hackerNews

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How we keep GitHub fast (github.com)

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Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day (everythingsysadmin.com)

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How Tesla is Circumventing Dealerships (autos.yahoo.com)

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Nokia faked the still photos too (sefsar.com)

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Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia (torrentfreak.com)

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World wide wasteland (www.zemanta.com)

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No app store? No problem: Grooveshark rolls out full HTML5 site for all devices (venturebeat.com)

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Why You Should Start Using a VPN (lifehacker.com)

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Introducing the 4chan API (www.4chan.org)

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Faced with a Five-Page Limit, Lawyer Files Cartoon Amicus Brief (www.abajournal.com)

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Dear ICO, Sue Us (nocookielaw.com)

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Galaxy S III beats out iPhone 4S as top selling device in US (androidandme.com)

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WhatsApp is using your IMEI number as password (samgranger.com)

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Lord Camden on NSA Surveillance (www.juliansanchez.com)

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AngelList Docs - Close your round online (angel.co)

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Game AI vs Traditional AI (www.altdevblogaday.com)

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Watch out raspberry pi - 1ghz 1gb ram 4gb flash 96 gpio - $49 (cubieboard.org)

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Hacker holding Romney's tax returns ransom for $1 million in bitcoins. (venturebeat.com)

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Google Cloud SQL (MySQL) (developers.google.com)

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A programmer’s guide to healing RSI (blog.evanweaver.com)

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Your Goals Are Holding You Back (danshipper.com)

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How to run your own open source Skype replacement (www.sipwise.com)

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Startup Culture (paulstamatiou.com)

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Rails in Realtime - How LayerVault updates every page in a second (layervault.tumblr.com)

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</CaptureTheFlag> (stripe.com)

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Why we Die (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Grunt.js (gruntjs.com)

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Nokia’s Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple (www.wired.com)

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Anonymous allegedly hacked Romney tax records (nashvillecitypaper.com)

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Modern Vim (http://modernvim.com)

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The Truth About Convertible Debt and The Hidden Terms You Didn’t Understand (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

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YouTube Flags Democrats’ Convention Video on Copyright Grounds (www.wired.com)

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New Twitter API Drops Support for RSS, Puts Limits on Third-Party Clients (mashable.com)

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Apple At Its Worst: It's Time to Stop Censoring Apps (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Ethiopian Multiplication (threesixty360.wordpress.com)

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Skeuomorphism is the easy way out (blog.wells.ee)

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Recurly billing down -- some customer data lost (blog.recurly.com)

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Police seizure of text messages violated 4th Amendment, judge rules (arstechnica.com)

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Running a Business With Staff Scattered Around the World (www.nytimes.com)

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Copyright protectionism - The award for irony goes to... (www.economist.com)

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Rails 3.2 feature: unreadable production logs (github.com)

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Top 35 Startups In Tech that TechCrunch missed out on – August 2012 (www.startupplays.com)

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Raspberry Pi - Upcoming board revision (www.raspberrypi.org)

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Apple will no longer license aftermarket power adapters for iPhone 5 (www.appleinsider.com)

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NewsBlur (YC S12) launches iPad app, aims to compete with Google Reader (venturebeat.com)

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Really cool oscilloscope clock (www.nycresistor.com)

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NReduce online demo day: live and public (www.nreduce.com)

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Email Will Never Die - The Man Who Invented It Reveals Why (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Nokia Faked Its New Lumia 920 PureView Ad (icosmogeek.com)

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Amazon TV ad gives sneak peek at ‘Paperwhite’ Kindle and new Kindle Fire (www.geekwire.com)

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PyCon 2013: Only 24 days left to submit talk and tutorial proposals (pycon.blogspot.com)

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Beeminder API (blog.beeminder.com)

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Harvard chemist talks about the problem of solving problems (www.technologyreview.com)

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(Pidgin's) SSL support appears to have been written by a lobotomy victim (developer.pidgin.im)

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21% of Android devices are now running ICS (developer.android.com)

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Live From Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 Press Conference (techcrunch.com)

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Nokia Lumia 920 is more retina than the iPhone 4S (www.virtualpants.com)

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Nokia Launches Lumia 920: 8MP PureView, NFC, Wireless Charging, Windows Phone 8 (www.engadget.com)

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RoboCopyright: How The Copyright Police are ruining the internet (www.thewhatnoise.com)

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Big Data vs Intelligent Data (and what Startups can do with it) (www.klaviyo.com)

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Simple and fast CSS page transitions in your hybrid mobile app (trigger.io)

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Lessons Learned Launching A Minimum Viable Product (appbot.co)

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Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious, but That Isn't the Point (www.theatlantic.com)

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Genomics: ENCODE explained (www.nature.com)

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Coming Soon: Toilet Paper Priced Like Airline Tickets (online.wsj.com)

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Shizuo Fujita (Watson) joins the RubyMotion team (blog.rubymotion.com)

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Tutorial: Android 3D maps SDK (nutiteq.github.com)

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Count the errors, chemistry edition (www.howtospotapsychopath.com)

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Ask HN: [Pricing] Charging a one-time fee for a SaaS app? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Daring Fireball: Homage vs. Rip-Off (daringfireball.net)

