hackerNews

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We believe that urban infrastructure should be more comfortable: SLEEPBOX. (sleepbox.com)

267 points first seen 2012081900 last seen 2012082100 141 comments

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Delegate or die: the self-employed trap (www.sivers.org)

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Why time appears to speed up with age (everything2.com)

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The category design pattern (www.haskellforall.com)

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How Instacart (YCS12) Hacked YC (techcrunch.com)

202 points first seen 2012081909 last seen 2012082103 125 comments

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Your Words are Wasted (www.hanselman.com)

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How to write a Linux device driver (www.freesoftwaremagazine.com)

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Why Waiting Is Torture (www.nytimes.com)

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RIP Open Source MySQL (developers.slashdot.org)

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Ben Horowitz: A Good Place to Work (bhorowitz.com)

142 points first seen 2012081906 last seen 2012082006 144 comments

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Github just hit 2 million users. (github.com)

139 points first seen 2012081909 last seen 2012082100 35 comments

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Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers (blogs.lessthandot.com)

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Camera Pi – DSLR Camera with Embedded Computer (davidhunt.ie)

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Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video) (archive.org)

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For their original logo, Twitter paid the artist the price of a sandwich. (www.huhmagazine.co.uk)

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A rare look inside Facebook’s Oregon data center (gigaom.com)

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The Panic Over Fukushima (online.wsj.com)

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India To Biometrically Identify All Of Its 1.2 Billion Citizens (singularityhub.com)

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Video: At one trillion frames per second, you can see light move (kottke.org)

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How a Tick Bite Made Me Allergic to Meat (discovermagazine.com)

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Show HN: LiquidText is a multi-touch document manipulation system (liquidtext.net)

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Motorola Launches “Unlock My Device” Site – Bootloader Freedom Has Come At Last (www.droid-life.com)

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STL Hackathon Canceled After Social Backlash (philipithomas.com)

75 points first seen 2012081915 last seen 2012082009 57 comments

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‘Double’ (YC S12) Turns the iPad Into a Telepresence Robot (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

70 points first seen 2012081918 last seen 2012082100 31 comments

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What's it like to chuck your job,startup, get funded, and move to Silicon Valley (startupchumps.com)

69 points first seen 2012081903 last seen 2012082009 14 comments

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JavaScript for Cats - An introduction for new programmers (jsforcats.com)

66 points first seen 2012081906 last seen 2012082009 24 comments

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Playing with Thunderbolt under Linux on Apple hardware (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

64 points first seen 2012081903 last seen 2012082006 0 comments

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Show HN: Voice feedback widget to hear from your users (http://developer.voicegem.com)

64 points first seen 2012081906 last seen 2012082021 20 comments

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Show HN: Pasteboard - HTML5 Web App for Quick & Easy Image Sharing (Open Source) (pasteboard.co)

63 points first seen 2012081900 last seen 2012082006 42 comments

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Thoughts on Acqui-hires & Soft Landings (daslee.me)

63 points first seen 2012081906 last seen 2012082006 12 comments

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Linux is a lemon on the new retina Mac Book Pro (www.phoronix.com)

61 points first seen 2012081900 last seen 2012081909 78 comments

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Maintaining CSS Style States using "Infinite" Transition Delays (joelb.me)

61 points first seen 2012081909 last seen 2012082021 17 comments

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The Decline of MySQL? (www.geekgumbo.com)

57 points first seen 2012081900 last seen 2012081918 57 comments

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Take Time to Develop Fast (blog.tapin.tv)

57 points first seen 2012081915 last seen 2012082021 24 comments

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Feast Your Ears On Fresh Jams From Musicians You Love At Hipset (YC S12) (techcrunch.com)

55 points first seen 2012081909 last seen 2012082009 34 comments

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US Carbon Emissions Hit 20-Year Low (www.google.com)

53 points first seen 2012081906 last seen 2012082006 48 comments

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New Zealand: Wish you were here? (www.startribune.com)

49 points first seen 2012081918 last seen 2012082006 53 comments

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One Small, Arbitrary Change and It's a Whole New World (prog21.dadgum.com)

45 points first seen 2012081903 last seen 2012082006 11 comments

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Oracle and Google File Paid Writers List (www.groklaw.net)

45 points first seen 2012081903 last seen 2012082003 4 comments

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Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail (fjunkmail.com)

37 points first seen 2012081909 last seen 2012082006 31 comments

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Double Brace Initialization in Java (www.c2.com)

37 points first seen 2012081915 last seen 2012082015 26 comments

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It's Time for an Open Twitter (justinvincent.com)

31 points first seen 2012081906 last seen 2012081909 37 comments

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Random Ideas For Sites and Startups (thebetastartup.com)

