hackerNews

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I Have 50 Dollars (ihave50dollars.com)

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Julian Assange: Ecuador grants Wikileaks founder asylum (www.bbc.co.uk)

497 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081803 488 comments

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Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead (daringfireball.net)

464 points first seen 2012081712 last seen 2012082021 173 comments

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Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts (plus.google.com)

276 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081900 268 comments

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Square introduces monthly pricing (squareup.com)

246 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012082000 141 comments

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Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limits rates (thenextweb.com)

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Thanks for your patience about all the (YC S12) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Happy birthday Debian (www.debian.org)

198 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012082000 32 comments

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Airbnb Releases Infinity.js: A Javascript Library for Smoother Scrolling (airbnb.github.com)

189 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2012082303 94 comments

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Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy (www.joshlehman.com)

155 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2017082718 105 comments

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Why you can't be anything you want to be (www.sean-johnson.com)

132 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081800 129 comments

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N64js: an N64 emulator in JavaScript (hulkholden.github.com)

130 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081803 20 comments

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Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes (www.marco.org)

130 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2012081903 56 comments

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Amazing CSS3 3D popup book (2012.beercamp.com)

128 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081803 48 comments

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Perl/Linux, a Linux distribution where all programs are written in Perl (perllinux.sourceforge.net)

127 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2012081903 88 comments

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The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory (www.technologyreview.com)

123 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2012081903 27 comments

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Firefox 3D view (developer.mozilla.org)

123 points first seen 2012081718 last seen 2012081903 40 comments

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Show HN: Visual diff for 3D printable models (cubehero.com)

122 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081900 38 comments

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Software Effort Estimation Considered Harmful (mattrogish.com)

116 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081821 77 comments

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BufferBox (YCS12) Solves The Problem Of Missing Packages (techcrunch.com)

114 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081806 78 comments

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Twitter needs to get their shit together (bruun.co)

108 points first seen 2012081712 last seen 2012081900 12 comments

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Comparing standard ml and ocaml (adam.chlipala.net)

100 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2014102503 63 comments

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Diaspora’s (YC S12) Next Act: Social Remixing Site Makr.io (allthingsd.com)

96 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081800 86 comments

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A Mutual Fund Master, Too Worried to Rest (www.nytimes.com)

86 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081803 42 comments

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Google’s Dremel Makes Big Data Look Small (www.wired.com)

86 points first seen 2012081718 last seen 2012081900 47 comments

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Pytrace - a fast python tracer (github.com)

85 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081803 7 comments

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Show HN: Open Sourcing my HTML5 Multiplayer Game Engine (github.com)

83 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081803 27 comments

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Ridejoy for iPhone (ridejoy.com)

79 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081803 17 comments

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Braintree Buys Venmo for $26.2 Million (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

79 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081803 22 comments

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What Twitter's Announcement could have said (dashes.com)

78 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2012081806 18 comments

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Twitter Gives Developers 6 Months To “Properly” Display Tweet (techcrunch.com)

77 points first seen 2012081712 last seen 2012081806 29 comments

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Facebook frees up 60% more shares today (www.bloomberg.com)

74 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081721 67 comments

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Improve [iOS] Usability with a Black Status Bar and Rounded Corners (blog.edwardmarks.com)

74 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081800 24 comments

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Announcing Trigger.io Reload - iterate fast on mobile, inspired by Clutch.io (trigger.io)

74 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081803 12 comments

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Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations (http://www.haikudeck.com)

72 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081803 30 comments

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Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API (dev.twitter.com)

72 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081715 8 comments

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YC-Backed Wedding Startup RegistryLove Lets Couples Register For Anything (techcrunch.com)

69 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081803 36 comments

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UEFI and Secure Boot: The Hell I Went Through (prismdragon.wordpress.com)

68 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081703 33 comments

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Raspberry Pi gets a Firefox OS port (www.geek.com)

65 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081800 20 comments

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Megaupload case: New Zealand court wants FBI evidence (www.bbc.com)

64 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081800 21 comments

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PyCon 2013 March 13-21, Santa Clara - Keynotes and more announced. (pycon.blogspot.com)

