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There is something magical about Firefox OS (rawkes.com)

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Xiki: A shell console with GUI features. (xiki.org)

355 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091506 116 comments

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Full quote of what Mark Zuckerberg actually said about HTML5 (blog.tobie.me)

294 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091500 111 comments

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Google disables compression for OpenSSL in Chrome - SSL exploit coming? (chromiumcodereview.appspot.com)

243 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091603 132 comments

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Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete (www.toothycat.net)

241 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2017111921 111 comments

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Ancient flower lives only on two Spanish cliffs, and uses ants to survive (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

218 points first seen 2012091315 last seen 2012091503 10 comments

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Why I'm done with Scrum (lostechies.com)

187 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091600 156 comments

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Understanding C by learning assembly (www.hackerschool.com)

177 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091500 66 comments

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Zynga: forget games, let’s just do viruses (flirtatiouslabs.com)

171 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091421 59 comments

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Crack in Internet's foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking (arstechnica.com)

158 points first seen 2012091321 last seen 2012091503 32 comments

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The new Secure Password Hashing API in PHP 5.5 (gist.github.com)

155 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091600 83 comments

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Chrome Killed UserScripts.org (browserfame.com)

151 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091421 65 comments

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Top 12 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs (www.shopify.com)

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Good people behaving badly on the Internet (raganwald.posterous.com)

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Building a supercomputer [sic] from 64 Raspberry Pis and Lego (www.southampton.ac.uk)

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Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt (www.techcrunch.com)

124 points first seen 2012091315 last seen 2012091500 75 comments

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The Milwaukee PD has an awesome website (www.milwaukeepolicenews.com)

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Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5 (techcrunch.com)

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Sample iOS 6 Passbook Web Service in Rails (github.com)

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Manoj Bhargava, richest Indian in US commits 90% earnings to charity (articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com)

91 points first seen 2012091318 last seen 2012091415 17 comments

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Vinod Khosla: “I Feel Sad Sometimes For YC Companies That Get So Much Hype” (techcrunch.com)

88 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091406 35 comments

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How Much Is a Fun Job Worth? (ask.slashdot.org)

88 points first seen 2012091318 last seen 2012091500 49 comments

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Tmpfs considered harmful (rwmj.wordpress.com)

87 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091321 80 comments

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Not all programmers are alike (a rant on Clojure). (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

85 points first seen 2012091312 last seen 2012091403 74 comments

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"Watchmen" As a Primer on Mental Disorder (codinginmysleep.com)

75 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091403 50 comments

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Mozilla juices Firefox's JavaScript with IonMonkey (news.cnet.com)

74 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091321 31 comments

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Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second (lemire.me)

65 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091400 10 comments

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Web Fonts Performance: Making Pretty, Fast (www.igvita.com)

65 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091403 50 comments

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PayPal Rewards Some Users by Promising It Won't Hold Their Funds (thenextweb.com)

57 points first seen 2012091312 last seen 2012091403 31 comments

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500 Million Android devices activated globally (plus.google.com)

52 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091403 16 comments

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Clang Static Analyzer checker-268 adds interprocedural analysis for C++ and ObjC (clang-analyzer.llvm.org)

51 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091403 4 comments

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Show HN: A better way to find films to watch on Netflix (goodfil.ms)

48 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091321 44 comments

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Static assets... you're doing it wrong (autoref.com)

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Artist Takes Every Drug Known to Man, Draws Self Portraits After Each Use (cultso.com)

42 points first seen 2012091315 last seen 2012091321 16 comments

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Scaling out Postgres, Part 2: Routing (petrohi.me)

40 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091400 0 comments

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The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: September 2012 (redmonk.com)

37 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012112612 44 comments

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Maximal Unviable Products (blog.leanstart.ch)

37 points first seen 2012091321 last seen 2012091415 5 comments

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The Midwest Approach - Lessons from the CEO of Answers.com (dylanized.com)

36 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091400 13 comments

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Apple Keynote video for iPhone5 introduction is live (www.apple.com)

