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The Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (discovermagazine.com)
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Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop (wikiloopr.com)
285 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090400    159 comments 
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Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music (http://www.mixest.com)
212 points first seen 2012090112 last seen 2012090400    71 comments 
1
Flynn’s IQ (www.bryanappleyard.com)
194 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090321    135 comments 
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Tacocopter Basics (www.danshapiro.com)
190 points first seen 2012090121 last seen 2012090400    71 comments 
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Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook (dailycred.tumblr.com)
188 points first seen 2012090109 last seen 2012090400    96 comments 
10
Probabilistic Many-to-Many Relationships (w/ Bloom Filters) (blog.zacharyvoase.com)
174 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090303    39 comments 
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What powers Etsy (codeascraft.etsy.com)
158 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090306    41 comments 
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Amazon S3 - Cross Origin Resource Sharing Support (aws.typepad.com)
156 points first seen 2012090112 last seen 2012090321    43 comments 
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It's More Important to Be Kind Than Clever (www.dailygood.org)
154 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090306    71 comments 
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The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself (blogs.hbr.org)
140 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090303    34 comments 
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BranchOut Falsifies Wall Street Journal Quote (socialsplat.net)
138 points first seen 2012090115 last seen 2012090321    67 comments 
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Open webOS Beta Officially Released (blog.openwebosproject.org)
133 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090303    25 comments 
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Samsung/Apple Jury Foreman Shows He Doesn't Understand Prior Art (www.techdirt.com)
127 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090218    92 comments 
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Valve Finds Value In Open-Source Drivers (www.phoronix.com)
127 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090303    50 comments 
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Show HN: We built a voice to music AI app in 54 hours at a hackathon (blog.beatmaticapp.com)
123 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090303    56 comments 
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Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt? (dsog.info)
106 points first seen 2012090109 last seen 2012090203    126 comments 
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How Tracking Down My Stolen Computer Triggered a Drug Bust (blog.makezine.com)
105 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090303    62 comments 
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The humans who outrun horses (www.smh.com.au)
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Learn how to code a Facebook app in 20 minutes with PythonAnywhere (blog.pythonanywhere.com)
102 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090300    11 comments 
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Microsoft updates their Terms of Service to an easily readable Q&A format (windows.microsoft.com)
102 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090300    24 comments 
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An Introduction to Condition Handling for Non-Lispers (lubutu.com)
98 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090218    64 comments 
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Stop producing shit (mariusandra.com)
96 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090200    67 comments 
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Ex-Google hiring committee member about job interviewing (extroverteddeveloper.com)
86 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090300    63 comments 
9
Birds hold 'funerals' for dead (www.bbc.co.uk)
86 points first seen 2012090115 last seen 2012090300    30 comments 
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Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? (news.ycombinator.com)
85 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090106    77 comments 
8
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (www.magpictures.com)
84 points first seen 2012090115 last seen 2012090303    52 comments 
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Building Atari With CreateJS (atari.com)
80 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090300    11 comments 
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Apple Worked A Broken Patent System (www.informationweek.com)
77 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090206    49 comments 
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Please Stop Working on Ads (diegobasch.com)
73 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090200    73 comments 
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Mailrox - a web app to quickly build bulletproof HTML emails (www.mailrox.com)
72 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090103    40 comments 
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The challenges of Desktop Linux (blogs.gnome.org)
67 points first seen 2012090112 last seen 2012090206    71 comments 
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Woman recieves world's first bionic eye (www.theage.com.au)
65 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090200    12 comments 
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Predicting Churn: When Do Veterans Quit? (www.gamasutra.com)
65 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090200    32 comments 
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LG demonstrates wireless Linux Web pad at CeBIT (www.linuxfordevices.com)
64 points first seen 2012090118 last seen 2012090303    20 comments 
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Open Letter to Leo Burnett UK (asylumfilms.co.uk)
62 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090112    33 comments 
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Apple asks court to ban Samsung’s Galaxy Note and Galaxy S III from US (arstechnica.com)
61 points first seen 2012090118 last seen 2012090203    103 comments 
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Nutjob attempts to extort $35 computer from non-profit foundation (www.raspberrypi.org)
59 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090112    25 comments 
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Meteor 0.4.0: Introducing Spark (www.meteor.com)
59 points first seen 2012090109 last seen 2012090218    23 comments 
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Elli: Performance oriented web server (Written in Erlang) (www.wooga.com)
58 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090200    20 comments 
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Google Dublin Employees at Street View (maps.google.com)
57 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090106    29 comments 
