hackerNews

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Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5 (thenextweb.com)

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Pdf.js: PDF Reader in JavaScript (mozilla.github.com)

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Gallery of free HTML snippets for Twitter Bootstrap. | Bootsnipp.com (bootsnipp.com)

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Anonymous Donor Pays for College of Every Student in Kalamazoo (www.nytimes.com)

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Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript (tech.dropbox.com)

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Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use? (battellemedia.com)

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OSX password script for everyone to know (blog.songz.me)

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Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: ‘I hate it and I don’t agree with it’ (thenextweb.com)

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Ideas (www.sequoiacap.com)

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Google's "Bacon number" search (www.google.com)

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Nootropics – The Facts About “Smart Drugs” (www.unfinishedman.com)

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The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end? (justinhileman.info)

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Stop sending template engines to the browser. How to make 6-10x faster templates (andyet.net)

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Will Go be the new go-to programming language? (gigaom.com)

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Show HN: A Handcrafted Web (www.scrollkit.com)

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Why Quora Won't Scale (socialtimes.com)

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Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux (www.theinquirer.net)

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Balsamiq 2.2 is here (blogs.balsamiq.com)

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J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime (code.google.com)

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Hotel-room hacks: Picking the lock (www.economist.com)

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Show HN: Matches.js -- Powerful Pattern Matching for Javascript (github.com)

91 points first seen 2012091403 last seen 2012091503 20 comments

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Favicons in the retina age (nashape.com)

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How to price: Lessons learned from our first attempt (blog.filepicker.io)

81 points first seen 2012091406 last seen 2012091506 30 comments

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The Creation of the Unix* Operating System (www.bell-labs.com)

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My Madison Ruby Story (marginaldialogue.blogspot.com)

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I Haven't Quit Twitter - Twitter Quit Me (shkspr.mobi)

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Microsoft employees getting free Surface tablets, new work PCs, Windows Phone 8 (www.geekwire.com)

70 points first seen 2012091412 last seen 2012091503 86 comments

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Google Glass and the Future of Technology (pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)

68 points first seen 2012091406 last seen 2012091503 48 comments

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Google threatened Acer with Android excommunication (www.slashgear.com)

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Alex Payne, Peter Seibel, Jessica McKellar, more are Hacker School Residents (www.hackerschool.com)

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Ebay's new logo (pages.ebay.com)

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PayPal Set to Suspend Domestic Transactions in Argentina (thenextweb.com)

61 points first seen 2012091409 last seen 2012091506 38 comments

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500 Startups is now accepting applications on AngelList (angel.co)

60 points first seen 2012091406 last seen 2012091503 19 comments

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Cache across domains with a file hash (alexchamberlain.co.uk)

59 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091500 36 comments

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Intel predicts ubiquitous, almost-zero-energy computing by 2020 (www.extremetech.com)

58 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091500 32 comments

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Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish) (http://youtube-related-music.appspot.com)

58 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091500 45 comments

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Show HN: Setup a fancy development environment ... on a linux system console (klaig.blogspot.be)

56 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091500 22 comments

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WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs (www.computerworld.com)

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Conversion of cheap optical mouse to robot odometer (blog.jgc.org)

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The NSA Wants Hackers, And It Wants Them On Its Side (www.fastcompany.com)

45 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091415 46 comments

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A Damning Look at the Canadian Tech Sector (throwww.com)

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Flick based scrolling in javascript (simurai.com)

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Iron ‘blueberries’ may be sign of microbial life on Mars (www.lifescientist.com.au)

42 points first seen 2012091418 last seen 2012091600 6 comments

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Quantified Self: My Online Life in the last 8 Months (blog.archify.com)

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NetDNA's real-time network monitoring system (developer.netdna.com)

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Fed Undertakes QE3 With $40 Billion in MBS Purchases Each Month (www.bloomberg.com)

40 points first seen 2012091406 last seen 2012091409 44 comments

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Why I switched to Spine.js (destroytoday.com)

40 points first seen 2012091421 last seen 2012091603 16 comments

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Visualizing Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (blog.nahurst.com)

