hackerNews

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John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy (ejohn.org)

458 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081800 117 comments

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Khan Academy: Computer Science (www.khanacademy.org)

329 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081700 54 comments

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What I Hate About Working At Facebook (worldofsu.com)

254 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081603 170 comments

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Single Element MacBook Pro with CSS (codepen.io)

239 points first seen 2012081521 last seen 2012081703 64 comments

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Thoughts on being a programmer (www.yelsew.com)

226 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081606 176 comments

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Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh (code.google.com)

216 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081700 144 comments

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Rich Hickey: The Value of Values (www.infoq.com)

180 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081618 41 comments

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Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2 (www.360cities.net)

179 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081600 79 comments

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The Mystery of the Encrypted Gauss Payload (www.securelist.com)

151 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081600 44 comments

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Uber Boston Has Been Served (blog.uber.com)

151 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081603 125 comments

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Steve Wozniak: Internet should not have gatekeepers or regulators (rt.com)

151 points first seen 2012081518 last seen 2012081700 82 comments

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Samwers Clone Stripe (www.paymill.de)

144 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081600 162 comments

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Normalize.css v1.0.0 (necolas.github.com)

141 points first seen 2012081521 last seen 2012081700 30 comments

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Get a free CS degree (www.saylor.org)

129 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081600 41 comments

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Quora Feeds Will No Longer Show Data On What Other Users Have Viewed (techcrunch.com)

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GNU Emacs ported to Android (play.google.com)

127 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081600 43 comments

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1and1 ask for passwords over the phone (blog.tim-rogers.co.uk)

123 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081603 84 comments

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ARM Goes 64-bit (www.realworldtech.com)

120 points first seen 2012081512 last seen 2012081618 60 comments

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Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher (daringfireball.net)

119 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081700 91 comments

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Arch Linux to migrate to Systemd (mailman.archlinux.org)

117 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081603 117 comments

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The Obvious Corp's preview of Medium (medium.com)

114 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081618 59 comments

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Science Exchange (YC S11) Reproducibility Initiative (http://reproducibilityinitiative.org)

106 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081600 34 comments

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CloudFlare helps save Wikileaks' bacon (techcrunch.com)

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Authors destroy legal e-book lending site thanks to Authors Guild, publisher FUD (www.extremetech.com)

96 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081600 87 comments

9

Improving HTTPS Performance with Early SSL Termination (blog.filepicker.io)

90 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081600 52 comments

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JRE & JDK now available to OS X developers (www.oracle.com)

86 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081600 29 comments

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Avgrund: a modal concept, designed to show depth (lab.hakim.se)

86 points first seen 2012081518 last seen 2012081618 16 comments

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India announces plans for a Mars mission in 2013 (www.hurriyetdailynews.com)

84 points first seen 2012081521 last seen 2012081618 82 comments

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Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Gaming Powerhouse (techcrunch.com)

80 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081603 44 comments

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Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe (existentialtype.wordpress.com)

79 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081600 50 comments

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Show HN: Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch (http://www.deadman.io)

72 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081600 50 comments

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Tastemaker (YC S12) is an online interior decorating service for everyone (techcrunch.com)

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Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Change Everything (vancouverdata.blogspot.com)

70 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081600 127 comments

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How to Be a Better Procrastinator (online.wsj.com)

68 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081600 24 comments

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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade temperatures ever (blogs.nature.com)

66 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081600 37 comments

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Hack a Standing Desk from IKEA (priceonomics.com)

65 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081600 49 comments

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Lorenz Attractor in 101 bytes of JS (gist.github.com)

61 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081600 21 comments

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Software design patterns for Machine Learning R&D (arkitus.com)

61 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081606 11 comments

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How to keep your best programmers (www.daedtech.com)

58 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2017060115 22 comments

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FundersClub: getting Crowdfunding right (alexeymk.com)

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Go Tutorial: Object Orientation and Go's Special Data Types (www.drdobbs.com)

52 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081600 7 comments

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App.net: The Country Club of the Internet? (tessrinearson.com)

51 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081521 24 comments

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Groupon down 27%, hits new low of $5.50 (www.google.com)

49 points first seen 2012081512 last seen 2012081600 35 comments

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UpStart.com : The Startup is you. A new approach to funding and mentorship. (www.upstart.com)

47 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081600 35 comments

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Riak at Braintree (basho.com)

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WePay Drops Prices, Rolls Out White Label Payments API (techcrunch.com)

44 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081600 22 comments

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Flying car closes in on FAA OK (www.bostonherald.com)

43 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081506 52 comments

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BERG Little Printer available to pre-order (uk-shop.bergcloud.com)

42 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081503 46 comments

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Kamcord (YC S12) Helps Record And Share Those Epic Mobile Gaming Moments (techcrunch.com)

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The Gang of Four is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation (www.saturnflyer.com)

42 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081600 39 comments

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Why Lisp Did Not and Never Will Gain Enough Traction (kresimirbojcic.com)