63 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081800 6 comments

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How the Great Recession Proved, Beyond a Doubt, the Value of a College Degree (www.theatlantic.com)

62 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2012081803 63 comments

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How Statwing (YC S12) Makes It Easier To Ask Questions About Data (techcrunch.com)

61 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081803 13 comments

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Bitcoins up another 42% since August 1st (bitcoincharts.com)

59 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081703 70 comments

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Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook (worldofsu.com)

59 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2013030412 14 comments

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Syntactic: A Lexical Categorizer (NLP, Data Mining) with a pretty visualization (syntactic.omershapira.com)

58 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081800 11 comments

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The Now Syndrome (danshipper.com)

56 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2012081806 26 comments

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Onity's plan to mitigate hotel lock hack (daeken.com)

56 points first seen 2012081721 last seen 2012081809 16 comments

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself - Dave McClure (500hats.com)

52 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012082215 14 comments

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NASA Planetary Protection Policy (planetaryprotection.nasa.gov)

52 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081715 52 comments

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MicroEval (YC S12) Aims To Take The Pain Out Of Performance Reviews (techcrunch.com)

51 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081718 18 comments

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Dojo JavaScript Toolkit 1.8 Released (dojotoolkit.org)

50 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081721 28 comments

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Organizing Go code (blog.golang.org)

50 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081803 8 comments

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Building an app does not make you a startup (www.techfounder.net)

49 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081721 26 comments

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Behind the scenes of a seed round (hippoland.tumblr.com)

49 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081800 25 comments

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Which USA do you work in? (blogmaverick.com)

49 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2012081803 28 comments

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The secret to success in the arts (www.felixsalmon.com)

44 points first seen 2012081721 last seen 2012081821 37 comments

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A Starter Theme for WordPress by Automattic (underscores.me)

43 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081715 9 comments

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Principles of Distributed Computing (lecture collection) (disco.ethz.ch)

42 points first seen 2012081718 last seen 2012081806 3 comments

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Show HN: Indoor Location you can try yourself (play.google.com)

41 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081718 44 comments

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Funders Club raises over $1M for startups online — including itself (venturebeat.com)

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Diffbot launches a web page classifier API: analyzes a day of Twitter (betakit.com)

38 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081800 15 comments

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The rise of high frequency trading - graphic animation (www.nanex.net)

38 points first seen 2012081718 last seen 2012081806 20 comments

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Writing a simple deploy script with Fabric and roles (ratchet.io)

36 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081800 7 comments

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Firefox OS for Raspberry Pi with WebGL demos (www.raspberrypi.org)

34 points first seen 2012081718 last seen 2012081806 8 comments

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A Review of Airbnb's SRE Hiring Process, from someone who just interviewed there (redbluemagenta.com)

32 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081700 57 comments

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Why Apple Bought AuthenTec: It Needed NFC Fingerprint Sensors, Quickly (thenextweb.com)

32 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081721 16 comments

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Saturday Night Fever: Layer 7 attacks against CloudFlare sites (blog.cloudflare.com)

31 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081715 10 comments

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Picplum (YC S11) aims to make photo printing effortless (www.xconomy.com)

31 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081800 10 comments

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Big Fish launches real-money gambling app in UK via Betable (techcrunch.com)

30 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081721 18 comments

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Gmvault v1.7-beta, Gmail backup simply: The initial version I wanted to build (geekomotion.posterous.com)

29 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081703 20 comments

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No More Internet (skloot.org)

29 points first seen 2012081712 last seen 2012081800 23 comments

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Hey Makr.io, don't let the haters get you down. (jiggity.tumblr.com)

28 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081709 10 comments

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Instagram 3.0 Bets Big On Geolocation With Photo Maps, (techcrunch.com)

26 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081715 10 comments

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Rubymotion – Myth, Magic, or The Future? (bostonrb.org)

26 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081721 21 comments

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Square's culture: "That makes us look really bad." (clayallsopp.com)

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Bitcoinica sued for $460,000 by 'out-of-pocket' punters (www.theregister.co.uk)

24 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081712 13 comments

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W3C Decisions on CSS Variables (Accepting Comments) (www.xanthir.com)

