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Great work Visa, now I hate you (modern-products.tumblr.com)

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A Man Walks into a Bank (www.ft.com)

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Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune (www.kalzumeus.com)

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4chan: beyond one billion (www.4chan.org)

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How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking (www.wired.com)

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Github: Notifications & Stars (github.com)

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This is what Curiosity saw as it landed on Mars (youtu.be)

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Photo shows Mars rover descent (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How the Curiosity Rover's Nuclear Battery Works (www.about-robots.com)

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Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government (torrentfreak.com)

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Show HN: Statwing is statistical analysis, simplified (www.statwing.com)

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Advice I Wish I Could've Given Myself 5 Years Ago (viniciusvacanti.com)

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Results of the 2012 State of Clojure survey (cemerick.com)

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What hackers don’t know about business (blog.filepicker.io)

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Huffshell: You probably type too much. (paulmckellar.com)

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Show HN: Pup, real-time app metrics with Statsd (www.datadoghq.com)

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Curiosity was built with 2.5 million lines of C (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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What is the Mars Curiosity Rover's software built in? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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Parser combinator library in C (github.com)

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X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X (www.imore.com)

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MakeGamesWithUs (YCW12) Wants To Turn High School Kids Into iOS Game Developers (techcrunch.com)

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SML: Scalable Machine Learning Class (with video lectures) (alex.smola.org)

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Elevator Dispatch Algorithms (www.smartplanet.com)

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As Curiosity touches down on Mars, video is taken down from YouTube (arstechnica.com)

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War? YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as Apple breaks Google ties (9to5mac.com)

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Curiosity rover writes Morse Code of JPL everywhere it goes (blog.jgc.org)

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The First Simple Symmetric 11-Venn Diagram found (webhome.cs.uvic.ca)

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The Psychology of Employee Retention (www.romymisra.com)

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Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.3 Specification with Major Enhancements (www.khronos.org)

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The Distributed Graph Database Titan Provides Real-Time Big Graph Data (thinkaurelius.com)

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Firefox supports supports, gets my support (www.broken-links.com)

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Node and Express Tips (calv.info)

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Stop Applying to Startups (www.quintenfarmer.com)

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8 steps to preventing online payment fraud (binpress.com)

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Groklaw dissects Apple's trial brief on trade dress claims (www.groklaw.net)

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Redeye VC: Welcome FundersClub (redeye.firstround.com)

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Productivity tool - Twitter in Excel (mit.edu)

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Tardis--Haskell package for sending state backwards and forwards through time (github.com)

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New Mars Curiosity Hi Res HazCam Mount Sharp Photo (spaceindustrynews.com)

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Introducing Amazon Game Studios (games.amazon.com)

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DotCloud (YC S10) open-sources its websocket proxy (blog.dotcloud.com)

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Pwdr - an open source powder 3d printer (pwdr.github.com)

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Google and Facebook violate privacy rights - ordered to donate to EFF (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Samsung Launches Galaxy Note 10.1 With Impressive Features (techpp.com)

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Dropbox's Onboarding Brilliance (theindustry.cc)

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With great sadness we announce the closing of Fluent.io (fluentmail.tumblr.com)

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How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life (reason.com)

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Managing Work-In-Progress Folders with “ls -ltr” (sef.kloninger.com)

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Why Explore Space? (www.lettersofnote.com)

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CEO Fights Feds: Save Our Balls (radio.foxnews.com)

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How To Win A Hackathon (alexstechthoughts.com)

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Google: $100M Golden Handcuffs On Wildfire To Retain Employees After Acquisition (techcrunch.com)

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Online Course: Programming Languages (plus.google.com)

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Design of the Heroku Status Site (blog.heroku.com)

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Restful API framework for Flask / MongoEngine (github.com)

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Here's Why People Are Backing App.net (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Running Haskell on Raspberry Pi (alenribic.com)

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Mobile SEO for Beginners: How to Improve App Store Search Ranking (500.co)

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Trekking the Road from SPDY to HTTP/2 in Firefox (bitsup.blogspot.com)

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Github: Notification Email Improvements (github.com)

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Apple and Microsoft’s patent troll spells trouble for smartphone innovation (www.gigaom.com)

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NASA's Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Takedown (motherboard.vice.com)

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Yardsale (YC S11) Hit 100k Installs 2 Weeks After Launch (www.businessinsider.com)

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Facebook ventures into online gambling (on.ft.com)

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HNpod 5 - Google Fiber, Meteor Funding, Craigslist Experiment (www.hnpod.com)

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Carriers blame the iPhone for data caps and increased upgrade fees (www.bgr.com)

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My First $1000 in Product Revenue, with Graphs (codefol.io)

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Smallsats Growing In Utility (www.aviationweek.com)

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Things to try with Google's Android 4.1 Voice Search (www.itworld.com)

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Thumbprint readers stir fears in Venezuela vote (www.sfgate.com)

