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A device with a touchscreen and few buttons *was* obvious (www.osnews.com)

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The coming civil war over general purpose computing (boingboing.net)

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Show HN: Business.txt - Standard Proposal (github.com)

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Dropbox Introduces 2-Factor Authentication (www.dropbox.com)

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Best Open Python Books (http://pythonbooks.revolunet.com)

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My Evil Undead Credit Card (uncrunched.com)

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NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites (www.nasa.gov)

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Lisp-like html as a replacement to bbcode/markup/textile (94.249.190.129)

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An Immune Disorder at the Root of Autism (www.nytimes.com)

128 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082800 96 comments

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Growth Hacking 101: Your First 500,000 Users (www.slideshare.net)

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Dark matter scaffolding of universe detected for the first time (ns.umich.edu)

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New Java 0-day exploit spotted in the wild. (blog.fireeye.com)

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6

How to Sell Your Company (www.jacquesmattheij.com)

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Gardens as crypto-water-computers (pruned.blogspot.com)

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Top Surprises When Starting Out as a Software Developer (henrikwarne.com)

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Darpa Has Seen the Future of Computing ... And It's Analog (www.wired.com)

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How a business with 400 employees, 16 US offices failed in 3 days doing charity (blogs.hbr.org)

91 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082800 34 comments

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How RESTful is Your API? (www.bitnative.com)

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Why Arrested Development on Netflix could change everything (gigaom.com)

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Best of "Ask HN" (www.hnsearch.com)

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School of Hard Knocks: ‘How Children Succeed,’ by Paul Tough (www.nytimes.com)

69 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082800 31 comments

14

JFK's Application to Harvard (www.scribd.com)

68 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082800 58 comments

13

Do Plants Think? (www.scientificamerican.com)

65 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082812 49 comments

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The first Sea Steading ship (www.seasteading.org)

62 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082800 37 comments

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The Oatmeal has raised over $1.1M for a Nikola Tesla museum (venturebeat.com)

60 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082800 17 comments

42

The Exodus of Tech from Portugal (the.taoofmac.com)

59 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082800 106 comments

22

Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)

58 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082800 43 comments

19

Light Table (Kodowa) is hiring (kodowa.com)

56 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082800 19 comments

12

Mathematical Challenges (www.darpa.mil)

54 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082800 25 comments

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Emacs Screencasts: Customisation Part II (emacsmovies.org)

53 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082800 17 comments

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Study finds hunter-gatherers' energy expenditure same as modern Westerners' (www.nytimes.com)

53 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082800 20 comments

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How TeX made it to the iOS App Store - running on DOS, inside an emulator (vallettaventures.com)

53 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082818 44 comments

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Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner (www.marco.org)

52 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082800 81 comments

17

Why Ant Foraging is like TCP (engineering.stanford.edu)

50 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082800 8 comments

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Python Module of the Week (www.doughellmann.com)

42 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082812 4 comments

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VMWare will join OpenStack (gigaom.com)

35 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082800 3 comments

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Google+ WILL Dominate Facebook - Here's Why (plus.google.com)

34 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082721 52 comments

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Parsing Wikipedia Articles with Node.js and jQuery (github.com)

31 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082800 10 comments

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School of Hard Knocks: ‘How Children Succeed,’ by Paul Tough (www.nytimes.com)

30 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082712 12 comments

18

Comparing Intel HD 2000/3000/4000 Linux Graphics (www.phoronix.com)

30 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082800 23 comments

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Ask HN: What are your side projects? (news.ycombinator.com)

29 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082800 33 comments

30

The Life Story of Nikola Tesla (Documentary) (www.kickstarter.com)

27 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082800 4 comments

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"True Do" - An idea. (spotbloq.blogspot.de)

26 points first seen 2012082700 last seen 2012082715 24 comments

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A Startup Education (brianbailey.me)

25 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082800 5 comments

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35 innovators under 35 (www.technologyreview.com)

24 points first seen 2012082700 last seen 2012082721 4 comments

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Good job Apple. You fucked the world... (www.baekdal.com)

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The Best Reviews Money Can Buy (www.nytimes.com)

23 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082800 0 comments

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Can we make sceintific research software accountable? (bytesizebio.net)

