hackerNews

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This is a bit f'd, Quora (giantrobotlasers.com)

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How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community (day4.se)

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Quake III Arena on Github (github.com)

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United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And Didn't Care (bobsutton.typepad.com)

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What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having It All' (www.theatlantic.com)

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Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model (www.kalzumeus.com)

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Back up your precious files on the ordinary paper (ollydbg.de)

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Twitter acquires Clutch.io (blog.clutch.io)

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Show HN: HackerNews reimagined without tables or center elements. (coderwall.com)

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Hate Java? Maybe you should hate the industries stuck in the 50's. (blog.jelastic.com)

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Tarsnap now takes credit cards (switching from Paypal to Stripe) (www.daemonology.net)

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Stop teaching calculating; Start teaching math (www.computerbasedmath.org)

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The money part of App.net is a red herring (alexhillman.com)

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Pixel Perfect (daringfireball.net)

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Larry Wall on why he wrote Perl (www.linuxjournal.com)

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WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web (venturebeat.com)

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How statically linked programs run on Linux (eli.thegreenplace.net)

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Shit HN Says (twitter.com)

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Greg Kouri, PayPal co-founder, dies at 51 (www.miamiherald.com)

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India outsourcing back to USA (www.washingtonpost.com)

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DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA) (venturebeat.com)

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Show HN: Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDrive, etc (tageorgiou.github.com)

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How AngularJS helped us ship our mobile site quicker - Part 1 (Directives) (goodfil.ms)

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Double (YC S12), iPad Telepresence Robot (techcrunch.com)

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A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An Ad-Supported Twitter (www.techdirt.com)

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Wattvision: The Smart Energy Sensor (www.kickstarter.com)

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T.js - A tiny templating framework in ~400 bytes (github.com)

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Fear of Money (influencehacks.com)

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Plivo makes it to 50 countries in 30 days, outstrips competition (venturebeat.com)

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Paying Users Are Your Nicest Users (agileleague.com)

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Hacker Dojo's Katy Levinson interviewed (venturebeat.com)

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PHP finally gets finally (wiki.php.net)

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Show HN: Strapdown.js - Instant and elegant Markdown documents (http://strapdownjs.com)

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The Science of Serif vs Sans Serif Type (alexpoole.info)

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Google to buy Frommer's (online.wsj.com)

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Options Pricing in Excel with QuantLib (datanitro.com)

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A Scheme Story (1992) (www.trollope.org)

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Prosthetic retina restores sight in mice after brain's visual code is cracked (www.nature.com)

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Obvious Corp. backed Branch comes out of private beta (www.branch.com)

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Yesod (Haskell) lead dev picked up by FPComplete (www.yesodweb.com)

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JQuery now runs on every second website (w3techs.com)

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Why I Use Perl: Testing (www.modernperlbooks.com)

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My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court (mattfisher.tumblr.com)

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Payment iframe - the easiest way to insert Stripe into your website (www.paymentiframe.com)

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QuicklyChat (YC S12) Brings Push-To-Talk Video To Small, Remote Teams (techcrunch.com)

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Internet Freedom in Malaysia #stop114a (stop114a.wordpress.com)

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Fuck it, ship it. (blog.opbeat.com)

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An Introduction to Graph Theory and Network Science (architects.dzone.com)

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Using Markov chains for HTTP benchmarking (blog.andrewvc.com)

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Quantum teleportation achieved over record distances (www.nature.com)

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Election Infographic: Compare Your Income Tax Burden under Romney & Obama (www.smartasset.com)

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How App.net Can Change Everything (www.orianmarx.com)

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Python on Wheels (www.pythononwheels.org)

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Making a Multiplayer 3rd-Person Shooter in HTML5 (playcanvas.com)

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Modern humans may have picked up key genes from extinct relatives (www.nature.com)

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Now Samsung's copied Xcode too (forums.macrumors.com)

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New distributed fault-tolerant cloud provider u2601 (u2601.com)

