hackerNews

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Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got. (www.informit.com)

417 points first seen 2012081618 last seen 2012082003 135 comments

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256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id (codepen.io)

393 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012082000 90 comments

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Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative) (www.Indiegogo.com)

323 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081900 81 comments

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The first Django site to run on Python 3 (myks.org)

272 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081703 51 comments

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Fly to 6 Continents in Style (flightfox.com)

232 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081800 81 comments

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Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 (andrewchen.co)

220 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081803 87 comments

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The Making of Warcraft, Part 2 (www.codeofhonor.com)

205 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081800 13 comments

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Germany: Facebook must destroy its facial recognition database (arstechnica.com)

187 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081800 129 comments

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UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange (www.bbc.co.uk)

177 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081700 256 comments

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How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness (penny-arcade.com)

175 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081721 123 comments

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How anti-competitive lawsuits by incumbents are killing early stage startups (blog.garrytan.com)

163 points first seen 2012081618 last seen 2012081800 39 comments

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Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud (www.kickstarter.com)

162 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081703 51 comments

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Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons) (www.schneier.com)

156 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081618 245 comments

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MySQL vs PostgreSQL (www.wikivs.com)

156 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081706 92 comments

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Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 (www.amazon.com)

150 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081703 98 comments

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YC-Backed viaCycle (YC S12) Is A Zipcar For Bikes, Coming To San Francisco Soon (techcrunch.com)

144 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081700 133 comments

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MPEG claims its new standard H.265 halves video bandwidth with no quality loss (www.itwire.com)

141 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081700 121 comments

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'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`; -- Stripe CTF Web Edition coming next week' (stripe.com)

140 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081800 17 comments

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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released (blogs.msdn.com)

139 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081703 74 comments

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GCC switches from C to C++ (gcc.gnu.org)

135 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081703 106 comments

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Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process for doxxing purposes (owningyourshit.blogspot.ca)

131 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081700 54 comments

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Flash Player exits Android (www.bbc.com)

128 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081700 67 comments

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Planetary Annihilation - A Next Generation RTS by Uber Entertainment Inc (www.kickstarter.com)

120 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081721 42 comments

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R.I.P. Harry Harrison, creator of the Stainless Steel Rat (io9.com)

114 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081700 18 comments

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Uber allowed to continue operating in Boston (www.mass.gov)

108 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081703 23 comments

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The 5-minute Guide to C Pointers (denniskubes.com)

103 points first seen 2012081615 last seen 2012081721 68 comments

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The Oatmeal is Raising Money for "a Goddamn Tesla Museum" (www.indiegogo.com)

101 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081700 6 comments

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Why Facebook comments is a bad idea for your site (www.techfounder.net)

92 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081700 79 comments

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Scientists Discover How Brains Keep Clean (www.wired.com)

89 points first seen 2012081615 last seen 2012081718 22 comments

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Write LaTeX - browser-based collaborative editor (http://writelatex.com)

87 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081700 43 comments

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Bitcoin-using Autonomous Agents (en.bitcoin.it)

87 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081703 17 comments

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Humble Indie Bundle for Android 3 (www.humblebundle.com)

86 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081700 34 comments

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Why Lisp? (lisperator.net)

84 points first seen 2012081615 last seen 2013011103 68 comments

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Jsmn, a minimalistic JSON parser in C (zserge.bitbucket.org)

83 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081700 35 comments

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PostgreSQL is Engine Yard's New Default (www.engineyard.com)

78 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081703 19 comments

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Oracle proposes Java GPU support (mail.openjdk.java.net)

69 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081700 16 comments

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The best approach for software development (craftedsw.blogspot.co.uk)

67 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081700 33 comments

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'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033 (www.antipope.org)

61 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081618 57 comments

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Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ (java.dzone.com)

61 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081700 15 comments

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Interviews with Y Combinator partners: Garry Tan (www.tapin.tv)

58 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081700 11 comments

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Why Do 26 Million Checked Bags Go Missing Every Year? (www.cntraveler.com)

56 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081618 64 comments

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Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone (www.techradar.com)

54 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081618 39 comments

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Google Maps adds schedules for 1 million public transit stops (googleblog.blogspot.com)

54 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081700 47 comments

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Windows 8 doesn't allow passwords greater than 16 characters in length (plus.google.com)