40 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081603 70 comments

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Alleged bike thief burned by Burner iPhone app (www.digitaltrends.com)

39 points first seen 2012081512 last seen 2012081515 15 comments

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Trello vs. Asana - what is your favorite collaboration tool? (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

39 points first seen 2012081518 last seen 2012081600 46 comments

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TiLDA, the Arduino-compatible wireless conference badge (blog.emfcamp.org)

38 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081521 14 comments

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Ginzametrics Open Sources Odin, A Cookie-Based Single Sign On for Apache (www.ginzametrics.com)

38 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081600 20 comments

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Show HN: SendRail - The easiest way to send files from the desktop (sendrail.com)

38 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081521 22 comments

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Independent labs to verify high-profile papers (www.nature.com)

37 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081600 0 comments

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Click fraud the old fashioned way (www.cringely.com)

37 points first seen 2012081518 last seen 2012081606 20 comments

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Google fiber – “experiencing awesome things together” (scrawford.net)

35 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081521 13 comments

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The Antipattern of the MacGyver Programmer (livelongandprogram.com)

33 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081518 24 comments

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Flip Video co-founder unveils new e-learning company Knowmia (YC S12) (www.mercurynews.com)

33 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081600 0 comments

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App.net is a nice idea but won’t solve anything (zachinglis.com)

32 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081521 13 comments

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The Tablet Problem (lifehacker.com)

32 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081518 39 comments

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Ding Dong, Daily Deals Are Dead (www.slate.com)

30 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081521 17 comments

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Build RESTful web services with Java technology (www.ibm.com)

27 points first seen 2012081518 last seen 2012081600 27 comments

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Sea Water Antenna System (www.public.navy.mil)

27 points first seen 2012081521 last seen 2012081600 2 comments

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These Books Helped Save Our Startup (viniciusvacanti.com)

26 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081521 7 comments

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A Well-Funded Startup Emerges From the Unemployment Lines (www.wired.com)

26 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081600 10 comments

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Microsoft reveals Windows RT OEMs, device specs, battery life (www.extremetech.com)

26 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081600 26 comments

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Get Facebook Likes in Excel (www.seerinteractive.com)

25 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081521 16 comments

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Things I love about git (rakeroutes.com)

24 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081515 25 comments

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Massacre at IBM (steveblank.com)

23 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081506 7 comments

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From Altair to iPad: 35 years of personal computer market share (arstechnica.com)

21 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081509 3 comments

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Show HN: Wordsmith - jquery plugin that adds on-demand word definitions (getwordsmith.co)

19 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081506 16 comments

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Ask HN: List of Revenue Models? (news.ycombinator.com)

19 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012082303 7 comments

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Stop Publishing web Pages (dashes.com)

18 points first seen 2012081512 last seen 2012081603 10 comments

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Harvard Researchers Use Quantum Computer to Fold Proteins (www.sacbee.com)

17 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081600 3 comments

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TrapWire Leaks Shine Light on New Video Tracking Technologies (www.corpwatch.org)

15 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081518 4 comments

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Erlang on Xen starts 400x faster than Linux+BEAM (erlangonxen.org)

15 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081512 0 comments

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Russian Attack Subs in the Gulf of Mexico Undetected (freebeacon.com)

15 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081600 8 comments

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AMD takes the video card war to an appalling new low (www.extremetech.com)

14 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081500 16 comments

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The Real Story of Developing for Nintendo's Download Platforms (www.gamasutra.com)

14 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081600 4 comments

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An Insider View of Y Combinator’s Boot Camp for Startups (miter.mit.edu)

13 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081506 0 comments

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Police Bust Prostitues Using Airbnb Apartment in Stockholm (techcrunch.com)

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SkyDrive gets UI overhaul and Outlook.com now has 10 million users (windowsteamblog.com)

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ACID as basic building block of eventually consistent distributed transactions (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)

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Matching humans and animals with Eigenfaces (scottvallanceapps.com)

10 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081506 0 comments

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Simtower clone OpenSkyscraper ported to SFML, impliments elevators. (github.com)

10 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081600 0 comments

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Nielsen: More Teens Now Listen To Music Through YouTube Than Any Other Source (techcrunch.com)

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Groupon tumult turns up the pressure on Mason (www.reuters.com)

9 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081600 2 comments

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Just do it? But HOW? Productivity expts I tried, plus a QS time management recap (quantifiedself.com)

8 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081500 2 comments

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App.net put a price on early adopter pride. And it worked. (swizec.com)

8 points first seen 2012081500 last seen 2012081500 0 comments

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HexstreamSoft: Public Domain Common Lisp R&D: 6 years exp, categorized CL tweets (www.hexstreamsoft.com)

8 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081518 0 comments

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Hustleboards - Disposable Forums (www.hustleboards.com)

8 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081515 0 comments

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Apple’s social network for hearing aids. My mind has just been blown (www.hearingaidknow.com)

8 points first seen 2012081512 last seen 2012081521 0 comments

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Silp.com launches social job recommendations (techcrunch.com)

