hackerNews

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Black Swan Farming (paulgraham.com)

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Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn (falkvinge.net)

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Tell HN: Login to unsubscribe is against Federal Law (news.ycombinator.com)

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Stanford announces 16 free online courses for fall quarter (news.stanford.edu)

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10 lessons for uncultured web developers (www.troyhunt.com)

238 points first seen 2012091021 last seen 2012091221 112 comments

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Arch Linux Handbook for Kindle rejected by Amazon (archlinux.me)

219 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091200 77 comments

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Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (filer.case.edu)

208 points first seen 2012091021 last seen 2013042400 62 comments

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The Tiniest GIF Ever (probablyprogramming.com)

197 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091200 48 comments

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Ask HN: How did you hack the press when you launched your startup(s)? (news.ycombinator.com)

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DIY quest for a 6 watt high-end desktop computer (ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net)

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Show HN: MemStash - Commit things to memory (http://memstash.co)

163 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091121 74 comments

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Google Networking Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa (www.wired.com)

145 points first seen 2012091021 last seen 2012091203 35 comments

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What it was like shooting the movie Sneakers (www.slate.com)

144 points first seen 2012091021 last seen 2012091200 46 comments

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Bower: A package manager for the web, from Twitter (twitter.github.com)

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Cindy Gallop’s Online Effort to Promote ‘Real,’ Not Porn-Fed, Sex (www.nytimes.com)

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34.5% of US Internet Population Not using Facebook/Twitter (www.jamiegrove.com)

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Road-map wristwatch from 1920 (www.core77.com)

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Why Fathers Really Matter (www.nytimes.com)

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Hubble Has Spotted An Ancient Galaxy That Shouldn't Exist (io9.com)

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The web is still the place (raganwald.posterous.com)

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Stripe Apps (stripe.com)

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How Tumblr for iOS is Built (zachwill.com)

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HTC's patents could lead to an ban on the next iPhone & iPad (www.taipeitimes.com)

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Should Bogus Copyright Takedown Senders Be Punished? (torrentfreak.com)

61 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091100 52 comments

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Airbnb Tech Talk: Spike Brehm on Backbone, Node.js, and Single-Page Apps (www.airbnb.com)

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SF's Rising Rental Prices beat NYC: $3500/month for single family homes (blog.sfgate.com)

58 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091021 73 comments

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How To See The Future (www.warrenellis.com)

57 points first seen 2012091000 last seen 2012091100 9 comments

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Google Surveys: Know What You Are Asking (diegobasch.com)

56 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091100 15 comments

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From Linux to OSX - 1 Year Later (batsov.com)

55 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091015 108 comments

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The world's biggest book club (www.economist.com)

51 points first seen 2012091012 last seen 2012091103 6 comments

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Dealing with engineers that frequently leave their jobs (programmers.stackexchange.com)

50 points first seen 2012091015 last seen 2012091103 55 comments

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Visual Programming and Why It Sucks (blog.davor.se)

49 points first seen 2012091000 last seen 2012091018 57 comments

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Tunes.io - simple, awesome daily playlist of new indie tracks (www.tunes.io)

45 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091103 37 comments

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Google shuts down mobile web app for Google Talk (productforums.google.com)

44 points first seen 2012091012 last seen 2012091100 20 comments

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Python performance the easy(ish) way (jiaaro.com)

40 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091100 27 comments

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Numbers.vim - A vim plugin for better line numbers (github.com)

37 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091100 20 comments

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Early laptop designer Bill Moggridge dies at 69 (www.washingtonpost.com)

37 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091100 4 comments

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Creativity Predicts a Longer Life (www.scientificamerican.com)

35 points first seen 2012091003 last seen 2012091100 24 comments

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Class Central - A complete list of free online courses (www.class-central.com)

35 points first seen 2012091018 last seen 2012091106 0 comments

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Test your Startup idea, Quick and Cheap. No coding needed. (www.lookaft.com)

34 points first seen 2012091003 last seen 2012091100 36 comments

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Whoa, dude, are we in a computer right now? NASA scientist thinks we could be. (www.vice.com)

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Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists (www.codeofhonor.com)

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Google Glass Graces the Runway at New York Fashion Week (mashable.com)

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Underscore.py / a python port of underscore.js (serkanyersen.github.com)

32 points first seen 2012091000 last seen 2012091006 39 comments

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In Defense of the Best (karrisaarinen.com)

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Ask HN: Best way to sell a domain name? (news.ycombinator.com)

27 points first seen 2012091021 last seen 2012091103 17 comments

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The stunning hypocrisy of VentureBeat's assault on Y Combinator (influencehacks.com)

26 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091118 17 comments

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Five Best Office Chairs (lifehacker.com)

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Unemployment Rate Down Due To Participation Rate Decline (www.istockanalyst.com)

25 points first seen 2012091015 last seen 2012091100 10 comments

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Amb: A Redex Tutorial (docs.racket-lang.org)