39 points first seen 2012091406 last seen 2012091500 5 comments

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Nutrition Science Initiative launched (http://nusi.org)

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Pi in the Sky, Artists Fill the SF Bay Area With w/ first 1000 Digits of Pi (laughingsquid.com)

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Why you need protocol-relative URLs *now* (autoref.com)

37 points first seen 2012091412 last seen 2012091503 24 comments

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Interview Zen, tool for asynchronous coding interviews (www.interviewzen.com)

36 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091418 38 comments

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"MapReduce is Good Enough" by Twitter scientist (arxiv.org)

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J2ObjC: A Java to iOS Objective-C translator by Google (google-opensource.blogspot.co.uk)

34 points first seen 2012091421 last seen 2012091509 12 comments

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Google Go: Good For What? (www.lessonsoffailure.com)

33 points first seen 2012091409 last seen 2012091421 36 comments

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English is heavily left-handed (blog.vivekhaldar.com)

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AWS Growth - Adding a Third Availability Zone in Tokyo (aws.typepad.com)

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The iPhone 5 for AT&T is crippled (www.wired.com)

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Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #16 – Thursday 27th of September, 2012 (www.makeleaps.jp)

30 points first seen 2012091418 last seen 2012091600 16 comments

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Math anxiety causes trouble for students as early as first grade (news.uchicago.edu)

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Declining job creation in startups (blogs.reuters.com)

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Is MS building a C# on JavaScript runtime? (www.zdnet.com)

28 points first seen 2012091406 last seen 2012091421 34 comments

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Show HN: Formly - Online Form Builder for Mobile Data Collection (www.getformly.com)

27 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091415 19 comments

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If VCs Understood UX… (whitneyhess.com)

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Lessons from my app launch, with stats (www.ktusznio.com)

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HP CEO: We Have to Ultimately Offer a Smartphone (www.nasdaq.com)

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Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s iPhone 5 and Music Event (daringfireball.net)

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How to find a marketing person? (blog.shellycloud.com)

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Rails Rumble 2012 Dates & Competition Details (October 13-14) (blog.railsrumble.com)

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J2ObjC: A Java to iOS Objective-C translator (google-opensource.blogspot.com)

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Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regexes (davidcelis.com)

16 points first seen 2012091406 last seen 2012091406 5 comments

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Punctuated Gradualism and iPhone 5 (www.cocoacontrols.com)

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Google adds another cool tool to Search: The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (thenextweb.com)

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Dynamic Permission Allocation in Cassandra 1.1 (www.datastax.com)

14 points first seen 2012091403 last seen 2012091415 0 comments

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AdBlock, NoScript & Ghostery – The Trifecta Of Evil [Opinion] (www.makeuseof.com)

13 points first seen 2012091418 last seen 2012091418 30 comments

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Hacker News Kansai Meetup – September 28th, Kyoto (sachagreif.com)

13 points first seen 2012091421 last seen 2012091503 2 comments

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Which educational technologies are worth betting on? (american.com)

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IPhone 5: A confusing mess of network support (www.extremetech.com)

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From Cubicle to Startup in 27 Days (akkuo.com)

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Anonymous releases credit cards for 13 FBI agents (pastie.org)

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Show HN: BitGym brings kinect-style gaming to iPad / Android (vimeo.com)

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Ask HN: How to get my domain ban removed from HN [help!] (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2012091421 last seen 2012091503 9 comments

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46,000 Visits in 24 hours - The Hacker News Effect (aboutmybrowser.com)

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Is LinkedIn using a URL strategy I don't know about...? (i.imgur.com)

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Rails in Realtime, Part 2 (layervault.tumblr.com)

7 points first seen 2012091403 last seen 2012091409 5 comments

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Scientists discover new monkey species in Congo (www.smh.com.au)

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Hacker News Kansai Meetup #2 (Japan) - Friday 28/9/2012 (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Are you a lifestyle business owner / micropreneur? (news.ycombinator.com)

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DailyTech - Microsoft Puts the Smack Down on Emerging Nitol Botnet (www.dailytech.com)

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Early Results from Facebook Exchange Show 10-20x ROI for TellApart Clients (tellapart.com)

