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Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
(watsi.org)
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Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany
(www.theiacp.org)
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99 comments
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Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987
(seattletimes.nwsource.com)
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The White House just open sourced their first Github repo
(github.com)
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117 comments
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How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life
(stoicjesterstudios.com)
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90 comments
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A Faster Facebook for iOS
(newsroom.fb.com)
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177 comments
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Why you should not be displaying relative dates.
(aaronparecki.com)
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153 comments
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Windows 8 Tells Microsoft Everything You Install, Not Very Securely.
(log.nadim.cc)
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Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOS
(www.facebook.com)
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Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method
(http://fleksy.com)
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99 comments
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Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway
(www.vg.no)
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Watch Out Mars! 1080 HD Video of Curiosity Descent
(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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22 comments
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Perl gained a feature for fixing communication with the Magellan probe
(perl5.git.perl.org)
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The Hidden Subversive Message in Gangnam Style
(www.theatlantic.com)
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43 comments
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Chinese dev steals US HTML5 Game engine, US hosts won't close down the copy
(www.techinasia.com)
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121 comments
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John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering
(blogs.uw.edu)
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42 comments
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Why I am tired of writing pull requests
(gist.io)
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63 comments
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An Interview with DuckDuckGo's founder, Gabriel Weinberg
(www.techspot.com)
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37 comments
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What Jamie Wong did at Khan Academy
(jamie-wong.com)
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35 comments
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My Paleo Media Diet
(radar.oreilly.com)
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71 comments
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The Cheapest Generation
(www.theatlantic.com)
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189 comments
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The Software Engineering of Mathematica
(reference.wolfram.com)
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20 comments
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Prismatic for iPhone is now live in the App Store
(getprismatic.com)
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47 comments
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What HN Users Use (45% Mac, 63% Chrome)
(www.dangrossman.info)
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42 comments
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PeerTalk: iOS and OS X Cocoa library for communicating over USB
(rsms.me)
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12 comments
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Selling $2,000+ Worth Of My Unfinished Book
(planscope.io)
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75 comments
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DragonFly BSD 2.6: towards a free clustering operating system
(lwn.net)
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28 comments
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US appeals court rules in favor of patenting genes
(www.reuters.com)
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Mac OS X 10.8.1 is out.
(support.apple.com)
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101 comments
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Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City
(www.homesforhackers.com)
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49 comments
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Pew Study: The Economy is lagging because the middle class is broke
(finance.yahoo.com)
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75 comments
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How YC S12 Companies Make Money
(blog.imranghory.org)
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19 comments
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Apple and Samsung Should Fight in the Marketplace, not the Courtroom
(www.eff.org)
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74 comments
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Who's afraid of Solar PV?
(theconversation.edu.au)
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57 comments
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Researchers Hack Blood cells into Stem Cells
(medicalxpress.com)
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8 comments
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5 Principles for Applying Machine Learning Techniques
(blog.factual.com)
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11 comments
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Plugins in C
(eli.thegreenplace.net)
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10 comments
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Paralympic athletes who harm themselves to perform better
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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27 comments
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Hacking Instagram: release your photos under Creative Commons
(i-am-cc.org)
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20 comments
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Your Scientific Reasoning Is More Flawed Than You Think
(www.scientificamerican.com)
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22 comments
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Why we stopped raising until we no longer need the money
(www.techfounder.net)
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32 comments
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Daring Fireball: Sharing the Stage
(daringfireball.net)
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Ask HN: How do aquihires work?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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37 comments
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Does Working From Home Work? Evidence From a Chinese Experiment
(www.econ.brown.edu)
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49 comments
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India’s SMS Hoax Panic: Could It Happen In The U.S.?
(techcrunch.com)
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17 comments
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Apple and Samsung both get South Korea bans
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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15 comments
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Why is Twitter Destroying Itself?
(www.theatlantic.com)
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22 comments
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Third-party compilers locked out of Windows Runtime development
(www.itwriting.com)
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VMware launches Fusion 5
(www.appleinsider.com)
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40 comments
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Freemium is alive and kicking
(www.davidgcohen.com)
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12 comments
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What the heck does "pythonic" mean?
