hackerNews

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102 year old photos in full color and high-quality (www.boston.com)

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A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post (slidetocode.com)

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Dan Weinreb passed away (www.xconomy.com)

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Damn Cool Algorithms: Cardinality Estimation (blog.notdot.net)

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Twitter is the Benjamin Button of startups. (plus.google.com)

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29 Things I, as a designer, wish more tech startups knew (the-pastry-box-project.net)

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A love letter to MIT (tech.mit.edu)

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Slate - window management for hackers (github.com)

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Tough times on the road to Starcraft (www.codeofhonor.com)

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Show HN: My first Mac app, Foreman, free and on Github. Would love feedback (www.flyingmachinestudios.com)

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Kevin Rose Interviews Elon Musk (allthingsd.com)

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The 2 Biggest Mistakes I Made When Learning to Code (www.suneelius.com)

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فلسطين. top-level domain representing the Occupied Palestinian Territory (www.iana.org)

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Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime. (queue.acm.org)

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GHC 7.6 is now live: poly kinds, dynamic use of cores, numeric type literals... (www.haskell.org)

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Learn How to make a Single Element iPhone in CSS3 (cssdeck.com)

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Awesome Google doodle to celebrate 46th anniversary of star trek (www.google.com)

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Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle (www.fastcoexist.com)

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CoffeeScript source maps (ryanflorence.com)

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Stripe moves to JSONP; adds CORS support (stripe.com)

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FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project (www.newscientist.com)

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Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com (skimfeed.com)

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Show HN: MongoDB + open source e-commerce = Forward (http://getfwd.com)

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APIs for Manufacturing (amandapeyton.com)

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Brain Parasites, California’s Hidden Health Problem (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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Don't hire only self-described awesome developers (blog.hirelite.com)

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Modeling Physics in Javascript: Gravity and Drag (burakkanber.com)

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Why I wear the same shirt every day (waxman.me)

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Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged phone call: GetOutCall.com (www.getoutcall.com)

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Kansas City subsidises Google Fiber (arstechnica.com)

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CC-NC considered harmful (esr.ibiblio.org)

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Show HN: A command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript (github.com)

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Twitter effectively killing JSONP too (blog.dansingerman.com)

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Mike Arrington: Turning the drama down on Y Combinator v. Google Ventures (uncrunched.com)

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How can I convince my boss that ANSI C is inadequate for our new project? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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An introduction to libuv (nikhilm.github.com)

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Why 0.1 Does Not Exist In Floating-Point (www.exploringbinary.com)

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"brew install pass" -- the simple unix password manager now released for mac (zx2c4.com)

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Privacy restrictions on Facebook posts are visible to users (plus.google.com)

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Paul Graham’s ‘lowball’ accusation of Google Ventures (venturebeat.com)

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The Wisdom of Crowds: Using Ensembles for Machine Learning (blog.factual.com)

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Labrador: A web-based, database agnostic client for Rails development databases (chrismccord.github.com)

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Violation of Heisenberg’s Measurement-Disturbance Relationship (prl.aps.org)

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Google beefs up its security by acquiring online virus scanner VirusTotal (thenextweb.com)

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The to-do list problem (www.funkykaraoke.com)

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Amazon's New Kindle Fire Tablets Are All Ad-Supported (www.ign.com)

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New Rails workshops to bring more women into the Boston software scene (www.railsbridgeboston.org)

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Sniffing open WiFi networks is not wiretapping, judge says (arstechnica.com)

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App.net: or why you shouldn't copy a successful company (kerr.io)

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Google Acquires VirusTotal (blog.virustotal.com)

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Kindle Fire HD 8.9 vs. iPad 3: Is the Apple Experience really worth $200? (www.extremetech.com)

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Why we should stop thinking (leostartsup.com)

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Evolution could explain the placebo effect (www.newscientist.com)

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Amazon’s Silk Browser tracks users' visited URLs (techcrunch.com)

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Two Possible Paths into the Future of Wearable Computing: Part 1 – VR (blogs.valvesoftware.com)

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An open letter to Wikipedia by Philip Roth (www.newyorker.com)

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Something About Google Fiber Doesn't Sit Right with Me (mikecp.net)

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Kickstarter Project Pebble Leaves Backers Hanging (www.inc.com)

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Using a Request Factory in Pyramid to write a little less code (ratchet.io)

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Mobile Start-Up Hopes to Build a Business That Lasts on Apps That Don’t (allthingsd.com)

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Do JS styleguides reflect how popular open source code is indented? (atroche.org)

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Red Announces EPIC-M Monochrome Black & White Movie Camera (www.reduser.net)

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Inside a Nuclear Control Room (www.pbs.org)

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Google announces its first datacenter for LatAm in Chile (thenextweb.com)

