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Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this (https://aboutmybrowser.com)

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Proof claimed for deep connection between primes: abc conjecture proven? (www.nature.com)

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GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down (http://www.godaddy.com)

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PostgreSQL 9.2 released (www.postgresql.org)

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Skeuomorphism Gone Wild (skeu.it)

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How I Learned to Defrag My Brain (alexhillman.com)

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I feel I am building a new Google Wave... (pivory.com)

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HP introduces new Apple iMac (thenextweb.com)

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Obama Admin Pursuing Executive Order to Enact CISPA-Like Cybersecurity Language (www.opencongress.org)

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Github is down (https://status.github.com)

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The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week (redtape.nbcnews.com)

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Revel, high-productivity Go web framework modeled on Play Framework (robfig.github.com)

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9to5 (blog.instapaper.com)

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Valve is bringing Steam to your TV Today (kotaku.com)

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The KindleBerry Pi (www.ponnuki.net)

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9/11 tragedy pager intercepts (911.wikileaks.org)

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Yeoman: Modern workflows for modern webapps (yeoman.io)

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The Heroku Hacker's Guide (rdegges.com)

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Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A (thenextweb.com)

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Why wood pulp is world's new wonder material (www.newscientist.com)

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Coding skill vs. employee skill (mikecr.it)

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jQuery Fundamentals: A major revamp for the online jQuery guide (http://jqfundamentals.com)

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Why you can’t read 9to5Mac on Instapaper (9to5mac.com)

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GoDaddy Outage: How to Migrate to AWS Route 53 (davewasmer.tumblr.com)

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Big Picture: Steam for your TV and game controller (store.steampowered.com)

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PHP Built-in web server (php.net)

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What Happens When You Taunt 4Chan: Story of Lacey Vicich (betabeat.com)

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Bash redirections cheat sheet (www.catonmat.net)

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Russ’ 10 Ingredient Recipe For Making 1 Million TPS On $5K Hardware (highscalability.com)

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Show HN: Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software. (www.sleepio.com)

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Unpublished Photos of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley’s Early Days Finally Surface (www.wired.com)

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Integrity and bullies with blogs (joshuatopolsky.com)

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Space Infographic - Keep scrolling & reach 13 billion miles from earth (www.bbc.com)

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Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin (github.com)

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Dissent: Accountable Anonymous Group Communication (dedis.cs.yale.edu)

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GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign (www.wired.com)

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Confront reality (www.aaronsw.com)

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MIT overtakes Cambridge and Harvard to top spot in QS world university rankings (www.topuniversities.com)

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The cookie law is dead, you’re welcome (blog.silktide.com)

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An Apology of Sorts: Functional Languages Are (Still) Overrated (www.benrady.com)

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Fiddler has joined the Telerik family (www.fiddler2.com)

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Linux on the (consumer) Desktop (people.gnome.org)

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Internet Brands sues for forking under CC-by-SA (davidgerard.co.uk)

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Clarity over brevity in variable and method names (37signals.com)

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Photo uploading is broken (blog.filepicker.io)

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Why China still can’t create the next Texas Instruments (www.eetimes.com)

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Show HN: Properties to rent - No agent fees, no dead listings, no risk (www.openrent.co.uk)

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Heterogeneous Parallel Programming | Coursera (www.coursera.org)

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Show HN: Chrome Extension to automatically block the annoying Quora login prompt (chrome.google.com)

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We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say (motherboard.vice.com)

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YouTube just launched their iPhone app (techcrunch.com)

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How Qihoo 360 Won the Browser War in China (www.digital-dd.com)

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Parse is down due to SSL certificate expiry (parse.com)

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FitFu (YC W11) is shutting down (blog.fitfu.com)

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Nodester: Side-Project to Acquisition in 18 Months (blog.geekli.st)

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Google releases standalone Youtube iOS app (itunes.apple.com)

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Secret Origin of SVG (www.w3.org)

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Slowloris: high-performance HTML5 UIs (github.com)

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Google Glasses Make Their Questionable Debut at (New York Fashion Week) (nymag.com)

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Modeling a car suspension in Javascript, part 1 (burakkanber.com)

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Why Dan Shipper is Wrong about Goals (www.isaacsukin.com)

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To Smuggle More Drugs, Traffickers Go Under the Sea (www.nytimes.com)

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42Floors (YC W12) Announces $5 Million Series A… Sorta (pandodaily.com)

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Bohemia Interactive (ARMA) employees arrested in Lemnos for espionage (forums.bistudio.com)

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Show HN: real-time map of Kickstarter projects (http://www.thingswestart.com)

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Show HN: Helvetitee: Custom tee. No bullshit. (Our four-day startup) (helvetitee.com)

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Show HN: Synapse - Universal API for remote system administration (comodit.github.com)

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Geeks love Colored Lights - Hacking IKEA RGB Led Strip (openpicus.blogspot.it)

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Noam Chomsky Praises Julian Assange (articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global Internet giant (www.wired.co.uk)

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Startup Is the New Hipster (fosslien.com)

