hackerNews

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Blind man shocks researchers with what he sees. (seedmagazine.com)

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Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes (blogs.office.com)

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Let my Wi-Fi go: FCC rules Verizon can't charge for Wi-Fi tethering (www.zdnet.com)

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A global decentralized encrypted datastore with anonymous publishing (github.com)

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How I made $10k in one day with Facebook Ads (irvinebroque.tumblr.com)

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The new Digg (digg.com)

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Craigslist now asks for exclusive license when posting (baligu.blogspot.com)

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New straighforward approach to teaching quantum mechanics (www.scottaaronson.com)

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Samsung doesn't need to look for prior art, it created it itself (www.osnews.com)

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Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer (nlpwp.org)

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Bruce Schneier: Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events (edition.cnn.com)

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The year 2000 illustrated in 1900 (publicdomainreview.org)

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Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow (www.cnbc.com)

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Mechanics of a Small Acquisition (quotidianventures.com)

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Ask HN: Recommendations for learning and improving UX/UI skills? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1 (www.raywenderlich.com)

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Dropbox confirms it got hacked, will offer two-factor authentication (arstechnica.com)

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Haskell Live: A Live Coding Adventure (http://haskelllive.com)

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Whatever happened to kids' chemistry sets? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The future of GNOME (blogs.gnome.org)

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Getting your heart rate using R and Ruby. (blog.airbrake.io)

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For More Pianos, Last Note Is Thud in the Dump (www.nytimes.com)

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Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers (www.itworld.com)

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Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash (www.bbc.com)

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Google buys Wildfire (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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The Commodore 64 (C64) is 30 years old today (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Yuri Milner's Fundamental Physics Prize (www.economist.com)

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The New Digg Arrives Ahead Of Schedule (techcrunch.com)

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Stuff Harvard, MIT, Stanford & Caltech People Like (blog.echen.me)

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Dropbox: Security update & new features (blog.dropbox.com)

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Why “just do it” is bullshit (wayoftheduck.com)

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Hiptype (YC S12) Launches A Google Analytics-Style Service For E-Books (techcrunch.com)

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NBC Retracts Complaint, Guy Adams Is Back On Twitter (techcrunch.com)

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The Incredible Click Rate of Nothing (adage.com)

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NSA Careers for DEF CON Attendees (www.nsa.gov)

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How to Write (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Recycled a piano into a work desk (mrsamberapple.com)

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The Art of Lisp & Writing (www.dreamsongs.com)

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Google Indefinitely Delays the Nexus Q After Poor Reviews (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Having fun with Redis Replication between Amazon and Rackspace (3scale.github.com)

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Human Workers, Managed by an Algorithm (www.technologyreview.com)

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Hbro, Haskell based browser, ideologically similar to uzbl (github.com)

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Richard M Stallman: Steam Is Good For GNU/Linux (www.muktware.com)

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Rare Photos of the Soviet Bomb Project (nuclearsecrecy.com)

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Fast Forward - Provisioned IOPS for EBS Volumes (aws.typepad.com)

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Final Fantasy comes to Ouya (www.kickstarter.com)

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Hulu Plus Arrives on Apple TV (blog.hulu.com)

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Mars rover "Curiosity" set for touchdown next week (www.nasa.gov)

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Play blackjack in Excel (ironspread.com)

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Nexus 7's Project Butter UI smoothness captured on high-speed camera (techreport.com)

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Google changes Android content policy; intrusive ads now banned (play.google.com)

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All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (archive.org)

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New book Measurement by author of Lockhart's Lament (www.hup.harvard.edu)

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Think Relevance podcast with Rich Hickey (thinkrelevance.com)

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JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple (www.jwz.org)

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Creating a friend recommendation algorithm from social network data (blog.echen.me)

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Fedora 18 to feature the GNOME2 fork MATE (fedoraproject.org)

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Raspberry Pi to get Android 4.0 (techpp.com)

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Post Launch Checklist: 10 Tasks You Should Complete (distributionhacks.com)

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MixPanel tracking API down (status.mixpanel.com)

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Hackers like Ankit Fadia :D (attrition.org)

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One Thing Outlook.com Mail Needs To Fix Immediately (digitizor.com)

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CSS's "transparent" isn't all that transparent (coderwall.com)

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Why Plivo Cloud is better than Twilio (clintberry.com)

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Nexus Q launch delayed indefinitely, no longer available for pre-order (arstechnica.com)

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Pennsylvania tech startup community- help put us on the map RepresentPA.com (representpa.com)

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Hacking Facebook’s Corporate Network for Fun and Profit (stephensclafani.com)

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Mozilla Will Nearly Double SF Office, Add 125 People In Early 2013 (techcrunch.com)

