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Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots (www.facebook.com)

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Lying on your resume (steveblank.com)

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Why Apple's new ads look like Microsoft made them. (seanoliver.me)

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Chaos Monkey released into the wild (techblog.netflix.com)

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Codecademy now has Python lessons (www.codecademy.com)

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ASCII Google Streetview (tllabs.io)

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Terrorism is not about terror (www.gwern.net)

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Sam Soffes open sources Cheddar for iOS (github.com)

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Titan, one of Saturn's moons, has an underground ocean (science.nasa.gov)

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10-year-old problem in theoretical computer science falls (web.mit.edu)

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Ask PG: What caused the downtime? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Live Streaming in Rails 4.0 (tenderlovemaking.com)

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Google Talk for Developers (developers.google.com)

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How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code (www.drdobbs.com)

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Top Raspberry Pi Myths and Truths (www.hanselman.com)

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NewsBlur (YC S12) Takes Feed Reading Back To Its Basics (techcrunch.com)

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Renewables now account for 25% of German energy production (www.reuters.com)

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Do Not Advertise On Facebook Until You Read This (wahanegi.com)

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Chrome treats DELETE requests as GET and caches them (code.google.com)

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And then the music stopped (37signals.com)

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PrismJS (prismjs.com)

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Every iPhone Prototype Apple Ever Made Before They Released The First iPhone (www.cultofmac.com)

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Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Quotes (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Amicus (YC S12) Uses Facebook To Mobilize Volunteers for Nonprofits (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: gridster.js, a drag-and-drop grid plugin that actually works (gridster.net)

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Does category theory make you a better programmer? (debasishg.blogspot.nl)

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The Boston Globe gets a look at a DB of every bomb the US has ever dropped (www.bostonglobe.com)

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UBS sues Nasdaq over $357 million IPO loss (www.marketwatch.com)

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Hangouts now available in Gmail, Google+ account not required (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)

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On Apple's new ads (frank.is)

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After Carping About NBC’s Olympics Coverage, Journalist Suspended from Twitter (betabeat.com)

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Apollo Moon flags still standing, images show (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Is Nginx obsolete now that we have Amazon CloudFront? (www.peterbe.com)

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9GAG (YC S12) Raises $2.8M (thenextweb.com)

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HTML5Rocks now on Github (github.com)

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9 Scientists Receive a New Physics Prize (www.nytimes.com)

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The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs (techcrunch.com)

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Another power failure in India and this time whole of north and east India (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners | Channel 9 (channel9.msdn.com)

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StockTwits founder “disappointed” that Twitter is “hijacking” his idea (thenextweb.com)

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First map of the human brain reveals a simple, grid-like structure (www.extremetech.com)

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Facebook: There must have been miscommunication with Limited Run (www.latimes.com)

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Signs A VC Is Just Not That Into You (blog.eladgil.com)

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Some Fresh Twitter Stats (as of July 2012, Dataset Included) (diegobasch.com)

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Why Do We Expect So Little of Our Youth? (bch.me)

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John Doerr: Coursera 'Could Be Big The Way Google Was' (chronicle.com)

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The Caves of Clojure: Part 6 (stevelosh.com)

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I updated "Hacker News Full" for Android to fix the loading errors (play.google.com)

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Natural Gas Fracking Industry May Be Paying Off Scientists (www.wired.com)

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Seven Days With a Nexus 7 (redmonk.com)

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Uruguay could be the world’s first marijuana republic (www.nytimes.com)

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Khan Academy Statistics videos are not good (learnandteachstatistics.wordpress.com)

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Want to learn about that beer in your hand? Send an SMS to learn more. (beertext.us)

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Modern culture emerged in Africa 20,000 years earlier than thought (www.latimes.com)

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Mac OS X Mountain Lion Surpasses 3 Million Downloads in 4 Days (www.eweek.com)

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Surface to arrive with Windows 8 on 10/26, says Microsoft (news.cnet.com)

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Making the Switch from Amazon Cloudfront to Fastly (blog.firebase.com)

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Blackout leaves 300M (almost entire US population) Without Power in India (www.cnbc.com)

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Up close with the Google Fiber hardware (www.geek.com)

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The world’s largest domain name registrar is seeking a new CEO. (domainnamewire.com)

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Looking into the future: Can AIDS be cured? (www.economist.com)

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Integrating WebSockets in Netty (comoyo.github.com)

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Google removes plus one button from organic search (alexwebmaster.com)

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NEVADA: Visualization of ARM NEON Instructions (szeged.github.com)

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Interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn leaves company (finance.yahoo.com)

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Ask HN: How would a foreign startup raise funds in US? (news.ycombinator.com)

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You’re a Growth Rookie, not a Growth Hacker (www.vlaskovits.com)

