paragon of inefficiency (blog.wells.ee)

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Brightcove acquires Zencoder (techcrunch.com)

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Git script to measure contributor LOCs (coderwall.com)

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Cops shut down hundreds of Internet cafes in Beijing to save the generation (www.pcgerms.com)

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Google Talk Goes Down, Suffers Outage Across the World (techpp.com)

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The DNA of a Successful Book (blog.hiptype.com)

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Go Couch to 5k (radianttap.com)

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Twitter is down, very down. Not even fail whale (twitter.com)

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How I hacked my brain with Adderall: a cautionary tale (www.theverge.com)

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Google Fiber Announcement Live Stream (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Laid off, frustrated, looking for advice (news.ycombinator.com)

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Surviving the SSHpocolypse (github.com)

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MongoDB v2.2 released, now with database level locking (docs.mongodb.org)

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Introducing the Humble Music Bundle (blog.humblebundle.com)

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Apple's Crazy Attempt to Make Everyone Act Like American Teens Will Fail (techland.time.com)

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Brightcove buys YC alums Zencoder (www.brightcove.com)

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Humble Music Bundle (http://humblebundle.com)

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Amazon will make the London the global hub of its film and TV offerings (www.internetretailer.com)

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Web giants to form powerful lobby in US (www.aljazeera.com)

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Ask HN: Good Hackathon Prizes (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Darpa Way (www.cringely.com)

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Apple LLVM 4.0 new features on Xcode 4.4 (Literals) (stackoverflow.com)

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AppBrain launches better banner ads for Android (blog.appbrain.com)

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Who's Hiring for Remote Programming Jobs/Gigs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Live: Google Fiber anouncement (www.youtube.com)

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Google Handwrite: Handwriting recognition built in to Google.com on mobile (googleblog.blogspot.gr)

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Better Email Search (rein.pk)

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The Humble Music Bundle (www.humblebundle.com)

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Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2012 Results (investor.fb.com)

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Meet 'Rakshasa,' The Malware Infection Designed To Be Undetectable And Incurable (www.forbes.com)

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What's A Fair Value for Facebook Stock? (www.econmatters.com)

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Ask HN: Review my startup mojoLive (CV/Career Management) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Android ARMv6 Support for Firefox on Android: Now Available (blog.lassey.us)

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Ask HN: What to write on landing page? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Where the Creative Class Earns the Most (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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Conway's Game of Life emulated in Conway's Game of Life (www.youtube.com)

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Hydrogen fuel cells may get a shot at batteries after all (i.autoblog.com)

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Step out of your box. And show some respect. (alexshye.wordpress.com)

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The best Linux distro of 2011 | TuxRadar Linux (tuxradar.com)

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The crowdfunding bubble of 2013 part 3 (www.cringely.com)

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First GTalk and now Twitter. (techcrunch.com)

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Google Fiber Announcement in Kansas City, July 2012 (www.youtube.com)

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What is a good high level language that is also highly efficient? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Handwrite Google Search (www.google.com)

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Why programmers has no choice but be closer to the machine (www.brainpickings.org)

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AnandTech: The Google Nexus 7 review (www.anandtech.com)

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HP Offers Free Access To OpenStack (go.hpcloud.com)

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Study reveals Western popular music is becoming more homogenized (www.nature.com)

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The letter that got 2001: A Space Odyssey started (www.lettersofnote.com)

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Google, Facebook, eBay, and Amazon to form political lobbying association (www.aljazeera.com)

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Coal Power Loses Its Luster in India as Costs Rise (news.nationalgeographic.com)

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Five Guys Take Same Photo For 30 Years... (www.cnn.com)

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Investors turn entrepreneurs into insecure little teenagers (venturebeat.com)

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How the Mac no longer matters to Apple (www.wingsofreason.com)

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Facebook's results rattle Wall Street (www.latimes.com)

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17-year-old girl builds artificial ‘brain’ to detect breast cancer (www.futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com)

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The Real Reason for Microsoft's Woes (www.forbes.com)

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Programming lessons I learned (jaseemabid.github.com)

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Twitter down (http://twitter.com)

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Caterina Fake's Pinwheel might have to change its name (techcrunch.com)

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If PaaS is expensive and slow, why not use a VPS? (blog.appfog.com)

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Power Pwn - Penetration testing platform disguised as a power strip (pwnieexpress.com)

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What do you think Valve is doing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google Handwrite (googleblog.blogspot.nl)

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Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling (www.nytimes.com)

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Twitter apologies (www.zdnet.com)

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Startup founder willing to pay $500 to increase his odds to get Google Fiber (www.siliconprairienews.com)

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What makes life exciting? (danielflopes.com)

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Getting Started with JSON - Codular (codular.com)