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Plagiarism of my open source app ChatSecure (chatsecure.org)

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Amy Hoy: Why Blacksmiths are Better at Startups than You (unicornfree.com)

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Google's New Favicon (googlesystem.blogspot.de)

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Security questions are salt (blog.jgc.org)

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Kippt (YC S12) and Buffer Join Forces for Saving and Sharing Content (pandodaily.com)

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Adding Scheduling to Twilio with IronWorker (www.twilio.com)

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Facebook Moving To The JVM (nerds-central.blogspot.co.at)

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Smart Notebooks: Building a Better Shared Document (www.kickstarter.com)

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Fusion: The quest to recreate the Sun’s power on Earth (www.bbc.com)

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Ask HN: Interest in a "hardcore" dev tutorial site? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Enforcing Different Passwords for Different Sites (diegobasch.com)

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Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet (techcrunch.com)

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Airbnb Tech Talk: App.net's Dalton Caldwell on App.net & How they did it (www.airbnb.com)

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Difference Between Seed Stage and Growth Stage Decisions (iamvictorio.us)

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Why Folders are holding back hassle-free File Management & Tags are the Future. (blog.doctape.com)

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Ask HN: What's your startup or product? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Source of Mysterious Pumice 'Raft' in Pacific Found (news.yahoo.com)

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Taking Steve Yegge's Talk to Heart: Learning Bioinformatics (thomasharrigan.com)

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Show HN: Annotary - Highlight Web Pages, Share Your Notes (annotary.com)

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Integrating App.net with 70+ Other Apps in Less than 30 Minutes (zapier.com)

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HTML 5 Notifications in Mountain Lion (curiousmind.at)

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More Google Webfonts that don't suck (sachagreif.com)

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How Software Errors Contribute to Spacecraft Failures (2003) [pdf] (klabs.org)

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The iPhone Has Passed a Key Security Threshold (www.technologyreview.com)

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App.net And The Need for Social Networking Standards (continuations.com)

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Nokia's masquerade (www.bgr.com)

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The ASP.NET Forms Authentication replacement Microsoft doesn't want you to see (blog.appharbor.com)

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Where Arduinos are Born: Touring a PCB Factory « bunnie's blog (www.bunniestudios.com)

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Cardiio: touch-free pulse sensing, turn your phone into a biosensor. (cardiio.com)

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Australian men can’t sit next to unaccompanied minors on flights (blog.sfgate.com)

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DEFCON: Why Conference Harassment Matters (www.blogher.com)

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All that is wrong with the startup culture today (startupdispatch.com)

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Could you hack into Mars rover Curiosity? (www.extremetech.com)

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Google has a new favicon (www.google.com)

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Meerli (beta) - Showcasing Exceptional Mobile Designers And Their Designs (http://meer.li)

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Ask HN: How do you choose technical books? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Worlds Best Periodic Table (ptable.com)

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JS library for nice & clean dashboard gauges (www.justgage.com)

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Think APP.net's Just a Twitter Clone? Then, You're Missing the Point (gigaom.com)

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Which distros to start Linux with (www.engadget.com)

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Design case study: Perch redesign (blog.folyo.me)

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How to make a website in only 5 years (thlinx.com)

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Coursera launches a course on big data (www.coursera.org)

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Statistical analysis of web performance data (www.lognormal.com)

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Ask HN: Do you worry about technical debt? (news.ycombinator.com)

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5Degrees' serial recap of The Lean Startup (plus some cool infographics) 9/10 (5dg.us)

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Ask HN: What online payment platform do you use in Europe? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Where do late-night coders work from? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ejector Seat - Remote Disk Mount for OS X (boxcarsoftwa.re)

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Airbnb Rental used as 'temporary brothel' (www.kernelmag.com)

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Ask HN: What kind of authentication model do you use for your API service? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Better Way To Learn Code (news.ycombinator.com)

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Branch (http://www.branch.com)

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Drchrono adds Two-Factor Authentication to its iPad and iPhone-based EMR System (emrdailynews.com)

