hackerNews

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Introducing the Command Bar (github.com)

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Android *can* be beautiful (androidniceties.tumblr.com)

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CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability (ceronman.com)

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Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways (www.npr.org)

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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) (www.theatlantic.com)

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Hardware is dead (venturebeat.com)

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Analysis of bank PIN numbers (www.datagenetics.com)

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Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say (news.yahoo.com)

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A Letter from a Scared Actress (journal.neilgaiman.com)

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How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Yahoo Removes Registered Trademark (R) From Logo (instagram.com)

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Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB (svs.io)

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How to Learn JavaScript Properly (javascriptissexy.com)

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Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client (www.kalzumeus.com)

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Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open (kev.inburke.com)

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Animated GIFs the Hard Way (www.sublimetext.com)

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The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology (bhorowitz.com)

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New Metasploit 0-day exploit for IE 7, 8 & 9 on Windows XP, Vista, and 7 (community.rapid7.com)

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Russia reveals secret diamond field containing "trillions of carats" (www.csmonitor.com)

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How two men made an 1,800 player shooter in their spare time (www.redbull.co.uk)

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Amazon enters the maps game (www.amazonappstoredev.com)

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7 sets Venn Diagram: interactive 128 color combinations from mixing 7 colors (moebio.com)

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Recruiter Disruption Rant (lists.lrug.org)

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Doctorow & Stross's "The Rapture of the Nerds" creative commons edition released (www.antipope.org)

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Actually, YOU don't understand Lexical Scope (github.com)

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Finally a Useful Etherpad-like HTML/CSS/JS Realtime Collaborative Playground (cssdeck.com)

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I love TripIt, but I hate their iPhone app, so I redesigned it. (drewmackenzie.com)

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PlainTasks - opinionated todo-list plugin for Sublime Text 2 (github.com)

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Show HN: Roll20 launched today; originally raised $40k on Kickstarter. (roll20.net)

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Rod Brooks Reveals Baxter, Programmable Industrial Robot for the Masses (www.xconomy.com)

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Airport body scanners scrapped in the UK (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams (legitteams.com)

66 points first seen 2012091812 last seen 2012091903 26 comments

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700+ hp electric Honda S2000 built by High School senior (hackaday.com)

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Tax Cuts Don't Lead to Economic Growth, a New 65-Year Study Finds (www.theatlantic.com)

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A/B Testing vs MAB algorithms - It's complicated (bentilly.blogspot.com)

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Google+: 400 Million Registrations, 100 Million Monthly Active Users (thenextweb.com)

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Vic Gundotra reports Google+ passing 100,000,000 monthly active users (plus.google.com)

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Contributing Guidelines (github.com)

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Google takes on Instagram and Facebook by acquiring top iOS photo app Snapseed (education.niksoftware.com)

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CSS3 patterned buttons (www.red-team-design.com)

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What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer (www.thedailymuse.com)

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DevBootCamp: Learn to Code in 9 Weeks, Revamped Site Design (http://devbootcamp.com)

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Square Closes Series-D ($200MM) (techcrunch.com)

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Samsung Galaxy S4 due in February (www.koreatimes.co.kr)

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A Tour of the Acme Editor (research.swtch.com)

39 points first seen 2012091803 last seen 2016012509 0 comments

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3 Tips for Effective Stand-Up Meetings (www.blossom.io)

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Webcrawling at Scale with Nokogiri and IronWorker: Part 2 (blog.iron.io)

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Netflix Continues To Disappoint Linux Users (benjaminkerensa.com)

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On testing culture in GitHub projects (to.leif.me)

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Hacker Guru (self-proclaimed) Ankit Fadia’s website Hacked (again) (trak.in)

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Show HN: Download-free screensharing for better customer support (http://usefirefly.com)

33 points first seen 2012091806 last seen 2012091900 29 comments

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Cinemur.fr : a french HTML5 web app for movies (cinemur.fr)

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Being Blind to Majority of the Software on the Internet (crossplatform.net)

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All targets are moving targets (www.jacquesmattheij.com)

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Presenting the Heroku Dashboard (blog.heroku.com)

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The Best Equity is Sweat Equity (blogmaverick.com)

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Show HN: Host your own XMPP-based chatrooms with Hermes (github.com)

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#MuslimRage: How a Cynical Social-Media Play Became an Awesome Meme (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Cellphone Glued to Your Hand (null.authpad.com)

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HNpod 9: How We Keep GitHub fast, Amazon Kindle Range and Human.io (www.hnpod.com)

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The and-httpd server has a $2,000 "security guarantee" (www.and.org)

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Reelsurfer Lands $880K, Launches Orrick Startup Reel Contest (techcrunch.com)

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MongoDB Performance Tuning with Dex (architects.dzone.com)

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The Scale of Programming Complexity (www.jacquesmattheij.com)

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Show HN: We're building a better music distribution platform (mvsic.co)

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Open season on Virgin Mobile customer data (kev.inburke.com)

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Just launched: 24-day funding campaign for the TL;DR of terms & privacy policies (indiegogo.com)

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Benchmarking Parallels, Fusion, and VirtualBox vs Boot Camp - The Mac Observer (www.macobserver.com)