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8 companies that nail Customer Service (refer.ly)

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How Much Money Do Bands Make From Streaming Music Services Like Spotify? (www.ominocity.com)

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Programming is Hard (jacobeiting.com)

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Why a programmer should try online poker (0x7bc.com)

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Sponsor My Time at a Startup Accelerator (mattluongo.com)

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Foursquare designer launches Sunrise, the new must-have daily email (thenextweb.com)

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I Just Paid For a Promotional Video And Twitter Effectively Killed My Service (web.bozho.net)

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Why you should quit Facebook too (artermisianrumblings.blogspot.com)

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Should UTF-16 be considered harmful? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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Windows Slowdown, Investigated and Identified - a writeup by performance expert (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: How to manage remote teams better? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Weekend Hack: SpotCast - DJ your Spotify to your friends (gist.io)

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Far From ‘Junk,’ DNA Dark Matter Plays Crucial Role (www.nytimes.com)

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Scientists Unveil 'Google Maps' for Human Genome (www.npr.org)

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Ask: I've been approached by a fortune 500 company. How much should I charge? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Startup Sauna Puts Some Money Where It's Mouth Is, Secures Inventure Backing (techcrunch.com)

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2 pivots, an accelerator, funding, and launch in 16 weeks. Here's the product. (http://ooomf.com)

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"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kickstarter." (megazinemagazine.com)

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Y Combinator style applications in the Non-profit world (newschallenge.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: your favorite high-risk high-return investment in a new skill (news.ycombinator.com)

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Real World Comparison, GC vs. Manual Memory Management (3d.benjamin-thaut.de)

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Queue: A New Twilio Verb To Simplify Call Queues (www.twilio.com)

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Meet the first-ever class of startups from... nReduce (venturebeat.com)

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An Open Letter to Bruce Willis (blog.murfie.com)

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Amazon phone could be announced tomorrow (www.marco.org)

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Ask HN: Why do SaaS companies display their hosting company's logo? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ballmer promises next app developer to “hit it really big” will be on Windows (thenextweb.com)

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Am I lazy? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Startup Lessons #1 – Sorry, But You’ll Have To Quit Your Day Job (startupnook.com)

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A Brief Introduction to Probability & Statistics (betterexplained.com)

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Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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MIT Researcher Proposes Rights for Robots (www.escapistmagazine.com)

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UTorrent Debuts Native Android Client (torrentfreak.com)

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The hormone that makes us good or evil (www.theage.com.au)

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Heroku loses a star as CEO and Salesforce EVP Sebastian resigns (gigaom.com)

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Never Mention Another Product When Describing Your Own (www.layeredthoughts.com)

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Junk dna isnt junk (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Smartphone? Presto, 2-Way Radio (www.nytimes.com)

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Muppet: MapReduce Style Processing of Streaming Data (vldb.org)

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The is year 2050, What doesn't exist anymore and why (www.reddit.com)

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Ask HN: How many of you have sold your startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How the turtle got its shell (scienceblogs.com)

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The World’s Most Expensive Comic Book Art (www.wired.com)

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Google spreadsheets, now with discussions (googledocs.blogspot.com)

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Animating how the Mandelbrot maps onto itself, by "stirring" (code.google.com)

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Will Twitter's Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out? (pandodaily.com)

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Introducing Factual Global Products - Access data for 500k+ consumer products (blog.factual.com)

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New Stripe Chat (stripe.com)

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Memoize the Practical Method Decorator (github.com)

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Ten Things You Should Know About Haskell Syntax (fpcomplete.com)

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Nokia's new PureView ad is amazing, too bad it's faked (mobile.theverge.com)

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Apache Wicket v6.0.0 released (wicket.apache.org)

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Amazon to start collecting sales tax from Californians next week (www.latimes.com)

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Android security suffers as malware explodes by 700% (venturebeat.com)

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The Will to Believe (educ.jmu.edu)

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Estonia’s plan to get 6 year olds coding is a stroke of genius (gigaom.com)

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Nokia: An apology is due [for faked Lumia PureView ad] (conversations.nokia.com)

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Ask HN: What Do You Do In The First Hour of The Day? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask PG: When will YC W13 Applications Open? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Persisting Divides in Global Competitiveness (www.weforum.org)

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Would you wear this live bacteria fashion accessories? (nocamels.com)

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Raymond Camden: My Thoughts on Node.js and Express (java.dzone.com)

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How to remain sane while working from home? (blog.brouberol.imap.cc)

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Sweden tops TBL's web index (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Offer HN: I will work for free tomorrow in Berlin (news.ycombinator.com)

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Copyright Release (news.ycombinator.com)

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FBI denies link to leak of 12 million Apple codes (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Windows 8 EULA Prohibits Class Action Lawsuits Against Microsoft (www.forbes.com)

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AngelList Launches Free Seed Funding Closings (pandodaily.com)

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Critics Say California Law Hurts Effort to Add Jobs (www.nytimes.com)

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4chan now has a read-only JSON API (github.com)

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Wolfram Alpha’s Facebook Analytics Tool Digs Deep into Your Social Life (techland.time.com)