hackerNews

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Textmate2 Goes Open Source (github.com)

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Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus (plus.google.com)

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Soviet Venus Images (www.mentallandscape.com)

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Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees' Families for a Decade (www.theatlantic.com)

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Textmate 2 on Github (blog.macromates.com)

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The effect of typefaces on credibility (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die. (slog.thestranger.com)

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JQuery 1.8 Released (blog.jquery.com)

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Bitey: Import LLVM bitcode directly into Python (github.com)

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Mars rover camera project manager explains 2MP camera choice (www.dpreview.com)

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College was my biggest mistake (stevecorona.com)

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Mars 360-degree panoramic view from Curiosity (online.wsj.com)

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Blizzard Network Breached; Change Your Battle.Net Passwords (kotaku.com)

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Show HN: Excel? A complete Twitter client in less than 250 lines… in Google Docs (die.socialisten.at)

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Automatically create well-designed splash pages for any iOS app. (www.smore.com)

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MIT's Infinite Size CNC Router (www.alecrivers.com)

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Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts (www.eff.org)

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Brain in a dish flies an F-22 Fighter Jet - in a simulator, but still (news.discovery.com)

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The Best Advice My Dad Ever Gave Me (for Demo Day) (distributionhacks.com)

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Show HN: Choose Photo. Make Ascii (dchang.mit.edu)

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D3.js 2.10 Unleashed. (github.com)

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Amazon forces Unglue.it to Suspend Crowdfunding for Creative Commons eBooks (blog.unglue.it)

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Kaspersky Lab Discovers 'Gauss' (www.kaspersky.com)

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Show HN: DailyCred: User Accounts as a Service (www.dailycred.com)

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Legitimate ebook lending site LendInk taken down by hundreds of C&D orders (www.digitalmediamachine.com)

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Was Godaddy Caught Registering Domains Names After Availability Lookup? (www.billhartzer.com)

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Congratulations: You Killed LendInk And Denied Fellow Authors Lend Royalties (aprillhamilton.blogspot.com)

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Intro to writing C-extension for Python (danfm.ca)

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PyPy Status Blog: Multicore Programming in PyPy and CPython (morepypy.blogspot.de)

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Meteor 0.3.9 adds search engine optimization (www.meteor.com)

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Ex-Goldman Programmer Is Arrested Again (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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How To Write Good Log Messages (www.trottercashion.com)

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One Horrifying Account Of Working At Zynga (techcrunch.com)

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Peter Thiel's College Dropouts: How's That Working Out? (www.inc.com)

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SCO is finally “Dead Parrot” dead (www.zdnet.com)

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Everyday.me (YC S12) - an "Evernote for Your Life" (techcrunch.com)

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The Singularity is not coming (cognitivesocialweb.com)

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ReelSurfer Launches Public Beta (techcrunch.com)

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The end of the road for OEMs (www.extremetech.com)

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Lua-quick-try-out : A simple, low-barrier Lua IDE (www.brischalle.de)

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Stack Exchange is not a forum: the role of “niceness” on a Q&A site (blog.stackoverflow.com)

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Show HN: CloudPlay - A music player for YouTube, SoundCloud, and more (cloudplay.fm)

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Battle.net hacked, users urged to change their passwords (us.blizzard.com)

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Canadian hacker dupes Walmart to win Def Con prize (www.thestar.com)

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Drinking at work: the boredom of boozeless business (www.economist.com)

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Spotify, Pandora, Streaming Music Make Up 25 Percent of Warner Digital Revenue (allthingsd.com)

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Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo (techcrunch.com)

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Important Security Update (Battle.net user information compromised) (us.blizzard.com)

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Manufacturing is taking off in India. But not in the way many hoped (www.economist.com)

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Show HN: Chartulo.us - Chart anything from the command line (http://chartulo.us)

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Tasty Labs' product: human.io, a way to build easy mobile participation (human.io)

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Textmate 2 and why you should never rewrite your code (kerr.io)

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Simple mathematical computations underlie brain circuits (web.mit.edu)

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Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Globalization (www.theoildrum.com)

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3D Printed Houses Might be Closer Than You Thought (techpp.com)

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It's time for a native EventEmitter (ricardo.cc)

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

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U.S. Should Adopt Higher Standards for Science Education (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Zynga's Chief Operating Officer Quits After Demotion (www.cnbc.com)

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Impressionist: A visual tool to create Impress.js presentations (www.hsivaram.com)

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Introducing Pulse for Web (http://pulse.me)

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Things 2 is out (Mac/iOS app) (culturedcode.com)

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Show HN: Sell your stuff for more money with less hassle (https://www.bidkat.com)

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Why you PHP guys should learn Golang (www.mikespook.com)

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A New Way To Solve Linear Equations (rjlipton.wordpress.com)

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A Possible Solution to Twitter's Revenue and Spam Problems (blog.zachwaugh.com)

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Show HN: Buffer - My November Sprint App (news.ycombinator.com)

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Snailmail Photos To Friends With Facebook’s New Postcards Feature (techcrunch.com)

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First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures (spaceindustrynews.com)

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How To Tell A Story With Code (www.twilio.com)

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TechStars Showcases 11 New Startups At Boulder Demo Day [TC] (techcrunch.com)

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The Film Industry Doesn't Want My Money (web.bozho.net)

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Hojoki mobile app (built on Trigger.io) in action - cloud app notifications (trigger.io)

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How to Get Traction for Your Projects (talentopoly.com)

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App.net Contributions break $300k (omarish.com)

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NYPD launches new analytics tool for fighting terror, crime (www.it-networks.org)

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Planetary and space desktop wallpaper images (www.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Ubuntu for Android Gets Shown Off and Detailed (www.droid-life.com)