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You'll never be Chinese (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)

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Wattvision allows Kickstarter hardware to upload anywhere (www.kickstarter.com)

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Using IronCache as a Persistent Key Value Store for Real-time Chat (blog.iron.io)

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Adian - native iPhone client for App.net (app.net)

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Ask HN: What do you say when people ask how much your company makes? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How one game developer is making The Pirate Bay work for him (arstechnica.com)

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Google wants you. Amazon wants you. Apple wants you. (plus.google.com)

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Why Zend Framework (over framework X)? (chrisacky.posterous.com)

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Pinterest to startups: devops is hard, but do it anyway (gigaom.com)

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Google Stock Passes $700 a Share for First Time Since 2007 (mashable.com)

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Indian patent rules infuriate Big Pharma (www.economist.com)

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YUI from the outside (wonko.com)

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"tree" command on MacOSX (shaunchapman.me)

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Memo to All HN Members: Let's fix our problem internally, amongst ourselves (news.ycombinator.com)

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.NL Becomes First TLD To Pass 1 Million DNSSEC-Signed Domains (www.internetsociety.org)

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Ask HN: Why did Apple change from 35 pass erases to just 7? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Who Will Win the Fast Growing Online-to-Offline Sector? (versiononeventures.com)

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Why Amazon might win in mobile, while Microsoft sputters (www.xconomy.com)

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A look at the Valuation of GrubHub, Inc. (slidesha.re)

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Protected Methods and Ruby 2.0 (tenderlovemaking.com)

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Elon Musk talks about the Hyperloop with Kevin Rose (foundation.kr)

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Houston - Apple Push Notifications; No Dirigible Required (github.com)

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Sponsor.io: the Sponsorship Funding Marketplace (seeks co-founder) (www.founder2be.com)

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When Bill Met Hillary (www.salon.com)

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A Python Framework for the New Mobile Era (www.ericbullington.com)

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Weak performance of Eclipse 4.2 criticised (www.h-online.com)

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How 12 Founders Named their Startups (www.braintreepayments.com)

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Show HN: Hacker Reads, something I made for fun. (www.hackerreads.com)

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Why e-books will soon be obsolete (gyrovague.com)

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Kytephone brings the Kindle Fire's time limits to all Androids (blog.kytephone.com)

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Ask HN: What is the consensus on Hacker News? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Front-end to Back-end or vice versa? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Linux kernel memory barriers (www.kernel.org)

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BinaryJS - Realtime binary streaming for the web using websockets (binaryjs.com)

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Tu and Twitter: Is it the end for 'vous' in French? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Is your Mac hacked by a Rootkit? (blog.f055.net)

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Search Engine Optimisation for the BBC websites (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Phase-change memory chips could dethrone flash memory (www.economist.com)

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5 points developers should know about WinRT (www.amazedsaint.com)

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany (www.stanford.edu)

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Knowledge vs Skill (shutterfinger.typepad.com)

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No true Scotsman (en.wikipedia.org)

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Behind Enemy Lines: Using git as a frontend to svn (jherrman.com)

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Ask HN: Best startup marketing you've come across this year (news.ycombinator.com)

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"curl http://url | sh" is not evil. (gist.io)

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A tale of hacking in Cyprus: What we've learned from organizing a hackathon (averagebrain.tumblr.com)

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Telepresence startup puts iPads on wheels (www.bizjournals.com)

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What I want to see from Apple on September 12: Absolutely nothing (www.digitaltrends.com)

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I Respectively Disagree (with Jeff Bezos) (heydave.org)

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Dear God READ THE NEW HEADLINES before posting (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: My first HTML5 game using processing.js (pong.hackrdojo.com)

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Ryanair's CEO loves Dark Patterns (finance.yahoo.com)

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Bing Is The Default Search Engine On The Kindle Fire HD (finance.yahoo.com)

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How To Solve “Not Enough Time” (gojko.net)

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Sudan’s Dictator Wants Satellites to Stop Spying on His Crimes (www.wired.com)

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Former Yobongo team to launch mobile photobook service called Mosaic for Mixbook (techcrunch.com)

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The 15-Minute Guide to Becoming an SEO Ninja (www.ecommercefuel.com)

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Apple in talks to create custom Net music service (news.cnet.com)

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A Mind Map for iOS Testing (www.neglectedpotential.com)

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The iPhone 5 wont launch with Samsung memory inside (www.geek.com)

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Show HN: 3 Day Project, Drawing Telephone Game (paintacquaint.com)

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DNC runs over delegates with scripted platform vote [video] (04:39) (www.fox19.com)

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How I read HN (news.ycombinator.com)

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Andreessen Horowitz Leads $68 Million Investment In Start-Up Quirky (online.wsj.com)