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How Derek Flanzraich Built the Fastest Growing Health/Fitness Site on the Planet (www.jasonshen.com)

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How Childhood Neglect Stunts the Brain (www.wired.com)

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Show HN: My first iPad app "HckrNe.ws" (www.hckrne.ws)

6 points first seen 2012091412 last seen 2012091415 3 comments

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The enormity of choice at a Chinese electronics market (ch00ftech.com)

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Nvidia Performance: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux 12.10 (www.phoronix.com)

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Scientists make water boil without bubbles (www.nature.com)

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Show HN: HouseFix, Share and Track Home Projects (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Laptop coders, your setup? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091903 11 comments

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Five Things You Need To Know About Internships (onforb.es)

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FB is the only social service not dropping the ball on users' current location (blog.tripl.com)

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Why I'm Still Against SASS and LESS (www.amberweinberg.com)

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How do you fire an employee that just isn't good enough? (www.quora.com)

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PaperJS (paperjs.org)

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Revised GRE scores by intended Graduate Major. (www.ets.org)

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Trulia Rent vs. Buy Map Visualizes How Mortgage Rates, Taxes Timing Change Costs (trends.truliablog.com)

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SquareSpace Developer Platform (blog.squarespace.com)

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Report: Google threatened Acer, forced it to dump rival OS (arstechnica.com)

5 points first seen 2012091409 last seen 2012091412 0 comments

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How to Overcome Your Fear of Hustling (www.georgesaines.com)

5 points first seen 2012091412 last seen 2012091415 0 comments

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Twitter(.com) for minimalists (craigmod.com)

5 points first seen 2012091412 last seen 2012091415 0 comments

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Apple's iPhone: The untold story (www.networkworld.com)

5 points first seen 2012091421 last seen 2012091500 0 comments

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JQuery Licensing Changes (blog.jquery.com)

4 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091400 0 comments

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Ask HN: Is it wrong to read the comments first? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091400 7 comments

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Ask HN: Do you have loads of browser tabs open at once? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091400 19 comments

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Connex.io will stop its service on September 15 (news.ycombinator.com)

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Lesula: A New Species of Monkey Found in Congo. (www.plosone.org)

4 points first seen 2012091403 last seen 2012091403 0 comments

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Show HN: made my MVP after learning python (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Looking to create a SF/Bay Area "Geek Itinerary", know an expert? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012091403 last seen 2012091403 0 comments

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Ask HN: Anyone have experiences with StumbleUpon's Paid Discovery? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Use "YC" discount code to save 15% on Women 2.0 PITCH NYC Conference (Nov. 14) (http://pitch.women2.com)

4 points first seen 2012091406 last seen 2012091409 0 comments

0

Can Haz Ur Cursor? (lab.simurai.com)

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Fed Announces Open Ended QE3 (reason.com)

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Alibaba Released Linux-based Mobile Operating System (allthingsd.com)

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Startups (onstartups.com)

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iPhone 5 won't support simultaneous voice and data on Verizon or Sprint (www.theverge.com)

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Apple's iCloud.com Website Comes Out of Beta (thenextweb.com)

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Entrepreneurship in eSports (day9.tv)

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In 1 year, Trello have created over 14,581,962 cards. (blog.trello.com)

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The iPhone 5 is hardly a great leap forward (www.economist.com)

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Drawing Pixels is Hard AKA why HTML5 games probably suck (www.phoboslab.org)

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Pragmatic.js - A pragmatic style guide to JavaScript (mir.aculo.us)

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A Digital Citizen's Bill of Rights (www.keepthewebopen.com)

3 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091400 0 comments

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For Fun: Start a porn site (http://startapornsite.smutnode.com)

3 points first seen 2012091400 last seen 2012091400 7 comments

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A proposal for the freelancer community (news.ycombinator.com)

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Jay-Z’s “99 Problems,” Verse 2: A Close Reading With Fourth Amendment Guidance (longform.org)

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Why the World Need Hackers: Link Between Open Source Dev & Cultural Evolution (emergentbydesign.com)