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Ask HN: Review my startup, SupportFu.com (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Help, my startup is stagnating (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask Hacker News: What's the best path into the robotics industry? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Hipmob now tells you when your users need your help. (hipmob.tumblr.com)

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How Valve Made L4D2 Faster On Linux Than Windows (www.phoronix.com)

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Tips for Hiring Great Engineers, Faster (kenkeiter.com)

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Functional Programming in 2012 … time to learn something more? (www.josetteorama.com)

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TextMate 2 is now open source (github.com)

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10 places to learn geeky stuff online for free (blog.geekli.st)

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Show HN - Turing Festival (news.ycombinator.com)

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Video: Six things I've learned as a startup founder (ryancarson.com)

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The dark underbelly of Silicon Valley recruiting (and there is a silver lining) (blog.kabaim.com)

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Show HN: My weekend project, conversation starters via SMS (breaktheicefor.me)

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Haskell Live Episode 2: Time To Refactor (haskelllive.com)

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Parse launches custom built Help & Community (blog.parse.com)

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Marissa Mayer Just Made Her Second Great Move As Yahoo CEO (www.businessinsider.com)

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Zack Bogue and Matt Ocko launch Big Data-focused venture fund (venturebeat.com)

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A trader losing his mind during the Flash Crash of 2010 (www.wealthlift.com)

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Ketchup and Rockets | The Math behind pleated sauce Cups (www.datagenetics.com)

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Automatically sync Github to Heroku (www.randallcbennett.com)

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The Physics of Olympic Bodies (www.npr.org)

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A response to NuoDB's "patent" (pl.atyp.us)

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John S. Brown: “I would rather hire a WoW player than an MBA from Harvard.” (plus.google.com)

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Show HN: Local Food Online Platform (news.ycombinator.com)

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How the Galaxy In-Memory Data Grid Handles Networking (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

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Ask HN: Why all the negativity? (news.ycombinator.com)

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SOLID Clojure (www.infoq.com)

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Ask HN: How do you create a sample DB from your LIVE DB? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Multicore Programming in PyPy and CPython (morepypy.blogspot.com)

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Murl: URL manipulation in Python, made simple (github.com)

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Open-air quantum teleportation performed across a 97km lake (arstechnica.com)

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How I Earned $15,000 From Selling my E-book (foundertips.com)

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Short, but Sweet URLs: How we shorten URLs for Google Analytics (engineering.snapguide.com)

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Stealthy Banking Trojan Likely Created By The U.S. Government (www.forbes.com)

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SUSE and Secure Boot: The Details (www.suse.com)

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Douglas Crockford - JavaScript: Your New Overlord (video) (mrkn.co)

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The Science Behind the "Science Behind Sweat" | Breaking Muscle (breakingmuscle.com)

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Haskell Live - Episode 2: Time To Refactor (haskelllive.com)

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Pulse leaps from app to Web, at last (news.cnet.com)

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Jonathan Bryce on The Importance Of OpenStack (www.rackspace.com)

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Ask HN: Is promoting myself as a freelancer on my project's website a bad idea? (news.ycombinator.com)

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No, "hacker" really does mean "hacker" (erratasec.blogspot.com)

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Microsoft's Bing funds Parse competitor (www.rahulsood.com)

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Inside Facebook's World Headquarters (techland.time.com)

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GUI design for Total Recall (2012) (ashthorp.com)

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Bitcoin value has doubled in the past 8 weeks (bitcoincharts.com)

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The end of 9-to-5 (37signals.com)

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The Shield Act fails to protect free software from patents (www.fsf.org)

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Why Apple is suing every Android manufacturer in sight (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone in a need of a django guru? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Meteor 0.3.9 is spiderable (docs.meteor.com)

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Using The iPhone’s Front-Facing Camera, Cardiio Measures Your Heartrate (techcrunch.com)

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Zynga employees sound off about the company's stock price drop (www.quora.com)

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Nuclear waste issues freeze permits for all U.S. power plants (money.cnn.com)

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How GoDaddy Profits from Expired Domains (domainnamewire.com)

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When will the hype around cloud computing end? (setandbma.wordpress.com)

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NASA's Morpheus moon lander crashes and burns (news.cnet.com)

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The Secret to Solar Power (residential leasing companies) (www.nytimes.com)

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Technology and globalisation boost trade in fake identity cards (www.economist.com)

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73

MDN: Cool URL tricks (www.bitstampede.com)

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75

Show HN: We just launched our new realtime photo widgets (http://skylines.io)

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Weighing the costs and benefits of High Availability systems (www.anchor.com.au)

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The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ (www.cjfearnley.com)

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Ask HN: Are GitHub Buttons Gone? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to setup correctly OSX for Python development (www.codingnot.es)

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RIM’s $147 million patent penalty wiped out by judge (arstechnica.com)

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As Mac Pro stagnates, PC workstations muscle ahead (arstechnica.com)

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Agile for Startups (blog.carbonfive.com)

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Europe's quixotic plan to "clean" the Internet of terrorists (arstechnica.com)

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Android Jelly Bean on HTC G1 (forum.xda-developers.com)

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Ask HN: how easy is it to create my own part-time, remote help desk? (news.ycombinator.com)

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From Night Owl to Productive Early Bird (skim.me)

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Fab: 30-40% of its traffic is mobile, but 95% of its mobile sales come from iOS (thenextweb.com)

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Ask HN: Know of a library/platform for Google Docs style comments? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Researchers Find Possible State-Sponsored Virus in Mideast (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Underscore-cli: Command-line toolkit for hacking JSON with Javascript (github.com)

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Time on Mars (www.giss.nasa.gov)

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Show HN: check your website for broken links with jquery (www.codingnot.es)