hackerNews

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Wolfram Alpha: personal analytics from your Facebook social graph (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

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"100% of our production system is now running Go" (groups.google.com)

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New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Just Scroll (www2.nissan.co.jp)

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Robot cars on public roads? California says yes (arstechnica.com)

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Square Open Sources PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps (corner.squareup.com)

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Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes (www.wired.com)

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The Cooper Journal: The best interface is no interface (www.cooper.com)

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HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe (arstechnica.com)

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Amit’s Thoughts on Grids (www-cs-students.stanford.edu)

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Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Why Johnny can't stream: How video copyright went insane (arstechnica.com)

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Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program. (orangethirty.blogspot.com)

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Silicon Valley Is Filled With Liars (nickoneill.com)

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Apple loses patent claim against Samsung in Tokyo court (ibnlive.in.com)

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Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part II) (www.250bpm.com)

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I've finally implemented the command I keep typing all day: gti (r-wos.org)

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Researchers Believe They Have Found a Single Dose Cure for Malaria (newswatch.nationalgeographic.com)

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BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullsh*t is in your text (www.blablameter.com)

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The Switch from Heroku to Hardware (justcramer.com)

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Introducing human.io (joshua.schachter.org)

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Patents considered evil (www.ipocracy.org)

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Qt 5 Beta has been released (labs.qt.nokia.com)

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$21,243 in 8 Days: Why AppSumo is Going to Keep Crushing It (www.clickminded.com)

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Parsing with Haskell and Attoparsec (newartisans.com)

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There’s a Lift for that (blog.lift.do)

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The Top TED talks for startups (venturebeat.com)

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Show HN: I'm building a webapp for serious cyclists (www.cyclinganalytics.com)

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Harvard investigates 125 students for cheating on final exam (bostonglobe.com)

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D3 - Languages and Color (blog.crowdflower.com)

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Lessons Learned: The First Hire (reefpoints.dockyard.com)

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Putative class action against PayPal for holding sellers' money (www.complexlitgroup.com)

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Predicting the “iPad Mini” internals (www.marco.org)

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Facebook: Updates to the Graph API (developers.facebook.com)

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Building The Linux Kernel With LLVM/Clang Continues (www.phoronix.com)

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Everything you know about China is wrong (www.foreignpolicy.com)

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This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation (inspiration.appflo.ws)

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BYTE Interview With Richard Stallman (1986) (www.gnu.org)

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Ask HN: Apple closed our entire app store (news.ycombinator.com)

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ReactiveMongo for Scala: Unleashing MongoDB Streaming power for Realtime Web (stephane.godbillon.com)

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Kindle Fire is sold out forever, Kindle Fire 2 expected next week (www.geek.com)

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Apple, Google reportedly in patent truce talks (techcrunch.com)

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27” Retina math (www.marco.org)

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Data mining local radio with Node.js (evanmuehlhausen.com)

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Protecting sshd using spiped (www.daemonology.net)

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Why I dropped out of college for Y Combinator (brandonpaton.com)

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Digg Archive lets you download your old data (digg.com)

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Setting up SPDY to speed up your Rails App on Nginx (blog.bubbleideas.com)

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Vim is now a more popular topic than emacs on HN (hntrends.jerodsanto.net)

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Introduction to CSS - CSS/CSS3 Course - Part 1 (mrbool.com)

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RubyMotion Success Story: Cabify (blog.rubymotion.com)

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One on One (bhorowitz.com)

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Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents (www.nytimes.com)

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REST – Epic Semantic Fail (mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk)

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TextDrive is Back (joyent.com)

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Records Point to Credit Card Fraud By Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein (betabeat.com)

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Rules for shared working spaces (founderware.co)

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Anatomy of an (un)fundable startup (venturehacks.com)

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The UK government's Github (github.com)

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Sebastian Thrun and Google's Driverless Car (video) (techtalks.tv)

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Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook (blog.wolframalpha.com)

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Napkin - A Rapid Web Prototyping Tool (napkin.noodletalk.org)

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Bootstrapping a Software Company (www.klhess.com)

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What numbers and a new book tell us about the Y Combinator way (gigaom.com)

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D-style Mixins in C# (blogs.jetbrains.com)

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Spend the 3 day weekend hacking big data - win $1000 cash + other prizes (commoncrawl.org)

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Enhancing Angular.js with Trigger.io Forge (trigger.io)

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How my Sister and Girlfriend learned Coding (blog.songz.me)

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A Glimpse Into The Future Of Riak at RICON 2012 (gist.io)

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C++11: A generic singleton (enki-tech.blogspot.fr)

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CSS3 image filters with examples (coderwall.com)

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San Diego: join us for SD Hacker News meetup #32 (Fri 8/31) (anyvite.com)

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A Startup That Could Actually Change The American Education System (Clever S12) (www.businessinsider.com)

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Evaluate Scheme in Ruby's virtual machine (gist.github.com)

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Show HN: JamPad (jampad.chaoscollective.org)

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Show HN: Marauders Map (Circle Hackathon) (discovercircle.com)

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Strace - The Sysadmin's Microscope (2010) (blogs.oracle.com)

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Here come the Windows 8 hybrid all-in-one ultrabook tablet transformers (www.extremetech.com)

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JQuery Gantt editor - patch released (roberto.open-lab.com)

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How to use Google AdSense Ads on Responsive Websites (www.labnol.org)