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New Wave of Adept Robots Is Changing Global Industry (www.nytimes.com)

30 points first seen 2012081915 last seen 2012082006 3 comments

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Facebook and Twitter Don’t Know What You Want (diegobasch.com)

28 points first seen 2012081906 last seen 2012081921 11 comments

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These guys are building a startup and Live Streaming it (ustream.com)

26 points first seen 2012081906 last seen 2012081921 9 comments

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Honey, I Introduced Agile In My Company (proghammer.blogspot.com)

26 points first seen 2012081915 last seen 2012082006 18 comments

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Crowdfunded businesses may owe taxes, too (www.reuters.com)

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Is China headed to becoming super power? (indianeconomy.org)

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[personal blog, new here, 17yr, tips?] How to start programming (shsceo.com)

18 points first seen 2012081903 last seen 2012081915 16 comments

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Interview with Custora (YC W11) Co-Founder Jon Pospischil (howtowriteabusinessplan.com)

18 points first seen 2012081903 last seen 2012081921 0 comments

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Decentralized Twitter? You just don't get it. (volaski.tumblr.com)

18 points first seen 2012081915 last seen 2012081915 37 comments

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5 things I learned from a Hacker attack (www.grobmeier.de)

17 points first seen 2012081903 last seen 2012081909 7 comments

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On the goodness of Beeminder (www.overcomingbias.com)

17 points first seen 2012081918 last seen 2012082006 11 comments

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Wade not in unknown C++ waters. Shift operators . (www.viva64.com)

16 points first seen 2012081903 last seen 2012081918 7 comments

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Show HN: Making Tumblr Work vs. Medium & Svbtle (jfornear.com)

16 points first seen 2012081909 last seen 2012081915 18 comments

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Little things that I cherish (in a startup life) (arnamath.posterous.com)

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Space Wars - A 3D multiplayer space shooter game using CubicVR and Socket.IO (cubegrid.com:8080)

15 points first seen 2012081915 last seen 2012082003 10 comments

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Studying failure: What I learned from a Kickstarter project that failed… badly (kickstarterguide.com)

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Three Beautiful Quicksorts [video] (hash-table.com)

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At what point can I say I’ve “learned” a language? (arstechnica.com)

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How the Wet-Dog Shake Gets Mammals Dry in No Time Flat (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

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Assange case: State Dep says US does not recognize diplomatic asylum (thecable.foreignpolicy.com)

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Infinite Scroll: The Web's Slot Machine (techcrunch.com)

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Drug Dealers Say No To Crack In Brazil (bigstory.ap.org)

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Searching Email Addresses on Facebook will show User Profiles (code.enginezombie.com)

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Ask HN: I need to categorize 150,000 products (news.ycombinator.com)

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First Chinese ship makes trip to Atlantic via Arctic route (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

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Ask HN: Can a new LinkedIn competitor survive? If yes, what strategies can help? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Oracle Makes More Moves To Kill Open Source MySQL (techcrunch.com)

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TOR project uncovers flaw in mass-surveillance appliance (boingboing.net)

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Show HN: Posterizer creates beautiful posterwalls from your favorite movies (posterizer.eu)

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CouchDB: The Definitive Guide [OReilly] - Free (guide.couchdb.org)

4 points first seen 2012081903 last seen 2012081906 0 comments

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No Traffic Lights Vs Traffic Lights (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2012081906 last seen 2012081906 0 comments

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Too Many Startups (finance.yahoo.com)

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Why I don't use Racket or any other Scheme (lmf-ramblings.blogspot.sg)

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How GitHub Works (www.infoq.com)

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Using the Load Function with parameters - Introduction to jQuery UI - Part 19 (mrbool.com)

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NYC bike share program delayed because "the software doesn’t work" (www.nytimes.com)

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Payment Data Is More Valuable Than Payment Fees (techcrunch.com)

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(India) Hiring scandal: How corrupt recruiters are cheating jobseekers ... (businesstoday.intoday.in)

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Emory University misrepresented student data for over a decade (www.ajc.com)

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Cleaning bad code (www.altdevblogaday.com)

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OAuth - Everything You Want to Know (Hopefully) (www.infoq.com)

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Indiana has seen a quiet whirlwind of education reform (www.economist.com)

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100,000 DPI Image Pushes Limits of Resolution (www.wired.com)

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New startup offers game theory (and free tshirts) to the masses (getnifty.com)

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jQuery Masonry: A Pinterest-Style Dynamic Grid Layout (masonry.desandro.com)

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Swiftype (YC W12) is hiring full-stack engineers to build better search software (news.ycombinator.com)

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