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How One 6th Grade Teacher Built a Computer Lab for Free (ifixit.org)

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DC's growing startup scene faces hurdles (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: Is using your first and last name as a url for resumes etc a good idea? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What Matters In Software Development (blog.ometer.com)

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The Visual Revolution - Media Changes Everything (blog.getchute.com)

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OS X Local Root Vulnerabilities via OpenVPN Clients Tunnelblick and Viscosity (blog.zx2c4.com)

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Darner: queue server stores millions of items, uses (almost) no resident memory (github.com)

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The Best And Worst Programmers All Perform At the Same Level (www.businessinsider.com)

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Arch Linux vs. Slackware (beej.us)

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“Losing Yourself” In A Fictional Character Can Affect Your Real Life (researchnews.osu.edu)

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Was the Social Media Tech IPO Boom a Big Scam? (business.time.com)

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Groupon Shares Fall Sharply as Revenue Disappoints (www.cnbc.com)

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Dreaming of a Linux Ultrabook? Meet the New ZaReason UltraLap 430 (www.pcworld.com)

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How to Boost Your Brand Through Events (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Calligra 2.5 Office and Creativity Suite Released (www.calligra.org)

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Datalog revival (for database geeks only) (abiteboul.blogspot.fr)

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The failure of the technical sales cycle in enterprise software (antipaucity.com)

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Airbnb Sets A New Record: 60,000 nights in a day (www.businessinsider.com)

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Open Letter To Recruiters: Do your job (blog.davebouwman.com)

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WikiLeaks looks to be back online. (http://www.wikileaks.org)

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Why Online Education Won't Replace College — Yet (chronicle.com)

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Ask HN: Cofounder conflict, startup dying or dead for a long time already? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Samsung is Apple’s Biggest Fan (nicklazilla.tumblr.com)

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Telltale Signs You Are A Horrible Boss (www.forbes.com)

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If I Were The MPAA... How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In (www.techdirt.com)

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Could the iOS app be the 21st-century HyperCard stack? (www.zdnet.com)

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Casual iPhone Anonymity with "Burner" (www.novainfosecportal.com)

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Ask HN: ORM useful in Analytics having star schemas? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Technology fails? USS Porter crashes with Oil Tanker (www.huffingtonpost.com)

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Graphing London 2012 - An Interactive Infographic (www.gosquared.com)

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Usb size Arduino board (www.kickstarter.com)

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Me Program Pretty One Day (www.dzone.com)

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Hypersonic aircraft to be tested Tuesday in Los Angeles (www.latimes.com)

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Looking back at 16 years of dpkg history with git and some figures (raphaelhertzog.com)

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Why great buzz and a great product were not enough to convert me? (blog.thesunnytrail.com)

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MPAA / RIAA Want U.S. to Help Quash The Pirate Bay (torrentfreak.com)

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Ask HN: Collaborative Amateur Video Production App (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google Play Is Better Than The iOS Store (In Our Case): A Dangerous Post-Mortem (www.gamasutra.com)

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Ask HN: How do you get people to do things without money? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: iTheme, change the design of your Apps in Realtime (http://www.itheme.com)

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The Redirect [Commentary on Nathan Myhrvold interview] (brooksreview.net)

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Are Android tablets ready to take on the iPad? (www.computerworld.com)

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[video] Introducing Backtastic - cincijs August (blog.cincijs.com)

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How We Won ACTA (falkvinge.net)

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Is Modern Portfolio Theory Dead? Come On. (techcrunch.com)

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The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (pmarca-archive.posterous.com)

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Why does {} + [] return 0 in Javascript? (stackoverflow.com)

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Boom Makes Your Mac Speakers Go Up To 11 (techcrunch.com)

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Fifty Dollar APC Android Computers on Sale (www.newegg.com)

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Huge wave of Facebook shares to hit market starting this week (venturebeat.com)

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Vim for Writers (therandymon.com)