51 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081700 35 comments

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Mars Rover Curiosity Survives 'Brain Surgery,' Set for 1st Drive (www.space.com)

50 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081700 17 comments

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Show HN: Hide Messages in Images with Steganography (mit.edu)

50 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081700 14 comments

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Snapjoy (YC S11) launches one-click importers and Windows uploader (thenextweb.com)

47 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081700 11 comments

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Mike Guss designer of Metro on 'M' (mikeguss.com)

44 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081618 29 comments

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Andreessen-backed virtual workforce MobileWorks (YCS11) does 1M tasks in year 1 (techcrunch.com)

43 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081700 16 comments

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Virool (YC S12) Brings Viral Video Views to the Cash Carrying Masses (pandodaily.com)

43 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081700 14 comments

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Practical Foundations for Programming Languages (www.amazon.com)

43 points first seen 2012081615 last seen 2012081703 10 comments

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40+ Resources for the Node.js Dev (java.dzone.com)

38 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081615 12 comments

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Your car, tracked: the rapid rise of license plate readers (arstechnica.com)

38 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081612 48 comments

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SmartAsset (YC S12) Raises Money to Disrupt Financial Advice (techcrunch.com)

34 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081618 17 comments

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The Foolproof Dock Connector (itsmorereal.tumblr.com)

34 points first seen 2012081618 last seen 2012081703 25 comments

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Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload (torrentfreak.com)

31 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081609 14 comments

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Do you understand the difference between retained and shallow heap in Java? (plumbr.eu)

30 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081615 4 comments

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Windows 8 RTM 90-day free trial available to all, but seriously, don’t do it (venturebeat.com)

30 points first seen 2012081615 last seen 2012081700 13 comments

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E-commerce startups (cdixon.org)

29 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081700 8 comments

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2 years of the Hacker News London meetup (www.coderholic.com)

27 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081612 17 comments

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Sony PSN (Playstation Network) Hacked and Users/Hashes Leaked (pastebin.com)

27 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081606 9 comments

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Network Theory Breakthrough Reveals The Origin Of Outbreaks (www.technologyreview.com)

27 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081700 9 comments

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Introducing the Hackpad change feed (hackpad.com)

26 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081700 4 comments

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India to launch Mars orbiter in 2013 (edition.cnn.com)

26 points first seen 2012081618 last seen 2012081703 0 comments

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The Invisible Bike Helmet: An Airbag On The Go (techcrunch.com)

25 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081612 34 comments

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H.265 is so slow that it's impossible to even test (x264dev.multimedia.cx)

24 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081606 11 comments

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Google pledges $2 million in prizes to hackers who exploit Chrome (arstechnica.com)

24 points first seen 2012081618 last seen 2012081703 4 comments

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Cheddar for Mac Public Beta (blog.cheddarapp.com)

23 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081612 38 comments

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The reality distortion field hidden processes (23.23.77.48)

19 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081606 13 comments

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MSDN and TechNet subscriptions gain access to Windows 8, downloads available now (www.winbeta.org)

19 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081615 6 comments

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Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 | andrewchen (andrewchen.co)

19 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081618 0 comments

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Is it a must for every programmer to learn regular expressions? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

18 points first seen 2012081618 last seen 2012081618 17 comments

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ProjectTemplate is a system for automating the parts of a data analysis project (www.projecttemplate.net)

17 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081612 2 comments

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How I Learned to Program in 23 Years (http://jeffmatthewsmith.tumblr.com)

17 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081612 10 comments

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Golang-weekly: Weekly curated list of Go news. (http://golangweekly.com)

16 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081609 8 comments

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Pinterest for Android released (play.google.com)

15 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081612 5 comments

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Dropbox In Space (blog.dropbox.com)

15 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081612 2 comments

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Show HN: Archive your starred GitHub repos and gists for search with Kippt (kippt.com)

14 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081612 3 comments

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SMS Inbox Zero - get there with SendHub (blog.sendhub.com)

14 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081615 6 comments

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Writing an interpreter, CESK-style (matt.might.net)

12 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081609 0 comments

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$100 apps, bibles, big-budget RPGs: The strange nature of Nigerian app market (www.bgr.com)

12 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081606 5 comments

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Show HN: cisimple - CI for mobile (iOS and Android) (https://www.cisimple.com)

11 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081609 7 comments

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Your Co-founder is Much More than Just a Business Partner (www.rishtal.com)

