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White House Deletes TSA Petition (just short of 25,000 signatures) (epic.org)

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Essential C (cslibrary.stanford.edu)

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A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr (www.npr.org)

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Leaving Github (bytbox.net)

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Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU (github.com)

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Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doctors (greatist.com)

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Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From (conversionxl.com)

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Quake Video Game Industry Legend Paul Steed Has Passed Away (www.jacehallshow.com)

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Steve Yegge and Grok (bsumm.net)

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Mining of Massive Datasets: Free E-Book by Stanford profs (i.stanford.edu)

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Vim as you IDE (haridas.in)

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Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. Myhrvold (gigaom.com)

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Income inequality, as seen from space (persquaremile.com)

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Chill out, listen to some rain (raining.fm)

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The End of Indie Game Development on Android (polyclefsoftware.blogspot.com)

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Bash Initialisation Files - what gets executed (www.solipsys.co.uk)

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How India's favorite tv show uses data to change the world (gigaom.com)

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Google's Opaque New Policy Lets Rightsholders Dictate Search Results (www.eff.org)

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Show HN: SendRail - Dead Simple P2P File Transfer From The Desktop (www.sendrail.com)

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First High-Resolution Color Mosaic of Curiosity's Mastcam Images (www.nasa.gov)

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Software Runs the World: How Scared Should We Be That So Much of It Is So Bad? (www.theatlantic.com)

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uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions (torrentfreak.com)

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Drone delivery service prototyping at Burning Man. (it's really happening) (www.indiegogo.com)

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The inverse power of praise (nymag.com)

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Schneier on Security: Fun with Secret Questions (www.schneier.com)

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How to name your startup (joel.is)

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Ask HN: Good iOS Tutorials? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Facebook Is The Ant; Zynga Is The Grasshopper (techcrunch.com)

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How Big Data Became So Big (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Redirect stdout to EtherPad (github.com)

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Show HN: Mountain Growl - Growl plugin for Mountain Lions Notification Center (github.com)

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A middleware proposal for App.net (github.com)

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The Most Important Parts of HTML5 (blog.n01se.net)

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SCOtutor iOS Apps - The Current Situation (themacscreencastguy.com)

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Is it OK to replace optimized code with readable code? (arstechnica.com)

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The computer scientist CEO (glinden.blogspot.com)

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UCLA scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Correlated: Discover surprising correlations (www.correlated.org)

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Zed Shaw's own course hosting service (inculcate.me)

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What 'Worse is Better vs The Right Thing' is really about (www.yosefk.com)

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Thoughts on EveryTalk.tv: An experiment to collect & watch conference talks. (www.akshay.cc)

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Martin Fleischmann, Cold Fusion Seeker, Dies at 85 (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: remote access to your Android phone with Shynk (shynk.com)

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Photobucket's security hole may leave your nude photos exposed (www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com)

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Submittable Releases Vimeo & YouTube integration for Film Festivals (blog.submittable.com)

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Ask HN: Weekend side projects? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Using Nokia Maps API and Filepicker.io to Plan Your Next Hiking Trip (blog.marcon.me)

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Clever Uses for Dropbox (lifehacker.com)

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Node.js Frameworks Comparison (ocdevel.com)

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Backbone.js Performance Tips - cincijs August (blog.cincijs.com)

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An Evaluation of Go and Clojure [pdf] (www.cs.colorado.edu)

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The Dark Side of JavaScript (jon-carlos.com)

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IOS Game Dev Open Source and Paid Frameworks (www.ntinosm.com)

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App Store Failure and Personal Responsibility (prog21.dadgum.com)

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Status.js, check your website for broken links (codingnot.es)

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"Third Hand" Languages (jonbeebe.net)

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Google Testing Reader Subscriptions in Search Results (www.johnfdoherty.com)

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The craziness that is joysticks on PC (joostdevblog.blogspot.nl)

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The Evolution of the Web (www.evolutionoftheweb.com)

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Three-Star General Behind Harsh Treatment of Bradley Manning —Defense (www.wired.com)

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From Logins to Seamless Identity, a new paradigm for the web (intenseminimalism.com)

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Give HN: domain names (news.ycombinator.com)

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Give HN: A few more domains (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: A new type of freelancer marketplace (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apache Wicket – three years of lessons learned (blog.bosch-si.com)

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WS-Security compared to "plain old" SSL (www.isecpartners.com)

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HyperCard turns twenty-five years old today (www.tuaw.com)

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Portin TextMate 2 to Linux (www.spinics.net)

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See Carl Sagan's Childhood Vision of Space Exploration (mashable.com)

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Ask HN: Programming productivity vs. performance - opinions/links needed (news.ycombinator.com)

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Request for browser feature: in-page search in url (news.ycombinator.com)

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From SOPA To Cybersecurity: All About Trying To Control The Internet (www.techdirt.com)

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Ultimate Cosmic Power in an Itty-Bitty Thinking Space (mathprojects.com)

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Dotcom and the 'doomsday device' (www.nzherald.co.nz)

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Data exfiltration through the VMware hypervisor (www.idontplaydarts.com)

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On being sane in insane places (ilearn.totton.ac.uk)

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What is algebra? (profkeithdevlin.org)

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Ask PG: When is the next Startup School application open? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google to demote pirated content (www.theage.com.au)

3 points first seen 2012081218 last seen 2012081218 0 comments

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Music Collaboration With Git (github.com)

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Happy 80th Birthday, LEGO (kotaku.com)

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When will we have LINQ in Java? (java.dzone.com)

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YC S12 Startup Seeking Hackers (news.ycombinator.com)

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