hackerNews

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Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings (discussions.apple.com)

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Your startup is not a startup, it’s just a website. (blog.crranky.com)

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What A Hacker Learns After A Year In Marketing (brooklynhacker.com)

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How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers) (blog.keen.io)

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Build Your Own Home Automation w/ Pusher, Twilio, and Arduino (www.twilio.com)

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Ghosts in the rom (www.nycresistor.com)

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Tesla Museum gets Funded (www.indiegogo.com)

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I'm Not Japanese (sachagreif.com)

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Leap (leapmotion.com)

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Show HN: I mixed selling t-shirts with a little bit of game theory (http://getnifty.com)

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In 3000 years someone alive today will be the common ancestor of all humanity (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Fixing Hacker News: A mathematical approach (gkosev.blogspot.com)

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4bit - Customizing Terminal Was Never Easier (ciembor.github.com)

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Minecraft experiment devolves into devastating resource war (www.pcgamer.com)

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Stack Exchange Machine Learning Contest (blog.stackoverflow.com)

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Task tracking for nerds (https://hollyapp.com)

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I just left 200 fake parking tickets at YC Demo Day... (instagram.com)

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How I Taught Myself Python/Django in 8 Weekends (tech.yipit.com)

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PC obsolescence is obsolete (www.extremetech.com)

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How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read (www.mentalfloss.com)

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Finding Unity in the Math Wars (betterexplained.com)

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Windows 8 gets Personal Use License for anyone building their own PC (www.geek.com)

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Parallel Programming for C and C++ Done Right (speakerdeck.com)

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Drug Cartels Now Using UAVs (www.wired.com)

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Rails, callbacks, workers, and the race you never expected to lose (logicalfriday.com)

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YC Demo Day Bingo Welcome the newest YC batch (www.thedailymuse.com)

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PopCap Update (blog.popcap.com)

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Arrays in Postgres (craigkerstiens.com)

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First employee or co-founder? (jacquesmattheij.com)

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The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator’s S12 Demo Day (techcrunch.com)

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Cleaning bad code (www.gamasutra.com)

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Silicon Valley != The Internet (The CEO of Yammer says the darndest things) (diegobasch.com)

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Dev Bootcamp is the future of our industry (dickey.xxx)

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The new Hulu (http://new.hulu.com)

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Pictonic adds 1000 new font icons, including a free programming language set (http://pictonic.co)

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Feds to Break Up Tech’s Investor Party (www.wired.com)

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Actor model / queses are at odds with modern CPU desisn - LMAX Architecture (martinfowler.com)

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Udacity Cancels Free Online Math Course, Citing Low Quality (chronicle.com)

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Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 1 (techcrunch.com)

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Vicarious Raises $15M to Build Software That ‘Learns Like A Human’ (techcrunch.com)

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Education data startup Clever (S12) hits big milestone, makes new hire (gigaom.com)

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AWS Cost Allocation for Customer Bills (aws.typepad.com)

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Opera Q2: Sales Up 32% To $52.1M; Mobile Surges, Desktop Flat (techcrunch.com)

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Referly (YC S12) lets businesses create their own rewards networks (venturebeat.com)

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Web Reflection: A Safer JS Environment (webreflection.blogspot.com)

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FreshBooks is now Cloud Accounting (www.freshbooks.com)

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What I've Learned So Far (Python in 30 Days) (rodriguezcommaj.com)

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Why JSON will continue to push XML out of the picture (blog.appfog.com)

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Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 3 (techcrunch.com)

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Glassmap (YC S11) Launches v2.0: Social News Feed Meets Real-Time Map (www.techcrunch.com)

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What's holding up .NET 4.5 support on AppHarbor? (blog.appharbor.com)

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Publicly Launched Teams of YC S12 (refer.ly)

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Vim - Putting arrows to use (codingfearlessly.com)

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Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 2: Meet Instacart, Coco Controller, Referly (techcrunch.com)

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Y Combinator Demo Day: Amicus makes good and money for non-profits (venturebeat.com)

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Building An App? TapFame Has A Developer For That (techcrunch.com)

