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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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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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How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life (stoicjesterstudios.com)

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A Faster Facebook for iOS (newsroom.fb.com)

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Why you should not be displaying relative dates. (aaronparecki.com)

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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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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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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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Chinese dev steals US HTML5 Game engine, US hosts won't close down the copy (www.techinasia.com)

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John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (blogs.uw.edu)

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Why I am tired of writing pull requests (gist.io)

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An Interview with DuckDuckGo's founder, Gabriel Weinberg (www.techspot.com)

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What Jamie Wong did at Khan Academy (jamie-wong.com)

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My Paleo Media Diet (radar.oreilly.com)

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The Cheapest Generation (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Software Engineering of Mathematica (reference.wolfram.com)

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Prismatic for iPhone is now live in the App Store (getprismatic.com)

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What HN Users Use (45% Mac, 63% Chrome) (www.dangrossman.info)

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PeerTalk: iOS and OS X Cocoa library for communicating over USB (rsms.me)

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Selling $2,000+ Worth Of My Unfinished Book (planscope.io)

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DragonFly BSD 2.6: towards a free clustering operating system (lwn.net)

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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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Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City (www.homesforhackers.com)

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Pew Study: The Economy is lagging because the middle class is broke (finance.yahoo.com)

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How YC S12 Companies Make Money (blog.imranghory.org)

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Apple and Samsung Should Fight in the Marketplace, not the Courtroom (www.eff.org)

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Who's afraid of Solar PV? (theconversation.edu.au)

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Researchers Hack Blood cells into Stem Cells (medicalxpress.com)

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5 Principles for Applying Machine Learning Techniques (blog.factual.com)

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Plugins in C (eli.thegreenplace.net)

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Paralympic athletes who harm themselves to perform better (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Hacking Instagram: release your photos under Creative Commons (i-am-cc.org)

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Your Scientific Reasoning Is More Flawed Than You Think (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Why we stopped raising until we no longer need the money (www.techfounder.net)

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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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Does Working From Home Work? Evidence From a Chinese Experiment (www.econ.brown.edu)

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India’s SMS Hoax Panic: Could It Happen In The U.S.? (techcrunch.com)

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Apple and Samsung both get South Korea bans (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Why is Twitter Destroying Itself? (www.theatlantic.com)

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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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Freemium is alive and kicking (www.davidgcohen.com)

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What the heck does "pythonic" mean? (halitalptekin.tumblr.com)

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Korea jury reaches split decision, Apple guilty of infringing 2 Samsung patents (thenextweb.com)

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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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Solar 'poster boy' startup may be forced out of business (www.cnn.com)

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One-molecule-thick material has big advantages (web.mit.edu)

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California state legislature approves Location Privacy Act (arstechnica.com)

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Our favorite "forgotten tech" (arstechnica.com)

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Toro - a php micro-router with great examples (github.com)

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Helm: Open Source Real Time Discussions (www.indiegogo.com)

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Hardware Disruption: Same Movie, Different Era (amandapeyton.com)

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Using RubyMotion to Build JavaScript Based iOS Apps (www.willprater.me)

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How to Upgrade a Legacy Heroku Database - without downtime (blog.sendhub.com)

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Show HN: Fowndr.com Launched - A community of startup founders (stugreen.com)

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Cloning the MakerBot Is Legal, But Does That Make It Right? (www.wired.com)

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An IP lawyer on patents, trolls, and entrepreneurship (www.inc.com)

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German 'porn pirates' to be publicly named (www.bbc.com)

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Siri Is The New Clippy (techcrunch.com)

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The feature supported in IE6, but not Chrome (blog.thomseddon.co.uk)

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RICON2012 Talks Announced; Brewer, Hellerstein, Flake To Keynote (basho.com)

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Writing a science fiction novel is like launching a startup (morlockpublishing.com)

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Tell People What You Like (Not Just What You Don't) (www.zachboerger.com)

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Hacker homes: Would you couchsurf Kansas City just to get Google Fiber? (arstechnica.com)

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With SOPA gone, setting Internet advocacy’s next stop (www.washingtonpost.com)

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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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Mixing Objective-C and Ruby (clayallsopp.com)

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OTL: The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis (sports.espn.go.com)

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WebEngage is serving over 100 million widget requests per month (blog.webengage.com)

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MacBook Pro Mountain Lion Battery Life: 10.7 vs 10.8 vs 10.8.1 (www.macobserver.com)

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Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs (http://www.kloudcalc.com)

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YC W12 startups' hosting decisions (syskall.com)

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Should developers be sued for security holes? (www.techrepublic.com)

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DHH: Speaking Again and Making Way to Many Assumptions - Curtis McHale (curtismchale.ca)

