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PayPal CEO writes personal response (ndy.gd)
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So I Made A Mashup, And Then… (stevestreza.com)
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How Dangerous Is Your Couch? (www.nytimes.com)
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The "Wash my Ferrari" Problem: A Meditation on Risk (theothereight.wordpress.com)
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PostgreSQL vs MySQL: an apples to oranges comparison (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.co.uk)
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Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In (theexceptioncatcher.com)
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Tray.io - powerful email assistant (tray.io)
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4 geeky laws that rule our world (www.neatorama.com)
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Judge in Oracle v. Google Explains What Jurors Must Not Do (www.groklaw.net)
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App-UI (triceam.github.com)
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Google Donates $20,000 to Eclipse Foundation (www.thepowerbase.com)
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The music classifying nightmare (blog.pkh.me)
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The ban on electronic devices rests on anecdotes (online.wsj.com)
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In deep with Tesla CEO Elon Musk (www.autoblog.com)
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What have you tried (whathaveyoutried.com)
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The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena (www.wired.com)
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Rebol's future (www.rebol.com)
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Amazon caves in, will remove ads from Kindle Fire for $15 fee (arstechnica.com)
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What Work is Really For (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Q&A With Nine Great Programmers (www.dodgycoder.net)
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Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks (1.ai)
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Why I think Node.JS is a terrible platform (dev.hasenj.org)
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What are the drawbacks of Python? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
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An introduction to cross compilation with Go (dave.cheney.net)
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OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript (ejohn.org)
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Util-linux cheat sheet (www.catonmat.net)
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What is up with U.S. retail gasoline deliveries? (www.eia.gov)
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Lessons learned and misconceptions regarding encryption and cryptology (security.stackexchange.com)
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Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active feed-forward (www.nature.com)
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Hong Kong Backs Down on ‘Moral Education’ Plan (www.nytimes.com)
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A Powerline-style prompt for Bash (github.com)
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The last perambulation of an ancient arthropod (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)
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Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Its Mac Client (daringfireball.net)
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Mathematician cracks Beatles mystery - perhaps (www.theage.com.au)
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Hackers who hit Google continue string of lethal attacks (arstechnica.com)
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Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup (www.nytimes.com)
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Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life (humanamuh.de)
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Pot for Parents (www.nytimes.com)
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Some Georgia Schools Make Mandarin Mandatory (www.npr.org)
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German government hiring developers to make spyware for computer surveillance (www.slate.com)
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The Royal Nokia Screw-Up That Shouldn’t Have Been (pandodaily.com)
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Try Topaz (REBOL inspired language) (www.colellachiara.com)
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As Heroku Boss Flees to Olive Farm, Where's the Platform Cloud Going? (www.wired.com)
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Visualizing Javascript (ITP Course) (stewd.io)
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Why context is so important (joel.is)
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Should Investors in the Same Round of Financing Ever Get Different Prices? (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)
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Sock Puppets. Online Reviews: Completely Worthless or Only Mostly Worthless? (techcrunch.com)
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Documentary on Warren Buffett (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
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On the (provable) security of TLS: Part 1 (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
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Hacker Uses A Kinect To Help His Mom Email After A Stroke (techcrunch.com)
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Show HN: sortByTimeAgo.js - A jQuery plugin I'm working on to sort by time ago. (github.com)
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Ask HN: Can I buy you a beer? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Gales send turbines into overdrive (www.abc.net.au)
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In Memoriam: John Larmouth (www.itu.int)
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White House drafts cybersecurity executive order (www.federalnewsradio.com)
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How Amazon will win the tablet wars (www.zdnet.com)
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Ask HN: would an overview of state of the world help you make decisions? (news.ycombinator.com)
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German FBI hiring developers to make spyware (slate.com)
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A First for Udacity (chronicle.com)
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Amazon confirms: All new Kindle Fires stuck with ads (reviews.cnet.com)
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Retinize Any Mac App With Retinizer (techcrunch.com)
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BitcoinPlus: montize your websites' visitors by mining bitcoins (www.bitcoinplus.com)
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You dream it, they will film it: The Sleep Project (designgeist.org)
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Spotify To Launch Browser-Based Version (techcrunch.com)
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The Missing Amazon Glacier Cost-Estimator Calculator (github.com)
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A Square Peg in a Round Hole (www.datagenetics.com)
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Headphones (github.com)
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Sorting out the massacres performed by OOM Killer (orvtech.com)
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Ask HN: Have we reached the point where sites need a mobile AND tablet version? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: What are your best 'cooking for hackers' links, books and tips? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Adobe confirms Windows 8 users vulnerable to active Flash exploits (www.computerworld.com)
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Ask HN: Why is wikidot.com blacklisted? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Paypal President responds to tweet from angry user (storify.com)
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Villainy - a sbvtle inspired Octopress theme (github.com)
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Why hasn't Google created their own IDE? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Valve, a Video Game Maker With Few Rules (www.nytimes.com)
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Cryptogenomicon: ENCODE says what? (selab.janelia.org)
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Wolfram Alpha's "Close this [ad]" button covers "Upgrade to Pro" button (gyazo.com)
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Where to start with open source development? (chicoteam.wordpress.com)
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What fits tighter? A round peg in a square hole, or square peg in a round hole? (datagenetics.com)
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Friedman: New Rules (www.nytimes.com)
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Tumblesocks, an Emacs tumblr client (github.com)
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