23 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081712 10 comments

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Three years later, deleting your photos on Facebook now actually works (arstechnica.com)

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Accel to sell around $1 billion in Facebook stock (most of their stock) (thenextweb.com)

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Referly Friends & Family Emails (aka Early Stage Investor Relations) (refer.ly)

20 points first seen 2012081718 last seen 2012081803 2 comments

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Why Ageism in Startups is BS (sweaxis.org)

19 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081703 21 comments

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Steve Yegge - Programming Politically Part 2 (plus.google.com)

18 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081706 3 comments

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Coding is Dead. Long Live the Coders (blog.openviewpartners.com)

18 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081721 15 comments

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Ridejoy (YC S11) for iOS: Behind the Making of A Ride-Sharing Mobile App (pandodaily.com)

16 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081703 0 comments

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Show HN: Shade. A Free Mac App to hide your messy desktop. (itunes.apple.com)

15 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2012081803 14 comments

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What are the stuff to learn to become good at Kernel,drivers? (news.ycombinator.com)

14 points first seen 2012081718 last seen 2012082303 2 comments

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Most Surprising Mars Discoveries to Date (mashable.com)

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Hipstamatic lays off all but core employees, including designers and engineers (thenextweb.com)

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Hans Camenzind, 555 timer inventor, dies (eetimes.com)

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Meet Raphie: A 15 Year-Old Developer Who Built ShareBrowse (www.forbes.com)

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BostonRB August presentations (bostonrb.org)

11 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081709 0 comments

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Hipstamatic Lays Off Everyone But Core Team (techcrunch.com)

11 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081712 0 comments

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HexGL - a fast-paced racing game built using WebGL (hexgl.bkcore.com)

10 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2016123006 0 comments

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Nassim Taleb: Stay Out of the Investment Industry (blogs.wsj.com)

10 points first seen 2012081712 last seen 2012081718 0 comments

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Parallelism For The Win! How Golang kicks Ruby in a real life usage. (areyoufuckingcoding.me)

10 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2012081715 3 comments

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A central repo for sharing Meteor smart packages (https://atmosphere.meteor.com)

9 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081706 2 comments

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IOS fanboy switches to Android (jimhoskins.com)

9 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081706 0 comments

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(R)evolution of the 'em' unit: rem (coderwall.com)

9 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081709 0 comments

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Angie's List Takes a Wallop on Wall Street (www.technewsworld.com)

9 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081703 0 comments

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Social Game Monetization Startup Acquires SuperRewards from Adknowledge (www.techvibes.com)

9 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081712 4 comments

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Growl, meet Bark. (barkplug.in)

9 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081709 7 comments

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Filepicker.io launches widget generator (www.filepicker.io)

9 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081709 0 comments

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DHH shows code from "Basecamp Next" rewrite & reveals their caching strategies (www.youtube.com)

9 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081706 0 comments

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Removing Barriers for Linux Hardware (zareason.blogspot.co.nz)

8 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081700 0 comments

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Dozens of Plagiarism Incidents Are Reported in Coursera's Free Online Courses (chronicle.com)

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Pallets: The Single Most Important Object in the Global Economy (www.slate.com)

8 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081709 0 comments

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The competitive value of time (medium.com)

8 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081709 0 comments

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Judge Koh asks Apple's attorneys if they're "smoking crack" (www.theverge.com)

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Inventing a Toilet for the 21st Century (www.thegatesnotes.com)

8 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081712 0 comments

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How App.net Won't Change Anything (labbook.net)

8 points first seen 2012081712 last seen 2012081718 2 comments

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How the brain cleans itself (www.nature.com)

7 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081706 0 comments

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Ask HN: Keeping yourself hire-able while not working? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081703 9 comments

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My Month With a ChromeBox: How I Survived Without Windows or Mac (www.readwriteweb.com)

7 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081709 2 comments

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Ask HN: What consequences does marriage have on your startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012082215 11 comments

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Ask HN: How do you decide what project to work on? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google Has a 3D Pasta Printer for Its Employees (techpp.com)

