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App.net funded with $500,000. (join.app.net)

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Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa. (launiusr.wordpress.com)

350 points first seen 2012081303 last seen 2012081500 151 comments

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Pixar open sources production animation code, patents (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone (sivers.org)

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Erlang programmer’s view on Curiosity Rover software (jlouisramblings.blogspot.com)

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Dalton Caldwell: We Did It (daltoncaldwell.com)

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

144 points first seen 2012081300 last seen 2012081421 45 comments

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Sorting and searching at the library (jorendorff.github.com)

143 points first seen 2012081309 last seen 2012081500 24 comments

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Kim Dotcom - Megabox, disruptive new music service (thenextweb.com)

135 points first seen 2012081321 last seen 2012081500 39 comments

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What is life like for PhDs in computer science who go into industry? (blog.vivekhaldar.com)

116 points first seen 2012081312 last seen 2012081500 66 comments

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Redesigning Wikipedia: The Athena Project (en.wikipedia.org)

114 points first seen 2012081321 last seen 2012081406 26 comments

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Cling: Running C++ in an interpreter (blog.coldflake.com)

111 points first seen 2012081306 last seen 2012081500 46 comments

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Pyjs: a Rich Internet Application Development Platform for both Web and Desktop. (pyjs.org)

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What has NASA done to make your life awesome? (wtfnasa.com)

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The making of the Sony PlayStation (www.pushsquare.com)

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Terms of Service; Didn't Read (tos-dr.info)

86 points first seen 2012081309 last seen 2013021900 19 comments

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What makes Paris look like Paris? (graphics.cs.cmu.edu)

84 points first seen 2012081315 last seen 2012081500 18 comments

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Debian to use Xfce as its standard desktop (www.h-online.com)

81 points first seen 2012081312 last seen 2012081403 27 comments

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Show HN: forgif.me studio - convert online-videos to .gif (http://studio.forgif.me)

80 points first seen 2012081303 last seen 2012081400 39 comments

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Genius Robotic Airplane Flies In Tight Spaces (mashable.com)

80 points first seen 2012081312 last seen 2012081403 22 comments

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What Ouya Isn't (games.hazzens.com)

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H - The surprising truth about heroin and addiction (reason.com)

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Wristwatch in only HTML/CSS (codepen.io)

70 points first seen 2012081303 last seen 2012081400 31 comments

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Colour printing reaches its ultimate resolution (www.nature.com)

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Motorola to Cut 20% of Work Force, Part of Sweeping Change (www.nytimes.com)

66 points first seen 2012081318 last seen 2012081403 30 comments

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A comparison of C++11 language support in VS2012, g++ 4.7 and Clang 3.1 (www.cpprocks.com)

65 points first seen 2012081306 last seen 2012081403 9 comments

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Working at big software companies (blog.sacaluta.com)

62 points first seen 2012081303 last seen 2012081400 21 comments

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BSD vs. Linux (www.over-yonder.net)

55 points first seen 2012081321 last seen 2018120115 55 comments

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Monner - Monitor CPU, memory and network whilst running a program (github.com)

52 points first seen 2012081300 last seen 2012081400 20 comments

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HiMom (YC S12) Helps Your Parents Keep Up With Your Life (techcrunch.com)

52 points first seen 2012081309 last seen 2012081406 25 comments

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Does it make you win? (blog.kippt.com)

47 points first seen 2012081306 last seen 2012081400 9 comments

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Show HN: Painless, productive views on iOS with Formotion for RubyMotion (clayallsopp.github.com)

47 points first seen 2012081306 last seen 2012081400 12 comments

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Show HN: Prune Unwanted Stories from HN Front Page (swapped.cc)

47 points first seen 2012081312 last seen 2012081400 24 comments

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Manufacturing is returning to America (www.post-gazette.com)

47 points first seen 2012081315 last seen 2012081403 24 comments

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Demonoid Domains Go Up For Sale (torrentfreak.com)

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The Myth of the Super Programmer (simpleprogrammer.com)

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App.net, like I need another bug tracker (kerr.io)

43 points first seen 2012081309 last seen 2012081315 53 comments

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Facebook Porting PHP To JVM (nerds-central.blogspot.com)