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Is it true that “the only ”intuitive“ interface is the nipple”? (ux.stackexchange.com)

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There's Value in Charging (blog.jarederondu.com)

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The genius of Enlive as a template system (github.com)

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The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet (tech.slashdot.org)

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Even faster: loading half a billion rows in MySQL revisited (derwiki.tumblr.com)

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Square goes down two weeks after Starbucks (http://square.com)

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Really nicely made kickstarter-inspired interactive video CV #hiresander (hire.sandersaar.com)

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Is There a Landmine Hidden in Amazon’s Glacier? (www.wired.com)

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Simple -- Announcing Goals (www.simple.com)

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Podcast: Scalable Marketing Techniques and Tactics (talentopoly.com)

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Organizing a 24x7 bullet-proof on-call rotation with PagerDuty (blog.dotcloud.com)

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How Calendar Plus became a TOP 10 App on the Mac without any PR or marketing. (qbix.com)

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Show HN: Pick'em Zone (hackers can enjoy football too) (www.pickemzone.com)

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Neal Stephenson on the State of Science Fiction (www.technologyreview.com)

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Ask Old-School HN: What was it like pre internet? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Metasploit on iOS (community.rapid7.com)

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What happened to Diaspora? (news.ycombinator.com)

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XKCD What If: Everybody Jump (what-if.xkcd.com)

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Yammer CEO predicts Silicon Valley is over (upstart.bizjournals.com)

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We are not github and that's perfectly fine (www.binpress.com)

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Show HN: PHP Best Practices, a short guide for common and confusing PHP tasks (http://phpbestpractices.org)

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The Lost Years of Internet Start-ups (soundboy.tumblr.com)

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Vayable (YCS12) Cuts The Time For Planning A Vacation From 30 Hours To 5 Minutes (www.businessinsider.com)

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NSA's Open Source Spin-Off Lands $2 Million in Funding (www.wired.com)

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Stewart Brand Wants to Revive Extinct Species (Interview w/ Kevin Kelly) (www.wired.com)

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Does anyone else get confused about why your comments get downvoted? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Don't Use OAuth for your API (ashfurrow.com)

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Compound Interest Is A Lie (rationalconspiracy.com)

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Octane: Javascript Benchmark Suite for the modern web (blog.chromium.org)

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What clang taught us about Objective-C properties (www.crashlytics.com)

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Strong AI startup Vicarious.com raises $15M from Good Ventures and Founders Fund (gigaom.com)

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HOVA: Hovercraft Built In A 48-Hour Hackathon (hovatotheizz.tumblr.com)

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The Business of Apps (teamtreehouse.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone ever use Fiverr for SEO? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Example of a multi-player HTML5 racing game using Socket.io (socketracing.com)

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Why I’m uninstalling Windows 8 (www.pcgamesn.com)

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Honey I Squashed the Commits (denniskubes.com)

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Disney writers make strange slur against open-source in TV show for kids (www.youtube.com)

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We’ve packaged all of the free software…what now? (mdzlog.alcor.net)

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Aerofex: an all terrain hover-bike that is reminiscent of Star Wars tech (www.nbcnews.com)

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How to debug (blog.regehr.org)

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Twice Raises $4M (IA, SV Angel, CrunchFund) For Secondhand Clothing Marketplace (techcrunch.com)

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Google Launches Octane: JavaScript Benchmark Based On Popular Apps (techcrunch.com)

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HN vs Reddit: 50 vs 15000 visitors. Shall HN add new channels? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Iran just banned women from studying 70 majors, including Computer Science (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Why Is Peter Thiel Still on Facebook's Board? (www.forbes.com)

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Hacker News endless scroll ^(Tamper|Grease)Monkey$ hack (news.ycombinator.com)

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Simple Bank and Why You Shouldn't Bank in Beta (plus.google.com)

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Army psychiatrist says Facebook hurts our troops (www.nypost.com)

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Ask HN: How would you split ownership in this scenario? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What's your favorite OS and why? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Facing scaling issues with news feeds on Redis. Any advice? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: If making money was not a factor, what startup would you work on? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What is the market like at the moment for consulting in the bay area? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Previously reported Tesco security shortcomings being investigated (www.theregister.co.uk)