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MonthGift: directory for subscription commerce gift of the month clubs (http://www.monthgift.com)

6 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081700 2 comments

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Samsung turns tables on Apple, demands $400M for its own patents (arstechnica.com)

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Judge Koh suggests Apple is “smoking crack” in Samsung case (www.slashgear.com)

6 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081712 2 comments

81

Twitter Plans to Choke Access to Apps It Doesn’t Approve (allthingsd.com)

6 points first seen 2012081712 last seen 2012081715 0 comments

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Ask HN: Asking what you did wrong in an interview? (news.ycombinator.com)

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WebRTC.io (github.com)

6 points first seen 2012081712 last seen 2012081715 0 comments

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Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell (github.com)

6 points first seen 2012081715 last seen 2013110315 0 comments

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Find out fake users percentage of a Twitter account (fakers.statuspeople.com)

6 points first seen 2012081721 last seen 2012081800 6 comments

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Why Flash failed on Android, and what it means for Adobe (www.extremetech.com)

5 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081703 2 comments

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ACLU to FBI: Tell the public how you interpret GPS tracking ruling (arstechnica.com)

5 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081703 0 comments

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Show HN: Action framework for dashboards (www.infocaptor.com)

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You Can’t Start the Revolution from the Country Club (medium.com)

5 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012082212 4 comments

0

Show HN: Silk — Interactive generative art (http://new.weavesilk.com)

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Braintree Acquires Social Payments Startup Venmo For $26.2M (techcrunch.com)

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US, UK Betray Basic Values To Get Assange At Any Cost (www.techdirt.com)

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Thank You CrowdTilt (w12) and Friends. We’re Going to Long Fucking Island (blog.earbits.com)

5 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081709 0 comments

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Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API (dev.twitter.com)

5 points first seen 2012081709 last seen 2012081709 0 comments

0

PHP's error messages are vulnerable to XSS - not a bug (bugs.php.net)

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Richard P. Gabriel, The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution [pdf] (www.dreamsongs.com)

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For startups: how does an enterprise sales cycle look like (paraschopra.com)

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Why Does Jack Dorsey Want To Be Just Like Steve Jobs? (techcrunch.com)

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New book from David Byrne: How Music Works (store.mcsweeneys.net)

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Think Yelp is Unbiased? Think Again (www.forbes.com)

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Judge says Apple's 'smoking crack' with giant witness list (news.cnet.com)

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The conviction of SurfTheChannel´s owner, Anton Vickerman (http://www.surfthechannel.com)

4 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081709 0 comments

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How to Criticize Women in Technology (www.quinnnorton.com)

4 points first seen 2012081706 last seen 2012081706 6 comments

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DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive (news.sciencemag.org)

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Facebook stock hits all-time low as insiders get chance to sell (money.cnn.com)

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Big data and data science blogs ordered by Google PageRank (blog.databigbang.com)

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Charges dropped because federal servers can't store 2 Terabytes of evidence (news.yahoo.com)

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Want to stalk great white sharks in real time? There's an app for that. (newsfeed.time.com)

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Tracing processes for fun and profit (techblog.rosedu.org)

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Slackware 14.0 RC2 Released (ostatic.com)

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Uptodateapp: service to help stay on top of the rubygems your app depends on (uptodateapp.com)

4 points first seen 2012081721 last seen 2012081721 0 comments

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The rise of the Linux hyper-distro (www.itworld.com)

3 points first seen 2012081700 last seen 2012081700 0 comments

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Howto install Git on a new server (www.gogolek.co.uk)

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Meet the Guys Who Started Stanford’s Facebook in 1999 (mashable.com)

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6 Companies Doing Open Innovation (www.starting-business.in)

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On Eventual Consistency (www.odbms.org)

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Open source and commented Dart-HTML5 game sample (github.com)

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Lessons Learned From Bootstrapping a Conference (blog.phusion.nl)

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Javolution, a High Performance Java API (javolution.org)

3 points first seen 2012081703 last seen 2012081703 0 comments

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The iPad Mini will destroy any hope of Android tablet success (www.extremetech.com)

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What Developers say vs what they mean (www.netjeff.com)