36 points first seen 2012091312 last seen 2012091321 44 comments

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Copyright to Class Notes: Do Students Own the Copyright to Their Notes? (blog.kunvay.com)

35 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091321 17 comments

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Apple reveals Lightning to microUSB adapter to pacify Europe (www.slashgear.com)

35 points first seen 2012091321 last seen 2012091403 61 comments

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Code Substitution Done Right - Switch.vim (www.vimninjas.com)

33 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091321 12 comments

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"The End of Silicon Valley" Is Nonsense (blog.eladgil.com)

33 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091312 45 comments

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Show HN: An easier way to manage beta tests & get insightful feedback (www.userdiary.com)

33 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091321 12 comments

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Show HN: Forkbin lets you fork public lists (http://www.forkbin.com)

32 points first seen 2012091312 last seen 2012091403 14 comments

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Ask HN: How have you been celebrating programmer's day? (en.wikipedia.org)

30 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091306 39 comments

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No, This Is Not the Best iPhone Ever (www.slate.com)

30 points first seen 2012091318 last seen 2012091318 12 comments

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Nerf guns don't matter (mikecr.it)

29 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091306 46 comments

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Afghanistan bans YouTube over anti-Islam film | The Australian (www.theaustralian.com.au)

29 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091321 35 comments

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Microsoft Xbox 3D-projected games outlined in patent (www.bbc.co.uk)

27 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091400 7 comments

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Ginzametrics Launches Big Update To Enterprise SEO Platform with Social Signals (techcrunch.com)

27 points first seen 2012091312 last seen 2012091403 2 comments

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The truth about organ donation (trojanbadger.com)

26 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091306 19 comments

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Show HN: We buit this in 4 hours on the local hackathon (sieve.hacks.priceflurry.com)

25 points first seen 2012091321 last seen 2012091406 18 comments

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17 year old Africans build a platform to connect your website to the world (www.nexxr.com)

24 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091315 11 comments

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The Rise of the Mobile Web (and Web Audio on iOS 6) (jlongster.com)

24 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091321 2 comments

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Unit Testing: Is There Really Any Debate Any Longer? (www.drdobbs.com)

21 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091300 32 comments

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IPhone 5 Compared With Competitors (mashable.com)

21 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091315 30 comments

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Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Software (blog.idonethis.com)

21 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091321 13 comments

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The Problem With Big Bang Theory (butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com)

19 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2014011400 28 comments

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JQuery dropping GPL from licence requires CLA , Big corporations hand? (www.h-online.com)

18 points first seen 2012091321 last seen 2012091400 32 comments

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TC Disrupt Experience - Seriously, What Problem are You Solving? (www.zachboerger.com)

16 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091321 20 comments

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After School Programming (www.avc.com)

15 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091318 2 comments

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Automated Insights Generates Several Million Fantasy Sports Articles (automatedinsights.com)

14 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091318 12 comments

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Instagram + Commerce = Mobile Commerce (mobilefwd.com)

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5500 questions and answers for learning web development with Rails. (www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk)

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Facebook’s Strength: Zuckerberg ignores shareholder stock price complaints (www.slate.com)

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PirateSummit: Super different, super fun (blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)

12 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091306 0 comments

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Living with the Windows 8 Start screen (www.extremetech.com)

12 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091309 7 comments

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Why Do Girls Throw Like Girls? (www.washingtonpost.com)

12 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091318 2 comments

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Credit card-sized flexible screen+battery device: the Bitcoincard (www.bitcoincard.org)

12 points first seen 2012091318 last seen 2012091400 2 comments

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How to become your own boss (www.bbc.co.uk)

11 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091306 0 comments

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Ask HN: Help me find a lost opportunity. (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091312 6 comments

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RaspberryPI price in Croatia - only $130 (blog.mneorr.com)

9 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091309 0 comments

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Apple's Magic Is In The Turn, Not The Prestige (techcrunch.com)

9 points first seen 2012091321 last seen 2012091403 3 comments

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4 US diplomats incl. the US Ambassador killed in the militia/mob raid in Libya (www.bbc.co.uk)