21 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082800 7 comments

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Precedence parsing made simpler (blogs.perl.org)

18 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082715 0 comments

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How TV Networks flubbed coverage of Neil Armstrong's passing (www.sfgate.com)

17 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082800 13 comments

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Anonymous Affinity Group Leaks One Million Accounts and Records (anonymousnews.blogs.ru)

13 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082706 3 comments

58

Surprisingly modern graffiti from the walls of Pompeii (pompeiana.org)

10 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082721 5 comments

65

Ask HN: frameworks vs native apps (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2012082700 last seen 2012082706 13 comments

60

How free apps can make more money than paid apps. (techcrunch.com)

8 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082712 0 comments

0

Show HN: PillHQ - My first web app - Reminders to take your medications (http://www.pillhq.com)

8 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082706 19 comments

0

16-year-old builds his own home. (www.wimp.com)

8 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082706 0 comments

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Whole Earth Catalog Fall 1968 - Electronic Edition (www.wholeearth.com)

8 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082721 2 comments

62

Activist Challenges a Sweeping Revision in Patent Law (www.nytimes.com)

8 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082715 0 comments

14

Vanilla JS, fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework! (vanilla-js.com)

7 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2022051115 5 comments

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Uber and the Delicate Business of Creating a Platform (blogs.hbr.org)

7 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082715 2 comments

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Simplifying Isosurfaces (0fps.wordpress.com)

7 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082721 0 comments

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Show HN: appspydr.com - xcode/iPhone programming resource search engine (news.ycombinator.com)

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Scrollable-layer.js - simple & easy layer maker js lib (www.katsuyan.me)

6 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082800 0 comments

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Google distances itself from Apple-Samsung ruling (thenextweb.com)

6 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082800 0 comments

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Man who worked on Apollo missions claims it is Neil in the picture (www.reddit.com)

5 points first seen 2012082700 last seen 2012082700 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Disrupt Housing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Apple Tax (Part II) (www.mondaynote.com)

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Good logging practice in Python (victorlin.me)

5 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082712 0 comments

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Multitouch remote for a robot: 200 lines of JavaScript & Python (matt.might.net)

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Integrating Sendgrid with CodeIgniter (roomforcreativity.wordpress.com)

5 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082800 2 comments

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Your Facebook Friend Just Joined (yongfook.com)

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America May Have Too Many College Graduates (www.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: dbinbox.com - an inbox for your Dropbox (weekend project) (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082706 0 comments

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Dropbox is testing two-factor authentication (forums.dropbox.com)

4 points first seen 2012082706 last seen 2012082706 2 comments

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D3 Show Reel (bl.ocks.org)

4 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082715 0 comments

0

Does Copyright Matter? (www.nybooks.com)

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Cocoa Literature List (osx.hyperjeff.net)

4 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082715 0 comments

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What I've Learned During My Summer in YC (roycyang.tumblr.com)

4 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082715 0 comments

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I keep typing "www.hackernews.com" (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082721 7 comments

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What is happening to Joyent and Node.JS by Isaac Z. Schlueter (www.quora.com)

4 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082721 0 comments

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Copying pays (pandodaily.com)

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Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low Extent (www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu)

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TextDown: Markdown editor for Chrome (brettterpstra.com)

3 points first seen 2012082712 last seen 2012082712 5 comments

0

Late Labs: A ‘Crowdcoding’ Site Where Developers Trade Code For Equity (techcrunch.com)

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0

With WikiLeaks On Ice, What Has Happened To All Those Digital Whistleblowers? (www.rferl.org)

3 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082715 0 comments

0

Which Browser Offers the Most Secure Password Storage? (threatpost.com)

3 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082715 0 comments

0

The Cilk Project (supertech.csail.mit.edu)

3 points first seen 2012082715 last seen 2012082715 0 comments

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A Father Of High-Speed Trading Discusses Its History (www.npr.org)

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When Your Seed Round Is A Party, Few People Have Fun (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082800 0 comments

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About the 'Test Mercenaries' group at Google (mike-bland.com)

3 points first seen 2012082721 last seen 2012082800 0 comments

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Startup handles 100 million calls for Open Science, per month (www.heraldonline.com)

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Like non-sexy problems? Well-funded start-up is hiring engineers. (SF) (news.ycombinator.com)

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