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Amazon Now Selling More EBooks Than Real Books In The UK (techcrunch.com)

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How the Islamic world gave us coffee and democracy (www.3quarksdaily.com)

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ICANN's Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Process .sucks (www.readwriteweb.com)

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World of Warcraft loses over one million subscribers in second quarter (venturebeat.com)

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Amazon Launches Textbook Rental (phx.corporate-ir.net)

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3taps says CL blocking "all general search engines" (news.ycombinator.com)

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Email Ad Network LaunchBit Raises $960K, Plans Move To Las Vegas (techcrunch.com)

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How Sports Infect Your Brain (www.nirandfar.com)

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MPAA Recruits “Surrogates” to Support Extradition of UK Student (torrentfreak.com)

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Traction, how did you get it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Curiosity: Monitoring Execution of Space Craft Flight Software (compass.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)

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Ask HN: ACH deposit providers (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What Happened to LikeALittle (lal.com)? (news.ycombinator.com)

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KDE ships version 4.8.5 of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform (kde.org)

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A Financial Plan for the Truly Fed Up (www.nytimes.com)

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Easy x86-64 (ianseyler.github.com)

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Ask HN: What should I do to be able to raise my rates? (news.ycombinator.com)

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IronWorker's Most Requested Feature is Here: Max Concurrency (blog.iron.io)

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8 Little AWS Billing Oddities You Might Want to Know (blog.cloudvertical.com)

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Ask HN: How to get positive again? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Windows 8 'Metro' Start Screen is Unavoidable (www.pcworld.com)

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Did MIT Grad Save Apollo 13? (www.gizmodo.com.au)

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Why you should try out phototags.me? (blog.phototags.me)

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Inside NASA’s Curiosity: It’s an Apple Airport Extreme… with wheels (www.extremetech.com)

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In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold (www.technologyreview.com)

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Technology does not matter in a tech start up (tech.collectedit.com)

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Tools released at Defcon can crack widely used PPTP/WPA2 Enterprise encryption (www.cso.com.au)

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Mars Rover Should Not Get So Much Attention, Say Higgs-Boson Scientists (m.newyorker.com)

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PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 reaches v1.0 (www.geek.com)

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Unx$exy: Conference for unsexy startups by 500Startups (unsexy.co)

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$5K Web-App MVP (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Anybody submitted a proposal to seedrs.com? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Acer wants Microsoft to rethink tablet entry (www.msnbc.msn.com)

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15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes (arstechnica.com)

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CSSDeck - An amazing platform for creating test cases with pro tools (cssdeck.com)

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Rust or Go? Which will rise? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: US bank that offers Two-Factor Authentication? (news.ycombinator.com)

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YouTube App is not going to be iOS6 (www.macrumors.com)

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CSS Selector Listeners - a new DOM event mechanism (www.backalleycoder.com)

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What is the absolute cheapest way to process credit cards online (news.ycombinator.com)

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Microsoft said to block ability to boot straight to desktop in Windows 8 (www.zdnet.com)

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Why is Apple ditching the YouTube app from iOS 6? It's abut money and machismo. (thenextweb.com)

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Published a Hacker News app for Android (ICS and above only). Feedbacks? (play.google.com)

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Paper: High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases (highscalability.com)

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India's Big Problem: Nurturing Entrepreneurs (businessjournal.gallup.com)

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The economic cost of increased temperatures (web.mit.edu)

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Ask HN: Is Realtime Interplanetary Communication Feasable? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Why are the computers aboard Curiosity so puny? (news.ycombinator.com)

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2012ticketalert Olympic Ticket Alert Service Unblocked by Ticketmaster (www.2012ticketalert.com)

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CQRS Journey is Worth the Trip (code.jonwagner.com)

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20 Ways to Find Your Calling (Single page / print) (www.forbes.com)

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What is a growth hacker? (mattangriffel.tumblr.com)

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Mars orbiter catches pic of Curiosity on its way down (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

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Bleacher Report acquired for ~$175 million (techcrunch.com)

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OpenStack Community By The Numbers (www.cloudave.com)

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Python: Using Turtles for Drawing Circles (www.blog.pythonlibrary.org)

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From Rural Japan to Pinterest: the Origin of MessagePack (e.ktamura.com)

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ESO Fund pools $25M to float former employees exercising stock options (venturebeat.com)

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Startup vs Big Tech Company Salaries: Then and Now (morganmissen.com)

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Apple responds to journalist's iCloud hack (news.cnet.com)

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Lucene on Android (github.com)

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Multithreaded Asynchronous Image Downloader for iOS (shelbydev.tumblr.com)

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Putting an Apache Lucene Index in RAM with Zing JVM (architects.dzone.com)

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Khronos Group’s OpenGL ES 3.0 should lead to more console-like games on mobile (venturebeat.com)

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FoundersCard Kicks To Expand Global Membership [Lifetime Discount Code] (betabeat.com)

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A lesson from Curiosity (ninjasandrobots.com)