8 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091300 2 comments

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Romney 1040 Tax Forms - bitcoin blackmail - part 2 (pastebin.com)

8 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091306 0 comments

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Rick Falkvinge: Child Porn Laws Are Worse Than You Think (falkvinge.net)

8 points first seen 2012091315 last seen 2012091315 3 comments

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Ask HN - Your favorite programming font? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091306 15 comments

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Show HN: I'm having a bake sale (bakesale.me)

7 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091312 2 comments

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FriendFeed Service Unavailable (friendfeed.com)

7 points first seen 2012091318 last seen 2012091318 0 comments

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Ask HN: Who's hiring? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091303 2 comments

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Opus audio codec is now an Internet Standard (tools.ietf.org)

6 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091303 0 comments

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This is a cyclical, not a structural, unemployment (www.kansascityfed.org)

6 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091306 0 comments

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Critically injured Bald Eagle saved by 3D printed replacement beak (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Y Combinator Now Accepting Applications For Its Winter 2013 Class (techcrunch.com)

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GoDaddy Gives Downed Websites A Free Month Of Hosting (techcrunch.com)

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Newly standardized Opus audio codec fills every role from online chat to music (arstechnica.com)

6 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091315 0 comments

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Skip the Basics (www.martyhu.com)

5 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091306 0 comments

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Ask HN: How will iPhone 5 release affect app developers? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091306 2 comments

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Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Record Low (www.weather.com)

5 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091312 0 comments

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On Rails, Sinatra, and picking the right tool for the job (pedro.herokuapp.com)

5 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091312 0 comments

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Why is the Venezuelan gov installing a Twitter proxy just before the elections? (orvtech.com)

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Warrantless Wiretapping program expanded, extended through 2017 (www.wired.com)

5 points first seen 2012091312 last seen 2012091318 0 comments

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Mmd.js is a standalone minimalist Markdown parser in ~860 bytes of JavaScript (github.com)

5 points first seen 2012091321 last seen 2012091400 0 comments

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GoDaddy: "Please accept our apology and your enclosed credit" (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091300 0 comments

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The evolution of cheating in chess (www.grantland.com)

4 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012093018 0 comments

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Ask HN: Rails vs. Java? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091303 15 comments

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Cool demonstration of how encryption works in browser (www.wimp.com)

4 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091303 0 comments

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Visual Studio 2012 Launched (www.visualstudiolaunch.com)

4 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091306 0 comments

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Ars's live Apple event feed (live.arstechnica.com)

4 points first seen 2012091306 last seen 2012091306 0 comments

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Sequoia’s Jim Goetz: Shocking More Startups Are Not Building For The Enterprise (techcrunch.com)

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Self-Control May Not Be a Limited Resource After All (www.sciencedaily.com)

4 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091312 0 comments

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Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop made available (blogs.msdn.com)

4 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091309 0 comments

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All You Need to Know About Programming (i.imgur.com)

4 points first seen 2012091309 last seen 2012091309 0 comments

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The math of money in freemium (blog.quarterspiral.com)

4 points first seen 2012091312 last seen 2012091400 0 comments

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University builds cheap supercomputer with Raspberry Pi and Legos (arstechnica.com)

4 points first seen 2012091315 last seen 2012091318 0 comments

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Programming languages with extensible syntax (programmers.stackexchange.com)

4 points first seen 2012091321 last seen 2012091321 0 comments

85

Amazing Animated Optical Illusions (laughingsquid.com)

3 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091303 0 comments

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Ask HN: What is the best way to boost a startup in the web? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012091300 last seen 2012091300 2 comments

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Rubysh: a better subprocess library for Ruby (github.com)

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How I follow an Apple Event (divinequantum.blogspot.in)

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Apple Iphone 5 event today may be broadcasted live here (www.ustream.tv)

3 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091303 0 comments

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Drones: 13 things you need to know from Congress’s new report (www.digitaltrends.com)

3 points first seen 2012091303 last seen 2012091303 0 comments

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Ask HN: Best data-store service with a JSONP/CORS REST API? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apple Presents "Nothing" (techcrunch.com)