hackerNews

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Ten Things I Hate About Git (steveko.wordpress.com)

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"The carpets are so clean, we don't need janitors" (machinesplusminds.blogspot.com)

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OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As' (macperformanceguide.com)

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In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time (www.slate.com)

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Eugene Kaspersky: What Wired Is Not Telling You (eugene.kaspersky.com)

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What's all this fuss about Erlang? (pragprog.com)

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GHC's new cutting-edge dataflow-based code generator (hackage.haskell.org)

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American TV Neglected the Saddest Story in the Olympics (1045theteam.com)

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Rare Are GC Talks (furious-waterfall-55.heroku.com)

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"It’s done in hardware so it’s cheap" (www.yosefk.com)

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Mars rover Curiosity lands today (www.space.com)

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Usability Hell: London 2012 Olympics Ticketing Fail (usabilityhell.com)

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Custom UI Controls for iOS and Mac OS X (www.cocoacontrols.com)

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FarmLogs (YC W12) is bringing farmers online (www.nytimes.com)

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Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial (online.wsj.com)

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Ask HN: How should I evaluate a startup as I job hunt? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Facebook unfriended (www.economist.com)

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Zyngapocalypse Now (And What Comes Next?) (techcrunch.com)

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NASA JPL C Coding Standard [pdf] (lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Hackers got access to Matt Honan's iCloud account by calling Apple Support (twitter.com)

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Machine Learning - Introduction (jeremykun.wordpress.com)

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GetUserMedia API lands on Chrome (chrome.blogspot.se)

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Fun with in-engine color grading (the-witness.net)

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Quants and the crash (wired.com)

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Google Chrome's biggest annoyance: Download bar (code.google.com)

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The Linguistic Interface (lubutu.com)

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Virtual memory overhead for trees (github.com)

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Switching from jQuery Mobile to Twitter Bootstrap (blog.pamelafox.org)

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Neither the Will nor the Cash: Why India Wins So Few Olympic Medals (m.theatlantic.com)

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Fake leap seconds being announced by NTP servers, still causing linux crashes (lists.ntp.org)

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3D slider jQuery plugin (www.philparsons.co.uk)

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John Carmack, Kudos to Valve but Linux is Still Not a Viable Gaming Market (www.ubuntuvibes.com)

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Mezzanine 1.2 and Cartridge 0.6 (Django CMS and Ecommerce platforms) released (groups.google.com)

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Why does Flash Player take more CPU to play a video than a video player? (blogs.adobe.com)

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Ask HN: How to learn web scalability? (news.ycombinator.com)

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_.m: A port of Underscore.js to Objective C (github.com)

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Is It Time to Rethink the Stigma for Tech Companies Led by Couples? (allthingsd.com)

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Typist - Add animated typing text to any block element (davidcrawford.github.com)

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The planets of our solar system viewed in the Moon's orbit (www.geek.com)

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I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code—what now? (arstechnica.com)

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Passwords, Backups and a false sense of security (blog.julieng.me)

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What I Learned From My Internship at a YC Startup (blog.smitpatel.com)

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Who to blame for failed IPOs? (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: SMS-enabling an app for a startup (news.ycombinator.com)

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The portable 3D printer that fits in a briefcase (arstechnica.com)

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Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country (They Just Don't Realize It) (www.theatlantic.com)

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SSL is not about encryption (www.troyhunt.com)

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Ask HN: Any space for a micro-website for portable discussions. (news.ycombinator.com)

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The problem with SaaS metrics (gigaom.com)

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SQL injection attacks jumped 69% in Q2 (www.infosecurity-magazine.com)

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Predictors Of The Fundraising Market (techcrunch.com)

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JavaScript Performance Rundown, 2012 (codehenge.net)

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Silicon Valley Creating Jobs, But Not for Everyone (www.wired.com)

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Ask PG: An incubator to teach programming to street kids in Turkey (news.ycombinator.com)

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Transcribe: An awesome audio-transcription Web app for Chrome (thenextweb.com)

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CAPSLOCKSCRIPT: like JavaScript, just LOUDER (github.com)

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Dear Yahoo, I Redesigned Your Website (techcrunch.com)

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Pixar just open sourced their high-performance subdivision evaluator (github.com)

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Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading (www.wired.com)

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California Community Mulls Driving Tax Amid Privacy Concerns (www.insideline.com)

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The company that spooked the world (www.economist.com)

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Is there a Sales School for Hackers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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MATE 1.4 released (mate-desktop.org)

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Ask HN: How to price domain? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Grum: Inside The Takedown Of One Of The World’s Biggest Spam Networks (techcrunch.com)

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The day the music died - Robert Fripp interview (www.ft.com)

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Ask HN: How to get a job in US? (news.ycombinator.com)

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DotCloud for Windows (kalmanspeier.com)

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Twitter must tackle trolls say police (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Ask HN: How do Riak, Canonical, and other "deep-down" companies make money? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Track Down Resource-Hogging Tabs In Chrome (www.horsesaysinternet.com)

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Pixar open source their subdivision surface library (graphics.pixar.com)

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Luck vs. Skill: Seeking the Secret of Your Success (www.nytimes.com)

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User Experience Design Collection (uxidea.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: IT on Cruise Ships? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Life rebooting is the new life hacking (blog.tommorris.org)

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'Shock' as Olympic ticket alert feed is blocked (www.bbc.com)

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Why TCP is evil and HTTP is king (ayende.com)

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Global Dominance: Olympic Winnings vs GDP (hart.ly)

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Comment when you have something to say (jseliger.wordpress.com)

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Google's Secret Strategy with Kansas City Fiber Rollout (free-fiber-to-the-home.blogspot.ca)

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'Blade runner' makes unprecedented Olympic debut (www.cnn.com)

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Ask HN: Online schools for Journalism? (news.ycombinator.com)

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In Wooing of Nissan, a Lesson for Tech Jobs? (www.nytimes.com)

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A single bug in my StoreKit code that lost me 90% of IAP sales (aplus.rs)

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Ask HN: Review this startup idea (news.ycombinator.com)

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

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Firebase is hiring a Developer Evangelist (news.ycombinator.com)

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