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A free 10 week rails course (schneems.com)

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Police will soon know the location of every car (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: Are there any segmented HackerNews? (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

3D Solar Sinter Prints Concrete-like Objects Made of Sand (www.greenprophet.com)

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YC W12 Shoptiques PR Hack (www.papermag.com)

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Chris Eppstein (creator of compass) connecting his dots (coderwall.com)

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Question: When Will My Cron Job Run Next? (blog.harrywye.com)

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0

Lockups and Insider Selling (www.avc.com)

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Ask HN: Payroll and benefits for international remote employees? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Minority Births Outnumbered Whites for the First Time (www.latimes.com)

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After Getting Funded, Some Kickstarter Projects Stall (go.bloomberg.com)

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High throughput Java actors--much faster than Akka (news.ycombinator.com)

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TED Reveals Top 20 Most-Watched Talks, Sir Ken Robinson Tops The List (techcrunch.com)

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Teaching a microbe to make fuel (web.mit.edu)

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Nikon announces Android-powered compact camera (www.theverge.com)

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Fix the bugs and do not forget to fix the class of bug and the process too (jacquesmattheij.com)

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Science Toys (sci-toys.com)

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Datomic 0.8.3435 Released -- Now You Can Get Entity IDs from the Transaction (groups.google.com)

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Startup Diaries - A Web Series that Satirizes Startup Culture (startupdiaries.tumblr.com)

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Entrepreneurship trends and impact on VCs (futureo.us)

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Americans own less cars per captia than western europeans (www.theatlantic.com)

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Game Theory for Startups (startupframework.tumblr.com)

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Y Combinator Universe: List Of All Known YC Start-Ups (Includes Latest Batch) (ycuniverse.com)

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When Ice Cream Attacks: The Mystery Of Brain Freeze (www.npr.org)

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On being a polyglot (goshakkk.name)

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Source: Nintendo Power magazine to cease publication (arstechnica.com)

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100 Years Of Immigrants In America, In Two Graphs (www.npr.org)

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App Engine 1.7.1 Released (googleappengine.blogspot.com)

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Ask HN: Is there a resource for reporting email addresses for spammy recruiters? (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

When Kickstarting Fails (www.forbes.com)

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US teen invents advanced cancer test using Google (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Announcing PrefixedJSONKit (www.apptentive.com)

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Twitter app makers trying to figure out the future (www.macworld.com)

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The 20 most-watched TED Talks (blog.ted.com)

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Need help in testing a Mac App (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How do you create exclusivity? (news.ycombinator.com)

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(404) npm goes down (news.ycombinator.com)

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The New Hulu (new.hulu.com)

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61

Don’t call it a comeback, RSS has been here for years (www.virtualpants.com)

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68

You don't need a CS degree to become a web developer. Here's why. (www.anyonecanlearntocode.com)

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Ask HN: What do you think the future holds for TextMate? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Is Silicon Valley 'coming to an end'? (www.smh.com.au)

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All Your Database Are Belong to Us (queue.acm.org)

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The Comparative Productivity of Programming Languages (www.drdobbs.com)

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0

Create new Wikipedia Miner’s webservices (gauth.fr)

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0

Filepicker.io (YC S12) + JotForm: Forms with Cloud Upload Support (www.jotform.com)

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0

Show HN: A C library for recommendations using collaborative filtering (github.com)

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0

Ask HN: Should I write my next web project in Clojure / Noir? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Startup relocates their whole 65-person team to Crete beach (zeroturnaround.com)

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0

Brave New-DB World (dylanv.org)

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0

Paul Graham, Guy Steele and others talk about language design (www.youtube.com)

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0

Ask HN: Why don't people share our viral page with their friends? (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

U.S. Intelligence Tests Crowdsourcing Against Its Experts (www.latimes.com)

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ZeroMQ Flow Control and Other Options (blog.pythonisito.com)

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Things You Notice About App.net (mwillis.com)