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Show HN: ProfilePointer- Find a company's social, mobile, and local profiles (www.profilepointer.com)

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Incremental GC now in Firefox 16 (blog.mozilla.org)

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Google Maps, Earth updated with high-resolution imagery (news.cnet.com)

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Open Partnerships: Balanced and Dwolla join the Gittip community (blog.gittip.com)

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How you can get hacked if you are using iPad/Safari/gmail (blog.secpanel.com)

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Columbia U Gets in on Action, as NYC Coughs Up $15M for Tech Campus Project (betabeat.com)

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Cheddar for iOS is now open source (blog.cheddarapp.com)

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The Second Amendment and the Insurrection Myth (davidbrin.blogspot.com)

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Security releases issued (www.djangoproject.com)

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Samsung reveals pre iPhone concepts (www.osnews.com)

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Google Backs Open Codecs for WebRTC | PCWorld Business Center (www.pcworld.com)

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Olympic Journalist Ban: Why Twitter Got It Wrong (mashable.com)

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Apple iPhone 5 and iPad mini release date set for September 21 (www.imore.com)

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The Job Interview From Hell (www.fastcompany.com)

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#NBCFail Now Fails Even Bigger (mikecanex.wordpress.com)

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40 Useful Mac OS X Shell Scripts and Terminal Commands (www.leftcolumn.net)

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Downtime Antipatterns for SaaS owners, ZipCar edition (weblog.fredalger.net)

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My Google HR Response (news.ycombinator.com)

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Facebook is Dying (socialmediatoday.com)

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Code School Kickstarter: iOS Development (www.kickstarter.com)

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Divide And Conquer: A decryption attack against PPTP VPNs (www.cloudcracker.com)

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Twitter:"You want this troublemaker gone?" NBC:"Sure" (www.independent.co.uk)

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Show HN: Invalidate browser cache of Django static files automatically (gist.github.com)

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Show HN: my new iPad app - Creativity Workbench - generate new ideas (itunes.apple.com)

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KissInsights is now Qualaroo (qualaroo.com)

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GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman Stepping Down From Post (www.marketwatch.com)

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Levinsohn Confirms That He’s Leaving Yahoo (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman Steps Down (www.webpronews.com)

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Valve, Linux and the Windows 8 'Catastrophe' (www.technewsworld.com)

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Digg v1 is coming.. (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: Weekend hack, speed Hot or Not (http://playspeedball.com)

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Show HN: DearMotorist.com - Give feedback to people you share the road with (http://dearmotorist.com)

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Worlds collide in offline social app (blog.joingrouper.com)

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Rover landing on Mars next week (www.nytimes.com)

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The problem with Sidecar's reputation system (alexeymk.com)

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Facebook is selling invisible ad impressions (blog.sefsar.com)

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I built a tiny device for displaying Twitter updates on my table-top. (www.paramaggarwal.com)

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Travel the world while freelancing as a programmer (bkpk.me)

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Show HN: My First Web App - A Pizza Coupon Search Tool (news.ycombinator.com)

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The HP-35 (www.codex99.com)

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Patton Oswald: We Don't Need Gatekeepers Anymore (thecomicscomic.com)

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Perl 6: Managing breakages across Rakudo versions (news.ycombinator.com)

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How I Won the OpenStack Birthday Contest (blog.appfog.com)

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Ross Levinsohn Exits Yahoo (online.wsj.com)

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Twitter Passes 500M Users (techcrunch.com)

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Audit shows Apple got perks in Grand Central deal (www.marketwatch.com)

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On Recruiting & Culture from Chad Dickerson / Etsy (via Fred Wilson) (www.avc.com)

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DIY App Startups Provide New Opportunities For Non-Developers (betakit.com)

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"We kept the idea really small" (notalotofwords.com)

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What’s new in Safari 6? Offline reading, Do Not Track and Smart Search (printscreenmac.info)

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Meet the Man Who Put the ‘@’ in Your E-Mail (www.wired.com)

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Netflix Open Sources Chaos Monkey (techcrunch.com)

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The $2 Million Mobile Game (ralphbarbagallo.com)

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7 Top Secret Features Of The Free VLC Media Player (www.makeuseof.com)

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Ask HN: Favorite Place for Startup Jobs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Peer advisory circles for startups (news.ycombinator.com)

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Canadian Online Survey Startup Leverages US Patriot Act to Double in Size (www.techvibes.com)

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Chaos Monkey source code on GitHub (github.com)

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Rackspace Cloud Block Storage: Making Progress Towards A Fall Release (www.rackspace.com)

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Make your site more accessible (codetunes.com)

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Job ad seeks 'mediocre' developers (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Seeking Mediocre Ruby Developers (careers.stackoverflow.com)

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Adding a Retina-ready icon to your Mac app in three easy steps (blog.ablepear.com)