(halitalptekin.tumblr.com)
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19 comments
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Korea jury reaches split decision, Apple guilty of infringing 2 Samsung patents
(thenextweb.com)
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35 comments
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Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps
(www.tambur.io)
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32 comments
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Solar 'poster boy' startup may be forced out of business
(www.cnn.com)
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16 comments
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One-molecule-thick material has big advantages
(web.mit.edu)
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12 comments
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California state legislature approves Location Privacy Act
(arstechnica.com)
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2 comments
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Our favorite "forgotten tech"
(arstechnica.com)
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47 comments
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Toro - a php micro-router with great examples
(github.com)
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48 comments
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Helm: Open Source Real Time Discussions
(www.indiegogo.com)
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19 comments
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Hardware Disruption: Same Movie, Different Era
(amandapeyton.com)
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9 comments
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Using RubyMotion to Build JavaScript Based iOS Apps
(www.willprater.me)
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11 comments
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How to Upgrade a Legacy Heroku Database - without downtime
(blog.sendhub.com)
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13 comments
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Show HN: Fowndr.com Launched - A community of startup founders
(stugreen.com)
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13 comments
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Cloning the MakerBot Is Legal, But Does That Make It Right?
(www.wired.com)
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45 comments
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An IP lawyer on patents, trolls, and entrepreneurship
(www.inc.com)
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13 comments
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German 'porn pirates' to be publicly named
(www.bbc.com)
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22 comments
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Siri Is The New Clippy
(techcrunch.com)
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8 comments
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The feature supported in IE6, but not Chrome
(blog.thomseddon.co.uk)
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39 comments
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RICON2012 Talks Announced; Brewer, Hellerstein, Flake To Keynote
(basho.com)
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0 comments
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Writing a science fiction novel is like launching a startup
(morlockpublishing.com)
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9 comments
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Tell People What You Like (Not Just What You Don't)
(www.zachboerger.com)
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13 comments
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Hacker homes: Would you couchsurf Kansas City just to get Google Fiber?
(arstechnica.com)
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13 comments
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With SOPA gone, setting Internet advocacy’s next stop
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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0 comments
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Reddit's Alexis Ohanian Plans Bus Tour To Make Internet Freedom A Campaign Issue
(www.forbes.com)
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0 comments
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Mixing Objective-C and Ruby
(clayallsopp.com)
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4 comments
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OTL: The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis
(sports.espn.go.com)
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8 comments
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WebEngage is serving over 100 million widget requests per month
(blog.webengage.com)
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3 comments
0
MacBook Pro Mountain Lion Battery Life: 10.7 vs 10.8 vs 10.8.1
(www.macobserver.com)
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7 comments
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Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs
(http://www.kloudcalc.com)
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12 comments
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YC W12 startups' hosting decisions
(syskall.com)
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10 comments
0
Should developers be sued for security holes?
(www.techrepublic.com)
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30 comments
0
DHH: Speaking Again and Making Way to Many Assumptions - Curtis McHale
(curtismchale.ca)
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10 comments
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Meet the 7 Startups at StudentRND this Summer
(www.geekwire.com)
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0 comments
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A Raspberry Pi pentesting suite
(github.com)
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2 comments
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Physicists suggest selfishness can pay
(www.nature.com)
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4 comments
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Ask HN: I make $8/hour and can't pay for college. Any advice?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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14 comments
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BootstrapDocs: Twitter Bootstrap documentation archive
(bootstrapdocs.com)
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4 comments
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NBD, SoundCloud built a hovercraft during their first internal hack weekend
(blog.soundcloud.com)
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2 comments
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The Professional Employer
(blog.markrendle.net)
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0 comments
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Steve Blank's Lean Launchpad coming to Udacity
(www.udacity.com)
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0 comments
0
Introduction to jQuery UI Training Course (w/ 19 free videos)
(mrbool.com)
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2 comments
0
Steps to become a good hacker?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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13 comments
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The Socialist Republic of Twitter
(diegobasch.com)
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13 comments
0
Armstrong Drops Fight Against Doping Charges
(www.nytimes.com)
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0 comments
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Dear HN: What interesting algorithms would you like to read about?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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3 comments
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US testing surveillance balloons on Mexico border
(phys.org)
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2 comments
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Microsoft Unveils a New Look
(blogs.technet.com)
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0 comments
0
Apple vs. Samsung: inside a jury's nightmare
(www.theverge.com)
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0 comments
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Why I Left Facebook After 7 Years, But Was Forced Back In
(www.techspot.com)
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2 comments
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JQuery Zoomer - Provides live previews by scaling iFrames
(dev.hubspot.com)
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0 comments
0
SmartThings - Home automation for devs and makers
(news.ycombinator.com)
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0 comments
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Ask HN: Does Google consider .../somepage/ different from .../somepage?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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3 comments
0
Suddenly, Startups Have Gotten Very Boring
(www.businessinsider.com)
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0 comments