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Why I’m Buying A Nokia Lumia 920 Instead of the iPhone 5 (pocketnow.com)

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Cheating Upwards: Smart kids may especially do it. But why? (nymag.com)

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Success of Crowdfunding Puts Pressure on Entrepreneurs (www.nytimes.com)

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ITC Conversations Network done and finished, turning off Dec 1st (www.blogarithms.com)

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Parse Switches to Amazon SSD-backed Instances With Huge Performance Gains (blog.parse.com)

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Internet Archive Amasses all TV News since 2009 (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Please Review My First Startup. Meritful: LinkedIn for High School (www.meritful.com)

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Pair 1.4 - Fast, Beautiful, More Features (blog.trypair.com)

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Kindle Weather Display (www.mpetroff.net)

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How Big Is Chicago's Startup Scene? About SOMA-Sized, Actually (www.theatlantic.com)

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UK Government G-Cloud project - who's buying what? (gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk)

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Dart: Build HTML5 Apps Fast (www.drdobbs.com)

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Lumia 920 vs iPhone 5 dimensions vs weight (abdophoto.tumblr.com)

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Verizon offers free tethering because it has to (www.itworld.com)

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The Consumerist » Petco Releases Coupon On Internet, Forgets How Internet Works (consumerist.com)

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iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hours (www.apple.com)

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The Forced Social Network (doubledbl.tumblr.com)

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Australian re-invents light-bulb (www.theage.com.au)

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ACE editor gets BSD license, new website (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Pirated Android apps featured prominently on Aliyun app store (arstechnica.com)

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How Facebook connections mirror old empires (www.economist.com)

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How this designer learned to program and launched a product (blog.qio.me)

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Collaboration is Noisy (blog.idonethis.com)

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Ask HN: Is Facebook selling phone number or can it be scraped? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Does your company have a software apprenticeship program? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mupd8 – The WalmartLabs Real-time Platform (walmartlabs.blogspot.com)

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Swiftype launches improved search analytics (swiftype.com)

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Create clickable prototypes quickly in your browser (blog.easel.io)

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Octane ratings: Who needs premium? (www.economist.com)

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Must startup founders be charismatic? (tomtunguz.com)

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Firefly: Screen Sharing For Customer Service (techcrunch.com)

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Boltsort - The winner of Vimeo's C code challenge (github.com)

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USA Today has an Amazing New Website (beta.usatoday.com)

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Presenting the Heroku Dashboard (blog.heroku.com)

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Prominent Anti-Piracy Chief Suspected of Drug Crime (torrentfreak.com)

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Google Brings OAuth 2.0 to Gmail & GTalk To Make 3rd-Party Apps More Secure (techcrunch.com)

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How the World's Oldest Diamond Monopoly is Trying to Become an IT Juggernaut (www.technologyreview.com)

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iMessage Service Goes Down for Many iPhone Users (thenextweb.com)

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'Blue Brain' project accurately reconstructs brain circuit from model (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Stealing magic: The Honor System (www.esquire.com)

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Ask HN: Interesting iOS App Ideas? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Stop trying to disrupt and start innovating (hackerjobs.co.uk)

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Qt 5 based 3D Wayland compositor (www.youtube.com)

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XHR Replay now supported by Chrome (code.google.com)

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Browser has Trident, Gecko, and Webkit built in (www.avantbrowser.com)

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Just starting out in startups? Here's some advice (www.gabrielweinberg.com)

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I might be an arsehole, but at least I'm not wrong (blog.samuellevy.com)

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The Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013 edition (www.geek.com)

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Responsive Web Design Patterns | This Is Responsive (bradfrost.github.com)

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Coders Behind the Flame Malware Left Incriminating Clues on Control Servers (www.wired.com)

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The Single Pinterest Pin That Launched a Company (socialmediatoday.com)

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Make tools for yourself and others around you (iamwilchung.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: What is your experience with cheaper s3 clones on the market excluding? (news.ycombinator.com)

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SigFig, The ‘Mint For Investments’, Partners with USA Today (techcrunch.com)

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Asia and the West: Never the twain (www.economist.com)

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scrypt Password-Based Key Derivation Function Internet Draft (tools.ietf.org)

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Microsoft announces Office 2013, Office 365 subscriptions pricing (blogs.office.com)

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JFK the Introvert (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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Square valued at $3.25 billion in $200 million financing round (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Watch This Author Use A Google Document To Write And Edit A Book In Real-Time (techcrunch.com)

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Node-mruby embeds mRuby into node.js (github.com)

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Shazam for TV Now Works With Any Show (mashable.com)

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An interactive map of every war waged in history (www.conflicthistory.com)

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Duolingo Raises $15M Series B Round, Will Expand To More Languages (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Diary of a programmer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Of feral cats and pet cats (hdl.handle.net)

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How Microsoft and Apple try to free-ride on those who built mobile (www.groklaw.net)

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Show HN: Weekend Nostalgia Project: SeinfeldQuote.com (http://seinfeldquote.com)

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Virgin Mobile accounts vulnerable to hack, no one seems to care (consumerist.com)