24 points first seen 2012091003 last seen 2012091021 0 comments

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Clash of the unlikely: C# versus.. RealBASIC? (tomgrimshaw.wordpress.com)

24 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091021 18 comments

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The Possibilian (www.newyorker.com)

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Kindle Fire HD hurts Microsoft more than Apple (www.cringely.com)

23 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091100 31 comments

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Show HN: WiFi chat. Chat with people on your Wifi network. (http://www.wifichat.net)

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Intel planning to get rid of DRAM on PCs (semiaccurate.com)

22 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091012 21 comments

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Flow – A Coroutine Kernel for .Net (www.altdevblogaday.com)

21 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091100 2 comments

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Amateur Mapmakers Redraw Boundaries, Working Online (www.nytimes.com)

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Choosing the right stack for your web application (www.hopelesscom.de)

16 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091021 17 comments

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TC Disrupt 24 hr Hack: Peer-to-peer career advice, on demand (www.advise.ly)

16 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091021 6 comments

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Show HN: Battle Suck - TechCrunch Hackathon 2012 (battlesuck.com)

16 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091012 9 comments

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Junk DNA — Not So Useless After All (healthland.time.com)

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3D Revolving Planet With Pure CSS3 (codepen.io)

15 points first seen 2012091021 last seen 2012091103 9 comments

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How the Internet Will Change Personal Finance (thenextweb.com)

14 points first seen 2012091012 last seen 2012091100 8 comments

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New 750+ open source icons (files on github) (modernuiicons.com)

13 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091021 3 comments

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Do You Need To Be A Jerk To Be A Successful Entrepreneur? (techcrunch.com)

12 points first seen 2012091018 last seen 2012091100 2 comments

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Find a name for your startup with The Thousand-Sided Dice (http://ksided-dice.com)

11 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091021 3 comments

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Crazy Welding Techniques (hackedgadgets.com)

11 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091021 0 comments

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Tiny Windows: accidental art by resizing windows (tinywindows.tumblr.com)

10 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091006 8 comments

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Mobile & Conversations (www.avc.com)

9 points first seen 2012091003 last seen 2012091012 0 comments

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Why Fathers Really Matter (www.nytimes.com)

7 points first seen 2012091000 last seen 2012091000 0 comments

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Open Sourcing: the Ultimate Isolation (nvie.com)

7 points first seen 2012091003 last seen 2012091003 0 comments

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Ask HN: Can you review my startup auth2.com (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091012 0 comments

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Ask HN: Awesome pricing pages (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091009 2 comments

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MongoDB Shell Enhancements for Hackers (github.com)

6 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091009 0 comments

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ACLU: TPP Is a Major Threat to Free Speech, Privacy, and Due Process (www.eff.org)

5 points first seen 2012091000 last seen 2012091003 0 comments

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The Future of Amazon (techcrunch.com)

5 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091012 3 comments

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Ask HN: Would there be any interest in a blog analyzing why startups *fail*? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why I Feel Like A Failure, Even Though On the Outside, I'm A Success (www.erica.biz)

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Ask HN: Any book recommendations to learn sound engineering/editing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How often do you have merge conflicts? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Teenager floats £30 camera into space to capture curvature of Earth (www.telegraph.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091006 0 comments

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The Five best things coming in Ubuntu 12.10 Linux (www.zdnet.com)

4 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091012 0 comments

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A package manager for the web (by Twitter) (twitter.github.com)

4 points first seen 2012091012 last seen 2012091015 0 comments

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Show HN: Unplugged - present photos on a big screen from any browser. (http://unplugged.io)

4 points first seen 2012091012 last seen 2012091015 2 comments

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Login To Websites Without A Username Or Password (techcrunch.com)

4 points first seen 2012091015 last seen 2012091018 0 comments

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Ask: My girlfriend is much smarter than I, how do I manage? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012091021 last seen 2012091021 15 comments

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Teenager floats £30 camera into space to capture curvature of Earth (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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The economics of stealing bikes (www.npr.org)

3 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091006 0 comments

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In U.S., Private Schools Get Top Marks for Educating Children (www.gallup.com)

3 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091009 0 comments

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Your (Potential) Investor’s Business Model (daslee.me)

3 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091006 0 comments

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Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2012091006 last seen 2012091006 0 comments

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Galago: a hardware prototyping platform (kck.st)

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"Standing on a Slippery Slope" by David Clark [pdf] (cfp.mit.edu)

3 points first seen 2012091009 last seen 2012091009 0 comments

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Mobile Payments Fustercluck (techcrunch.com)

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Decline of world's oldest bank hits city (www.theage.com.au)

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Zynga exec exodus continues as gaming company loses infrastructure CTO (gigaom.com)

3 points first seen 2012091018 last seen 2012091021 0 comments

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Do You Need To Be A Jerk To Be A Successful Entrepreneur? (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012091021 last seen 2012091021 0 comments