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iOS Design Resources (nathanbarry.com)
57 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090200    7 comments 
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The Machine That Changed The World (waxy.org)
53 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090200    12 comments 
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Why I am no longer a skeptic (plover.net)
52 points first seen 2012090118 last seen 2012090121    69 comments 
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Ask HN: Review my web app? Trying to get out of slump. (www.wysp.ws)
50 points first seen 2012090118 last seen 2012090300    36 comments 
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Workfu is shutting down. (workfu.com)
48 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090200    41 comments 
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Inbox Pause - A pause button for incoming mail in Gmail [Chrome extension] (inboxpause.com)
46 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090203    32 comments 
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HP Launches The Beta Release Of Open WebOS (techcrunch.com)
43 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090203    7 comments 
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Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com (www.slate.com)
43 points first seen 2012090112 last seen 2012090212    26 comments 
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Understanding Algebra: Why do we factor equations? (betterexplained.com)
39 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090109    51 comments 
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Great Startup Engineers (blog.derrickko.com)
39 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090206    10 comments 
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Codecademy Fellowship (www.codecademy.com)
39 points first seen 2012090115 last seen 2012090206    8 comments 
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Google kills weather API - apps go down (www.lifehacker.com.au)
37 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090200    15 comments 
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Announcing Enyo 2.0.1 (blog.enyojs.com)
36 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090200    5 comments 
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Hacking the Startup Open Floor Plan Office (blog.idonethis.com)
34 points first seen 2012090106 last seen 2012090200    13 comments 
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Economist: Would the world be better off with fewer patents? (www.economist.com)
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New DNA Analysis Shows Ancient Humans Interbred with Denisovans (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Apple versus Samsung: Jury foreman justifies $1bn verdict (www.bbc.co.uk)
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FB new low (18.23), down 52% from 38 IPO price (www.google.com)
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A Lesson In Timing Attacks (codahale.com)
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Where Have All The Good Managers Gone? (thomaslarock.com)
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Maria Montessori (en.wikipedia.org)
29 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090103    16 comments 
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Russia's New Secure Android Tablet Keeps Data From Google (www.securityweek.com)
29 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090121    12 comments 
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"An API for your city" - LocalWiki API released (localwiki.org)
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That was quick: Grooveshark disappears from the Google Play Store (again) (thenextweb.com)
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Now In 600+ Schools, Lore Gives Higher Ed A Next-Gen Social Network (techcrunch.com)
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Startups Shouldn't Follow Trends (adii.me)
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Samsung readies their own Retina display laptop (www.geek.com)
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Bethesda admits they can't get Skyrim Dawnguard running on PS3 (www.geek.com)
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We need a longer school year (www.cnn.com)
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Is a science PhD a Waste of Time? (www.slate.com)
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What is good API design? (richardminerich.com)
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"Convertible Equity" - A Better Alternative to Convertible Debt? (techcrunch.com)
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"Proper" Image Delivery on the Web (developer.apple.com)
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Code For Twilio's Free Fantasy Football Draft Room App (Node.js + Redis) (github.com)
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GOP Tech Platform: Give More Spectrum to AT&T and Verizon (www.dslreports.com)
17 points first seen 2012090109 last seen 2012090115    8 comments 
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Microsoft fails to pacify PC vendors about Surface tablets (www.digitimes.com)
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What is convertible equity (or a convertible security)? (www.startupcompanylawyer.com)
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Kippt, Pinboard Help Digg Users Find New Home For Old Data (techcrunch.com)
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Alumna makes $1 million gift to help liberal arts students find jobs (live.psu.edu)
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Electronics Stores Fight for Survival (online.wsj.com)
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Ask HN: How do I teach myself design? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Open Letter to Flipkart - Doing eBooks Better Than Amazon (www.paramaggarwal.com)
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JQuery Gantt editor - bugfix: invalid project handling (roberto.open-lab.com)
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Essential Books for Software Developer (chepurnoy.org)
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Towards A Community Of Distributed Systems Developers (www.themarkphillips.com)
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Declassified footage of H-bomb exploding in space (blogs.howstuffworks.com)
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The Sparrow Opportunity (appcubby.com)
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60% of the apps in the App Store have never been downloaded (www.phonearena.com)
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The App Store Long Tail Myth (blog.cascadesoft.net)
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Free Palo Alto Office Space for 6 months (bretthard.in)
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Didn't anyone even read Facebook's IPO prospectus? (finance.yahoo.com)
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Grounds for Jury Misconduct in Apple v Samsung Patent Trial (www.macobserver.com)
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Critical bug in newest Java gives attackers complete control of PCs (arstechnica.com)
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Bic Creates Pens ‘For Her’: Amazon Reviewers Turn on the Snark (newsfeed.time.com)
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Fully-assembled iPhone 5 pictured side-by-side with iPhone 4 (www.bgr.com)
