hackerNews

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AMA with Barack Obama (www.reddit.com)

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37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady (www.fastcompany.com)

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GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X (www.petapixel.com)

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John Hunter [matplotlib.sourceforge.net] has died. (mail.scipy.org)

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Yehuda Katz launches HN competitor - Lobsters (lobste.rs)

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Walking out of an interview (workplace.stackexchange.com)

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No Email (blog.harjtaggar.com)

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TechCrunch is a bully (www.lanewood.me)

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20 controversial programming opinions (programmers.blogoverflow.com)

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Deploying at GitHub (github.com)

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The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux (www.zdnet.com)

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Keep a programming journal (gist.github.com)

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Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982 (techchannel.att.com)

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What killed the Linux desktop (tirania.org)

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American law is patent nonsense (www.ft.com)

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Stripe CTF Writeup (blog.ioactive.com)

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Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js (trek.github.com)

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Tabasco Sort: a super-optimal merge sort (www.pvk.ca)

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What 10gen nailed with MongoDB (calv.info)

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How Reddit Got Obama (allthingsd.com)

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Hopefully more controversial programming opinions (prog21.dadgum.com)

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How To Cheat On Facebook Apps Permissions (homakov.blogspot.com)

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What It's Like for a Deaf Person to Hear Music for the First Time (www.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: Coding.fm - Raining.fm for coders (coding.fm)

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Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing The Feature It Sued PadMapper For Adding (www.techdirt.com)

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Updated: We’ve Deleted Our Facebook Page (blog.limitedrun.com)

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Bringing Google+ to work (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)

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Ask President Barack Obama anything on Reddit (seriously) (venturebeat.com)

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TrustEgg (YC W11) Allows Anyone To Set Up A Trust For Their Kids (techcrunch.com)

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Teaching Kids to Love Math (online.wsj.com)

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Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision? (workplace.stackexchange.com)

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What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day (www.fastcompany.com)

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What Americans Actually Do All Day Long (www.npr.org)

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Google Enters The Social Enterprise With Public Debut Of Google+ For Businesses (techcrunch.com)

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Big 3D printing machine prints metal objects (www.theage.com.au)

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Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine (www.extremetech.com)

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Haxx.ly - remix any website with your own css/js to share with friends (http://www.haxx.ly)

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Low-Calorie Diet Doesn’t Prolong Life, Study of Monkeys Finds (www.nytimes.com)

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The Money/Time fallacy (thoughts.maayank.com)

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Twitter Launches “Twitter Certified Products” (techcrunch.com)

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RubyMotion Apps Styled with CSS (www.kickstarter.com)

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Building A Factory vs. Discovering A Goldmine (www.sebastianmarshall.com)

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Show HN: Simplest chat for platforms and marketplaces (gaglers.com)

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Scientists at MIT create mathematical model to predict alloy characteristics (www.innovationnewsdaily.com)

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Sauce Labs launches support for highly-secure OSX & iOS automated testing (techcrunch.com)

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Developers Vs. Bigcorp (www.techfounder.net)

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Braintree’s Payments Platform Launches Across Europe And Canada (techcrunch.com)

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Sony launches 20 inch tablet running Windows 8 (presscentre.sony.eu)

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Why the U.S. Wants To End the Link Between Time and Sun (online.wsj.com)

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Benchmarks of Cassandra, HBase, VoltDB, MySql, Voldemort and Redis (vldb.org)

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Samsung leapfrogs nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean (geeknizer.com)

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The Really Easy SEO Link Building Strategy For Startups (www.layeredthoughts.com)

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Apple vs. Samsung, and the rise of Windows Phone 8 (www.extremetech.com)

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How 3D Printing Is Inflaming The Gun Control Debate (www.readwriteweb.com)

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'Lulzsec hacker' latest to be arrested in US (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Simple Password Encrypted Files w/ GnuPG (runtime-era.blogspot.com)

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How to Ace Your Kickstarter Campaign (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Historical tribute and accurate remake of the original Pac-Man in Javascript (github.com)

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Visual programming means anyone can be a coder (www.newscientist.com)

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Lamer News (lamernews.com)