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Clipstream G2: JavaScript video player
(www.dsny.com)
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4 comments
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Perfecting the DateRange Picker
(blog.kangacruise.com)
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0 comments
0
Ask HN: What is good conversion from trial to paid for SaaS?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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0 comments
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Spotlight on Startups: AnyPerk (YC W12) provides free perks to your employees
(sproutsocial.com)
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0 comments
0
Ask HN: Feedback about idea/prototype
(news.ycombinator.com)
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4 comments
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Accelerator.IO - Online Startup Accelerator
(signup.accelerator.io)
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0 comments
0
10x Insertion Performance for MongoDB with Fractal Trees
(www.tokutek.com)
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0 comments
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India’s SMS Ban Demonstrates the Difficulty of Controlling Digital Information
(spectrum.ieee.org)
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0 comments
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Family Tree of Languages Has Roots in Anatolia, Biologists Say
(www.nytimes.com)
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0 comments
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Rocket Science and the Law of Demeter
(practicingruby.com)
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0 comments
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Ask HN: Please critique my cover letter and settle a debate
(news.ycombinator.com)
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10 comments
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Martin Luther King tape found in attic
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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0 comments
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Show HN: My Sticker Calendar App is on iTunes
(itunes.apple.com)
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3 comments
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3D Paper Infographics
(www.behance.net)
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0 comments
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Dust: An Elysian Tail: One animator’s 3.5 year quest to create his dream game
(arstechnica.com)
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2 comments
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Internet 2012 Bus Tour
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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0 comments
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Who's up for a beer tonight near Palo Alto?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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3 comments
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Supercoder 2000 Keyboard
(www.gizmodiva.com)
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0 comments
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Illinois Intern Takes on Silicon Valley
(refer.ly)
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0 comments
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Ask HN: Why do Makefiles typically not include an uninstall script?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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6 comments
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All You Have to Do Is Ask: How to Hire Smart People Everywhere
(blog.redfin.com)
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0 comments
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Autodesk down 22% in after-hours trading on disastrous earnings
(venturebeat.com)
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0 comments
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How Bobby Fischer (Briefly) Changed America
(www.bloomberg.com)
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0 comments
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UNESCO Says Monopolization of Information Puts Barriers to a Better Life
(www.eff.org)
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0 comments
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6 Lessons I Learned as a Crappy Bootstrap
(mumblemunki.com)
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0 comments
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Question about Iphone apps development platform
(news.ycombinator.com)
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3 comments
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Lance Armstrong stripped of titles, banned for life
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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0 comments
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Interview on Rust, a Systems Programming Language Developed by Mozilla
(www.infoq.com)
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Death to the $700k Seed Round
(davidcummings.org)
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0 comments
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Ubuntu 12:04 with Webmin: Bootup and Shutdown Module
(beginlinux.com)
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0 comments
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How to use Ruby like PHP
(gist.github.com)
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0 comments
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Ask HN: Seeing posts from 100 days ago within the top 125, anyone seen this?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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5 comments
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Facebook, Find My iPhone
(erickerr.com)
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3 comments
0
Lightweight Javascript Constructors with Inheritance
(gist.github.com)
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0 comments
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Why you still don't have a technical co-founder
(startupbeat.com)
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3 comments
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Motorola Droid M launches soon on Verizon Wireless for $149.99
(www.bgr.com)
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0 comments
0
AWS Glacier's dazzling price benefits melt next to the cost of tape
(www.zdnet.com)
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2 comments
0
Ask HN: What's the biggest pain in the a** when you're using APIs?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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2 comments
0
Why Apple's iCloud Doesn't Just Work
(www.readwriteweb.com)
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0 comments
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I made a game (Python in 30 Days - Day 11)
(rodriguezcommaj.com)
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0 comments
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CloudSpring | Parse StackMob and Kinvey at WAR
(cloudspring.com)
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0 comments
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Ask HN: Digitalizing board games?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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6 comments
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Haiku Deck - visual presentations, photo support by Chute (W12)
(blog.getchute.com)
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2 comments
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In Japan, Mobile Startups Take Gaming To Next Level
(www.npr.org)
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0 comments
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AT&T, have you no shame?
(arstechnica.com)
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0 comments
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Amazon prepares to collect Calif. sales tax
(www.ocregister.com)
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0 comments
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Ask HN: Do you have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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0 comments
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Multiple Sclerosis Cure?
(www.abc.net.au)
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Why COBOL is (almost) worth learning
(jesusabdullah.github.com)
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0 comments
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Fast String Searching Using C++ STL Vectors in C#
(www.codeproject.com)
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The DVD Is Dying. Hollywood's Plan? Do Nothing And Cede Ground To File Sharing
(www.techdirt.com)
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Come hack the auto industry at CarWoo - Product Manager (YCS09)
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Freshplum looking for relentlessly resourceful business/sales intern (SF)
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Like to chat? PlanGrid is looking for a part-time support person.
(news.ycombinator.com)
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