hackerNews

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A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC (bellard.org)

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Samsung flew bloggers to Berlin, then threatened to leave them there (thenextweb.com)

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Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Reddit's database has only two tables (kev.inburke.com)

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Apple Never Invented Anything (www.mondaynote.com)

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Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing (bendansby.com)

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Baking Pi - Operating Systems Development (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)

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Left Alone by Its Owner, Reddit Soars (www.nytimes.com)

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Heading Out on Your Own: 31 Life Skills in 31 Days (artofmanliness.com)

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Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox respond to Miguel De Icaza on Linux Desktop woes (www.itwire.com)

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3.7X speedup from removing a call to sleep – WebKit (trac.webkit.org)

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“Me-too” products are fine (businessofsoftware.org)

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ORACLE makes move to kill open source MySQL (techcrunch.com)

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7 Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a Month (highscalability.com)

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SlabText.js (www.frequency-decoder.com)

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India Launches Beta Version of It's Data Site (http://data.gov.in)

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Another go at the Next Big Language (dave.cheney.net)

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The Next Step in Apple's Thermonuclear War Against Android (www.groklaw.net)

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Innocent man jailed for 8 months after DNA match (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Jiro's Dream (karrisaarinen.com)

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Typicons - free-to-use vector icons embedded in a webfont kit (www.typicons.com)

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The Best Algorithms of the 20th Century [pdf] (www.uta.edu)

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Ask HN: What are your failed projects / ideas? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Building the BBC's Olympic site (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Bruce Willis to fight Apple over rights to music collection after his death (www.thesun.co.uk)

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Knockback.js: Knockout.js magic for Backbone.js (kmalakoff.github.com)

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Mathigon.org: "The Math Book of the Future" (www.mathigon.org)

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Revolutionary memristors purposely delayed to prevent cannibalisation of flash (www.zdnet.com)

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Math for Game Programmers 04 – Operations on vectors (higherorderfun.com)

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File manager ideas (www.evernote.com)

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Mapmaker, Artist, or Programmer? (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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How to Hang Yourself with Statistics (math-blog.com)

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Self-Driving Cars Approved by California Legislature (www.cnbc.com)

50 points first seen 2012090309 last seen 2012090406 7 comments

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Operations Anti-Patterns (opsantipatterns.com)

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Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity ever (news.cnet.com)

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My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be. (www.austinkpickett.com)

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Cache Lines Are The New Registers (simonask.tumblr.com)

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IBM Pocket Watson a Siri-Killer (www.bloomberg.com)

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Attention Arbitrage (nateberkopec.me)

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Samsung Mobilers IFA 2012 – Agenda & Facts / Emails Sent to Bloggers (www.amitbhawani.com)

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Rakudo (Perl 6) released (rakudo.org)

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Landing people on Mars: 5 obstacles (www.usatoday.com)

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Fred Wilson on Why the Collapse of Venture Capital is Good (www.technologyreview.com)

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Show HN: Any hip-hop fans here? Here's my first weekend project. (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Front End Engineer's Manifesto (f2em.com)

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US flew Global Hawk spy drone missions from Australia (www.abc.net.au)

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Removing Fake Likes (www.facebook.com)

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What to do when stuck on a problem? Sleep. (www.zackyap.com)

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App.net Gets First Dedicated iOS App, Passes 17,500 Users (techcrunch.com)

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The start-up bubble (cognitivenerve.com)

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Creating a REST api in Python using bottle and mongo db (myadventuresincoding.wordpress.com)

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Show HN: my weekend project, whatsnerdy.com (whatsnerdy.com)

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‘Super Wi-Fi’ poised for growth in U.S., elsewhere (www.rawstory.com)

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The Soul of a Typeface (fadeyev.net)

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The Caller ID Test (joekraus.com)

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Visions Of The Future: DR0NE, A Webseries About Autonomous Humanoid Soldiers (singularityhub.com)

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Forget MSP430 Launchpad - TI ARM Cortex-M4 Launchpad at $4.99 (hackaday.com)

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MeFi explains startups to people who don't read HN (ask.metafilter.com)

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The Eligible-Bachelor Paradox (www.slate.com)

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US Appeals Court: You Can Infringe a Patent Even If You Didn't Do All the Steps (www.cafc.uscourts.gov)

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Why can’t we just admit that journalists are human? (gigaom.com)

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Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Cambodia (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Outsource for productivity, not because of laziness (euphonious-intuition.com)

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Why Nonprofits Are More Like Businesses Than You Realize (blog.seliger.com)

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Samsung Executives Waited Four Days to Tell Chairman (elasticrat.com)

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WebGL around the net, 23 August 2012 (learningwebgl.com)

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Show HN: 3months working on this Android app with a friend. Would Love feedback. (echosystem.im)

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Input vs. Output (learntoduck.net)

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When CSS modules overlap (snook.ca)

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Why aren’t Apple’s error messages written by marketers? (www.conversionvoodoo.com)

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Cassandra at eBay (www.slideshare.net)

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Snowman Architecture Part One: Overview (simplearchitectures.blogspot.com)

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No One Actually Read Mark Zuckerberg's Letter To Shareholders (www.businessinsider.com)

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Why Does Canada Have A Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve? (www.theatlantic.com)

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How Apple's story is like 'Breaking Bad' (www.cnn.com)

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Ask HN: Your Personal Finance Software? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The games industry is a scam, and this is why you shouldn't go to work for it (www.reddit.com)

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Can Intelligence Agencies read overwritten data? A response to Gutmann (www.nber.org)

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Self-employment, or the illusion of freedom (libcom.org)

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Ask HN: What is your ideal income? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Applied Micro shows 64-bit ARM server chip, ignites x86 debate (www.computerworld.com)

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Show HN: Create pretty charts on the web directly from excel (excharts.com)

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Building Cling (the C++ interpreter) on Windows (solarianprogrammer.com)

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You can't trust airport security (online.wsj.com)

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Essential Javascript: The top 5 script loaders (javascriptweekly.us1.list-manage.com)

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The 7 Deadly Sales Sins Committed By Startups (techcrunch.com)

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Defining a Growth Hacker (techcrunch.com)

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Leaving a Git repository in the document root (mxey.wordpress.com)

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This James Franco Samsung Ad Is Indescribable (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: my weekend project, Marginalia. Markdown-powered notes with a full API (https://www.marginalia.io)

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Waterfall is a mindset (blog.guillermowinkler.com)

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Ask HN: How skilled should I be before going to a hackathon? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What Linux Could learn from Apple? (gotchacode.blogspot.com)

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How Americans became helpless (www.creativitypost.com)

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Astronomers Find Millions Of Supermassive Black Holes (www.forbes.com)

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Apple Computer's $5.5 billion lawsuit against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (community.seattletimes.nwsource.com)

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What I know about successful software releases. (fredericjacobs.com)

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Half-Star Change In Yelp Rating Can Make Or Break A Restaurant (techcrunch.com)

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Impressive Wipeout clone in html/js created by a single guy (http://hexgl.bkcore.com)

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Facebook and Python – The Basic Sauce (philippeharewood.com)

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Don't store sessions in memcached (dormando.livejournal.com)

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When did addiction become a good thing? (gigaom.com)

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Why Isn't Labor Day Celebrated on May 1st in the United States? (en.wikipedia.org)

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How Apple Is Changing Kids’ Brains (www.thefiscaltimes.com)

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I don't think Samsung Moblers threatened to strand bloggers at Berlin (www.codeka.com.au)

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MobileWorks (S11) is hiring an Account Manager (www.mobileworks.com)

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