11 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081609 4 comments

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Hypersonic jet Waverider fails Mach 6 test (www.bbc.co.uk)

11 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081615 2 comments

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Ask HN: How to compensate a co-founder who leaves after shipping MVP? (news.ycombinator.com)

10 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081603 7 comments

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Ask HN: Is Apple not hashing passwords? (news.ycombinator.com)

10 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081603 14 comments

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To Lend is the Right of an Owner – That is, Not You. (www.loper-os.org)

9 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081615 6 comments

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Marissa Mayer has doubled Flickr's team size in the past week (www.facebook.com)

9 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081609 2 comments

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Bitcoin rally (bitcoincharts.com)

9 points first seen 2012081618 last seen 2012081618 0 comments

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Tranquil (A language built the ObjC runtime) Preview 2 Released (github.com)

8 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081606 0 comments

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A HireVoice postmortem - lessons learned trying to get a startup off the ground (www.etiennegarbugli.com)

8 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081606 12 comments

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Designer Michael Parenteau's journey to Heroku, Github, Dropbox, etc. (parenteau-sf-journey.herokuapp.com)

8 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081606 3 comments

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Finding a New Voice (distributionhacks.com)

8 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081618 0 comments

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Why Apple doesn't just sue Google and get it over with (news.cnet.com)

7 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081606 0 comments

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Show HN: Track your HN post (s.myezapp.com)

7 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081609 0 comments

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Palo Alto Offices Leave Manhattan in the Dust (www.wired.com)

7 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081609 0 comments

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Don’t compete on features (andrewchen.co)

7 points first seen 2012081615 last seen 2012081618 0 comments

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Stuart Halloway on Datomic, Clojure, Reducers [video] (www.infoq.com)

6 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081606 0 comments

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Reading Files (Python in 30 Days - Day 5) (rodriguezcommaj.com)

6 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081606 11 comments

89

Google Prior art finder (www.google.com)

6 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081612 0 comments

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Why I use Gentoo Linux (blog.calindora.com)

6 points first seen 2012081615 last seen 2012081618 0 comments

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Ask HN: Why there is no official mobile version of HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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HP Spins Off webOS Into A Brand New Company Called Gram; Mission Unknown (techcrunch.com)

5 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081603 3 comments

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Venture capital feels the heat from ongoing dotcom turmoil (www.reuters.com)

5 points first seen 2012081609 last seen 2012081612 0 comments

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Nominative Determinism: How Your Name Influences Your Career (io9.com)

5 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081615 0 comments

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How the rise of the web turns the server stack a lot less relevant (blog.protonet.info)

4 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081600 0 comments

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Developers, please think wider (blog.eerlings.com)

4 points first seen 2012081600 last seen 2012081600 0 comments

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JIT Inspector for Firefox (addons.mozilla.org)

4 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081603 0 comments

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I mapped the CCTV cameras for the RNC and made an app to show the closest ones (rncctv.com)

4 points first seen 2012081603 last seen 2012081603 0 comments

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How to prevent my site from getting crashed by HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why the 'Open' Office is a Hotbed of Stress (ideas.time.com)

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NBC blew an Olympic opportunity to grow its Internet audience (venturebeat.com)

4 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081609 0 comments

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How not to fail like it's 2001. (www.inc.com)

4 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081606 0 comments

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Shaarli, a self hosted bookmark service (www.nicosphere.net)

4 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081606 0 comments

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Everyblock founder adrianholovaty leaving acquirer MSNBC (www.holovaty.com)

4 points first seen 2012081606 last seen 2012081606 0 comments

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iPad in Pure CSS (codepen.io)

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Inexplicable: Jeff Price Pushed Out Of TuneCore (www.techdirt.com)

4 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081615 0 comments

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New Hampshire is building a tech cluster in Boston’s shadow (articles.boston.com)

4 points first seen 2012081612 last seen 2012081612 0 comments

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Inside Dropbox's "reverse-engineered" culture (allthingsd.com)

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Twitter live feed of Assange getting arrested (twitter.com)

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DakaRand 1.0: Revisiting clock drift for entropy generation (dankaminsky.com)

4 points first seen 2012081618 last seen 2012081618 0 comments

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‘Friends’ can share your Facebook profile with the government, court rules (gigaom.com)

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SEOMoz Kicks Off Buying Spree with Followerwonk (pandodaily.com)