41 points first seen 2012081309 last seen 2012081406 61 comments

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Japan's "first hacker" - the man who designed the Happy Hacking keyboard. (museum.ipsj.or.jp)

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Midnight project: Password manager without a password manager (gist.github.com)

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Microsoft's Build 2012 developer conference sells out in an hour (www.zdnet.com)

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Explore IBM Java 7 (www.ibm.com)

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Biological impacts of the Fukushima on the pale grass blue butterfly (www.nature.com)

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Apple requested 40$ royalties for every samsung phone sold (www.scribd.com)

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Settle is now Droplet (willgrant.org)

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The Social Dynamics of the R Core Team (www.johnmyleswhite.com)

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The World Spends 0.2% Of Its Time On Facebook (static.matthewlmcclure.com)

21 points first seen 2012081306 last seen 2012081321 9 comments

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Google Earth Locates 'Lost' Egyptian Pyramid (sfluxe.com)

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How many people are in space right now? (API) (api.open-notify.org)

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7 Things I Learned From Russell Kirsch (Re: An Unexpected Ass Kicking) (joelrunyon.com)

17 points first seen 2012081300 last seen 2012081315 2 comments

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Brainpad: How I get stuff done using Trello (brainpad.org)

17 points first seen 2012081306 last seen 2012081321 7 comments

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My road to the IOI 2012 (bouke.be)

13 points first seen 2012081303 last seen 2012081303 0 comments

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Why do successful tech companies fail so often? (www.thestar.com)

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Ask HN: Where to find problems for side projects? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Wikileaks is available from Tor. Who's blocking it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Handle passwords with Keychain (sirupsen.com)

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Why Ron Conway is Jazzed on Ecommerce (pandodaily.com)

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Ask HN: Is go a system programming language or a web language? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Freelance dev market (news.ycombinator.com)

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Test if your website is blocked in China (viewdns.info)

8 points first seen 2012081306 last seen 2012081312 2 comments

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What I learned in selling my company for $100 million (money.cnn.com)

8 points first seen 2012081306 last seen 2012081306 0 comments

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VirtualBox - The simplest way to experience a desktop ready FreeBSD (www.virtualbsd.info)

8 points first seen 2012081318 last seen 2012081400 0 comments

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Marketing Is Dead (blogs.hbr.org)

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Crazy investment offers (news.ycombinator.com)

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ClojureDB - a networked document database engine (github.com)

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How much sleep do you really need to work productively? (lifehacker.com)

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Best Desktop Keyboards (lifehacker.com)

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For Jennifer Sultan, a Dot-Com Bust (www.nytimes.com)

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Maybe this help porting TextMate to Linux (github.com)

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Should I Use ORM Or Not? Sure. (sigpwned.com)

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Shadow DOM (dvcs.w3.org)

5 points first seen 2012081309 last seen 2012081309 0 comments

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A Wooden White Panel, Thousands of Small Nails, and a Single Black Sewing Thread (www.kumiyamashita.com)

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Ask HN: Debit cards with APIs (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Is sharing .ssh/authorized_keys a security issue? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Wrk - a command line interface to Trello (github.com)

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Curiosity runs on a PowerPC CPU (news.cnet.com)

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Wikileaks gets $37K in donations via Bitcoin (twitter.com)

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On Curiosity and its software : An Erlanger's Perspective (jlouisramblings.blogspot.in)

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Ask HN: What are some algorithms for automated grammar correction? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How to get a job as an iOS Developer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Curiosity Rover: Martian Solar Day 2 Panorama (www.360pano.eu)

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Winners of Yahoo Open Hack 2012 India Announced (www.the4cast.com)

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Computing Your Skill — An overview of the TrueSkill algorithm (www.moserware.com)

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Google Appeases Hollywood But Rankles Internet Freedom Watchers (www.pcworld.com)

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FBI believed Kim Dotcom had a ‘doomsday device’ (www.bgr.com)

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Golden Ratio in logo designs (www.banskt.com)

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How do DNS-based proxy services work (e.g. to watch the BBC olympic feed)? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The other Arab Spring: startups in the Middle East (www.economist.com)

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Startups Need a Special Learning Curve for Sales (www.gsb.stanford.edu)

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Exeter, we have a problem (blog.mrwaddell.net)

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Simple Hadoop Streaming Tutorial Using Python (www.josephmisiti.com)

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