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What Makes Work Worth Doing? (blogs.hbr.org)
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The iPad CEO (www.cpresc.com)
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Tell HN: How to fail like an idiot (news.ycombinator.com)
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Bitcoin MasterCard: Followup Interview With Charlie Shrem (codinginmysleep.com)
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Police probing Quebec maple syrup heist worth up to $30 million (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Show HN: HTML5 port of PC/XBox game with online level sharing (www.playescapegoat.com)
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Ask HN: Why do people tell us they love our idea, sign up then never come back? (news.ycombinator.com)
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0
Learn python instead of java (blog.carsoncheng.ca)
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Cue (YC W10) Debuts Update to Smart Personal Assistant App (betakit.com)
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Linode's Newark Data Center Down (news.ycombinator.com)
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0
Ask HN: Can you get a job at Google without a degree? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Damn Cool Algorithms: Secure permutations with block ciphers (blog.notdot.net)
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How not to get f*cked by an investor’s lack of value-add. (www.vlaskovits.com)
6 points first seen 2012090109 last seen 2012090115    2 comments 
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Wow, Was I Wrong About Apple (www.fool.com)
5 points first seen 2012090100 last seen 2012090103    5 comments 
0
Show HN: chatta a native OS X App for Google Talk and Voice (news.ycombinator.com)
5 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090103    2 comments 
81
Researchers find critical vulnerability in Java 7 patch hours after release (www.computerworld.com)
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Kodiak PHP - iPad app with offline PHP code execution (www.becomekodiak.com)
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Jobtastic - User-Responsive Celery Tasks (policystat.github.com)
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Maxcdn giving out a free year of service today (1TB limit) (www.maxcdn.com)
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How to Rock a Startup Accelerator Mentor Day (startupnorth.ca)
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Linode Newark datacenter down (status.linode.com)
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Tweetbot for Mac Beta (sort of) (tapbots.com)
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Private Photo-Sharing App Everyme (YC S11) Raises $2.15M From Tencent And Others (techcrunch.com)
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Facebook Took My Credit Card Then Blocked My Account (symfony2developer.com)
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De Raadt - OpenBSD founder - Interview (2004) (www.theage.com.au)
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Death by a thousand small features: how coupon codes decrease conversion rates (tomtunguz.com)
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Get more traffic: celebrate others (ninjasandrobots.com)
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0
Starting Up, Finding A Forcing Function, And Building A Story (www.women2.com)
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0
Ask HN: What would I gain from using Rails over Codeigniter? (news.ycombinator.com)
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78
The 'Samsung Was the Real Winner' Theory (daringfireball.net)
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Kindle Fire won't go big to take on iPad (news.cnet.com)
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Animated Gifs As Ads? Tumblr Experiments With New Advertising Format (techcrunch.com)
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Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Rich Hickey - Clojure and Datomic (channel9.msdn.com)
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86
Tokyo court: Samsung didn't infringe Apple patent (www.usatoday.com)
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Volatility - An advanced memory forensics framework (code.google.com)
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0
Bright minds at HN, suggest lifestyle business ideas to earn $1000+ per month. (news.ycombinator.com)
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0
Ask HN: Job prospect at my dream company, but I'm not 18 yet. (news.ycombinator.com)
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0
Ask HN: Any chances to eventually relocate to US if working remotely? (news.ycombinator.com)
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0
In 2005 Creative beat Apple, whose side you took then? (arstechnica.com)
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0
Why Code Kata? (theprogrammersway.tumblr.com)
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0
Moving to California wont make you happy (bigthink.com)
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Gain Productivity by Having Different Vim Settings for Every Project (www.vimninjas.com)
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How Two Amateur Sleuths Looked for FinSpy Software (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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How To Win Every Startup Competition You Enter (www.readwriteweb.com)
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Facebook revamps Messages (www.facebook.com)
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Squatting set to become a criminal offence in the UK (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Fixing the MacVim Cursor Bug on MBP Retina (www.vimninjas.com)
3 points first seen 2012090103 last seen 2012090103    2 comments 
0
Things You Can Do to Stay Sane or Recharge (tortillasinbed.com)
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An Open Source A&Q System (www.osqa.net)
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When You Hit the Glass Ceiling of Coding Productivity (architects.dzone.com)
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City of Heroes closes down (na.cityofheroes.com)
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jQuery 1.8.1 released (blog.jquery.com)
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onGameStart - HTML5/JS Game Conference (ongamestart.com)
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Show HN: jQuery Birdseye, a plugin for moving-map search (ada.mbecker.cc)
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Escalante Scala App Server 0.1.0 Released! (escalante.io)
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Active Admin 0.5.0 has been released (reverbhq.com)
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Asus Zenbook Prime UX32VD Review - Best thin&light laptop for IT (ultrabooksreview.com)
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Churning Out Start-Ups in New York (www.nytimes.com)
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0
Shopping for a CDN (till.klampaeckel.de)
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81
Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio (lesswrong.com)
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Anatomy of a (un)fundable startup (www.slideshare.net)
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Lead User Acquisition at OrderAhead (news.ycombinator.com)
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