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Udacity Statistics 101 (a critique of Udacity's Stats class) (www.angrymath.com)

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Yeoman at your service - A getting started guide (www.adobe.com)

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FoundationDB — Not Your Standard NoSQL Database (techcrunch.com)

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Entrepreneurship Flourishes for 54 Hours in Iran (www.inc.com)

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Paul Graham's predictions about Java (April 2001) (www.paulgraham.com)

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Somalia has elected their first new president since 1986. Meet Xasan Maxamuud. (www.aljazeera.com)

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The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week (redtape.nbcnews.com)

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Your Body Double Could Be This Robot (blogs.wsj.com)

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The Coolest iPhone Photography Accessory You've Ever Seen. (magnate.co)

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Reid Hoffman: Y Combinator Is “Definitely Seeing Some Stress Signs From Size” (techcrunch.com)

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Etsy and Twitter swap engineers for a week (codeascraft.etsy.com)

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Most of what you read was wrong: how press releases rewrote scientific history (arstechnica.com)

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“Log in to unsubscribe from this e-mail”: annoying, possibly illegal (arstechnica.com)

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Watch Darpa’s Robotic Dog Follow Its Master (Video) (www.wired.com)

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A Letter to Heroku - Please Tier the Dynos (kent.io)

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Show HN: picsofwords.com a hack from TC Disrupt by Chute (W12) (blog.getchute.com)

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GoDaddy is down (www.just-ping.com)

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Apache webserver updated to ignore Do Not Track settings in IE 10 (arstechnica.com)

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How 37 Popular Sites Used to Look (www.shopify.com)

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Vire.js: Vimeo Event Firing jQuery Plugin (blog.mojotech.com)

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Ask HN: Created a PHP Debugger. Would you use it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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After the Techcrunch bump: Life in the “Trough of Sorrow” (andrewchen.co)

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Statement from BlueToad regarding the cyber attack and Apple UDIDs (blog.bluetoad.com)

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PostgreSQL 9.2 - Improvements to pg_stats (www.databasesoup.com)

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Fast as Fuck Django, Part 1: Using a Profiler (gun.io)

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Hey HN, help two Latin American entrepreneurs attend to Startup Weekend NYC (igg.me)

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Tracking down the UDID Breach Source (intrepidusgroup.com)

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Freedom of Data + Subscription Models = CRM for the Web (www.klaviyo.com)

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‘Things We Start’ Shows Where in the World We Kickstart (www.wired.com)

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Jack Dorsey: We Need Revolution, Not Disruption (techcrunch.com)

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Hacker with brain cancer puts his open source diagnostic data on line (artisopensource.net)

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Rent-to-Own a Domain Name for Your Business (www.domainsherpa.com)

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The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week (redtape.nbcnews.com)

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Google Fiber: A lesson on free market failure (www.extremetech.com)

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The award for nerdiest preposition goes to... (www.economist.com)

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CERN’s Higgs boson discovery passes peer review, becomes actual science (www.extremetech.com)

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Every '… is down' posts. (news.ycombinator.com)

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HP clones iMAC. HP in Trouble? (thenextweb.com)

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A Developer Becomes a Product Manager (blog.newrelic.com)

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Apache man disables Internet Explorer 10 privacy setting (www.theregister.co.uk)

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The Misstep of Quora and The Importance of Trust Amongst Your Community (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

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Why you can’t read 9to5Mac on Instapaper (9to5mac.com)

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Downforeveryoneorjustme.com is down (news.ycombinator.com)

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Life Without Language (neuroanthropology.net)

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Ask HN: The Downvote (news.ycombinator.com)

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Searching and Filtering Stars · GitHub (github.com)

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Collection of resources for responsive designs. (bradfrost.github.com)

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Ask HN: Will my original account ever be unbanned? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Favorite project management tool (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Micro-consulting - is there a market? (news.ycombinator.com)

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3D printing could be the next great technological disruption (www.economist.com)

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Ask HN: Should I finish this project? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google’s Amazing “Surveywall” (www.mondaynote.com)

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More planets could harbour life (www.bbc.co.uk)

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After 15 years of programming, how does one get out of it? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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GM's Volt: The ugly math of low sales, high costs (www.reuters.com)

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Amazon Election Heat Map 2012 (www.amazon.com)

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Google Adds Pirate Bay Domains to Censorship List (torrentfreak.com)

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About Valve, Steam and Linux: Linux on a Steam console? (dindresto.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: Any experienced iPhone app developers willing to give me some advice? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why I'm Leaving America (sailboatdiaries.com)

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Is it possible to be productive with only a smartphone? (blog.amir.rachum.com)

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12 new programming languages - does it have anything to do with cloud? (setandbma.wordpress.com)

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A pong traffic light in Germany (www.youtube.com)

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NASA | Magnificent Sun Eruption in FullHD (www.youtube.com)

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Everything Gets Painful & Slow as You Scale (moz.com)

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Company Says It, Not F.B.I, Was Hacking Victim (www.nytimes.com)