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Mac App Store taking two months to review my app (video) (www.darkheartfelt.com)

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Web2py 2.0 is out (groups.google.com)

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SEC Proposes New Rules for General Solicitation of Private Securities (www.stansburylegal.com)

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Munich Detonates WWII Bomb (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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Why is Clean Code suggesting avoiding protected variables? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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What Would an Entrepreneur-First Political Platform Really Look Like? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Patents and Juries (www.alertdebugging.com)

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Coderise: Teaching kids how to code in developing nations (www.indiegogo.com)

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Controlled detonation for WWII bomb found in Munich (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Kim Dotcom: More assets freed-up (tvnz.co.nz)

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Big Brother on a budget: How Internet surveillance got so cheap (arstechnica.com)

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How I lost 30 lbs (paulrouget.com)

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Inspiration or Plagiarism? (www.kashflow.com)

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Lift.do now accepts new members (lift.do)

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IPhone struggles to gain ground in China (money.cnn.com)

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MongoDB 2.2 Delivers Improved Analytics and Faster Performance (www.10gen.com)

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Calorie restriction does not seem to lengthen lifespan in primates (www.nature.com)

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Ready For This? GlassMap (YC S11) Maps Social Network Streams (www.informationweek.com)

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Anti-Pirates Caught Spying on Thousands of Torrents (torrentfreak.com)

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The char *apple[] Argument Vector (unixjunkie.blogspot.co.at)

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Reddit.com's code (github.com)

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Lazarus Free Pascal RAD IDE 1.0 is released (lazarus.freepascal.org)

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Show HN: Attach.io, a new way to simply share files (news.ycombinator.com)

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If I were running Twitter. (orangethirty.blogspot.com)

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What a Difference a Year Makes (the-witness.net)

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Double Robotics on NBC4's Today in LA (blog.doublerobotics.com)

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Why I'm not a founder (bleikamp.com)

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Overlay101: Contextual help for your webapp (http://www.overlay101.com)

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WordPress.com launches redesign (www.noeltock.com)

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Upstart leaves you with “exhausting the PID namespace” or rebooting the machine (gist.github.com)

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51 percent of people believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing (www.citrix.com)

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Complete Concurrent Garbage Collector on FPGA [pdf] (researcher.watson.ibm.com)

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Shattered Genius - Grigori Perelman (brettforrest.com)

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CS Research Breakthrough: Max flows in O(nm) time or better (jorlin.scripts.mit.edu)

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Thanks HN (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How did you learn Scala? And are you finding it useful? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Job Openings at Amazon Web Services Reveal Its Future (finance.yahoo.com)

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MATT TAIBBI: Greed and Debt - The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital (www.rollingstone.com)

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The Importance of Custom Code in an Ever-Changing Market (Part 3 of 5) (blog.stackmob.com)

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Show HN: Control iTunes (next/prev song) with your webcam, open sourcing soon (onthewallstudios.com)

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Oracle reportedly knew of critical Java bugs under attack for 4 months (arstechnica.com)

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200 pages on why Apple's multi-touch patent should be invalidated (www.scribd.com)

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Ask HN: Review my startup - chartburst.com (news.ycombinator.com)

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"The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got" with Andrei Alexandrescu (www.informit.com)

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HTML5 terminal w/ SSH, hit ESC on site to test (liftoffsoftware.com)

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How to Treat Life Like an Experiment (artofmanliness.com)

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Ask HN: What are you using to build new web apps? (news.ycombinator.com)

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When raising money, never need a yes and never, ever be surprised by a no (www.sneakerheadvc.com)

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Neopythonic: Before Python (neopythonic.blogspot.fr)

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Ask HN: Can you reduce New York LLC publication fee by using a registered agent? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Obama administration hikes CAFE fuel economy standard to 54.5 mpg (news.yahoo.com)

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Most Forked GitHub Repositories - Infographic (www.moretechtips.net)

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Braintree's Payments Platform Launches Across Europe And Canada (techcrunch.com)

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My Stripe CTF 2.0 walkthrough (jasiek.posterous.com)

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Digital Music Option Spotify Thrives in Shadow of Competitors (www.nytimes.com)

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How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome (blog.andrewboni.com)