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An Unexpected Ass Kicking (joelrunyon.com)

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Mars Curiosity's first images (mars.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Watch the Mars Curiosity Rover landing in HD at 10:31 PDT (www.nasa.gov)

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Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account (www.macrumors.com)

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NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing (www.nasa.gov)

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One Thousand Dollars an Hour (samsoff.es)

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CopBlock.org Founder Faces 21 Years in Prison for Reporting Police Brutality (ireport.cnn.com)

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now? (thenextweb.com)

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Principles of UI design (bokardo.com)

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Prepaid Cellphones Are Cheaper. Why Aren't They Popular? (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop F*cking Around (techcrunch.com)

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How to Write a Malcolm Gladwell Book (www.theweinerworks.com)

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Tunneling Below Second Avenue (for New Subway) (www.nytimes.com)

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The power of intermittent fasting (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Elsevier charges authors to make items "Open Access", then charges to read them. (blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk)

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Raising Successful Children (www.nytimes.com)

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I didn't learn programming when I was 12 (kennyletran.com)

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Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Tonight (spectrum.ieee.org)

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The best ps2 (PCSX2) emulator is out with new major version (pcsx2.net)

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The Power of Negative Thinking (www.nytimes.com)

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Mars Curiosity Operating System: VxWorks (en.wikipedia.org)

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Steve Wozniak: "I worry about everything going to the cloud" (www.france24.com)

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DARPA have created world's first solid state receiver with gain at 0.85THz (www.darpa.mil)

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The GoPro Army (www.inc.com)

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How to get an Internet connection to a field for a hacker camping festival (blog.emfcamp.org)

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IFTTT Needs Webhooks, Stat (blog.jazzychad.net)

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3D-printed exoskeleton helps young girl use her arms (futuretimeline.net)

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Space isn't ours. (carl.flax.ie)

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Memory Access Patterns Are Important (mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk)

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Explained: The Shannon Limit (2010) (web.mit.edu)

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Is Stack Overflow “secure”? Kind of... (www.troyhunt.com)

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Rural villagers DIY 1Gbps fibre project (news.ycombinator.com)

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Stateless and Proud in the Realtime World (lucumr.pocoo.org)

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Oracle: why 9 lines of rangeCheck code is copyright infringement (www.groklaw.net)

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Darwin right: variations in useless organs unchecked by natural selection (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)

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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 are ready to go (www.infoq.com)

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Rails like framework for C++ with great speed (www.treefrogframework.org)

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EBay Is Launching A Same-Day Shipping Service Called eBay Now (techcrunch.com)

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Watch 3 concurrent streams of the Curiosity Landing with HN/Reddit Chat (teevox.com)

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NASA: Real-time Simulation of Curiosity Flight (eyes.nasa.gov)

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30 Days Without Sugar (jdbentley.com)

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Swiss sheep to warn shepherds of wolf attacks by SMS (phys.org)

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$10k bet that bitcoin will outperform gold/silver/stock by 100x over two years (longbets.org)

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The Problem With Kickstarter And Software (clayallsopp.com)

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O'Reilly Webinar: Designing Type-Safe Haskell APIs (www.yesodweb.com)

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Show HN: my weekend project, PageBlox (pageblox.com) (www.pageblox.com)

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SPDY on Rails (blog.bugsnag.com)

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Managing Email Realistically (mattgemmell.com)

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Fixing your own laptop, and the importance of do-it-yourself to society (justindunham.net)

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One Race, Every Medalist Ever (www.nytimes.com)

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Using Node.js and JQuery to Crawl Public Tweets (github.com)

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Turbocharging web sites with new PageSpeed Service optimizations (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)

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Learn hubot the hard way (github.com)

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A remake of the very first website (www.w3.org)

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Ask HN: What are you working on (elevator pitch)? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Building a large webapp today - what language for the backend, and why? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Grand central dispatch vs OpenMP benchmark (www.idryman.org)

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Hippie physics student saved Apollo 13, cut out of history cos he had long hair (www.reddit.com)

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How coffee shops helped my startup (joel.is)

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Always Online v.2: How CloudFlare Keeps Sites Online (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Spec work: for looser managers and employees. (www.stevoyoung.com)

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An IDE as a packaged Chrome app (samrat.me)

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The Real Tech Wives of Entrepreneurs (Audio) (techzinglive.com)

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Android Jelly bean Activity Animation (code4reference.com)

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NASA MSL Curiosity: 'Touchdown confirmed' (twitter.com)

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Real-time Curiosity Simulator with Landing Preview (http://eyes.nasa.gov)

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Curiosity's first images from Mars (i.imgur.com)

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New Jersey Mom Puts Kids To Bed With Math (www.npr.org)

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Solar Bag concept purifies water as you walk (avesom.com)

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Building Curiosity’s nuclear power source (atomicinsights.com)

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University of Edinburgh joins Coursera (fm.schmoller.net)

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"...we discovered a 5,800-line SQL query..." (msdn.microsoft.com)

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Repo: A new Git client (dmgctrl.com)

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Don't waste your time in crappy startup jobs (michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

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How Kansas Won the Google Fiber Jackpot And Why California Never Will (www.forbes.com)

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The iPad Put A Fork In Personal Computing (techpinions.com)

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Ask HN: Alternatives to a password manager? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Is Surface Microsoft’s confession that Windows 8 isn’t cut out for tablets? (arstechnica.com)

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SAP co-founder on Germany and the software business (www.spiegel.de)

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Square Pixel Inventor Tries to Smooth Things Out (www.wired.com)

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Flash Crash? Or Flash in the Pan? (www.chrisstucchio.com)

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What makes a great logo? (hunterandbard.com)

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Reuters Twitter Account Hacked to Post Pro-Syria Messages (thenextweb.com)

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npm: Launches new website (npmjs.org)

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Be A Bitch On Email, Or Be Email’s Bitch (techcrunch.com)

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Android development for beginners; where to start? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Expanding the Passive Income Experiment (www.patrick-wied.at)

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Ask HN: Where to find designers for low-budget startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Protect JS crypto keys from XSS, using iframes and postMessage (jacob.hoffman-andrews.com)

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Install and run Android apps on your PC (7labs.heypub.com)

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Desktop Android? Multi-user Android support is on its way (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: How to become competitive as a remote developer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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HTML5 is the new DHTML (blog.easy-designs.net)

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Django Dash 2012 - Registration Is Open (djangodash.com)

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Another Fluent API: jOOX. Porting jQuery to Java (java.dzone.com)

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Facebook and McAfee to blur photos (unless you have a plugin) (allfacebook.com)

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The openark kit for MySQL (openarkkit.googlecode.com)

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Bill Gates On India, China, Philanthropy, Tech Industry and More (icosmogeek.com)

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Google Chrome sucks. Is there any solution to this problem. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Marketing / PR Manager for YC Mobile Commerce Startup (news.ycombinator.com)

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