8 points first seen 2012081521 last seen 2012081600 0 comments

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Beating Google Two-Factor Authentication with App Specific Passwords. (l8security.com)

7 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081506 12 comments

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Surfthechannel.com owner sent to jail (www.bbc.co.uk)

7 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081506 2 comments

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Using DBPedia to Map How Programming Languages Influenced One Another (architects.dzone.com)

7 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081503 0 comments

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What is a front-end developer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Julian Assange will be granted asylum, says official (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Netflix To Launch In Norway, Denmark, Sweden And Finland In Late 2012 (secure.onlineprocessing.biz)

7 points first seen 2012081521 last seen 2012081600 0 comments

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Go's Marketing Problem (plus.google.com)

6 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081506 0 comments

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Unethical Defaults (vibhunorby.com)

6 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081506 0 comments

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The Curse of Analytics and the Big Data Hype (www.klaviyo.com)

6 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081503 2 comments

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Ask HN: Developers: How do you explain to people what it is you do? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012082215 9 comments

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Dark Sky Version 2.0 (with sales figures) (journal.darkskyapp.com)

6 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081512 0 comments

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U.S. Has Life of Pi as Population Hits Math Milestone (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Melt - the coupons you want, when and where you need them (gotmelt.com)

6 points first seen 2012081509 last seen 2012081512 3 comments

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The Julia Language hits a new speed milestone (www.walkingrandomly.com)

5 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081503 0 comments

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App.net Is Just an Identity Provider (klaut.org)

5 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081503 0 comments

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Show HN: oriDomi - Fold up the DOM like paper (news.ycombinator.com)

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Samsung: Whether or not we ripped off Apple’s tech, Apple stole it to begin with (www.bgr.com)

5 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081506 0 comments

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Ask HN: reading list for high school students interested in CS? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google autocomplete interactive map of state stereotypes (www.slate.com)

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Everything you know about CSS is wrong (again) (stackoverflow.com)

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Ask PG: Is there going to be a startup school 2012? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mozilla removes -moz-opacity; man threatens to sue for $18,000 (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

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Steve Jobs' burglar stole wallet, driver's license, special computers (www.mercurynews.com)

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Amazon S3′s PermanentRedirect and cURL error code 51 Problems (webscepter.com)

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38 ACLU offices looking at how government is using license-plate readers (ideas.time.com)

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New SimCity Coming to the Mac in 2013 (www.cultofmac.com)

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Throughout the City (NYC), a New Generation of Street Signs (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Hachette to Tor authors: you must keep the DRM on your ebooks (boingboing.net)

4 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081503 0 comments

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10 Years of Daring Fireball (distantshape.com)

4 points first seen 2012081503 last seen 2012081503 0 comments

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Directors & Network Density in Movies (blog.moviegalaxies.com)

4 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081509 0 comments

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HTTP Status: 201 Created vs. 202 Accepted (benramsey.com)

4 points first seen 2012081506 last seen 2012081506 0 comments

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Ask HN: How did you get your first 20 SAAS customers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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My weekend project - Get notified when something is after the credits (facelessmegacorp.com)

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Facebook Tries Letting Pages Show News Feed Ads To Non-Fans (techcrunch.com)

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Live by statistics, die by statistics (scienceblogs.com)

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How to be civilized on the space frontier (blogs.nasa.gov)

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Thinking Like a Designer: my Hyperink eBook (sachagreif.com)

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How To Respond To A Cold Call Email From An Associate At A Big VC Firm (www.feld.com)

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On Wall Street, the Rising Cost of Faster Trades (www.nytimes.com)

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Building apps for Facebook: A dance with the devil (news.cnet.com)

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When it comes to Walking Dead games, suspense is better than action (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: What are some Chrome extensions that you wish you had? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bank Simple Innovations #3 and #4: Debit Card Mailer (www.netbanker.com)

4 points first seen 2012081515 last seen 2012081515 0 comments

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Precise click map using HTML5 canvas (www.rubydesigner.com)

4 points first seen 2012081521 last seen 2012081521 0 comments

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Is Our Children Learning Enough Grammar to Get Hired? (www.nytimes.com)

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Enki: a new editor for programmers with a plug-in interface (H Online) (www.h-online.com)

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Dell CEO's daughter uses social media to undermine security family (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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IOS Encryption Is So Good, Not Even the NSA Can Hack It (gizmodo.com)

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Top 10 ways to prevent healthcare data breaches (www.eweek.com)

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Diagnose Disease with a Drop of Blood Before Symptoms (singularityhub.com)

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WaveRider hypersonic jet targets Mach 6 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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iOS Support Matrix - Autumn, 2012 (www.empiricalmagic.com)

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Corporate IT adoption visualized (blog.gardeviance.org)

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Ask Ziggy, Siri For Windows Phone, To Expand To iOS, Android (techcrunch.com)

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"I am the Lorax, and I speak for the creeps" (arletterocks.tumblr.com)

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Make Happy Users, make more money (from your iPhone app). (hipmob.tumblr.com)