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Microsoft launches Outlook.com, a clean, fresh take on webmail (thenextweb.com)

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First Zynga insider trading lawsuit filed (venturebeat.com)

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ReactOS signs its first development contract (www.reactos.org)

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Mobile game devs: Middle-aged women are taking over the iPad (www.bgr.com)

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Hushmail Backdoors (themonetaryfuture.blogspot.co.uk)

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Opportunity knocks but once, so don't miss it (entrevate.com)

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Show HN: Easy A/B testing for your mobile app (open source) (keepsafe-engineering.tumblr.com)

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Crowdsourced photos coming from Aleppo, Syria. (www.teleportd.com)

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MetaQuery, A declarative responsive breakpoint syntax. Defined in [HTML, CSS] (github.com)

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Students, here's why you should do hackNY (jessepollak.me)

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The best place on the web to learn anything, free (noexcuselist.com)

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Twitter May Have 500M+ Users But Only 170M Are Active [Techcrunch] (techcrunch.com)

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An Epic Bill Gates Email Rant (blog.seattlepi.com)

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Stocks Perform Better if Women Are on Company Boards (www.bloomberg.com)

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How to fundraise with Pipedrive (and how we raised our $700k seed round) (blog.pipedrive.com)

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Chute (YC W12) Unveils Avatars.io, Hosted Avatars for Apps and Web (betakit.com)

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The Mirror Strategy (nbashaw.com)

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Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS (aws.amazon.com)

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XKCD What If: Robot Apocalypse (what-if.xkcd.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg's sister now works for Google (money.cnn.com)

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The Dark Side of Geek Feminism (nicegirlslikesextoo.com)

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Microsoft demos muscle-computer interface, air Guitar Hero now a reality (www.extremetech.com)

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New NVidia Wireless Display Technology Due Soon (blogs.nvidia.com)

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How I Turned My Love of Whiskey into a Business w/o Tech Skills & Cheap WP Theme (www.mackmcconnell.com)

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Chrome Extension to improve Google BigQuery (blog.streak.com)

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Skype and online privacy - Called out (www.economist.com)

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Mayday, mayday: Apple’s latest ad campaign faces groans from all sides (arstechnica.com)

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Why Box Is Raising $125 Million to Change the Enterprise (blog.box.com)

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Facebook shares plunge to new low (business.financialpost.com)

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The End of Formality (37signals.com)

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Ask HN: Why are all the Digg stories immediately killed? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Android 4.0 (ICS) ported to Raspberry Pi (www.raspberrypi.org)

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Common Misconceptions about Summer Internships (www.eecs.berkeley.edu)

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Google Chrome Allows Access to Webcam without plugins (chrome.blogspot.com)

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France introduces 0.20% financial transaction tax (news.sky.com)

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Nokia lays off Qt3D, QtDeclarative (QML), QtMultimedia, CI/QA and other teams (lists.qt-project.org)

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Higgs boson results from LHC 'get even stronger' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Panasonic creates artificial photosynthesis as efficient as real plants (www.geek.com)

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Piracy on Android and iOS - an Interview with Madfinger Games (www.geek.com)

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9 Steps to a High-Converting Landing Page (www.onboardly.com)

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Galaxy S3 exploit (sh4ka.fr)

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Rackspace CEO: ‘We’re playing a different game’ than Amazon (gigaom.com)

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Your brain peaks at 20, what to do (www.theequitykicker.com)

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Show HN: protonet.info - social infrastructure with the push of a button (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mind-Bending Factories (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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Verizon can no longer block tethering apps (gigaom.com)

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The Heroes of Java: Bauke Scholtz (blog.eisele.net)

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Kixeye Recruiting Video (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: Does anybody wants to show me what is going on in San Francisco? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Why the Facebook hate? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Questions that investors can ask (startupwiki.ie)

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Avoid Junk Information Like You Avoid Junk Food (danielmiessler.com)

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Hipintegers - create unique integer experiences (hipintegers.com)

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Implementing Fast Interpreters: Discussion & Further Reading (nominolo.blogspot.com)

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MusicForProgramming(); (http://musicforprogramming.net)

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AnyPerk(YCW12) partners with T-Mobile (blog.anyperk.com)

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Google Fiber will change gaming as we know it (venturebeat.com)

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Gore Vidal, 86, passes away (www.nytimes.com)

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How to do online marketing for your startup (www.webiny.com)

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Sight - A Short Film About Augmented Reality (www.33rdsquare.com)

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AdDuplex launches the first cross promotion network for Windows 8 (blog.adduplex.com)

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Ask HN: Does listening to music keep you focused? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Customer Service Isn’t an Option (blog.helpmint.com)