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Instant Reaction to Paul Ryan at the RNC (via Google Consumer Surveys) (www.google.com)

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Apple's Genius Bar Manual That Teaches its Employees How To Manipulate Customers (www.slate.com)

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Code Like a Chef: Work Clean (www.tablexi.com)

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Stanford researchers' cooling glove 'better than steroids' (news.stanford.edu)

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Mobile Testing Summit: Rise of the Machines (sauceio.com)

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Facebook co-founder Moskovitz scrambles to offload his shares (www.theregister.co.uk)

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The National Security Agency’s Domestic Spying Program (www.nytimes.com)

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Steve Jobs: Unseen Images by Norman Seeff 1984 (www.retronaut.co)

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Vibease helps couples to Stay Intimate. Private social app + Bluetooth massager (play.google.com)

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Areion: The 3D printed racer which reaches 88mph (www.smartplanet.com)

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/r/IAmA traffic traffic during President Obama's IAmA (www.reddit.com)

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Microsonic Landscapes - visualizing music in physical form (www.realitat.com)

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What are your million dollar ideas that you are too lazy to implement? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Do you know your web browser's version? (betanews.com)

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Chart of the day, Apple vs Microsoft edition (Market Cap v P/E Ratio) (www.felixsalmon.com)

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Analyzing the Top Python Projects on Github (mjp.github.com)

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How I improved my Hacker News experience (www.youtube.com)

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Bradley Manning Trial Set for February 4 (www.securityweek.com)

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146 Planned APIs from 19 Fed Depts & Agencies as Part of Digital Strategy (www.apievangelist.com)

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Disease research lab, DeRisi uses 3D Printing to make custom tools (www.stratasys.com)

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Oracle issues emergency Java patch (www.scmagazine.com.au)

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Self.HackerNews - Just wanted to say thanks (news.ycombinator.com)

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TextDrive is Back (discuss.joyent.com)

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Bruce Lee’s Tips for Being Successful in Life and Business (www.wakeupcloud.com)

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One Line CSS Mobile Framework (www.vcarrer.com)

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Why not release earlier? (blog.iterate.no)

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Parody - Apple kills Star Trek (www.youtube.com)

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Is The QR Code Dead? (interactionworks.com)

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Lossless and Transparency Modes in WebP (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)

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Show HN: Fallen: A simpler daemon library for Ruby processes. (inkel.github.com)

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Towards A More Robust And Powerful CrunchBase API (techcrunch.com)

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Reddit AMA: I make over $1 million / year in revenue with drop shipping business (www.reddit.com)

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Facebook launches FQL-like extensions to Graph API. (developers.facebook.com)

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Ask HN: WordPress plugins to submit new posts to HN automatically? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Startup lessons from Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann (venturebeat.com)

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Show HN: My first webapp. Yikes! Read and Post Stories anonymously (www.sam-the-man.com)

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Show HN: GitStars - A better way to organize your GitHub starred repositories (www.gitstars.com)

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MQTT :"Internet of Things" connectivity protocol being used by Facebook (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Why Johnny can't stream: How video copyright went insane (arstechnica.com)

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Fantastic Programming Advice - What You Really Do For A Living (forrestkyle.blogspot.com)

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Online access to Norwegian literature from the entire 20th century (www.kopinor.no)

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Dropbox is unavailable (www.dropbox.com)

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Ask HN: What drives comments on "Show HN" threads? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Using Writing Smells to Refactor Your Email (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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268x Query Performance for MongoDB with Fractal Tree Indexes (Say What?) (www.tokutek.com)

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HAL - A lean hypermedia type. (stateless.co)

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Sugar Found In Space: A Sign of Life? (news.nationalgeographic.com)

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Video: The Rise of NoSQL & Polyglot Persistence (mrkn.co)

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Conway's Game of Life in Scala ( and Clojure ) (www.jasq.org)

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Samsung: If Apple Releases an LTE iPhone, We’re Ready to Sue – Droid Life (www.droid-life.com)

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Sprout: A Pencil with a Seed (www.kickstarter.com)

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Amazon teams with Nokia, snubs Google for maps (finance.yahoo.com)

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Growth Hack: how to contact the CEO (dragonflylist.com)

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Workday Files for IPO (S-1 document) (www.sec.gov)

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The tale of creating a git mirror for Mozilla (ehsanakhgari.org)

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Ask HN for help - JavaScript newbie with a problem. (www.solipsys.co.uk)

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Can you patent a hyperlink? Patent trolls sure think so (www.extremetech.com)

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Kiva adds India, funds 100 percent of Indian borrowers (www.kiva.org)

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Evolution of SoundCloud’s Architecture (backstage.soundcloud.com)

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Creating a Perl web application on dotCloud (blogs.perl.org)

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What Death Taught Me About Life (www.dailygood.org)

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Oracle releases patch for Java vulnerability (www.oracle.com)

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Atari Arcade: Classic Games Reimagined in HTML5 (gskinner.com)

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Ask HN: Turning an existing mobile site into an app (news.ycombinator.com)

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Authy - easy two factor auth for websites (www.authy.com)

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DHS continues pursuit of crowd surveillance with Terahertz technology (www.epic.org)

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Best Mars panorama yet (www.panoramas.dk)

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A Rakudo Debugger (6guts.wordpress.com)

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Jquery is not a monad (coder.cl)

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Ruby 1.9's String (blog.grayproductions.net)