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Meet the 7 Startups at StudentRND this Summer (www.geekwire.com)

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A Raspberry Pi pentesting suite (github.com)

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Physicists suggest selfishness can pay (www.nature.com)

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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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BootstrapDocs: Twitter Bootstrap documentation archive (bootstrapdocs.com)

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NBD, SoundCloud built a hovercraft during their first internal hack weekend (blog.soundcloud.com)

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The Professional Employer (blog.markrendle.net)

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Steve Blank's Lean Launchpad coming to Udacity (www.udacity.com)

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Introduction to jQuery UI Training Course (w/ 19 free videos) (mrbool.com)

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Steps to become a good hacker? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Socialist Republic of Twitter (diegobasch.com)

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Armstrong Drops Fight Against Doping Charges (www.nytimes.com)

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Dear HN: What interesting algorithms would you like to read about? (news.ycombinator.com)

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US testing surveillance balloons on Mexico border (phys.org)

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Microsoft Unveils a New Look (blogs.technet.com)

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Apple vs. Samsung: inside a jury's nightmare (www.theverge.com)

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Why I Left Facebook After 7 Years, But Was Forced Back In (www.techspot.com)

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JQuery Zoomer - Provides live previews by scaling iFrames (dev.hubspot.com)

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SmartThings - Home automation for devs and makers (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Does Google consider .../somepage/ different from .../somepage? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Suddenly, Startups Have Gotten Very Boring (www.businessinsider.com)

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Clipstream G2: JavaScript video player (www.dsny.com)

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Perfecting the DateRange Picker (blog.kangacruise.com)

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Ask HN: What is good conversion from trial to paid for SaaS? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Spotlight on Startups: AnyPerk (YC W12) provides free perks to your employees (sproutsocial.com)

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Ask HN: Feedback about idea/prototype (news.ycombinator.com)

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Accelerator.IO - Online Startup Accelerator (signup.accelerator.io)

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10x Insertion Performance for MongoDB with Fractal Trees (www.tokutek.com)

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India’s SMS Ban Demonstrates the Difficulty of Controlling Digital Information (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Family Tree of Languages Has Roots in Anatolia, Biologists Say (www.nytimes.com)

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Rocket Science and the Law of Demeter (practicingruby.com)

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Ask HN: Please critique my cover letter and settle a debate (news.ycombinator.com)

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Martin Luther King tape found in attic (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: My Sticker Calendar App is on iTunes (itunes.apple.com)

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3D Paper Infographics (www.behance.net)

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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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Internet 2012 Bus Tour (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Who's up for a beer tonight near Palo Alto? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Supercoder 2000 Keyboard (www.gizmodiva.com)

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Illinois Intern Takes on Silicon Valley (refer.ly)

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Ask HN: Why do Makefiles typically not include an uninstall script? (news.ycombinator.com)

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All You Have to Do Is Ask: How to Hire Smart People Everywhere (blog.redfin.com)

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Autodesk down 22% in after-hours trading on disastrous earnings (venturebeat.com)

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How Bobby Fischer (Briefly) Changed America (www.bloomberg.com)

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UNESCO Says Monopolization of Information Puts Barriers to a Better Life (www.eff.org)

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6 Lessons I Learned as a Crappy Bootstrap (mumblemunki.com)

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Question about Iphone apps development platform (news.ycombinator.com)

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Lance Armstrong stripped of titles, banned for life (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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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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Ubuntu 12:04 with Webmin: Bootup and Shutdown Module (beginlinux.com)

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How to use Ruby like PHP (gist.github.com)

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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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Facebook, Find My iPhone (erickerr.com)

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Lightweight Javascript Constructors with Inheritance (gist.github.com)

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Why you still don't have a technical co-founder (startupbeat.com)

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Motorola Droid M launches soon on Verizon Wireless for $149.99 (www.bgr.com)

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AWS Glacier's dazzling price benefits melt next to the cost of tape (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: What's the biggest pain in the a** when you're using APIs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why Apple's iCloud Doesn't Just Work (www.readwriteweb.com)

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I made a game (Python in 30 Days - Day 11) (rodriguezcommaj.com)

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CloudSpring | Parse StackMob and Kinvey at WAR (cloudspring.com)

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Ask HN: Digitalizing board games? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Haiku Deck - visual presentations, photo support by Chute (W12) (blog.getchute.com)

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In Japan, Mobile Startups Take Gaming To Next Level (www.npr.org)

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AT&T, have you no shame? (arstechnica.com)

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Amazon prepares to collect Calif. sales tax (www.ocregister.com)

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Ask HN: Do you have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon? (news.ycombinator.com)

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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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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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